After a hiatus, I am gearing up to join our Related Services staff for lunch and tech talk where you work! If you and some of your CASE colleagues have technology questions and/or frustrations, let me know and we can get the ball rolling on a visit. Please note that each CASE district has different [...]
Have you visited the Technology Page recently? Check it out at: https://www.casedupage.com/who-we-are/staff-resources/technology/ Here are some highlights that I recommend for all of our veteran and new CASE staff: CASE Bits 2: 10 Security Best Practices CASE Bits 4: Introduction to OneNote The Computing and Windows Fundamentals Sway, specifically: The Window snapping tutorial Kill/Force-close programs Portable projectors [...]
Have you ever needed to give a PowerPoint presentation, but couldn't plug the projector into your laptop because you didn't have the right ports? Don't get stuck in that situation! Here is a little graphic that I adapted from this article that shows the most common display ports on laptops. A quick word about each [...]
Some of you may have noticed that Outlook is pushing people to try "The new Outlook" when they log in to check their CASE email. If you agree, you'll be rewarded with this crisp new layout: It's nothing dramatic, just a little more buttoned down. It seems a little quicker to me as well. However, [...]
Professional Development is our bread and butter, but sometimes a venue might not have an adequate audio setup for everything a speaker might need. Enter CASE's new portable PA System! We are now fully self-sufficient for professional development and CASE staff events. Our kit includes: A Fender Passport Conference PA System Speaker stands Fifine wireless [...]
I remember when I started with CASE in 2016, the policy was: everybody should be using Internet Explorer. In the last couple of years, I've gone from "secretly" advising people how to install Chrome without admin credentials, to installing Chrome myself, to including Chrome on all CASE laptops. Well now we're officially 180°: Please don't [...]
"What?" you ask? Go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and pop in your email address or any user accounts you use. This website will tell you if any of your services have been hacked, which means that if you use them, there's a very good chance your username and password are for sale somewhere on the dark web. If you, [...]
This one is worth a mention only because it seems to have reached dozens of our staff (thanks for sending those my way! I love your SPAM!) This screenshot came to me from Physical Therapist Rebecca Grimm: It doesn't appear that there's any high-tech tomfoolery with this SPAM. It is classic "419" scam (so named [...]
Tricia Sharkey attended a full-day pre-conference in Orlando last January, "Breaking Out the Toolkit: Solutions in a New York Minute," and she returned with this amazing online resource: https://sites.google.com/nyccatteam.org/nycdoe-cat-atia-2019/home Here you can find a handy reference guide for accessibility features of every major computing platform, organized by disability! Wow! Thank you Tricia for your expertise and [...]
I had a great time today with Caron Jones, Beth Obremski, Jane Ruge and Stacy Struebing at Briar Glen. There wasn't enough time to talk about everything! We discussed Microsoft Excel (definitely check out the Excel tips video--you might have to pause and replay parts because they go very quickly!). We also discussed solutions for [...]
