Palomar College pays for the rights for its faculty to work at home with certain Microsoft products.  This is a benefit that is often under-appreciated.   When I give workshops on Office 2010 products, I mention that faculty members can get it though the FCCC (the Foundation for California Community Colleges) and walk them through the steps.  I often see people make notes, but then we move on to other things.  I’ve got a feeling that those notes get lost in the grand rush of things, because I am often asked by workshop attendees later—often much later—how to obtain Office 2010 for $45, our price...

I delivered a What’s New in Office 2010 workshop recently, and I would like to summarize here.  I set myself the task of naming the 5 biggest what’s new features in each of the major office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).  What about OneNote?  Yes, with the advent of web apps it has finally grown up, but more on that below.  The ribbon interface introduced with Office 2007 has now been extended to all the programs, including Outlook, which is the major what’s new with that venerable program.  OneNote and Outlook aside, I have constrained my comments below to the big 3 Office...

I subscribe to a lot of blogs.  To keep it all under control, I use Google Reader, as many of you probably do also.  Today, as I scanned through my reader I noticed three how-to blog posts that Palomar instructors might find useful. 1. How to create self-test Flash Cards with Microsoft OneNote by Michael Oldenburg, from the official MS Office OneNote blog. The gist of this one is to use the collapsible nested text feature in OneNote.  Here is a quick video that explains the concept. [vodpod...