Why Delve is my best friend
There’s no question that I think the best part of Office365, the best part of Microsoft, heck, the best part of the entire technology community is OneNote. Hands down. But what’s #2? #2 is Delve. Delve is the user face…
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#My24Hrs Part 2
Teacher content displayed on projector So it was optimistic of me to say I’d be able to post twice in the same day… so here I continue from #My24Hrs Part 1. So as it turned out, I didn’t have a…
#My24Hrs Part 1
I recently described myself as a devout pragmatist – and that has been reflected in the way I’ve taken on my role as technology liaison in our IT department. I’m not an evangelizer; I’m a productivity and efficiency consultant. If…
5 Reasons Schools should run with Office365
It often surprises me when folks don’t know about Office365 and/or don’t know how Microsoft has changed its educational offerings in the past few years. Although Google definitely had the lead up to say 2011, Microsoft has quickly come up…
Five reasons to learn Math with OneNote
So, Alice Keeler – @alicekeeler– who is an amazing blogger and an incredible resource for those using Google products, posted 60 Ways Math Teachers can use Google Classroom last April. It came across my desk the other day and, since school hadn’t started yet, I thought…
“So you’ve sold your soul…”
While at the Bringing-IT-Together conference (one of the best gathering of learners in North America) in November 2015 I had the opportunity to present at a few sessions, mostly on OneNote (of course?) but I also got to work with some…
Auto-Grading an Office365 Excel Survey Assessment
So it’s pretty common that folks use Google Forms to create an automatically graded assessment. Now, I have to admit, as a mathematics teacher I don’t do a lot of fixed-response assessments like this that need automatic grading. But that…
Playing with Permissions in the OneNote Class Notebook: In French
This follows on the hacking work done with OneNote Class Notebook – including adding a digital portfolio and a private planning area for teachers in the Content section. My amazing colleague Anjuli Ahooja is an active participant with Science On Stage.…
5 things about the Microsoft Band
(So I ran into Minnia Feng, the Community Organizer for the Microsoft Expert Educators when I was in Redmond last month and she mentioned I’d taken her “5 item listicles” by the horns. Long story short, I believe than when…
Yammer : 5 reasons to explore a new space
Continuing on the Microsoft Expert Educator suggestion to make 5-tips-articles here’s one on Yammer. Yammer is part of Office365 and is free to schools, faculty and students as part of their free Office365 subscriptions. On first glance, and in general…