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Office Mix – Take 1

Office Mix – Take 1

Kristian Still 9 May ’14 9 May ’14

Authoring with Office Mix really was straightforward. I plugged in a cheap (freebie) webcam, headset and mic, opened a familiar Powerpoint presentation resource and cracked on. The Mix tab was simple enough. Click “record” and use the arrow icons to …

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Office Mix

Office Mix

Kristian Still 8 May ’14 8 May ’14

Stuart Ball is one of the most enthusiastic educators I know. Rarely do we cross pathways and he is not smiling, laughing and evangelising (almost always technology or Science). When we last met up about a month ago Stuart was …

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Powerful Combinations – Office Web Apps and a SkyDrive

Kristian Still 8 Jun ’10 9 Jun ’10

This is very promising. Office Web Apps and a SkyDrive with 25 GB of storage space. Accessible for FREE with a Live account. Office Web Apps provide a basic set editing tools (not a replacement for OFFICE 2010) but more than enough …

I still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under me3 Nov ’24
This post is written for a friend. The point of desperation is often the point of truth. He wrote. How do your move forward, when you still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under you? If you can move at all? Let alone …
No rescuing3 Nov ’24
Do not do for someone, that they can do for themselves. This is a life, teaching, leading, parental sentiment or wisdom that I have long held important. It sits along side the notion of “no rescuing.” This is the focus on this post and thinking. …
Teams – Day 3 (part 2)2 Nov ’24
Prioritising time to write has not made it to the top of the priorities list until today (the end of half-term). That is a failing on my part. With hindsight, I should have planned and scheduled less. I am not comfortable accepting that “writing, thinking …
Yuimaru – ‘a circle of people’26 Oct ’24
It started with reading sports team Coach biographies. John Wooden, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski (Basketball), Sir Alex Ferguson, Johan Cruyff, Anson Dorrance (Football), Sir Clive Woodward and James Kerr’s Legacy (Rugby) and Dave Brailsford (Cycling) and there were plenty others. It turns out, many of …