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Last time we wrote about using Dictation and Audio Recording in OneNote, including how they can be used to give students efficient, effective and accessible feedback.  Today, Day 104 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365, we will discuss other options OneNote provides for giving feedback to students.  Flexibility OneNote gives you many options for how you communicate feedback to your students. This gives teachers flexibility but also allows them to choose the best method for the student and for the assignment.  Consider using different methods to match the needs of diverse students.  For the student, there is no difference if the teacher types feedback orRead More →

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I’m doing a little series on giving timely feedback to students during remote learning, with a focus on OneNote, Forms and Teams.  So Day 103 of 365 Ideas for Microsoft 365 will show you how to use the dictation and audio notes features of OneNote. A Brief History of OneNote OneNote was originally designed to be a digital binder.  Rather than being a place to create content, it was a place to collect, organize and store things you made elsewhere.  OneNote has grown into so much more; I write all my articles and even my book in OneNote.  Nevertheless, that is it’s legacy.  OneNote (alongRead More →

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Last time we looked at the vast differences in posting and responding to posts in Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.  Teams just had too many features to cover in one article, so we’ll look at another category today, reactions to posts, none of which exist in Google Classroom, so we’ll leave that behind this time.  Day 102 of 365 Ideas for #Microsoft365 is all the ways you can react to a post in Teams. BTW, we have to make a slight change- this series has been titled 365 Ideas for Office 365, but Microsoft is rebranding, so it will now be Microsoft 365. Posting picturesRead More →

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I finally shelled out my $10 and sat for my Google Certified Educator Level 1 exam so I now have basic certification in Google to go along with my Microsoft MIEE credentials.  A fellow MIEE recently posted in one of our GroupMe conversations about his frustrations posting in Google Classroom after using Teams, so I thought I’d take a look at the two.  I’d never really thought of comparing the features of something as basic as how can I post in each platform.  So here’s (sort of) Day 101 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– comparing posts in Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. The StreamRead More →

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I’m breaking from my typical tutorial style posts to talk about Remote Learning with Microsoft Teams, something I’ve created a lot of training materials for recently.  So Day 100 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 is a persuasive essay about using Microsoft Teams for Remote Learning!  Well, not really, because I don’t have the proper introduction, conclusion, one paragraph about each point, counterargument, rebuttal, and all that. Teams vs Slack & Zoom & Google Classroom & Evernote You can read about Teams vs. Slack in the business world, Teams vs. Zoom for videoconferencing, and Teams vs. Google Classroom in education, but right there is theRead More →

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In the last article I showed you simply where to find Teams in Office365 and how to create one.  That did not include adding any students, or files, or your Google Drive (no, that’s not a typo) , so we will do that today, on Day 99 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. Adding Students One of the last steps in creating a team lets you add a co-teacher and students.  You can add students manually by looking them up by last name or student ID number, or skip this for now and let them join by giving them a code.  If you choose toRead More →

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I’ve been putting off writing about Microsoft Teams partly because there’s so much there, I didn’t know where to start.  (I’ve decided to start at the beginning!)  I also wanted to build up to it.  Essentially, everything else I’ve written about in Office 365 is in Teams, so technically I’ve always been writing about Teams.  But today, it’s official.  I wish I could have held out two posts longer, but #RemoteLearning can’t wait any longer, thanks to #Covid-19.  So, welcome to Day 98 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– Introduction to Microsoft Teams, on a Chromebook. Microsoft Teams is pretty much the same in theRead More →

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A few months ago, Microsoft added a new question type in Microsoft Forms.  It is the File Upload.  This enables you to ask respondents to upload files like screenshots, PowerPoints, Word documents or even audio or video recordings as their response.  Welcome to Day 97 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– file upload in Forms. Google, I mean Microsoft Forms I’ll go ahead and start with “It’s about time”.  Google Forms had this feature a couple years before Microsoft figured this one out.  It used to be when I’d have a conversation about the two platforms, we’d all agree Google Forms had so many moreRead More →

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Unmatched commitment to accessibility is what sets Microsoft Office and their other educational programs and apps apart. Today’s obscure topic is how the Alt key unlocks accessibility features across the Microsoft Office apps. Day 96 of 365 Ideas for Office 365 is the Alt key. Universal Design for Learning Accessibility is an interesting thing.  The idea of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is to provide helps for everybody (make them universally available), not just for individuals with more apparent disabilities.  Sometimes our needs are related to a permanent or temporary disability, but some idea that are created for a specific group of people helps theRead More →

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One of the most useful elements in Minecraft is the NPC, or non-player character.  They’re very resourceful for characters that can’t move and only do what you tell them.  (No jokes about husbands, wives, children or dogs here, please.)  Welcome to Day 95 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– NPC’s. NPC vs mob In video games, the term NPC can refer more generally to any entities that are not controlled by a player.  In Minecraft, the word for that is mobs, not to be confused with mods, which is short for modifications.  NPCs in Minecraft Education Edition are specific mobs you can place and programRead More →