Author Archives: Malcolm Wilson

Making the most of Microsoft Lens to support learning and teaching⤴

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Microsoft Office Lens (or Office Lens, or Microsoft Lens) is a versatile digital tool which can be helpful in many situations in an educational context. A teacher may wish to quickly grab the text from a page of a printed document to edit, to annotate and to share with a class. Office Lens can do …

Build it in Microsoft Paint 3D⤴

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Microsoft Paint 3D on Windows devices provides a handy tool for creating, remodelling, manipulating and sharing 2D and 3D images. And if you’ve seen it on your Windows device but not yet explored it, then the links to resources below will show you how to make use of the Paint 3D tools and features, but …

More than one Microsoft Teams account on same device⤴

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Are you using Microsoft Teams with more than one account on the same device? If you are then you may find the following helpful: Using Desktop/Laptop Microsoft Teams app If using a desktop/laptop app for Microsoft Teams, and there is more than one Microsoft Teams account going to be used on the same device, then …

Project Evolve – a framework and progression for educators to help equip children and young people for digital life⤴

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ProjectEVOLVE provides a framework and progression with matched activities and resources, to support anyone working with children and young people to equip them for digital life, from early years to age 18. ProjectEVOLVE takes the hundreds of statements from UK Council for Internet Safety’s (UKCIS) framework “Education for a Connected World” and marries together perspectives, …

Power Up your PowerPoint Presentation with inbuilt Designer for Design Ideas⤴

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Do you want to present with panache, style or flair? If you or your learners spend a lot of time trying to make your PowerPoint slides look good, then welcome to PowerPoint’s inbuilt Designer or Design Ideas to power up your PowerPoint presentation in the click of a button! With just a few clicks in …

PowerPoint Presenter Coach to help become clear, confident and expressive when communicating & presenting⤴

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If you are looking for a way to support learners (or indeed, yourself!) to be clear, expressive and confident when communicating & presenting to others using digital tools​, then Microsoft PowerPoint Presenter Coach is a handy feature of Microsoft PowerPoint. It’s built in to PowerPoint whether on the web, on desktop/laptop or mobile device, and …

Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award – iDEA⤴

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The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award, known as iDEA, is an award programme which provides access to a range of free on-demand online courses. In completing courses from the wide range available they not only aim to support developing digital, enterprise and employability skills, the completion of the assessments built into each course provide the means …

Moving Glow User – Steps for Staff Glow Users Moving Establishment or Local Authority⤴

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At the end of each school year you may be moving from one establishment to another, or from one local authority in Scotland to another. You’ll want to be aware of how your move may change your access to your Glow account and actions you’ll need to take before the move. The following guides may …