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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...
• My yearbook + on-demand publishing = timeless treasure

  13 Jun 2011

  Put together your school's yearbook, or your own souvenir photo yearbook for your friends, using Hewlett Packard's cloud publishing site, MagCloud . Microsoft Publisher has partnered with HP MagCloud to give you on-demand publishing straight from the application. No upfront cost commitment. It's just...
• 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...
• Make your own graduation movie!

  31 May 2011

  Gather videos and photos of you and your friends and make a commemorative movie using Windows Live Movie Maker. When you’re done, you can publish your movie to YouTube, Facebook, or even to Windows Live SkyDrive . Download the free program and get started today! And if you're the über creative...
• 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...
• 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
• 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...
• 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...
• Keep your name from looking like a spelling mistake (video)

  22 Mar 2011

  Does your name appear as a spelling mistake in Word? Then you're not alone. As part of our Call-to-Action campaign , I recently asked our Microsoft Student Facebook friends to share their Word pet peeves. And this pet peeve was top of the list. Luckily, there's a quick fix. Right-click the word and then...
• 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...
• Windows Phone 7 and App Hub — build apps and get paid!

  25 Feb 2011

  College graduates will tackle the job market soon. What better way to stand out from the crowd than to have a software app release on your resume? DreamSpark, a program set up by Microsoft to provide professional-level developer and design tools to students around the world for free, recently partnered...
• Call-to-Action: What do you want to learn about?

  18 Feb 2011

  So far on the Office in Education blog, we’ve updated you on new product releases, shared ideas on how you can use Office products and services to crank out your school work, and helped you discover new uses for our feature-rich applications. But, frankly, we want to hear from you. What are the...