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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 …

Suffering and successful failures17 Dec ’24
It is a well rehearsed narrative, that we learn, gain, benefit more from our loses than from our triumphs. More from adversity than from our easy successes. Loses, adversity, often serves as the crucible in which our triumphs and our successes are forged. Matthew McConaughey …
Unresolvable problems16 Dec ’24
This was an unfinished post I first drafted six months ago when I was still in education as a Deputy Headteacher. Funnily enough, it is as relevant to my new role as COO and so I looked to finish and post it. It is certainly …
Dump Your To-Do List, Write Your To-Be List29 Nov ’24
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often find ourselves buried under an avalanche of to-do lists. These lists, while seemingly helpful, can sometimes become the very a source of stress and worry they were designed to overcome. But what if there …
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 …