Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams
Cal ArmstrongSo one of the challenges folks have is that there isn't yet an easy way to assign students to breakout rooms so that they can work on a problem together.…
Quick Poll in Microsoft Teams using the Forms Bot
In Teams, click on the APPS button in the lower left corner of the Teams App. In the Search Box, type form and a card will show up with FORMS…
Delay Post to Microsoft Teams
So one of the things I see requested is a delayed-post to Microsoft Teams (like, you want an announcement to go out on a Birthday, say... like April 23rd for…
#remotelearning bona fides
So, I'm a classroom teacher -- but I've also taught online each summer for the past six years, first in French (!) and then mathematics. Before that, I tutored students…
#remotelearning Introduction
You can't tell what's going to happen but it looks like many schools may experience some closures over the next few weeks or months, and so folks are considering how…
You don’t know what you don’t know. Part 2
So this is the end of a very busy four day week; next week I'll get back to the fun IT stuff! I had a meeting last night where one…
You don’t know what you don’t know
(another quick thought because it's been another 14 hour day) Twice in the past two days I've had users of Office365 respond with "What? I didn't know Office365 had its…
Three things
It's been a long day and I didn't have time on the weekend to write some posts in advance -- so a quick reflection on today. I got to do…
The World’s Most Dangerous Writing App
One of the things I enjoyed doing in my role as "Edtech guy" was putting up hints & tips in the faculty washrooms -- "Learning in the Loo". One of…
Tagging Pictures (& other files) in Windows
Putting a (hash)tag on something really helps to find it later, along with everything else with that tag on it. There appears to be no way to tag photos in…