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OK, so it already was global. But suddenly you’ll be seeing it in so many new places, that Day 60 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 has to be about ImmersiveReader updates! ImmersiveReader in Minecraft EE This spring I was showing Minecraft Education Edition to the MOI (Materials of Instruction) committee as they were deciding whether or not to add it to our approved list of apps.  I was pointing out the ways students can express what they’ve learned with the various types of signs.  Someone from our Special Education office asked if there was any text to speech.  Great question.  At the time, theRead More →

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Several of the OneNote summer updates have to do with options for distribution of content to students in OneNote Class Notebook.  Welcome to Day 59 of 365 Ideas for Office 365.  OneNote makes differentiation easy.  Differentiating content and assignments What do you do when you are not running a digital classroom, and you haven’t gone paperless, and you want to differentiate by giving a different assignment to different students?  Easy, you hand a different sheet to different students.  How do you do the same in a digital classroom?  Well, if that digital classroom is using OneNote Class Notebook you simply use Individual page distribution, likeRead More →

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We interrupt the regularly scheduled article to introduce some amazing new updates to OneNote.  Day 58 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 is for the math teachers out there.  The OneNote Windows 10 app continues to be where Microsoft unleashes the innovation, even when it integrates with other tools.  In this case, the other tool is Microsoft Forms, where OneNote can autogenerate a quiz based on a sample problem. OneNote Math Tools You can create a single math problem in OneNote, and use the Math tool to solve it.  (Didn’t know OneNote did that?  Check it out here.)  But now, in addition to choosing toRead More →

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Our last topic in this series on Sway is using collaboration in Sway.   Welcome to Day 57 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– Collaboration in Sway. Collaboration enables partners to work together or an entire group to work together on a Sway. Share your Sway When you click on the Share button you can choose the scope of your sharing- specific users (people or groups), anyone in your organization you share the link with, or anyone with the link.    This gives you control over who can access your Sway.  If you set it more specifically, then even if someone shares the link beyond your intendedRead More →

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Welcome to Day 56 of 365 Ideas for Office 365, where today we will be looking at Sway’s accessibility features, as well as other settings.  Sway was designed through and through for accessibility and differentiation.  We have previously considered the fundamental advantage of using artificial intelligence for the design features, leaving students to focus on the content. We also have looked at utilizing either the built-in templates or the ability to create from a topic with an AI-designed outline to scaffold support for students needing help with structure or just getting started. Then we discussed the advantages of having students start writing and creating inRead More →