SUMMER To-Dos: *Go through entire website and change old volunteer names & email addresses to new ones for all committees, etc., using names in Signup Genius. Simultaneous searching in Gmail is an easy way to get email addresses. *Get updated officer biographies and photos if possible. * Save for updates: Playground Renovation Committee Begins Work The new Playground Renovation Committee will focus on the upcoming renovation of the school playground facility. Committee members will be meeting with potential vendors, reviewing design options, and presenting recommendations to the PTO and school principal, as well as working with PTO leadership on budget development and fundraising. Committee members are: Jill Appert (Committee Chair), Sandy Augustein-Collins, Peter Gigante, Jeff Keller, Sean Ryan, and Chris Weaver. Many thanks to all parents who expressed interest in our Playground Renovation Committee. Save for Annual update. Will need to post again at the end of the year (with new SIG!) PTO Volunteer Position Signups OPEN for 2015-16 Sign up ONLINE! ![]() New Parents? Don't be shy! Come give it a try! Birchwood's PTO recruits parent (and grandparent!) volunteers on a rolling basis and during an annual spring "Volunteer Drive" to be PTO committee chairs and members, and/or "day-of-event" helpers. You can sign up online or email us to volunteer or find out more about a position. The current committee chairs will be happy to answer any questions about what's involved! IMPORTANT NOTE TO LAST YEAR'S VOLUNTEERS: If you've never volunteered (especially if you're new to the school), it's a fantastic way to find out more about Birchwood and get to know other parents. Experienced parent volunteers are great resources of information for everything you need to know. If you plan to continue in a role you held last year, that's great! Please sign up to confirm that you're definitely still interested, and to help us keep the volunteer signup organized (it's a lot of people to keep track of). Long-Term To-Do List: 1. Keep eye on calendar updates. Shilpa is handling all. 2. Keep updating Webmaster Handbook: https://docs.google.com/a/niskypto.org/document/d/1jKEKT_1ei9NvBCw56xy5UrwL0N28jwwcLq2gPJRxhOM/edit . Write instructions how to upload & edit images TIPS & TRICKS:"Jumping" or Linking to files or text within your site (this has been pasted into the Google Drive Handbook):PitYou can link to files on your site and to different areas of your site so visitors can more easily navigate your content. Linking to files on your site Linking to text on your siteIf you want to quickly and automatically create links to significant areas on your page -- often called anchor links -- you might consider adding a table of contents to your page. However, if you want to customize these anchor links or use them to link to areas that are not formatted as text headers, you'll need to add these links individually:
I had a problem where I would insert a Picasa Slideshow in Google Sites and then, even though the Album is public, the slides just won't show, no error message, nothing, just no slides. Background To
create my albums and edit the permissions I would login to Google and
choose "Photos" from the black bar at the top. This then redirected me
to Google+ Photos. The whole time I thought that I was using Picasa,
embedded in Google+. This was my first mistake. Google+ Photos and
Picasa Web Albums look similar but they are not the same.
Here's the problem and the solution The
Picasa Slideshow uses "Picasa Web Albums", which is separate from
Google+. When I went to Picasa Web Albums (Google for Picasa Web Albums
and click the link) there was a Privacy Policy window that I had to
accept first. After doing that, my slideshow in Google Sites started
working immediately. In hindsight, the following two things were clues: The "Share" link in Google+ Photos is something like "plus.google.com/photos/<long number>/albums/<long number" and the link generated by the Picasa Slideshow gadget is something like "picasaweb.google.com/<long
number>/<album name>. If I pasted the Google+ Photos link
into the settings box that pops up before inserting the Picasa Slideshow
in a page, then it would say that URL is invalid. If
I pasted the link, generated by the Picasa Slideshow, into a browser, I
got a page not found 404 error. If I pasted the Google+ Photos link
into a browser it all worked fine. Thus, big thing to remember - Google+ Photos is not the same as Picasa Web Album. |