Mouses & Trash Cans

Mary S. (tutor in TS) and Karl (from Library Services) joined this week's Lunchin' for Laptops. Karl, who was one of the facilitators at the 2/2 inservice, plans to start a blog in the near future for use with students at the library and browsed our blog. Mary explored the links provided at last week's inservice by librarian colleague Suzanne B. for Researching Family History.

During today's session, some helpful tips came up about scrolling on laptops without an external mouse:

• hold down the left button on the touch pad mouse while dragging a finger down the pad


• use the touch pad to place the arrow/ cursor on the web page, then tap the tab and use the up or down arrow buttons on the keyboard

Also, tips about commenting on Blogger were shared:

• if the same comment is posted twice and you are the author, find the symbol with a trash can located in the lower left corner undert the specific comment for deleting


• when a comment is deleted, the comment box (which shows in a pop-up window) will read that the author removed the comment

Feel free to ask Mary or I for a live demonstration for any of these strategies!