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PowerPoint: Designing Student Posters

Last week, we looked at the MS PowerPoint Design Tab & Custom Template. This week, we move onto Poster design for students! This will be split into over two weeks and this week, we cover the design aspects for creating anything: posters, flyers, newsletters, etc. Poster Design Let’s start off Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years7th March 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Design Tab and Custom Templates

Can you believe it’s Monday again? We hope you enjoyed last weeks blog post on Aligning Content in MS PowerPoint. This week, we continue with some practices in PowerPoint and how to improve them in relation to Slide Design and Custom Templates. Let’s get started! How NOT to build a Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years28th February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint – Aligning Content

Moving on from last week’s topic of Basic Image Manipulation, this week we look at aligning content to improve visual aesthetics within PowerPoint. Let’s get started! Inserting icons In PowerPoint O365, icons are an in-built offering. Go to the Insert tab and choose Icons: Single or multiple icons can be Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years21st February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint – Basic Image Manipulation

Thanks for joining us again. In last week’s blog post, we looked at how to size, position and crop images within PowerPoint. This week, we look at some of the basic image manipulation features which are available. At this point, let’s assume your PowerPoint is already populated with text and Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years14th February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Size, Position and Cropping

Sticking with the theme of images in PowerPoint, we move on from last weeks Image Considerations post to this weeks topic of Sizing, Positioning and Cropping images. We’ll cover as much as we can and make it useful. Let’s get started! Inserting visual content By visual content, we mean photos, Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years7th February 2022 ago
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PowerPoint: Inserting Video and Subtitles

Welcome to another week and another blog post. Last week, we looked at the New Accessibility Tab that Microsoft have added to PowerPoint O365. This week, we want to tell you about Inserting Video and Subtitles into PowerPoint. Throughout this post, when mentioning video, this refers to recordings made by Read more…

By Daria Casement, 2 years24th January 2022 ago
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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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Structure your stories with Plottr

Last week, we got an overview of Grammarly and how it helps us improve spelling, grammar and our writing overall. Let us ask: have you ever thought about creative writing? This week, we asked Tony McGovern to review Plottr as a writing tool for authors and here’s what Tony had Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years21st May 2021 ago
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Better writing with Grammarly

Over the last three weeks, we have looked at online safety with the Tech Review. Following on from this, we will start to look at different writing Apps/technologies to improve spelling, grammar and writing. We asked Tony McGovern to check out Grammarly. This is what Tony had to say. What Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years14th May 2021 ago
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Design and Output MS Word: Proofing Tools and Accessibility

Over the last number of weeks, we have looked at Accessibility in MS Word and covered many things. This week we turn our attention to proofing tools in MS Word, those which are available from opening the software and those you need to activate. Let’s get started. What are proofing Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years19th April 2021 ago

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