Do you spend a bunch of time using Gmail? Then knowing some keyboard shortcuts could add up to saving literally days of time over the course of a year.
Here’s a good article on Gmail keyboard shortcuts I heard about from Ramit Sethi.
Category: Work
How to Keep from Going Crazy Using Microsoft Teams and Outlook Email
Today, I found myself really frustrated and angry with both Microsoft Teams and Outlook Email. By the end of the day, after some Google searching and a lot of wasted time, I’d figured out a couple important facts. I hope that these discoveries save you from pulling your hair out.
In Microsoft Teams, if you want to make a new line in a post, you have to press “Shift Enter” instead of just “Enter.”
In Outlook Email, you can copy and paste a list of emails from a spreadsheet. However, it might not work from an old version of Excel. It does work to copy and paste a list from Google Sheets.
Also, one thing I learned today is that in Outlook Email, you have to use semicolons “;” instead of commas “,” to separate emails.
Stanford Teaching Commons: Activities to Boost Student Engagement
Today, while reading Sarah Rose Cavanagh’s article “How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging” — because hey, that’s something I need to do! — I followed one of the links which led me to these learning activities, posted in the Stanford Teaching Commons. Maybe you’ve used some, like Think-Pair-Share, maybe others you’ve never heard of. In my opinion, they are all worth checking out!
I believe that a large part of teaching is to inspire students. After all, we became teachers in part because we were inspired by other teachers. Also, we chose to teach our particular subject because there was something about it that made it stand out. Thus, it is our responsibility as teachers to make our classes engaging for our students.
See below for Activities to Boost Student Engagement, from the Stanford Teaching Commons:
LEARNING ACTIVITIES