Your Phone. On your computer.
Cal Armstrong Microsoft has this fun little app called Your Phone on Windows 10; it connects your computer (desktop/laptop/Surface) with your phone and adds some functionality that comes in handy. While I…
Email to OneNote
This is one of those things that I always assume people know... but then they don't! You can send (almost) anything to the email address [email protected] and it will create…
Screen Recording made easy
Screen recording is something I do A LOT ... when you're a math teacher and students want solutions, it's easy to open up OneNote and write out the solution or…
Yes! Oui! Si! 是的!
I use Microsoft Forms a fair bit but mostly it's with my own students. But when I'm working with larger groups outside the school, it's a nice option to offer…
Fence me in!
A couple of weeks ago while flipping through tabs, I noticed a wee little fence on the top bar of my Firefox browser: My first thought was "hey that's kinda…
Desmos Test Mode in Windows
Desmos, the popular online graphing calculator, has a Test Mode that locks the device into just the graphing calculator (Link: https://www.desmos.com/test-mode) . The challenge is that it's only for Chromebooks…
Voting in Outlook
While you can certainly use Microsoft Forms to collect information and put it into a spreadsheet easily, sometimes you just need a simple yes/no or single selection. And Outlook lets…
Simple subtitles
Every tv and streaming app in my house is set to show subtitles -- I'm not hard of hearing, but I like keeping the text showing on the screen. It…
Microsoft Teams –> Your Files jump-off point
I used to suggest using Microsoft Delve as a jumping off point for your files -- it was a smart system that highlighted what files you had been recently using…
#vnps’ing Trig Identities
So my class was working on Proving Trig Identities (not always the most popular -- it's the first time they really do a "proof" in our curriculum) and I didn't…