ED TECH HELP

There are lots of great help files at the WITS Documentation center also.

Topics:

1. Dreamweaver

2. Email from an outside location
3. Microsoft Front Page
4. Hyperstudio Help
5. How to Make Graphs using Microsoft Excel
6. Scanning Images
7. Painter 5.0
8. How Do I . . . ? (general computer questions)
9 . Netscape Composer
10. Fetch
11. Make an iMovie

Email

The new web based email for Willamette students can be found at http://webmail.willamette.edu.

Type in your email name for the "login". For Example "srhine"

Type in your email password.

ATTACHMENTS

If you want to send an attachment (a picture, a paper for a professor, etc.) click "Compose" to start an email message. Then click "Browse" down at the bottom of the page. Locate your attachment and then click "Open". Next click the "Add" button to include it in your email. Be sure to put an address in the "To" box and send the email.

Web Site Creation

Netscape:

Inserting Images

1. Save the Image in your public_html folder.

2. Put the cursor point where you want the image to be placed.

3. Choose Insert: Image from the top menu or the Image button on the toolbar.

The Image dialog box is displayed.

4. In the Image dialog box, click Choose File.

Creating Hyperlinks

1. Select text that you want to be a link to another page or another web site.

2. Choose Insert: Link or click the link button.

The Link dialog box is displayed.

3. Either type in the URL if you are linking to an outside web page or click "Choose File" if you want to link to another of your pages.

Fetch

1. Open the application Fetch.

The New Connection dialog box is displayed.

2. In the Host box, type "hudson.willamette.edu"

3. In the User ID box, type your user id (for example: "srhine")

4. In the Password box, type your passord.

5. Click the OK button.

The dialog box is displayed.

Getting your web site off the Willamette University server
1. Highlight your public_html folder
2. Click "get"
3. Click "Desktop"
4. Click "new folder". Type in the first half of your email (i.e. srhine). Click "Create"
5. Click "Save"

Loading your web siteonto the Willamette University server
1. Remote: Put Folders and Files
2. Browse to your public_html folder. Click "Add" and then click "Done"
3. Choose Raw Data on the format options. Click OK.
4. Open Netscape and type in your URL to check your page
(for example "www.willamette.edu/~srhine")

Hyperstudio Help

1. New Button Actions/Internet Links
2. Getting a picture/text from CD-ROM
3. Making a Quick-Time Movie
4. Animation

New Button Actions: Internet Links, etc.
1. Make a button: Go to Objects: New Button (design it the way you want)

The Actions dialog box is displayed

2. Click on Things to do: New Button Actions (NBA)

The New Button Action dialog box is displayed

3. At the top left is the Names box listing each NBA available. At the top right is an explanation of what the NBA does and how to make it work. At the bottom right is a box with "Samples", "In Use", and "Disk Library". If you click on "Disk Library" then you will have many more NBA's available.

Internet Link

4. In the Names box choose Net Page and click on the button Use This NBA

The Net Page 1.0 dialog box is displayed

5. Paste in the internet address. Click OK. Click Done. Try your button.

Other NBA's

Just follow the directions in the info box in the New Button Action dialog box!

Getting a picture/text from CD-ROM

Getting a picture

1. Get the picture you want from the CD-ROM on your screen. Be sure that the arrow/cursor is not in the middle of the picture

2. Hold down Apple, Shift, and then the number 3 on your keyboard. You will hear a camera click. On your hard drive your picture will be listed in numerical order as Picture 1, Picture 2, etc.

3. Go into your Hyperstudio stack. Go to Objects:Add a Graphic Object. The dialog box asks "Where do you want to get your picture?" Click OK

4. Click the "Desktop" button and "Open" the hard drive. Find Picture 1 or the latest number. Click Open.

The Graphic Objects dialog box is displayed.

5. Using the box tool, box the part of the picture that you want by holding down the mouse button and dragging across the area you want. Click OK. Position the picture by dragging the middle to where you want it. Click outside the picture when it is positioned.

The Graphic Appearance dialog box is displayed. Click OK

Getting Text

1. Go to the card in your Hyperstudio stack that you want to place the text. Go to Objects: Add a Text Object. Position the box where you want by grabbing the middle and moving it. You can change the size of the box by grabbing a corner or side. Click outside the box when you are finished positioning it.

The Text Appearance dialog box is displayed.

2. Choose the color of text and background you want. Click the Style button. Choose the font and size of text you want. Click OK. Click OK again.

3. Go to the CD-ROM or Internet site. Highlight the text you want by holding down your mouse button and dragging across the text. Let go when you get the text you want highlighted. Go to Edit: Copy.

4. Go to your Hyperstudio stack. Go to Edit: Paste.

5. If you want to change the text box or text, go to the text button on the tool bar and click it once. Click the text object twice and you will return to the Text Appearance dialog box.

Making a Quick-Time Movie

Help coming soon!

Animation

1. Make a button: Go to Objects: New Button (design it the way you want)

The Actions dialog box is displayed

2. Click on Things to do: Play Animation

The"Where would you like to get your image from?" dialog box is displayed.

3. Click the lasso tool. If you want to animate something on your card . Click "Current Card". If you want to animate a clip art object then click "Disk Library" and find it. (HINT: Try out some of the Hyperstudio animations in the HS Animation folder like "Butterfly.gif" or "Bluegoose.gif". VERY COOL!) Lasso the object you want to animate. Click on the object and while holding down the mouse button, make it do what you want it to do. Let go when you are done.

The Animation dialog box is displayed.
-- Click "Try It" and see if it is doing what you want it to do. If not, click cancel and start over. If it is ok, click OK.

How to Make Graphs Using Microsoft Excel

To Make a Graph Comparing Students' Pre- and Post-Test Scores

1. Put names/initials of students in column A

2. Put pretest data in column B

3. Put posttest data in column C

4. Select all the data and titles of columns

5. Click the "Chart Wizard" button (or from menu--Insert: Chart)

6. Your cursor changes to a cross. Drag open a box in a blank space.

7. Follow the cues. When in doubt, click "Next".

To Find the Mean (Average):

1. In an empty cell near your data type: =AVERAGE(Top Cell:Bottom Cell)

[i.e. "=AVERAGE(B2:B11)"]
(HINT: No space between AVERAGE and parentheses)

2. Press return

An Example:

Scanning Images

1. Place picture in scanner at top right corner ("0")
2. Open "Ofoto" under Apple Menu: Applications: Local: Ofoto
3. Be sure controls are set at Scan Bits: "24:C and Scan dpi: "72"
(you can change the dpi which will change how much memory you use or change the Bits which will scan black and white)
4. Click "Prescan"
5. Use your cursor to drag a box around the part of the picture you want to scan. (If you have trouble with the box, click in the white area first then try to create a box. I usually start from the left top corner and drag down and across my picture.)
6. Click "Scan"
7. Save your picture under File: SaveAs. Type in a name for the picture. Click "Desktop" and save in the Student Documents folder or the disk you are going to save it on. You can choose different formats such as PICT, EPS, or TIFF under "File Format".

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August, 1997