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• 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...
• 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...
• 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”...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Blinded me with science: Introducing the Chemistry Add-in for Word

  1 Feb 2011

  Want to build your own molecule image and add it to your research paper? Or how about add subscripts and superscripts to electrons and isotopes? Today, you can. Microsoft Research just released version 1.0 of their Chemistry Add-in for Word . Similar to the Mathematics Add-in for Word , when you install...
• Tackle your math homework with Microsoft Mathematics

  12 Jan 2011

  Have trouble with math? Me, too. I absolutely loved science classes as a student. But, there’s a reason I didn’t grow up to wear a white lab coat—my grasp of the required mathematical concepts was always a bit shaky. I wish I had Microsoft Mathematics when I was in school. Microsoft...
• Put on your director's hat, we're turning lessons into movies

  20 Dec 2010

  Kelli Etheredge, a teacher and mentor at St. Paul's Episcopal School in Mobile, Alabama, is onto something. Although Kelli teaches literature, her 'Poetry into Movies' unit is versatile enough to enhance any area of study. If you're looking for new ways to engage with your students, check out Kelli's...
• Use OneNote and get help with that writing assignment

  8 Dec 2010

  A big writing assignment can be a stressful thing. Where do you start? How do you organize? How do you know if <gasp> what you wrote was any good? Brainstorming, outlining, drafting and revising are all elements of a successful paper. We created a OneNote notebook called “The Writing Process”...
• Customize your school newsletter for the holidays

  6 Dec 2010

  Starting from a Microsoft Publisher 2010 template, you can customize the color scheme and design to create and publish a holiday newsletter for your school—in a snap! There are a lot of great templates from Office.com to help you create a high-quality, personalized newsletter. Read on to learn...
• 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...