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Month: Feb 2019

Word of the Week

Word of the Week : Overclocking

Feb 25, 2019 Michelle Meyer

Overclocking is the action of increasing a component’s clock rate, running it at a higher speed than it was designed to run. This is usually applies to the CPU (Central Processing Unit) or GPU (Graphics […]

CAT

Password generator in Excel activity

Feb 23, 2019 Matthew Hains

Here is a great exercise to reinforce CONCATENATE, UPPER, RIGHT, LEFT, LOWER functions. Get your students to create their own password generator based on various factors. In the image below you can see how the […]

Word of the Week

Word of the Week : Blackberry Thumb

Feb 18, 2019 Michelle Meyer

Blackberry Thumb is an injury or irritation of the muscles of the thumbs that falls under the RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) category. It is caused by repetitive movements when using smartphones, specifically BlackBerry phones, or […]

Posters

Free poster for teachers – February 2019

Feb 15, 2019 Matthew Hains

I make posters now and then for fun and for the academic interest of my students. Here is the poster I made for February. It continues from January’s poster. The file is a high quality […]

Videos

What is Intel Optane?

Feb 14, 2019 Matthew Hains

Intel Optane is a new storage technology that can be used as either a super-fast SSD or additional system RAM!

Guest Blogs

PAT yourself on the back?

Feb 11, 2019 Matthew Hains

By Brandon Rennie Every CAT teacher feels the pain of trying to get the Practical Assessment Task completed. The process feels endless and onerous. A strategy I’ve used before but did not last year (and […]

Word of the Week

Word of the Week : Engagement

Feb 11, 2019 Michelle Meyer

User engagement is an assessment of an individual’s response to some type of offering, such as a product, a service or a website. A website user, for example, might click links, comment, download documents and […]

CAT

Macros in Excel – workshop

Feb 9, 2019 Matthew Hains

For those who could not attend the Macros in Excel workshop that I presented, you are in luck – I recorded the whole thing! The video and notes from the workshop are available to purchase […]

Courses & Training

Get started with OneNote – Workshop

Feb 9, 2019 Matthew Hains

Microsoft OneNote is a very powerful tool to store notes, files, media, mails, assessments, documents and more! I have been using it for a while with my teaching but have recently decided to go all […]

Matthew's Blog

About Computer Applications Technology

Feb 6, 2019 Matthew Hains

While many teachers and learners use the term “CAT”, I prefer to speak it out fully. Computer Applications Technology. The reason for this is because, for me, it loses its lustre when a subject – […]

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