Northern Lights Special Education Cooperative
 
TECH Times @ the COOP
March 2010 
 
In This Issue
Did You Know?
Tech Tip of the Month
Hershey's Question
Useful Quick Links
Featured Picture
Coop Christmas Pary 2009
Coop Christmas Luncheon 2009
 
 Was it that long ago?
Did You Know?  iTunes U
 
Pogo StylusDo you listen to iTunes on your Mac or PC?  Or do you have an iPhone or iPod?  You can access iTunes U.
 
iTunes U is a place in the iTunes store to access free content from top universities.  iTunes U has over 175 participating higher education organizations, including MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and many more.  You can download language courses, audio/video recordings of classes or campus tours.  There is even podcasts created by K-12 schools.
 
Open iTunes, go to iTunes Store and at the black bar at the top, select iTunes U.
Tech Tip of the Month... Zamzar.com
   
WallWisherInoHas someone sent you a YouTube Video and you can't open it?  How about a word document you want to convert to PDF? 
 
Zamzar is a free online file conversion site.  Enter in the URL or upload the document, select what format you want it converted to and Zamzar will email you a link to download the new format.
 
Check it out:  http://www.zamzar.com/
Win a Hershey's Bar!
 Hershey's 2
Be the first person to email me (sproulx@nlsec.k12.mn.us) the answer to this question and you will with the Hershey Bar of the month!
 
How do you change your default font style and size in Outlook? 
 
hint:  check the Tools menu.  I need step by step instructions!
 
       Outlook 2003                            Outlook 2007  
 Hershey's 2        Hershey's 2 
 
Here's my semi-monthly technology newsletter.  Don't forget, I can create one of these for you!
 
Sincerely,
 

Shannon Proulx
Northern Lights Special Education Cooperative
This email newsletter was produced by Shannon Proulx, Technology Coordinator at the Northern Lights Special Education Cooperative (sproulx@nlsec.k12.mn.us) and strictly is for fun staff development in Technology!
 
Also, thanks to The Simon Technology Center's Tech Notes (Jan. '10) for some of the great information above!