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What do you wish teachers knew?
I have found this area invaluable since I recently came across it. There is
a wealth of information in this community. I teach K-12 teachers how to apply some of the lesser known features to help them teach their students and to help their students demonstrate what they know. Knowing what you know now, what do you wish teachers had shown you when you were in school? What do you wish you could have done then that would have helped you in school? Thanks for any suggestions that you have. This is all about educating the educators and you'd be amazed by what they don't know how to do in Word! |
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What do you wish teachers knew?
When I was in school, a typewriter was high-tech, so I can't say what
teachers could or should have taught me about Word, but it amazes me to see questions here in which users are looking for what they imagine will be very difficult and convoluted solutions to problems such as inserting footnotes or page numbers. I can't tell you how many documents I've received where users have typed page numbers or even entire headers/footers manually onto each page (and of course if the document is repaginated even slightly, these end up on the middle of a page). One reason users don't find these simple features is a lack of sufficient curiosity, but also time pressure. You do have to have a little free time to explore Word's toolbars and dialogs just to see what's available, even if you have no current or projected need for it. But it is also certainly true that, as Word's complexity has increased, many features have become less discoverable. That is the issue that the Word 12 UI hopes to address, making it much easier for users to accomplish common tasks because some of these useful features will be much more obvious. (Unfortunately, it may make it a lot more difficult for experienced users to do things the way they're used to doing them.) -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "KTJ" wrote in message ... I have found this area invaluable since I recently came across it. There is a wealth of information in this community. I teach K-12 teachers how to apply some of the lesser known features to help them teach their students and to help their students demonstrate what they know. Knowing what you know now, what do you wish teachers had shown you when you were in school? What do you wish you could have done then that would have helped you in school? Thanks for any suggestions that you have. This is all about educating the educators and you'd be amazed by what they don't know how to do in Word! |
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What do you wish teachers knew?
My wish would be that teachers would teach their students how to ask a
computer-related question. If I read one more post like "Word doesn't work. Why not??" I'll scream. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "KTJ" wrote in message ... I have found this area invaluable since I recently came across it. There is a wealth of information in this community. I teach K-12 teachers how to apply some of the lesser known features to help them teach their students and to help their students demonstrate what they know. Knowing what you know now, what do you wish teachers had shown you when you were in school? What do you wish you could have done then that would have helped you in school? Thanks for any suggestions that you have. This is all about educating the educators and you'd be amazed by what they don't know how to do in Word! |
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