What's New in Office 2016? 12/04/15

Upgrading to Office 2016 at work or at home? What are the new features and functionalities about which you should be aware?  

Although PISD is not mandating that users upgrade to Office 2016, nor is it even recommended at this time, some people have this version of Office at home and/or have chosen to test it out in our PISD work environment.  

If you want to learn more about Office 2016, you might want to check out some of these videos and tutorials provided below:

New Features in Office 2016

Explore Word 2016 - mini-course

• Videos in this course include:
• Format a Word 2016 Document
• Insert Items in a Word 2016 Document
• Add Headers and Footers in a Word 2016 Document

Keyboarding Over the Holidays! 12/04/15

The holidays are a great time for students to practice their keyboarding skills.  Here are some fun sites you may not have seen or used before.

Snow Typer - keep the snowman alive!

Treasure Dive - can be quite challenging!

Star Wars Typing Challenge!

Sponge Bob Type Rider

Key Man - (like Pac Man)

Key Bricks

Bubbles Typing

Word Mountain

And don't forget about these other great keyboarding sites!

Keyboarding Practice in Learning.com 12/04/15

Differentiated Keyboarding Practice to Prepare Students for online assessments!

Did you know that with your subscription to Learning.com (EasyTech), you have access to differentiated, Prescriptive Keyboarding?  

Click these links for more information - 

Keyboarding Overview Video – a 3 minute overview video

Prescriptive Keyboarding Lessons Guide - Learn more about how to use Prescriptive Keyboarding Lessons. With the Prescriptive Keyboarding Report, you can document progress of keyboarding skills by measuring WPM, overall accuracy, time and accuracy by key. Download the keyboarding guide for details.

Websites of the Week! Celebrating Winter Holidays! 12/04/15

Winter is almost here!  
The holidays are approaching!

Celebrate the holidays with these interactive websites:

Winter Resources Link 

Spell Up with Google 12/04/15

Spell Up is a Google Chrome "experiment" ......a new voice-powered game that can help improve your English.  Build your "word tower" by listening to words and spelling them aloud or with the keyboard.  You may also be asked to pronounce the words correctly, solve word jumbles and/or guess mystery words by filling in the missing letters.

I'm not sure I completely feel the love for this interactive website, but you might want to take a look at it to determine for yourself.  Learn more about the site by clicking the I (for information) at the bottom left of the page. Click the settings button to enter the words using the Keyboard.

https://spellup.withgoogle.com/