Archive for May, 2008

(Warning: this one may be a bit on the geeky side…)

Following on from the post earlier today about inserting comments in Microsoft Word, someone asked whether it’s possible to create a comment bank in Word. When marking lots of papers in digital format - which is good because it’s quick and saves lots of paper - this would save you from having to retype frequently used comments umpteen times.

The answer is “Yes, you can - using macros“. I’ll explain how here…

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Wiki’d

Last year I wrote a post on why I think wikis are so cool and I’d like to repeat and/or continue on this train of thought here.

First of all, if you don’t quite know what a wiki is, here’s a pretty decent three-minute fifty-two second explanation of how it works:

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Quick feedback

Did you know you can add comments to students’ (or colleagues’) Word documents, both in text and voice format?

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