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Last Updated
May 1, 2008
Martha House, Librarian
2007-2008 Annual ReportKan-Ed is available for students to use. Just use your PowerSchool login information with kan440 as the SubscriptionID. It must be your access information, not your parent's. If you need your info., see me.
Using Backpack, you can store files and retrieve them from any computer without some creep deleting your files. Only you have access, provided you are not in the habit of giving out your PowerSchool login information to just anybody.
Backpack kicks back error messages unless you remember to do the following:
- save your file with the three-letter extension at the end of your file name.
- before uploading, close your file. Backpack will not upload an open file.
- Firefox, in general, works better than Safari.NERDY BUT INTERESTING
Beowulf, the movie, has generated some interest in Anglo-Saxon epic poetry--maybe. Salon.com certainly didn't think much of it. "Robert Zemeckis' new film 'Beowulf' gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'the sublime and the ridiculous.' Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a 3-D Disneyland ride so cheesy he should have called it 'Anglo-Saxons of the Caribbean.' "
If you want to connect to the original, check out Benjamin Bagby's performance of Beowulf in the original language accompanying himself on the Anglo-Saxon harp.
TECHNOLOGY
"I have a new PC at home with Microsoft Office installed. When I save a file in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, it saves the file with a .docx, pptx, or xlsx extension on the end of the file name, and then I can't open the file on the computers at school. What do I do?"
When you save your file at home, go to Save As Word 97-2003 Document or the equivalent for PowerPoint or Excel. That's the short answer. Leo Notenboom has written a more thorough explanation of what's going on and how to deal with it.