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Help, (Teams), I need somebody...
I was thrilled that this year the Math Department has decided to move fully on to Microsoft Teams to provide Math Extra Help. While we'll continue to provide face-to-face drop-in help during lunch,...
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You need a Team to do that
So yesterday I mentioned about using Teams to do Screencasts - you can see that blog post by clicking here. Here's a brief run-down of the process.When you're in the Teams application, either as a...
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Your Team's Files, where you want them
Even though everything is in the cloud, we really like to have a copy on our computers (we work on public transit, in places with no or poor wifi, and we never really trust the cloud). So when we're...
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Book 'em, Dano... using Office365
I don't usually talk about aspects of Office365 that require one of the paid subscriptions because, well, they cost money and I know teachers and schools have to prioritize their budgets (or have it...
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How do you know you're right?
So I'm only on the 2nd class of the year in my Grade 10 Math course so far. We start late, and we only see them for 3 hours a week, so yes, we move a little slow.I had set them some review problems in...
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Teacher as Student in Anonymous Desmos
I thought that everybody did this! But apparently, not. So this was my XKCD 10,000 moment this week. I happened to tweet the following -- and I think it's my popular tweet of all time. And as you can...
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Other folks, doing stuff in OneNote
When I'm working in OneNote on the night before classes, I always find it interesting to see who else is there working. The Windows10 version of OneNote (and OneNote Online) both include a People...
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Making your own font
Slid in amongst all the announcements for Ignite, Microsoft's big conference in September, as a tool that I thought was quite cool. Not original, since similar things have existed elsewhere &...
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Snip&Sketch
So the October 2018 Windows 10 Update has provided a new snipping tool ... now, it surprises me that this would be the thing I'm most happy about, but it is! Making things we do very often each day as...
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Post It Notes go universal
Microsoft recently began rolling out an update to their Post-It Note software, which they call StickyNotes - now at version 3. You can get it in the Microsoft Store here. For the sake of clarity,...
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This is a Test... this is only a test...
This post wouldn't have been possible without Eric in our IT Dept -- he fixed a network setting that prevented us from using TakeATest last year... so a huge shout-out to him (he's likely relieved...
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The Universe decides...
For a number of years now, instead of a fixed (or no) seating plan for my classroom, I've been using visibly random grouping (PDF). I have an Excel spreadsheet (link) that takes my class list and...
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Choose your own... PD.
When we return from March Break, we tend to have a teacher-only day of PD and meetings. The admin had broken the faculty into 3 groups for two sessions and hadn't planned anything for the third so I...
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Visibly Random Grouping in Excel
So I was in the Lounge the other day and one of the teachers mentioned that she heard I used Excel for Visibly Random Grouping and asked me to explain it (previous blog post). Well, I use Excel just...
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Observations & Conversations : Part 1 of many?
I kinda run on some basic principles when using IT -- it's gotta be free, increase teacher efficacy (modulo some smal learning curve), reduce time spent, it's got to digitize content and I have to be...
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The structure of the Interstitial App, or, Observations & Conversations - Part 2
This builds on my earlier post (link here).After my session at the OAME Conference (link to Presentation), a few folks asked me how I had put this together, so I'm going to give a brief run-down here....
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File Upload in Microsoft Forms
A nice feature now in Microsoft Forms : File Upload!(Remember that all of Office365 -- including Forms and OneNote-- are free to teachers & students)This is a great option for both Forms and...
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Sync your Teams Folder to your Hard Drive
My poor colleague. She's an organizing freak and spent way too many hours clicking away inside the Teams app rearranging all the files into folders. Then I showed her that she can Sync the Teams...
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Improve your presentations with a little AI
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...
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You're not allowed to do that (in Word)
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...
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I've seen this before -- Previous Versions in Word (& Excel & PowerPoint)
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...
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A little low-tech ...I use whiteboards a lot in class - fortunately all of my walls save the windows are covered in whiteboards. Typically all of my students (~20) are up at the boards for at least...
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Equation Editor comes to OneNote (Win10)
Folks have been waiting a while to get Equation Editor into OneNote (Win10 version... it's been in 2016/Desktop for forever). Now, the funny thing is this won't make a huge deal for me. I tend to just...
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Read this email
My school has an unproductive relationship with email; it's woefully abused and so no one really reads email since they're overwhelmed with it. If you didn't ruthlessly triage you'd never get through...
View ArticleMoved to OneNoteSchool.com
Hi folks!Blogger got to be a bit confining so I've moved to Wordpress at http://onenoteschool.com ... you'll be able to find new posts and this archive there. I'll keep this archived here as long as...
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