*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…
We are now forced to use Canvas (a web based LMS) for our courses. I won’t list the reasons why I dislike Canvas and think it’s a terrible thing for education generally but suffice it to say, it’s better for…
Too often, I get emails in the evening and on weekends when I’m relaxing, working on a project or even doing school work but in a focused way. Now, if it’s a student question, well, I’m okay with that (to…
Given remote learning right now and students all around the world, I’m using Microsoft Bookings App to schedule student (online) math extra help. It’s an add-on that’s included with paid Office365, although you may have to convince your IT department…
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 online through our government online chat/whiteboarding system. And I’ve been…
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 can have students continue to learn while at home.…
(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 own YouTube!” If you are an Office365 user, visit …
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…
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…
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…