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Best Practice to Increase Engagement in MS Teams

Last week, we looked at best practices when using MS Stream. Today, we look at best practices in increasing engagement for MS Teams. Before we start into the Teams aspect, let’s take a look at engagement and what that could look like. What do we mean by engagement? One interpretation Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years9th August 2021 ago
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Learning Apps: Flash Cards

In this weeks blog post, we look to Flash Card Apps which students can use in their learning. Last week, we looked at Anatomy Apps. This week, we look at what Flash Cards are, where they might be used in education and make some suggestions of Flash Card Apps that Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years16th November 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Summarizing

This is the second post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using summarizing as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous post looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and as discussed, passive lectures do have their place. Passive lectures should be complemented Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years26th August 2020 ago
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2020: The year of Discussion

The Digiknow blog post from last week looked at: OneNote in Education. OneNote Class Notebook is great for creating and disseminating content to students. A variety of media can be use in student learning. This week, DigiKnow will look at the role of discussion to help engage students. Initially, we Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years3rd August 2020 ago
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Recent posts:
  • PowerPoint and Creating Infographics
  • PowerPoint Presentations: Colour Vibration
  • Creating Posters in PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint: Designing Student Posters
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