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• How to create your own class blog or website for free

  11 Aug 2011

  You’ve got information you want to share with your students, and online seems to be the place to go. Queue WordPress and Windows Live Writer—with these tools you can easily create and manage your very own blog . Did I mention that it’s easy? Oh, and did I double mention that it’s...
• 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...
• 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...
• Students use OneNote to analyze haiku and tanka poetry

  18 Nov 2010

  Kelli Etheredge uses OneNote features like shared notebooks, linked notes, and screen clipping to engage her World Literature class in a poetry lesson. It's a 2-day unit where Kelli and her 10th grade students' read, analyze, and discuss haiku and tanka forms of Japanese poetry. Kelli teaches at St....
• 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...