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02:44:22 pm on February 10, 2011 |
LPS staff members receive the benefits of many system tools in place to eliminate most of the hundreds of thousands of unwanted messages that bombard our email servers every day. However, no script or algorithm can accurately predict which authentic mail messages will annoy you, or your colleague. Therefore, there are a few different ways you can deal with unwanted messages in Zimbra. See if one of these tools or strategies works for you. (More …)
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08:31:44 am on February 3, 2011 |
Teachers LOVE timers. Egg timers, electronic cooking timers, stopwatches, they are the tools that help keep the classroom focused, orderly, and avoid seeing everyone spiraling out of control, upsetting the balance of life in our ecosystem, disrupting the space-time continuum, or worse – not getting all of the units covered in our basal series!
Seriously though, here is a great list of computer based timers that might be useful for your on-screen needs. If you have a projector in your room it is even better, because the students can see the time ticking down and prepare themselves to move on to the next activity.
Macintosh Software
- The best software timer I know of is called ApiMac Timer, and is already installed on every Teacher laptop in LPS. YAY! Look in your Applications folder!
- Mac OS X Widget: 3-2-1
Windows Software
Web Based Timers
- Online Stopwatch has dozens of types of on-screen timers
- Class Timer
- Time.me
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04:56:26 pm on January 26, 2011 |
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03:56:24 pm on January 26, 2011 |
Today’s Worksheet. Answer all 7 questions
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03:54:15 pm on January 26, 2011 |
ENGLISH I
- this stuff
- that stuff
- so on
AP LIT
- Do this
- Do that
- Do the other
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11:48:49 am on January 26, 2011 |
Most LPS users have all of their needs met with the Zimbra Web Client, the tool that you log into from the LPS website when using Firefox.Some users may feel the need for a dedicated application to be installed on your computer for accessing the exact same LPS mail, calendar and contact information. In that case, LPS recommends the Zimbra Desktop Client.
Key features of Zimbra Desktop:
- Works on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers
- Zimbra Desktop is free for anyone to download and use.
- Installs as an application on your computer, allowing you to switch back and forth between Zimbra and other open applications, or hide it when not in use.
- Email, contacts and calendar synchronize in real time with the LPS Zimbra Server. This allows you to move seamlessly between Zimbra Desktop, Zimbra Web or your mobile devices at any moment.
- Multiple Accounts: Add your Google, Yahoo, RoadRunner, UNL, or other email accounts for viewing along side your LPS email. All of your email in one tool!
- Local folders: Creating email folders on your own computer allows you more email storage space. Use this feature with caution – local folders are not backed up on LPS servers and are subject to data loss.
- Mailto: HTML email links will work from web pages you visit. (But not applications like MS Word.)
- Off-line use: Continue to view mail or compose new messages when you are away from the network.
- Zimlets: You may encounter Zimlets that extend the default abilities of the Zimbra tool. Install and enjoy them if you care to, but buyer beware! These Zimlets were not created by, nor are they supported by LPS staff.
Download and Install Zimbra Desktop Client
- Enter a Help Desk ticket.
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- Visit the Zimbra Desktop Client web page at Zimbra.com
- Click the link for the appropriate version to download on your computer (Mac, Windows or Linux)
- Once downloaded to your computer, follow the directions in the installer to install the Desktop Client on your computer.
Configure Zimbra Desktop to connect with LPS
- From the SETUP screen in Zimbra Desktop Client, choose “Account Type: Zimbra” (If necessary, click “Setup” in the top right corner of the Zimbra Desktop window.)
- Enter the following information specific to YOUR LPS ACCOUNT INFORMATION (as shown in the image below):
– Account Name: LPS Zimbra
– Email Address: <your username>@lps.org
– Password: <your LPS password>
– Incoming Server: mail.lps.org
– Security: SSL
– Port: 443
– Check Messages: as new mail arrives
- Click the “Validate and Save” button
- Repeat this process for any non-LPS accounts you wish to have Zimbra Desktop load for you.
- Click the “Launch Desktop” button if necessary
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08:29:39 am on January 21, 2011 |
Now that we have a fantastic calendar tool that opens alongside your email, teachers might appreciate the ability to have topic specific calendars that students (or the public) can view or subscribe to. Think homework, classroom events, student of the week, spelling lists, etc.
Here is a video that covers this process, or you can follow the steps below.
NOTE: Your personal calendar is called “Calendar” and should contain your meetings, appointments, and other events. If you are choosing to share calendar information with students or parents, you will want to create another calendar specific to that audience.
Creating a publicly viewable calendar
1. Create a new calendar in Zimbra by clicking the “New” drop down menu at the top of your calendars and selecting “Calendar“.
Add a new calendar.
2. Right-click (Control+click) on the calendar you just created and select “Sharing.”
A Right-Click offers quick access to many shortcuts.
3. On the Sharing window that pops up, choose “Public” from the “Share with” area at the top. Click “OK” at the bottom.
Make sure to click OK at the bottom of this window BEFORE you try to click the link provided.
4. Right-click (Control+click) on the calendar again. In the “Sharing” window click on the “VIEW” link provided at the bottom. This should open the calendar in a web page (Firefox).
5. Copy the URL of the public facing calendar’s page for use elsewhere.
Publicize your calendars
You can link to this calendar from your LPS Profile Page, include it in an email message to parents or students, place it in Pinnacle course descriptions, or link to the calendar from your WordPress site.
Teachers who wish to maintain calendars for multiple classes might want to create a different calendar for each class. To make it easy for students to locate your calendars, you can link to the individual class calendars from a list created on a single WordPress page called “Homework Calendars.”
One simple way to organize calendars for your students would be a list of them in a WordPress page.
Choose the right Calendar
When adding events to your calendar, Zimbra will default to your personal calendar. To have the event appear on a specific course calendar, select it from the drop down in the event creation window.
Remember to select the calendar you want the event to appear on when you are creating the event!
Be even MORE useful
You will also like to know that the notes field at the bottom is an excellent way to share additional information, beyond the name of the event. Consider including directions, spelling words, links to online resources, etc.
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04:26:44 pm on January 19, 2011 |
It was only then, according to the Telegraph, that Zimbrano realized he knew the man he was filming – Marcelo Fonseca.
After the rescue, from his hospital bed, Fonseca told the Telegraph of the moment right before he became trapped.
“When I opened the window I only heard that loud thud and I only had time to run,” he told the Telegraph. “When I ran and reached the front door it was such a powerful thing, that I only saw some pieces of the roof flying and some pieces of wood.” He became completely trapped and had trouble breathing.
“My chest was being crushed by a stone and I was trapped; my two feet were trapped,” he told the newspaper.
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04:25:23 pm on January 19, 2011 |
General Algebra
- blah blah blah
- blah blah blah
Diff Calc
- yadda yadda yadda
- yadda yadda yaddaa
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10:14:47 am on January 13, 2011 |
The process of viewing and sharing calendar data is a bit different in Zimbra than it was in the old WebCal Lite or Convergence tools. In those tools if you wanted to see (subscribe to) a calendar, you had to search for it. If the owner had set the calendar permissions correctly, you were allowed to subscribe. Zimbra handles the sharing of calendars differently.
With Zimbra, you can share your calendar information with other people and give them one of the following access privileges:
- LPS users or groups. You select the type of privileges to grant, either:
- Viewer. The Grantee can see the activities posted to your calendar and the status of meeting requests, but cannot make any changes to your calendar.
- Manager. The Grantee has permission to create meetings on your calendar, accept or decline invitations, and edit and delete activities from your calendar.
- Admin. The Grantee has permission to create meetings on your calendar, accept or decline invitations, edit and delete activities from your calendar, share your calendar with others and remove other Grantees from your shared calendar.
- None is an option to temporarily disable access to a grantor’s shared calendar without revoking the share privileges. The Grantee still has the calendar in their calendar list but cannot view or manage activities on the grantor’s shared calendar.
- External guests. You create a password to access your shared calendar. Guests must enter this password to view the calendar. They cannot make changes to the calendar.
- Public. Anyone that knows the URL to the shared calendar can view it. They cannot make changes to the calendar.
Share your Calendar
- Right-click [control+click] on the calendar you wish to share and select ‘Share Calendar’. Your default calendar is called ‘Calendar’.
Right-Click (or Control+click) on the calendar you wish to share.
- On the ‘Share Properties’ dialog select whom to share your calendar with.
Options abound within the calendar's sharing properties!
- Next type the email address of a user that you wish to share with (you can add more than one person by separating the email addresses with a comma).
- Select the user role that this person or persons will have on this calendar. If it is your Personal calendar than in most cases other people will simply be viewers of your calendar, if it is someone that must add or remove events from a calendar (such as a meeting calendar) then they will need to have at least Manager role. The Admin role allows a user to add and remove permissions on the calendar as well.
- Click OK
In most cases you will be sharing with Internal users so you will leave the setting set to Internal.
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You can provide access to your calendar using the link options below. Those wishing to publish their calendar to a web page will want to grant Public access above and then use the View link on WordPress, Contribute, etc
ICS: Allows them to subscribe with a calendaring tool (iCal, Outlook, Google Calendar, etc.)
VIEW: Allows them to see a web page view of your calendar data.———————
Accepting access to shared calendar
If you receive an email notice that you have been granted access to share another person’s calendar, you can accept or reject the share. When you accept the share, the shared calendar displays in your Calendar list.
To accept access to a shared calendar
- Click Accept Share in the email. This is typically found at the very top-left corner of the message. The Accept Share dialog opens and describes the role granted to you. Note: you can only view the Accept button using Zimbra. You will no be able to view the button, nor accept the share using programs like Thunderbird.
- Before you accept you can customize the calendar name and select a color for messages to be displayed. (Or you can do this at a later time by right-clicking (control+click) on the name of the calendar.)
- Check the Send mail about this share, if you choose to send a confirmation of your acceptance back to the Grantor. (optional)
- Click Yes. The new shared calendar is added to your Calendar list. The message is automatically moved to your Trash folder.
- LPS users or groups. You select the type of privileges to grant, either: