Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Mathematica

The Mathematica software is available on Library computers. It is actually called 'Wolfram Mathematica'. Users will need to click on the start menu followed by 'All Programs' and scroll down to 'W' to access it.

MATLAB Access

To access MATLAB students will need to do the following:

1. Click on the 'Start Menu'. Click on 'Citrix' next to the Internet Explorer icon near the top (under Adobe Reader).
 2. Click INSTALL
 3. A new window will open that students can just close because it has nothing to do with their program.
 4. The original window asks you to confirm installation. User will click 'Continue'.
 5. User can now access MATLAB which is actually called Citrix XenApp with credentials they should already have.

Monday, November 14, 2016

3D printers

There are 3D printers on campus that students can use with permission. Students should contact Peter Stupak in the Science & Engineering Department and he will give them the information they need. peter.stupak@raritanval.edu

(email from Alyssa, 11/14)

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

A Google A Day

I just discovered that if you don't enter any search terms in Google and put your mouse over the I'm feeling lucky button, it swivels like a slot machine and turns up several options, like "I'm feeling hungry" (results are restaurants), "I'm feeling curious" (gives an interesting fact), and several more. "I'm feeling puzzled" brought me to A Google A Day, which gives you a question and then you are supposed to use Google to find the answer. Check it out http://www.agoogleaday.com/#date=2012-03-27. I don't know exactly how it could be used yet but it seems like a really interesting way to engage students with Google!

-Megan

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

From Apple Pages to Word

A student just showed me how to send a document from Mac's Pages program to an email as a Word document. When in the Pages document, there is a "share" button. You can select to send it as an email, and then from the dialog box that appears, you can select "Word" for the type of document that is sent.