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Month: Oct 2018

Matthew's Blog

Colour by numbers, using Excel

Oct 31, 2018 Matthew Hains

Here is an activity I designed for working with a few elements in Excel. Skills covered: Conditional formatting cell addresses ranges copy/paste drag and fill data validation fun! I made a block of 100 squares. […]

CAT

Display boards for Theory

Oct 23, 2018 Matthew Hains

I am making display boards to encourage my students to ask questions or at least be inquisitive about hardware taught in the Theory sections of Computer Applications Technology. I have taken the physical devices and […]

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Notes & Feedback from Hands-on Theory Conference 2018

Oct 22, 2018 Claire Smuts

The first Hands-on Theory Conference was a great success – thank you to Marjorie Raijmakers who dared to share her dream with me! A big thank you to all the exhibitors as well as the teachers and […]

Little Bytes

Little Bytes : Using Styles in MS Word

Oct 17, 2018 Matthew Hains

Using, modifying and creating new styles in MS Word.

CAT

Tables in Word practice for Grade 10

Oct 16, 2018 Matthew Hains

I whipped up ten quick tables for my Grade 10’s to practice their table skills. Borders, alignment, shading, measurements and merging skills are all tested here. Convert the MS Word to PDF and have the […]

Matthew's Blog

Awesome Excel tip #3

Oct 14, 2018 Matthew Hains

Data validation in Excel is very powerful and very useful for helping users work with data in cells or ranges of cells. Instead of putting a comment on a cell (which pops up even if […]

CAT

Gathering, Processing, Analysing & Presenting data in 10 Steps

Oct 11, 2018 Matthew Hains

A very simple activity to get my Grade 10’s to think a little bit! The goal of this exercise is to get them used to the process they will be employing when it is time […]

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A Successful Teacher is a master of his/her subject

Oct 10, 2018 Matthew Hains

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Excel

Excel : Merge Across Quick shortcut

Oct 5, 2018 Matthew Hains

Made in response to a question by a teacher in our Facebook group to see if there was a keyboard shortcut for the ‘Merge across‘ feature or if a macro would need to be recorded. […]

Little Bytes

Tangible Theory – Learning theory in a practical way

Oct 4, 2018 Matthew Hains

Teaching theory in Computer Applications Technology should not be done ‘theoretically’. There should be a practical, tangible element that students can physically engage with to reinforce the concepts being taught. I have decided to try […]

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