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Office Web Apps

• Post your PowerPoint presentations onto your blog

  18 Aug 2011

  Do you use PowerPoint presentations during class as a visual aid or as summarized notes on your lecture? Perhaps you ask your students to present their final projects in PowerPoint. Either way, if you have a PowerPoint presentation that you want to share with others, then here’s an idea for you...
• What were teachers asking about at ISTE?

  28 Jul 2011

  Last month I attended the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE ) 2011 conference in the City of Brotherly Love . For three days I worked the booth and walked the halls listening to the questions that teachers and school IT professionals were asking. I met so many inquisitive and inspired...
• Cloud-based cure for overweight MacBooks (video)

  11 May 2011

  Tired of lugging your MacBook from home to school and back again? Then it's a good thing that Office for Mac 2011 works with Office Web Apps. This means you can access your documents from any computer with an Internet connection—even from … gasp … a PC! When you save your documents...
• When's a good time to use Office Web Apps?

  7 Apr 2011

  I recently asked a group of students about how and when they use Office Web Apps. According to them, here are the top 3 good times to use Office Web Apps. Not familiar with them? Office Web Apps are free online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. And if you've got a Windows...
• Share class newsletters with parents via Windows Live Hotmail (video)

  16 Feb 2011

  When you attach a Word document in e-mail, Word Web App lets Hotmail recipients view the attachment in their web browser . They don’t even need Microsoft Word installed on their computer. This is a handy feature that lets my son’s kindergarten teacher share her class newsletter with me. As...
• Got something to share with a group?

  31 Dec 2010

  Did you know that Windows Live Hotmail lets you create an email distribution list (also known as an email alias or a contacts category)? Creating one makes it easier to send email out to a large group. This little tip could come in handy on New Year’s Eve when you want to send a certain group of...
• Teacher guides for Office Web Apps

  12 Nov 2010

  Goodbye compatibility issues. So long "that's just for rich kids". With Office Web Apps all of your students can use Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Excel for their school assignments... for free! Files are viewable, editable, and sharable virtually anywhere there's an Internet connection. If some students...
• Group projects just got easier (video)

  9 Nov 2010

  With Office Web Apps and Windows Live SkyDrive you and your team members can rock out a great group project without meeting in person all of the time. What is Windows Live SkyDrive? Windows Live SkyDrive gives you 25 gigabytes of FREE online file storage! Why not cash in on that? Just save your files...
• What's the verdict? Students put the Count of Monte Cristo on trial (video)

  3 Nov 2010

  To get her students excited about reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas , Kelli Etheredge designed an assignment where the class puts the Count on trial for murder. To start, her students divide into prosecution and defense teams and then use Microsoft OneNote to collect their research...