Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in MS Office, Presentations, Resources on May 10th, 2008
Often, teachers will use PowerPoint in their lessons and print off the slides for students. PowerPoint has a few good ways of doing such a task, but printing the slides and including the notes is an option that is slightly elusive since it requires the use of Word.
After you have completed your slide show in [...]
Posted in MS Office, Productivity, Tools on Jan 21st, 2008
Generally, most teachers will have everything that comes via email go right into their inbox folder, which isn’t the best idea when it comes to organization. It would be like having a giant box and having all of your paperwork tossed into it without paperclips, folders, etc… It doesn’t have to be this way with [...]
Posted in MS Office, Productivity, Resources, Tools on Dec 30th, 2007
Tests that are included with textbooks or other teacher resources can be hit or miss, and often, creating your own tests and quizzes is the best way to accurately assess your students knowledge on a subject. But, it can take a while to go about formatting a test from scratch using word processing applications. [...]
Posted in MS Office on Dec 21st, 2007
This guide is one for the beginners. However, it will make a nice reference to those that rarely use labels. If you’re like me, you only use them often enough to be able to forget how you did it last time.
This guide assumes that you have Excel and Word, and that you have an Excel [...]
Posted in MS Office, Productivity, Resources, Student Tech, Tools on Dec 4th, 2007
Ever had that student that constantly turns in their work done on a program that you don’t have(ahem, Word Perfect)? Or perhaps you needed to do some work for school but the schools computer uses a program that you don’t have at home? Usually, the solution for this involves finding a program to convert it [...]
Posted in MS Office, Presentations on Nov 15th, 2007
This video sums it up all to well.
Posted in MS Office, Presentations on Oct 12th, 2007
PowerPoint is an amazing resource to teachers. That is, unless we strip the “power” from it by sticking to the same old bulleted lists. One of the first steps we can take towards our liberation from the boring is by adding multimedia… PowerPoint is a multimedia presentation software, ya know. With this being true, you [...]
Posted in MS Office on Sep 18th, 2007
Let’s face it. Not all students have the cash to slam down for that copy of MS Office to use Word, Excel, or Powerpoint for your assignments. To be honest, I’m not sure most teachers do either. It would be handy to have a free alternative that students\teachers could use at home that gave the [...]
Posted in MS Office on Sep 17th, 2007
Microsoft has given added compatibility to it’s earlier versions of Office that struggle to open the new files formats of Office 2007. This is good news for teachers in districts that still use the earlier version and have not yet made the jump to 2007(most haven’t). Instructions follow after the jump.