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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 →

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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 →