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Today is sort of a catch-all of things in Sway we haven’t happened to hit over the last week.  We will start with Word Transform, which is a lot like the WordSway we examined yesterday.  From there we will dive into the Design Button.  Welcome to Day 55 of 365 Ideas for Office 365, which is Officially about Word Transform. Review So yesterday we considered the benefits of keeping students working in Word long enough to ensure they have sufficient content that is well-written before allowing them to import their Word document into Sway using the Start from a document buttons on Sway.  Students canRead More →

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Last week we began to look at Microsoft Sway, the online presentation tool that looks and feels like a website.  (Each Sway does, in fact, have a unique url.)  The immediate value of Sway is that it uses AI for it’s design, keeping students focused on the content.  We also looked at the templates in Sway, which gives students that need it some extra support by providing structure, as well as starting Sway from a topic, which gives an extra layer of support by essentially building an outline for students to fill in on their topic.  Sway has a variety of supports built in thatRead More →

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Sway is a great tool for helping students spend less time on the appearance of a presentation and more time on the content.  Sway also has some built-in scaffolds for students who need some extra help getting started.  When creating a new Sway, you can choose to use the templates.  But for students that need even more structure to get started and stay on track, they can start a Sway from a topic.  Welcome to Day 53 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. Locating Sway from a Topic I was actually disappointed, initially, when Microsoft added the start with a template in Sway, because itRead More →

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Yesterday we took a look at Sway and how it helps keep students focused on their content, rather than spending most of their time on the appearance of their presentation, and how they can create from scratch right within Sway.  Today, on Day 52 of 365 ideas for Office 365, we will look at another way to begin a Sway- templates. Introducing Sway Templates For students that have trouble getting started, or those who struggle with organization, templates are a great scaffold to give them just enough support to get their thoughts and ideas into a useful communication platform like Sway.  Sway has a numberRead More →

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I’ll be honest.  The first time I heard about Microsoft Sway, I thought it was like New Coke.  Microsoft, what are you saying about PowerPoint that you have to have another presentation tool?  Looking back, I’m amazed now that I “didn’t get it” the first couple times I looked at it.  Since then, I’ve seen elementary students run with Sway, because it’s so simple and streamlined, so easy to make and so easy to make look good. Welcome to Day 51 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. Sway’s purpose When I share Microsoft Sway with teachers, I like to ask, ‘What do your students spendRead More →

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This one is not at first obviously apparent that it is for Office 365, because it’s all about Wakelet, but we will tie it in before we’re done.  So welcome to Day 50 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 I’m admittedly late to “riding the Wakelet wave”- I finally jumped onboard when, we’ll, we’ll get to that at the end. What is Wakelet? Wakelet is a social bookmarking site.  Think of it kind of like an educational Pinterest, but not exactly. You can choose a topic and create a board, adding your digital resources to it. These can be links to websites or uploaded files. Read More →

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Sections in PowerPoint.  Yes, PowerPoint now allows you to create sections.  This is obviously useful for organization, but it is especially helpful if you want to create a slideshow that you don’t necessarily want to go through in a set order.  This, in turn, is also extremely useful if you are sharing a slideshow asynchronously and it doesn’t necessarily need to be in a set order.  Day 49 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 is yet another #OnlyinPowerPoint. Benefits of Sections when Creating Slideshows One benefit of PowerPoint sections is that they function like headings in a word document.  In Word, if you hover yourRead More →

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Zoom in PowerPoint.  As in, zoom from one slide to another.  And back again.  With the click of a mouse.  Welcome to Day 48 of 365 Ideas for Office 365, ANOTHER feature that is #OnlyinPowerPoint.  I used to make a Table of Contents in PowerPoint by clicking and dragging over text in the TOC, and making it a link.  Instead of linking to a url (website), I would link to another slide in the presentation.  Sometimes I still do that, but more often I will just use Zoom.  (Actually, unless I want a visual, rather than a textual, TOC, I still do them the oldRead More →

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Have you ever been making a slideshow, and wanted to reuse slides from another presentation?  What did you do?  Find the other slideshow, open it, scroll down to the slide (or slides) you wanted, right-clicked, copy (or Ctrl-C), go back to your new presentation and right-click, paste (or Ctrl-V).  And if you want more than one, instead of repeating the whole process, you could hold down the Ctrl button as you select the slides you wanted to copy.  Introducing “Reuse Slides” Now you don’t have to do any of that. Now PowerPoint lets you reuse your slides from other slideshows without needing to open them,Read More →

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Looking for an easy tool for teachers and students to create amazingly informative infographics? Look no further. You already have PowerPoint. For Day 46 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 we return to #OnlyinPowerPoint. What are Infographics? In case you don’t know, infographics are just what they sound like- a way to show large amounts of information and data in an easy to comprehend, graphic format.  Infographics are particularly a great way to show the interaction or relationship between different sets of data or easily digest multiple sets of data. You can build infographics in PowerPoint yourself, or you can just take advantage of theRead More →