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Bookmarking favourite pages

Making your home page the NZ Science Learning Hub

Print settings

Watching video clips

Viewing site content

Watching video clips

Bookmarking favourite pages

There are two ways to bookmark pages from the NZ Science Learning Hub:

  • Once you are a registered user of the site you can use our personalised bookmark feature. This means you can access your bookmarks from any computer and/or any browser — they will never be lost when you upgrade your computer, for example.
  • To bookmark in your web browser, when you are on the page you want to bookmark, from your web browser menu, select Favourites>Add to Favourites or Bookmarks>Add to Bookmarks.

Making your home page the NZ Science Learning Hub

From your web browser menu, select Tools>Internet Options or Edit>Preferences, and in the homepage address area enter http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz

Print settings

All printers have different settings and the width of the page you wish to print from the Hub could be outside the printable area, meaning some text is missed off. When you choose print in your browser, look for the properties or options dialogue box and choose 'scale to fit' or set 'scaling' at 85 percent – this will make the whole page fit to the printer paper size.

Screen settings

Pages on the NZ Science Learning Hub templates will look best at an 1024 x 768 screen resolution. To change your screen to this resolution:

  • on a PC, go to the Control Panel and select Display>Settings>Screen resolution 1024 x 768
  • on a Mac, select Display on the Control Strip and set the screen resolution to 1024 x 768.

Be aware that all other sites and programs you access from your computer may also be affected by this change.

Viewing site content

Some resources on the Science Learning Hub are in PDF format (file.pdf), Quicktime Movie format (file.mov), Flash format (file.swf) or Powerpoint format (file.ppt). All these formats require you to have the correct program on your computer. If a page does not open, select the program you need (they are all free and will not harm your computer):

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for read any document that ends with .pdf in the file name (this stands for portable document format).
  • Quick Time from Apple Computer Inc will play MP3 and .mov files, on Windows and Macintosh computers.
  • Flash Player lets you experience the most engaging, interactive content on the Web. Follow the three simple steps to quickly get your free Web Players. Flash 8 is required for the interactives on this site.
  • MS PowerPoint allows people to share their presentations with people who do not have PowerPoint installed on their computers.

Note: The NZ Science Learning Hub allows you to download particular documents on certain conditions. If you do not agree with these conditions, then you should not download the material.

Watching video clips

All video clips require Quicktime 7.5 or above to play. This is available as a free download at www.quicktime.com. All clips are available to view in two sizes:

  • 56 kbps is recommended for a dialup or modem connection
  • 256 kbps is recommended for a broadband or network connection.

At this stage the clips cannot be downloaded and stored on a hard drive.