Share your Top ICT Tips

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 10:40 PM by kent-teachers

What are your top ICT tips?

My favourite include:

Using the  F11 key when viewing webpage on the interactive whiteboard. It throws back all the navigation buttons and address bar so that you maximise the view of the webpage.

Using the Print Screen key "PrtSc" on the top right of a keyboard. It captures the screen you are working on. Useful for capturing webpages or a document which has frozen.

How to use the Print Screen key "PrtSc"
Press the key and then go into your IWB software, Textease, Word, PowerPoint ... and click Paste to drop the screen captured image. 

Mandy:)

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# re: Top Tips

Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:25 PM by kent-teachers

Did you know that Google can calculate the time in different parts of the world?

Type ‘time’ followed by the name of the city into search. e.g. time New York and hit search.

Mandy

# re: Top Tips

Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:53 PM by Mike Temple

aFTER ACCIDENTALLY PRESSING THE CAPS LOCK KEY - select text and hold shift, press F3 to toggle text

# re: Top ICT Tips

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:09 PM by kent-teachers

To start writing any where on a Word Document, just double click on the page where you want to type.

Works for placing images too. (Double click and then add image)

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:17 PM by kent-teachers

To close a frozen programme or to close a programme  press Alt and F4. It will end any programme immediately.

Please take note that using this function WILL NOT SAVE your work. It will just shut down the application.

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:25 PM by Andy Lakin-Hall

My favourite keyboard shortcut is hold ALT and then tap TAB to quickly switch between active programs on the task bar. You can have loads of windows open, and just switch quickly between them, without having to use the mouse on the taskbar - AND you can even set the taskbar to hide or not remain on top, and give yourself an extra few centimetres of screen space. This trick is EXTREMELY useful if you are using CTRL+C to copy from one window, and then CTRL+V to paste on another.

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:43 PM by Andy Lakin-Hall

By the way, if you hold ALT PrtScr, then you get a snapshot of just the currently active window, rather than the whole screen sent to the clipboard.
Paste your results into PAINT and crop them to get just the bit you want, then COPY and PASTE back into your IWB software or Word to get just the part of the screen that you need.

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:08 AM by Simon Mills

Did you know that Clicking on an image in your web browser, and then dragging it to an open program on your task bar, copies the image into the document?

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:17 AM by Chris Thomas

When copying and pasting text into word, you often find the formatting (font and size etc.) gets all messed up, especially when copy and pasting from websites.

To fix this, place the cursor in the middle or a word that has the desired formatting, then click on the 'Format Painter' tool (which looks like a paintbrush). Next, click and drag around the text that needs to be reformatted. The Format Painter will change all  the stylistic attributes of that text, making it match the text you originally selected.

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:14 AM by kent-teachers

To increase / decrease the size of text within a Word document, highlight the text then whilst holding down the Control & Shift keys press < to decrease and > to increase the font size.

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:06 PM by kent-teachers

If you're trying to close down lots of PCs in the ICT suite. I find it really helpful to walk round pressing Alt and F4. It closes one program and when they are all closed press again to shutdown. Saves tinkering with the mouse.

James:)

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:07 PM by kent-teachers

If you're trying to find out whether the children have saved their work recently many programs will show an asterix in the top bar (technical term) when unsaved changes have been made. Great for a busy classroom.

James:)

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:34 AM by Simon Haughton

Although it's simple, I'm always amazed at how useful children seem to find learning CTRL + Z/Y for undoing/redoing changes - especially if they have a lot of things they need to undo/redo and don't want to keep clicking the icon with the mouse.

# re: Share your Top ICT Tips

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:36 PM by Kent Website Design

Worth remembering that in Vista you can get a screen capture using the Clipping Tool. Its quite useful.  Start/All Programs/Accessories/Clipping Tool......