Year 2023

Desmos2OneNote (Version 4)

Okay, remember a few days ago when I said that Microsoft does continual improvement? I guess, kinda, so do I. You can download the file here: (and I updated it on the earlier post, too). So I had a few…

Desmos2OneNote (Version 2)

So the great thing about modern programming is that Microsoft products are under continual improvement — in the “olden days” you would have to wait years between upgrades. Today, every week sees new additions or improvements in the systems. So,…

How many Spider-folk?

I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse movie. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to watch the first movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and then see this one — I’m not a comic book geek at all,…

The Death of DeltaMath

Yes, an overly dramatic headline. If you haven’t already tried DeltaMath (www.deltamath.com) it’s a web-based math question site that generates a huge variety of questions based on a template. So, say you want students to practice finding the vertex of…

Desmos2OneNote

The Lede: This is an app that will screenshot all pages of a student’s Desmos Activities into a OneNote Page. Desmos Activities have been a great way to have students work, both individually and collaboratively, on mathematical ideas. It was…

So, picture this…

I have been waiting forever (okay, a couple of months) for Bing Image Creator to show up in Canada. It’s always been teasing me with a “Not yet available in your area” on its home screen… and yes, I kept…

Pronouns in Office365

*Okay, I think they call it Microsoft365 now. Plus ça change. One of the things that Microsoft does well, and earnestly tries to do well, is accessibility. In a similar vein, they give particular effort in providing tools to support…

Nothing more than feelings

As with most schools, mine has invested (considerably) in SEL approaches. They haven’t, though, leveraged the opportunities in Microsoft Teams very much, which is rather disappointing given that I, as someone described just today as “not bubbly”, have found it…