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Life is better when you share it with someone.  It’s a lot better when you can share it with a lot of someones.  Microsoft’s Whiteboard app for Windows 10 lets you do both.  Welcome to Day 94  of 365 Ideas for Office 365- Collaborating in Microsoft Whiteboard. Sharing with Individuals If you just need to collaborate with 1 or 2 individuals, you can invite them  Just type in their email address(es), or, if they are someone you already collaborate with often in Office 365, look down and click on them if they show up in your suggestions list for collaborating. Another fun feature is thatRead More →

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In my last article I introduced Microsoft Whiteboard, an open canvas where you can draw anywhere, insert text boxes, sticky notes and images, and the accessibility features built into each of those.  Today, Day 93 of 365 Ideas for Office 365, we will explore the rich options available in the Insert Menu. Just look at all these options in the Insert Menu! These are all items you can insert onto a Whiteboard canvas. Note grid A Note grid is a collection of sticky notes.  When you add sticky notes, you can change the color.  I color-coded these into three categories- items you can add toRead More →

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Did you know there is a Whiteboard app in Windows 10? Whiteboard is our topic for Day 92 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. The Whiteboard Windows 10 app is designed for collaboration.  When you open Whiteboard, you start with a blank canvas.  Since it is an open canvas, all of the items can be placed absolutely anywhere.  Once placed, you can also click and drag to move them or resize them. Digital Inking in Whiteboard It include digital inking tools, which offers an array of drawing tools.  If you place the ruler on the screen, you can make straight lines, or just have studentsRead More →

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There is a wonderful feature in OneNote Class Notebook that allows the teacher to have an entire curriculum already in the Notebook, but in a way that students can’t see any of it until you choose to share each component.  It’s the Teacher-Only section, and it’s our topic for Day 91 of 365 Ideas for Office 365.  What is a Teacher-Only section? The Teacher-Only section is essentially a staging area for your content.  As you continually complete your lesson planning throughout the school year you can add your content to the Teacher-Only section.  (Or better yet, just do your lesson planning in your Teacher-Only section.)Read More →

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PowerPoint is just my favorite, my first EdTech love.  OneNote and Minecraft are close behind, but there’s just so much you can do #OnlyInPowerPoint.  These are all topics I’ve treated separately, but I really think they deserve to be pulled all together into one place.  (PowerPoint’s Greatest Hits?) There’s a lot here, so no pictures and just a brief description follow, but you can click on any of these to get a lot more information. Day 90 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. Presenter Coach– #OnlyInPowerPoint This one is truly #OnlyInPowerPoint- Rehearse your PowerPoint presentation and get live feedback and a summary via AI.  ThisRead More →

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Flipgrid fun! I wrote twice recently about Flipgrid, but I really didn’t get to the fun parts, like stickers!  Today let’s walk through all the options students have before, during and after creating their video responses. Welcome to Day 89 of 365 Ideas for Office 365. You have created your assignment in Flipgrid and shared it with your students.  Now it’s time for them to have some Flipgrid fun. They will start by clicking on the big, green plus sign. They can jump right in and press the record button, but there are many Flipgrid fun options they can do first. Flipgrid fun with FiltersRead More →

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Flipgrid is a web-based platform for video conversations in the classroom.  It essentially “flips” the conversation from written to video.  Flipgrid is a simple, easy to use way to instantly provide student choice in how they show what they know.  It’s also really, really fun!  Welcome to Day 87 of 365 Ideas for Office 365, a way overdue article on Flipgrid.  What is Flipgrid for? At its most basic Flipgrid is a way for teachers to pose a question or questions to students and allow them to record their answer.  This has obvious appeal to students with writing difficulty.  As a former Special Education teacher,Read More →

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Student Planners.  Student agendas, Homework journals.  Whatever your school or district calls them, they have been popular for years.  When I was in middle school my teachers tried t teach us organization with binder checks.  Yes, we received explicit instruction in binder organization, and the beloved Trapper Keeper was banned.  When I taught middle school we gave each student a Student agenda- a calendar in spiral bound book format/bathroom pass/parent communication tool.  I shared some idea on how teachers and staff can use Microsoft Planner for personal or group projects a while back, as well as how students can use Planner for group projects.  Well,Read More →

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Table of Contents are easy to create in Word.  So is making them clickable.  Welcome to Day 85 of 365 Ideas for Office 365.  Clickable Table of Contents.  Yesterday we showed you how to add visual structure and accessibility to your Word documents by utilizing the Heading Style to create collapsible menus in Microsoft Word.  An interactive Table of Contents is another way to achieve these goals. Purpose of Clickable Table of Contents Like yesterday’s topic, adding a table of contents to a Word document makes it much easier to both create and navigate longer documents but also to make any length document more accessible. Read More →

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Okay, it doesn’t sound like the sexiest topic possible.  But collapsible headings are really handy when you have a longer document, and add accessibility to any length document.  Welcome (at last) to Day 84 of 365 Ideas for Office 365– collapsible menus in Word. Why Use Collapsible Headings Besides making it easier to create longer documents, collapsible headings make it easier to navigate documents.  Consider your students with IEPs that say “reduce visual clutter” or have trouble with organization or following multi-step directions.  Imagine them having all the content or instructions, yet only needing to see one piece at a time- the part they areRead More →