Summercore at Greenhill School
August 9-13

1. Becky and Gwen
2. Dorothy and Synthia
3. John and Dot
4. Kim and Pat
5. Linda and Mark
6. Mary and JoAnn
7. Mike and Dave
8. Pam and Barb
9. Pam and Perry
10. Susie and Rhonda

1. Barb Currier Chair, Math Dept
2. Becky Choate First Grade Teacher
3. David Ostroff Upper School History Teacher ... first draft of history web page
4. Dorothy Sherrod Lower School Music Teacher
5. Dorothy Williams Kindergarten Teacher
6. Gwen Baird First Grade Teacher
7. JoAnn Andrew Second Grade Humanities
8. John Hornbach Fifth Grade Science Teacher
9. Kim Barnes Kindergarten Teacher
10. Linda White Lower School Math Coordinator
11. Mark Crotty Upper School English Teacher
12. Mary Tapia Chair of Modern and Classical Languages ... translation page for carnival
13. Michael Jenkins Seventh Grade History Teacher
14. Pam Bockbrader Upper School Mathmatics Teacher
15. Pam Giraudon Seventh Grade French/Spanish Teacher
16. Pat Inman Upper School Science Teacher
17. Perry Degener Eighth Grade Literature Teacher
18. Rhonda Brette Lower School Computer Teacher
19. Susie Hickman First Grade Teacher
20. Synthia Rogers Theater Director

Dallas has a soft machine
Houston's too close to New Orleans
New York's got the ways and means
Just keep trucking on

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Click here for the significance of "soft machine" which apparently is known in Dallas. Clearly Jerry Garcia knew about this when he included the reference in the song TRUCKIN in 1971.

A few sample audio formats:

1. On the web AU format works (but AU does not work with powerpoint)

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2. On the web AIF format works (but AIF does not work with powerpoint)

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3. On the web WAV format does not universally work, although it appears to be the only audio format that Powerpoint uses. On the web, the issue, is as always a question of which browser and which version e.g. Netscape 3.0 on the Mac does not play WAV files but Netscape 4.0 on the PC does play WAV files,

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Answer: The restaurant called Mariano's in Dallas Texas is the home of the first frozen marguerita machine in America. In February 99, I went there with Becky Daniels and the waiter kindly autographed the CD we brought! This puzzle about the "soft machine" was solved for us by one of the teachers in the Summercore 93 session at Hockaday School. She told us about Mariano's Restaurant and we went there for dinner that night. The waiter gave me the menu and signed it with the story of Mariano Martinez (born 8/5/44): "one day, I was in a 7-11 store and I saw a bunch of kids drinking slurpies. I realized that that's what I wanted to do with a marguerita!"

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Pink Card Questions

1. Can I see a demo of replacing two spaces with one in WP?(Synthia) .. yes, but beware the templeton effect if you are using spaces instead of tabs for lining up text
2. Pros and cons of saving on file server vs hard drive vs floppy?(Synthia)...floppy has advantage of portability but is prone to dirt, dust and mis-placing .. hard drive has advantage of speed over floppy disk .. file server has advantage of access from anywhere on campus ... best approach is to save everything important in TWO locations and use a number scheme such as memov3 for version 3 or memov4 for version 4 or perhaps memo81199 for the updated version of memo on 8/11/99
3. Quick tricks for French/Spanish accents not just in Word, but Powerpoint? (Mary) ... shortcuts .. macros .. the ALT 0233 trick ... see chapter 15 of Primer as well
4. Demo of how Word saves into HTML format? (JoAnn)
5. Using graphics in Word -- in-line vs floating? (Pat) ... when in floating mode, you need to FORMAT THE PICTURE so that text wraps around the graphic either top/bottom or tightly in all 4 directions ... inserting text on left or right of graphic is yet another way to have text and graphic side by side
6. Can we talk about DLC at lunch on Thursday? (Mary)
7. Can we scan a picture into our Hyperstudio presentation for the carnival? (Susie and Rhonda) ... yes, but even better is to hire the scanning group to do the job for you
8. Can we scan a page, put it into Photoshop, change color and then bring into Powerpoint? (JoAnn and Linda)... yes, but even better is to hire the scanning group to do the job for you
9. What are some tips to improve performance of hard drive? (Perry) ... keep hard drive with 20% free space ... de-frag hard drive ... isolate occurrences of problems .. take inventory of RAM size and hard drive size ... make sure the problem is not one of multiple applications open in RAM ...one very important tip is to have a few students whom you can use as tech resources!

Potential Techno-Quickies

Hello Texas!

As Steve told you, Colleen and I, Diane Lemay, would be judging your artwork, and we have come up with five contenders below: