My school has an unproductive relationship with email; it’s woefully abused and so no one really reads email since they’re overwhelmed with it. If you didn’t ruthlessly triage you’d never get through to the actual important ones. (A few good reminders are here: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-email ) Back when I did a […]
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Equation Editor comes to OneNote (Win10)
Folks have been waiting a while to get Equation Editor into OneNote (Win10 version… it’s been in 2016/Desktop for forever). Now, the funny thing is this won’t make a huge deal for me. I tend to just write my equations out, and if it’s for more serious distribution I tend […]
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Clean those boards
A little low-tech … I use whiteboards a lot in class – fortunately all of my walls save the windows are covered in whiteboards. Typically all of my students (~20) are up at the boards for at least part of each class and occasionally for the entire class. For example, […]
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I’ve seen this before — Previous Versions in Word (& Excel & PowerPoint)
One of the handy things about having infinite storage in Office365 is that there are versions of every bit of your work stored continually. So, when I worked on the Word document in my previous blog post on Restricting Editing (here) the Word Document had several Previous Versions, snapshots of […]
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You’re not allowed to do that (in Word)
One of the things I haven’t seen mentioned in Word (in Office365) is “Restrict Editing”. As you likely know, when you share a document with someone, you can either give them Read Only (they can’t make ANY changes or they get Edit (they can make any changes they want). But […]
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Improve your presentations with a little AI
One of the neatest things to come along in a long while has been Presenter Coach, an AI app inside of PowerPoint. It tries to give you helpful feedback on your presenting skills based on your own PowerPoint and the words, phrasing and elocution you use. First… make your PowerPoint. […]
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Sync your Teams Folder to your Hard Drive
My poor colleague. She’s an organizing freak and spent way too many hours clicking away inside the Teams app rearranging all the files into folders. Then I showed her that she can Sync the Teams folder onto her Hard Drive (giving her offline-access anytime!) and use the drag&drop of regular […]
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File Upload in Microsoft Forms
A nice feature now in Microsoft Forms : File Upload!(Remember that all of Office365 — including Forms and OneNote– are free to teachers & students)This is a great option for both Forms and Quizzes… you can now ask people to do work in OneNote and then screenclip it (using the […]
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The structure of the Interstitial App, or, Observations & Conversations – Part 2
This builds on my earlier post (link here).After my session at the OAME Conference (link to Presentation), a few folks asked me how I had put this together, so I’m going to give a brief run-down here. You’re always welcome to ask me for more information, of course, if I’ve […]
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Observations & Conversations : Part 1 of many?
I kinda run on some basic principles when using IT — it’s gotta be free, increase teacher efficacy (modulo some smal learning curve), reduce time spent, it’s got to digitize content and I have to be able to to work with the data to find meaning.So every other year we […]