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Channels in Microsoft Teams- Everything is threaded

2021-03-31
By: dadxeight
On: March 31, 2021
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, hybrid learning, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
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Channels are really the backbone in Microsoft Teams. Early last year I remember being at a conference and someone saying to me, “I don’t really get channels. What’s the purpose?” I shared my understanding of standard and private channels. I was delighted to see her in a video recently claiming that channels are one of the best things about Teams! t is my hope that you find this description of channels just as convincing. Welcome to Day 123 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365. Why use Channels? This is the second of “Why” articles I’m writing. Normally my posts are more of a how to,Read More →

Chats in Microsoft Teams- Chatversation

2021-03-29
By: dadxeight
On: March 29, 2021
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
With: 2 Comments

Chats in Microsoft Teams are truly amazing. Many of my articles have a How-to feel to them. As I describe ways to utilize an Ed-Tech tool, I provide screenshots, directions, steps and the like. Today’s post is less How and more Why and What For. Let’s spend Day 122 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 examining uses for Chatting in Microsoft Teams. Meeting chats First of all, there are many places to chat inside of Teams. If you are in a Teams Meeting, there is the Meeting Chat. Teams now allows Meeting owners to leave Chat on, on just during the Meeting, and off. IfRead More →

Top Ten-ish Reasons to Use OneNote Class Notebook with Google Classroom

2021-02-25
By: dadxeight
On: February 25, 2021
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Microsoft Tools, OneNote, Remote Learning
With: 1 Comment

OneNote Class Notebook is unrivaled for organization and accessibility. There are many reasons you should want to use OneNote with your students, even while using Google Classroom, as stated by this teacher that sent me this email today. Testimonial Objections But first let’s clear up a couple objections. We’re a Google (school, district, whatever).  I don’t hear people say that about Nearpod, Buncee, Wakelet, Discovery Ed, Kahoot or any other non-Google product. I don’t hear people say that about Chrome extensions or add-ons, which are by definition not created by Google. When you want a product or tool that doesn’t something that Google doesn’t do,Read More →

The Ultimate Hyperdoc is Microsoft Word

2021-02-18
By: dadxeight
On: February 18, 2021
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Word
With: 1 Comment

Hyperdocs are a really great concept. Your entire lesson on one document. The creators of Hyperdocs use Google Docs in all their sample content. I used to say they work just as well in Microsoft Word. I can’t say that anymore, because they are now so much better in Microsoft Word. Buckle up for Day 120 of 365 Ideas for #Microsoft365– Microsoft Word for the ultimate Hyperdocs. What is a Hyperdoc? Let’s make sure we all know what we’re talking about with Hyperdocs. At first glance, it looks like you just have a document with links (hyperlinks) to all of the content and activities theRead More →

Microsoft Bookings for Office Hours and Conferences

2021-01-15
By: dadxeight
On: January 15, 2021
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning
With: 0 Comments

Microsoft Bookings is an app in Office 365 that was designed for scheduling appointment for businesses and sales people, but it has some interesting applications for education in general and classrooms in particular. Day 119 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft is the Bookings app. What is Bookings for, anyway? The idea for this post started when a colleague sent me an email yesterday. “A few months ago you demoed a way for teachers to book time with you (or us depending on the situation). Do you have some time tomorrow to walk me through how to set that up for myself? I need to meetRead More →

Record Screen and Webcam in Microsoft Stream

2020-12-14
By: dadxeight
On: December 14, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Instructional Websites, Microsoft Tools, Minecraft, Remote Learning, Stream
With: 1 Comment

Microsoft Stream is not just a place to store videos. Now it’s also a place to create videos! Welcome to Day 118 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365– Create Videos in Stream. What is Microsoft Stream? Microsoft Stream is a video platform for your organization. It’s like your school district having its own walled garden version of YouTube, but with additional features built in, and integration with other tools like Teams and Forms. Besides uploading videos you make elsewhere, like the Slide Recorder and the Screen Recorder in PowerPoint, you can create videos right within Stream to share directly with your students without needing toRead More →

Organizing Your Class Team to Improve Engagement

2020-12-10
By: dadxeight
On: December 10, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
With: 0 Comments

Organizing Your Class Team in Microsoft Teams is based first on how you use channels, and then how you use the tabs within each channel. Today, on Day 117 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365, we’ll help you get your Class Team organized. Microsoft Teams uses Channels for organization. I use Standard Channels to organize Content, and Private Channels to organize people. Standard Channels Elementary teachers that might teach all content areas might want a channel for English Language Arts, a channel for Math, a channel for Science and a channel for Social Studies. Middle and High School Teachers might prefer to have a newRead More →

Streams in Teams

2020-11-05
By: dadxeight
On: November 5, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Differentiation/UDL, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Stream, Teams
With: 0 Comments

One of the central functions is Microsoft Teams is to harness all of the functions of everything else in the Microsoft universe and bring them into one place where they can app-smash their little hearts out. There’s something magical about they exponential increase in functionality when all the tools come from the same developer, as opposed to trying to get extensions and add-ons from third-party apps to play well together. This is certainly true about Streams in Teams. Stream is a video sharing platform for organizations like school districts. Streams do more than house videos for sharing, although that is certainly the primary function. ItRead More →

Customize Your Microsoft Teams Assignment with Robust Options

2020-11-03
By: dadxeight
On: November 3, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
With: 0 Comments

There are so many features for an Assignment in Microsoft Teams that it takes two articles to cover them all. Welcome to Day 115 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365– Teams assignments, Part II. Save/Assign Since we left off part way through showing all the features of assignments in Microsoft Teams, it makes sense to pick up with the Save Draft/Assign Now options. When you are creating an assignment, you have three options in the top right corner- Discard, Save and Assign. You can always Discard or save your progress as a draft at any point. Assign becomes available after you have added certain minimumRead More →

Create Assignments in Microsoft Teams

2020-10-14
By: dadxeight
On: October 14, 2020
In: 365 Ideas for Office 365, Microsoft Tools, Remote Learning, Teams
With: 0 Comments

Assignments are one of the features that sets Class Teams apart from other types of Teams in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams was designed for remote work and remote learning, so it is ideally suited for today’s educational landscape, not retrofitted to work for remote learning like most other platforms. Day 114 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 will highlight Assignments in Teams. Assignments Tab There are a couple places you can create an assignment. I’m going to use the Assignments tab. Under the Assignments tab you can see assignments divided into drafts, assigned and returned. You can also select the “Create” button to start aRead More →

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