St George Library Blog/Podcast

Accessing Sydney Institute Moodle – podcast

Thursday, November 18th, 2010 Posted in computer tips, computers, podcast | No Comments »

More and more teachers at Sydney Institute, including at St George College, are taking advantage of the many features that Moodle has to offer to provide a new way of reaching and teaching students. If you are a student affected by ...

Recycling your mobiles and ink jet cartridges

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in computer tips, facilities, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Did you know there is a facility onsite at St George College where you can do your bit and help save the environment? In the Student Association common room there are 2 boxes where you can place your old unused mobile ...

Podcast-Logging on and off the computers

Sunday, May 16th, 2010 Posted in computer tips, computers, podcast | No Comments »

Make sure you log on and off the library computers to protect your privacy and reduce spread of the viruses. LoggingPCs

How to safely remove your flash drive

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in computer tips, computers, podcast | No Comments »

While the computer will not stop you from pulling out your flash drive at any time if you do remove your drive without first stopping it you risk corrupting or losing your files - even if you have saved and ...

Guide for connecting to the Wireless Network for students using laptops

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in blogs, computer tips, computers, facilities | No Comments »

Free of charge wireless network is available at St George College in the library and building F. To connect to the wireless network you must have your DET username and password. If you do not know or forget you username and ...

What is hot in the library?

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in catalogue, computer tips, library services, tafecat | No Comments »

You may have noticed that the library catalogue had a bit of a face lift when we went to the new version of library software in October. Have you noticed that since that time when you go to do ...

Student Computers in Library

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in computer tips, computers | No Comments »

The student use computers in the Library have been working overtime with students completing assignments etc. We have had to deal with a particulary nasty virus at present so PLEASE remember to do a virus scan on your USB before ...

Endless computer virus battles

Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Posted in computer tips | No Comments »

I have been asked many times by our students who want to know if their work or USBs are free from computer viruses after scanning by anti-virus software. To be honest there is no precise answer.  Perhaps Microsoft or Symantec can provide ...

Netiquette

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Posted in computer tips | No Comments »

A hundred years ago people often wrote letters on a daily basis. They chose their words carefully and thoughtfully to communicate feelings and intent. However, during the intervening decades the art of written communication has been lost. People in this ...

Listen to PDF files

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 Posted in computer tips, computers | No Comments »

You can listen to a PDF document instead of reading it with Adobe Reader 7.0 or 6.0 by using these simple instructions: Ctrl+shift+b - to hear the entire Document Ctrl+shift+v - to hear the page Ctrl+shift+c - to resume Ctrl+shift+e - to stop