Technology How To's for Education Students:
A Short-List of Useful Documents from VIU's IT Department & the Faculty of Education
Your Computer, the Network & Printers
- Your VIU U: Drive & How to Access It: about your U: drive for virtual storage and how to access it while on campus and logged into the VIU servers.
- Accessing your U: Drive Off-Campus: how to access your virtual U: drive from off-campus
- Mapping a Network Drive (PC): useful when you need to map to your U: drive (virtual drive with your name) either at VIU or home; your U: drive can be used as a virtual storage/backup for your important files so you can access them from campus or anywhere--as long as you map the drive!; useful to map to any shared drive.
- Mapping a Network Drive (Mac): useful when you need to map to your U: drive (virtual drive with your name) either at VIU or home; your U: drive can be used as a virtual storage/backup for your important files so you can access them from campus or anywhere--as long as you map the drive!; useful to map to any shared drive.
- Using Wireless Connections: useful for connecting to the WISP or S-WISP networks;(NOTE: if you're using VISTA, you should be using S-WISP); resources for "How to" are at the bottom of the page--so scroll way down.
- Scanning Images: useful for creating digital versions of hardcopy images; please respect copyright: read our Copyright Guidelines.
- Scanning Text: useful for creating digital versions of texts documents that are not currently available electronically; please respect copyright: read our Copyright Guidelines.
- Burning CDs with Windows XP: useful for burning music or other data onto CDs
- Audio Editing with Audacity: useful for editing sound files for creating podcasts, sound files, etc.; you will need to download the free Audacity software.
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Adobe/Macromedia Software
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Microsoft Office 2003®
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Provincial Electronic Curriculum Collection
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Video Editing with iMovie
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