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Chromebook Basics:

Chromebook Basics:. Why Chromebooks:. Speed Cost Security Web-based no downloads or installs Wireless Peripherals. Chromebooks, Google Accounts and Students:. You MUST have a Google Account to use a Chromebook . Parkland students K – 12 have Google accounts

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Chromebook Basics:

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  1. Chromebook Basics:

  2. Why Chromebooks: • Speed • Cost • Security • Web-based • no downloads or • installs • Wireless • Peripherals

  3. Chromebooks, Google Accounts and Students: • You MUST have a Google Account to use • a Chromebook . • Parkland students K – 12 have Google accounts • Only students 7 – 12 have Google gmail accounts • Student Google account usernames are: • first letter of first name + first 5 letters of last • name + last 3 letters of student id • @student.parklandsd.net • i.e. bbrein123@student.parklandsd.net • Password is: student id #

  4. The Chromebook Shortcut Keys:

  5. Special Keys:

  6. Websites to Investigate: http://illuminations.nctm.org - bobbie bear, grouping and grazing, hopping on the number line, every beat of your heart www.exploratorium.edu - fastball reaction time comic creator, bio cube www.sciencenetlinks.com (All Systems Go) www.readwritethink.org – comic creator, bio cube

  7. Chromebook Keyboard Tips: To simulate a RIGHT mouse click on the Chromebook: tap the touchpad with two fingers simultaneously 2. To scroll up and down a web page: move two fingers simultaneously up or down the touchpad 3. To simulate the back or forward arrows on Google to look at previously viewed webpages: use two fingers to “swipe” along the top or bottom of the touchpad 4. To take a screenshot of an entire page: Use CTRL+

  8. Chromebook Keyboard Tips: • To take a screen shot of a portion of a page: • Use CTRL+ Shift+ • (This turns your cursor into a crosshair. Hold one finger • down on the touchpad while drawing a rectangle around the • desired portion of the page with another finger, then • release.) • To enlarge type on a page: • CTRL + • To reduce type size on a page: • CTRL – • To find text on a page: • CTRL + F

  9. Chrome OS and Citrix Receiver: • Use the Chrome OS: • To surf the web • To copy and paste text and images to Google Docs • Use the Citrix Receiver Apps: • To access, open and save files on the home directory • Log in to the Citrix Receiver: • Within the Parkland Campus: • apps.parklandsd.org • Outside the Parkland Campus: • portal.parklandsd.org • Open applications within the Citrix Receiver in order to copy and paste text and/or images from web pages to MS Office • applications, or from one MS Office document to another

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