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• Some people take notes. Do you?

  18 Nov 2011

  According to a survey released Thursday from the National Survey of Student Engagement , many students fail to use effective study techniques to help them succeed in school. The New York Times reported , "The great majority of students take notes in class, but fewer than two-thirds review them later...
• OneNote tip: How to tag exam material in your notes

  23 Sep 2011

  If you’re lucky, you’ll get a nice professor that will tell you during a lecture, “This material will be on the exam, so pay attention!” Thank the teacher and make a note. But these professors are rare. You may have to determine what's important based on points the professor emphasizes...
• Back to school! 20 tips to ease the pain

  12 Sep 2011

  As you reluctantly come back from vacation and return to your regular school schedules, you might need a jumpstart to get you back into your routines. What do you need to do? Keep track of class notes? Write a report with an MLA-formatted bibliography? Or collaborate on a presentation? How are your math...
• A teacher’s thoughts on Windows Live SkyDrive (video)

  25 Aug 2011

  Kelvin Dueck, a physics and math teacher at Pitt Meadows Secondary School, wanted a way to share his math answer keys and physics notes with his students. That way his students could access help and extend their learning outside of traditional classroom walls. He needed a virtual hard drive. Kelvin wanted...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Free gradebook template for Excel 2010

  26 Jul 2011

  [ Author's note : Daniel Ferry, an Excel MVP, recently updated the Excel 2010 gradebook template. Now you can easily print all student reports with the click of one button. This new button required VBA script, which creates macros in the file. You'll want to click Enable Macros when prompted during download...
• Invite your students "in" to your lectures

  7 Jun 2011

  This post about teachers sharing their presentations with students using Broadcast Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010 was written by Joy Miller. Nowadays, students bring their laptops, smartphones, and iPads into the classroom to take notes, research online, and work on assignments. But one thing hasn’t...
• Stay focused through finals: Advice for students with ADHD

  24 May 2011

  Kristin Beck, a writer and editor at Office.com, offers personal advice to students with ADHD about study habits, deadlines, and taking exams. As finals approach, many students are feeling an intense pressure to perform. There’s so much at stake, with college or graduate school looming in the distance...
• Have you thanked your teachers lately? (video)

  20 May 2011

  Did you know that May is Teacher Appreciation Month ? Well, the month’s not over yet. So consider this a gentle reminder to reconnect with those teachers who have inspired you over the years. Let them know how much you appreciate what they do for you. Everyone has a story about “the one”...
• Lecture slides & notes living happily together (video)

  17 May 2011

  In this video, I’ll show you how to drag a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote and take notes next to the slides. Find out more about how OneNote and PowerPoint are better together ! - -Jennifer Bost
• Nervous about student teaching?

  9 May 2011

  On the new Preservice Teachers website , you'll find links to lesson plans, Office tools for teachers, classroom management strategies, and teacher communities that will help get your student teaching off on the right foot. I've spoken with a number of students who plan to make education their career...
• Tablet PC and OneNote — Inspiring new pedagogy

  26 Apr 2011

  Scribing--using a Tablet PC to facilitate whole-class discussions--is an instructional strategy that Patrick Harless analyzes in the monthly periodical Mathematics Teacher . Harless, an algebra and geometry teacher at Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts, discusses how his students use the inking...
• What do your flight number and taxi ride home have in common?

  21 Apr 2011

  Today's post about a creative use of Access 2010 is by Abhay Parekh, who's in his last year of studies in engineering at the University of Mumbai in India. Abhay also teaches lower-level students how to create and use Microsoft Access databases. What a go-getter! It was a lonely Sunday afternoon when...
• 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...
• Sort and filter grade book data using Excel tables (video)

  16 Mar 2011

  If you find yourself banging your head on your desk when it comes time to sort and filter student data in your grade book, Excel tables can make your life less stressful. Tables let you sort student test scores (for example, from lowest to highest), calculate average scores on assignments, and add special...
• Celebrate pi with pie! (video)

  14 Mar 2011

  Today is Pi Day! That's π, as in the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, better known as the mathematical constant beginning with 3.14. We celebrate pi on March 14, or 3/14, because the date represents the first three digits of π in decimal form. Evidence suggests that...
• The secret to converting your presentation into a video

  2 Mar 2011

  Did you know that you can save your PowerPoint 2010 presentations as Windows Media Player (.wmv) video files? Well, you can. And it only takes a few mouse clicks. You can then burn the video file to a DVD, upload it to your blog or video-sharing web site, or email it to your professor. This is a great...
• ¿Es correcto? Office checks your spelling in other languages

  3 Feb 2011

  The spell check feature in Office isn’t just for research papers and essays. Use it to catch mistakes in your foreign language homework too! Don’t lose points on your vocabulary exercises or compositions because you forgot to include an accent mark or misspelled the plural form of a vocabulary...