by Victoria Thompson | Oct 13, 2020 | Microsoft, OneNote
I am a big believer in not having to do more work than I have to or need to. I view it as part of my “work smarter, not harder” philosophy for 2020 and beyond. In the beginning of the year and especially during the onset of remote learning in March I felt like I was...
by admin | May 27, 2020 | Advanced, Excel, Microsoft
A pivot table is an essential tool for teachers. Pivot tables SUMMARIZE. Given that we have 30-150 students each doing multiple things we have lots of need for pivot tables. Join cue.org/microsoft May 27th at 7pm PST for my webinar on Pivot Tables in Excel Online...
by admin | May 17, 2020 | Microsoft, OneNote
“OneNote best practices for educators and students” Guest blog post by Mike Tholfsen Last week I did a webinar with Troy Waller from Australia all about OneNote EDU best practices and “good hygiene” for educators and students. In...
by admin | Mar 12, 2020 | 365, Advanced, Microsoft, Minecraft
Immersive Reader Helps Our Struggling Students Google has awesome tools. Microsoft has awesome tools. Both are free. Why not set up both accounts to take advantage of the best innovation to help our students. Right now, Immersive Reader is a big deal for helping our...
by admin | Feb 18, 2020 | Advanced, Excel, Microsoft
Magically Get Data This is really cool, you can set your data type in Microsoft Excel to be Geography and then it will tell you all kinds of data about it. No one loves data more than me! Having students find data about different locations and using them in a...
by admin | Oct 27, 2017 | 365, Advanced, Twitter
Some Twitter Tips The number one users of Twitter are educators! I don’t use Twitter like Facebook and I don’t follow people who do. One of the best things you can do for yourself as an educator is to create a Twitter handle just for teaching and tweet...