Word of the Week
Word of the Week : Wildcard
A wildcard refers to a character, normally an asterisk (*) or question mark (?), that can be substituted for zero or more characters in a string.
Month: Sep 2019
Matthew's Blog
Matthew Hains made a MIE Fellow by Microsoft
I am proud to announce that I have been made a MIE fellow today! I am 1 out of only 9 in the entire country. I am grateful and very honoured. About the MIE Fellow […]
Word of the Week
Word of the Week : Capped vs Uncapped
A cap is a limit set by your ISP on your data usage. Once it runs out, you will not be able to use the Internet until you top up your account. Uncapped access is […]
CAT
Mail merge with authentic data
Here is a mail merge activity I made using a recordset of 10 000 people. It includes using MS Word, label template, MS Access and MS Excel. I have included a basic marksheet as well. […]
Matthew's Blog
The morph transition in PowerPoint
A fantastic slide transition tool to use with PowerPoint is the morph transition. It takes the objects on a slide and then animates them automatically to their new positions/sizes on the next slide. It definitely […]
Word of the Week
Word of the Week : Trojan Horse
A trojan horse is a program that appears useful but is, in fact, malicious that tricks a user to install it. Unexpected changes to computer settings and unusual activity, even when the computer should be idle, […]
Word of the Week
Word of the Week : Booting
A start-up sequence that starts the operating system of a computer when it is turned on.
Microbit tutorials
10 Microbit tasks – PDFs and Code
Here is a collection of tasks I created to go along with the Microbit tutorials (see the Microbit tutorials category). My learners all had access in their OneNote notebooks, I am sharing this with whoever […]
Word of the Week
Word of the Week : Qi
Qi (pronounced “chee”) is a wireless charging technology used to wirelessly power electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearable computing products.
Guest Blogs
Recording IT, ICT and CAT lessons in Microsoft Teams
By Charlotte Fourie For the first three years of being an IT and CAT teacher, I scheduled extra classes for learners who missed lessons (you know, those that always have to leave school early for […]