eCSG
Over the next few weeks we will develop this section of the website to provide guidance to students, teachers and parents on how to make the most effective use of ICT for learning at CSG.
Our network is open for learning 24/7/365. If you need help or support, please look in this section for help first. Can't find what you need to know? Then email support@camdengirls.camden.sch.uk. If you are using the school email system, just email support - no need to add @camdengirls.camden.sch.uk. If you are emailing about something you can't do, we will direct you to one of our how2 documents or we will write one for you.
Hot topics
Memory sticks - we no longer stock or sell these as they are now "old technology." So many students lose their memory sticks with all of their work - often with the only copy!
Instead, consider either
- working directly on the network from home and save your work to your network area; we backup to tape every night
- uploading your work to My Documents in Fronter which is secure and accessible only to you - it's your private online memory stick.
Using Digital Photos with Word or Powerpoint - it's that time of year when students are busy finishing coursework with many photos or large images in their documents. It is very upsetting when the documents become corrupted or just won't print.
Keep your files to under 5 MB at the very, very largest! Here's how:
- look for small images on the Internet - an image of 360 by 240 pixels is usually large enough. If you find a very large image and copy and paste it, then resize it by dragging its handles in Word or Powerpoint, it is still a very large image even though it looks smaller.
- resize photos before you put them into your Word or Powerpoint file. Many digital cameras produce files of 500 kb or much larger - even up to 10 MB for one photo. These are great for high quality large photos but they will give you problems if you just put them into Word or Powerpoint and try to resize them. Use Macromedia Fireworks or Photoshop or the free BIMPlite to resize them first.
- Save your Word, Publisher or Powerpoint file as a pdf - go to Save As and choose pdf. Your files will be much smaller, will travel better and will print more easily.