Madrid-Waddington Central School

Staff Development

Peripheral Devices

LCD (overhead) PROJECTOR

• Multi-media cart (COW)

• Hooking up to hardware

• Use of the controls (lots of tricks such as keystoning, freeze frame & laser pointer) 

  (Remote Control Directions)

• Teaching strategies utilizing a white board

• Use with a DVD

• Use with a VCR player or TV

• Sound enhancement with speakers and software adjustments

PRINTER TYPES AND USE

• Dot Matrix

  • Special forms, labels, report cards, payroll

  • Declining use

• Bubble Jet (Cannon)

  • No longer made

  • Ink Jet

  • Very inexpensive hardware

  • Ink cost can be considerable

  • Very popular as they cost ~$100

  • Find ways to economize

    • color selection (limit use of yellow)

    • send black/white copies to laser printer    

    • evaluate the need for a hard copy

    • size images (print preview, use of thumbnails in PowerPoint)

• Laser

  • Toner use and life extension

• Color Laser

  •  Chunk toner can be added while printer is operating

  •  Less expensive/page than laser to print copies

  •  VERY high quality

  •  10-15 pages/minute

  •  Cost ~$2000

   

• Printing from the Web

  • Print Preview in IE 6.0+

  • Print selected pages (pages 1-3)

  • Copy and paste info from web into MS Word

• Envelopes (Microsoft Word) – best in an ink-jet, not a laser

• Double-sided

• Specialty papers: OfficeMax

• There are ethical issues and copyright © laws that apply: http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html

• Recycling

• When to print and when to digitize (ideas to avoid hard copy)

SCANNER

• When to use a scanner…. Or would a copier be the better choice?

• Photos - Scan when you can’t take digital photos
  How to save photos – JPG verses Bitmap (bmp), TIF

• Newspaper clippings

• Pictures to adjust and modify in MS Photo Editor (Same as for digital camera)

• Inclusion in e-mail, web pages, project ideas

DIGITAL CAMERA

•  Demonstration and photo tips

  • How to take a good picture

  • On-line tutorial available www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/book1/chapter1/index.shtm

  • Camera limitations (i.e. Mavica’s poor indoor shots – dark settings, poorly-lit faces)

•  Take one good picture of a co-worker (perhaps to post on a school website)

• File formats and Saving

• Web applications and ideas for photo use

• Use of Photo Editor Software    

  • Crop picture and rename (temporary storage)

  • Auto Balance color

  • Create a watermark

  • Special effects

         

CD BURNER

• Why use?

  • 1 CD ~555 floppy disks

  • 100 mb Zip Disk ~ 69 floppy disks

• Can burn what you want at one time, never add to CD again

• Can add data as you wish (save, don't print!)

• Personal Photo management

• Server space – efficient use

• Storage and file management

• Copyright issues

• Software

  • Wizard

  • Drag and drop