There are a lot of apps available with your Office 365 subscription. Yes outlook groups are no longer functional but Teams are a handy way to collaborate not only with colleagues but students as well. I have had a recent dialog about sharing calendar and have been reviewing the Planner App. “With Planner, team members … Read more
So now what, you have mailbox space of 100Gb so no more mailbox cleanup messages! But sometimes too much is too good, how best to organize? Here are some tips from Microsoft This is a helpful one: Conversation Clean Up is most useful on Conversations with many responses back and forth, especially with many … Read more
Try these I recently found on a random search PowerPoint Presentation Hack #1. Use Poll Everywhere To Ask Your Audience Questions and Keep Them Engaged – available in all classrooms PowerPoint Presentation Hack #2. Use Control + B to Make The Presentation Screen Black and Draw Attention Back to You – and see who is paying … Read more
Went to a session sponsored by the College of Business about Microsoft Teams and found out how it might work well in your classes, departments and inter-departments. Here are some of the highlights – Can embed google drive, dropbox and has better integration with office 365 You can create teams, invite members both ECU and … Read more
I am often asked how to convert a PDF to Word if you don’t have Acrobat Pro (which I do). I found a very easy way to accomplish this task and it works quite well. Open Word, click File, Open and locate the pdf file, acknowledge the pop up message and the file gets converted! … Read more
Email Evolves – From Information Technology and Computing Services – Over the next few months, ECU is modernizing faculty and staff email. There are four steps to this remodel: Enable the new cloud-based Online Archive folder Switch to Office 365 Exchange Online Protection Move Enterprise Vault items back to your mailbox Migrate staff mailboxes to … Read more
At a recent meeting with the Instructional Technology Consultant’s (ITC’s) of the university we were introduced to Microsoft Teams. Before I tell you what Teams can do think about this scenario you are involved in multiple projects with multiple people within and outside of ECU wouldn’t it be nice to have all correspondence, files etc … Read more
Here are some tips for organizing your computer and Blackboard sites. Remember to Update your Computer Windows and Mac Hiding courses from previous semesters (they are not gone, just hidden) Being a good steward of student information (make sure no grade files etc are on your hard drive, they should be saved to pirate drive) … Read more
What’s in your wallet? Advertisement – I am asking a similar question which is “What’s in your Classroom”? Are you trying something new this semester or have you tweaked something old? Any light bulb moments? Is it working or have you tried something that just isn’t going right? Take a moment and share here or … Read more
Check out this video about creating PowerPoint slides at least the first few minutes! Fast forward to 22 minutes, this is really worth the time! And some good ideas too and not just for lecture capture! Click here to view the video!