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Jan 19 2023

Five ways to use Microsoft Office to help you reduce your workload

By Mark Anderson EdTech, FiveWaysEdu, Microsoft, Workload No Comments

In a world where many (me included) talk about "pedagogy first" approaches to technology in the classroom (one of the reasons why 'PedTech' misses the point) it's sometimes easy to forget one of the best ways that edtech can help you as a teacher is that of saving you time…

Dec 05 2022

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Get powerFULL with Microsoft’s Power Toys – your must-have tool for Windows

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Microsoft, Productivity No Comments

Often with technology, it isn't the most amazing things that technology can do with things such as AR and VR that make it an effective tool. Often, it's the more mundane end of the spectrum that makes your life simpler and easier that helps you to reduce workload or speed…

Dec 21 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Twenty-One – Office Lens

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, ALN / SEN, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Good morning and welcome to day twenty-one of the AppVent Calendar! As we move towards the final few days of the calendar, I've been finding it beneficial to look back at the great selection of tools available to us as educators to help us with our work as teachers in…

Dec 04 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Four – @Wakelet!

By Mark Anderson EdTech No Comments

Welcome to this, the fourth day on the #Appvent calendar. If you aren't riding the 'wave' after today's entry then you're missing a nifty trick. Today's entry is Wakelet. After what I think was a shaky start around the time we saw the demise of Storify, the true potential of…

Nov 29 2019

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I didn’t know you could do that! Five #edtech ideas in five minutes

By Mark Anderson Conferences, CPD, EdTech, Food for thought, Resources No Comments

I'm very pleased to be working closely with NetSupport again at BETT and you will be able to find me on their stand every day throughout the trade fair. There will be a plethora of amazing presenters on the stand again delivering non-sponsored content, sharing their stories from their classrooms…

Mar 02 2018

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New Microsoft App which calls out landmarks to help the visually impaired

By Mark Anderson ALN / SEN, EdTech, iPad, Microsoft, Positivity No Comments

There's no getting away from it, Microsoft's focus on driving new technologies forward to help those with accessibility needs have been pretty groundbreaking in recent times. The Immersive Reader that works within Office Lens is one such example. Simply take a photo of a document within Office Lens and have…

Jan 11 2018

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Check out the awesome ‘learning tools’ for OneNote

By Mark Anderson ALN / SEN, CPD, EdTech, Food for thought, ICT, Microsoft No Comments

I'm on a bit of a OneNote mission at the moment, it's true. The OneNote Class Notebook add-in is simply superb. I wish the features of OneNote persisted i.e. were the same, across platforms though. The experience you get in Windows simply isn't the same on Mac or iOS. As…

Sep 03 2017

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Three things to try this year in Office 365 infographic

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, Education, educators, Infographics, Learning, Microsoft No Comments

As we start at the beginning of the new school year we are likely to be thinking about the ways in which we can improve ourselves and make learning better in the classroom. We're probably hoping that things might get a little easier too. Certainly the pressures on teachers aren't…

Jul 11 2017

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Icons galore with this brilliant new add-in from the Noun Project

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Microsoft, Resources, Tools No Comments

There's one sure fire way of helping to bring your designs and documents to life and that is through the use of simple iconography. I wrote about the brilliant flaticon site in my secret edtech weapons post here. Always keeping something back for myself, I didn't share the Noun Project's…

Jan 13 2015

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Quick Start Computing – a new helpful CPD offer

By Mark Anderson ICT One Comment

Launched today, supported by the DfE, Computing At School, Microsoft, the Quick Start Computing site is something I was put on to which I think could make somewhat of a difference for those teachers struggling to gain confidence with the new Computing curriculum in the UK. The site has two…