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www.office.com/setup Blogs: New to Visio? This tutorial will help get you started with Visio 2016. We'll take you through starter diagrams to give you an idea of what diagrams look like. Then we'll take you through the four basic steps to creating your own diagram. START VISIO Click the Start button, type Visio, and then click the Visio icon to open the program. (If Visio is open already, clickFile > New.) LOOK AT THE STARTER DIAGRAMS Before you dig in and start making things yourself, let's show you a couple starter diagrams that Visio has made for you. That way you can get an idea of what diagrams look and feel like in the program. Click Categories. Categories link - www.office.com/setup Click Flowchart. Flowchart category thumbnail - www.office.com/setup Now pay attention to this step: single-click the Basic Flowchart thumbnail. Basic Flowchart thumbnail - www.office.com/setup Let's explain what this dialog is all about. Visio Basic Flowchart thumbnails: 1 blank template, and 3 starter diagrams - www.office.com/setup You choose the blank template when you have some experience with Visio (like after you've made a few practice diagrams). But if you don't have any experience, choose one of the other three starter diagrams. Double-click one of the starter diagram thumbnails. This is a starter diagram. Visio 2016 comes with many starter diagrams to give you ideas and examples. You can customize this starter diagram by typing your own text, adding your own shapes, and so on. Also, take a look at the tips and tricks. These help you work with the diagram. Let's open another starter diagram. Click File > New > Categories > Network. Single-click the Basic Network thumbnail. Basic Network thumbnail - www.office.com/setup Double-click one of the two starter diagram thumbnails. This is just another example of what you can do with Visio. On your own, go to File > New > Categories and explore the various starter diagrams in Visio. Not all diagrams have them, but many of the

In order to stay competitive in today's world, teams need to connect and share with each other more than ever before. On March 28th, we had the pleasure of hosting Rob Koplowitz from Forrester Research and Walton Smith from Booz Allen Hamilton in a live webinar where they discussed why organizations are turning to enterprise social and how they are using it to help their teams work more openly and efficiently. Rob discussed how communication is changing, and how we're accessing and interacting with information in new ways-incredibly, 66% of information workers in North America and Europe already work remotely.* The shift to cloud-based software and platforms is definitely contributing to some of these changes. The old way of building software involved engineers, months of coming up with specs, running Beta programs, and debugging. The time from idea to ship could take years. So the introduction of the cloud-and social-to the Enterprise is enabling companies to innovate and move to market faster than ever before. The cloud provides anytime, anywhere access which is essential to our increasingly mobile work environments; today employees can quickly and easily access a range of business systems, information and expertise from anywhere in the world. Our shift to cloud-based platforms and the introduction of working openly with social are changing the way teams collaborate. Take, for example, Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading provider of management and technology consulting services. The company has over 26,000 employees worldwide, with over 71% of their employees working on-site with customers, which often limits their access to company resources.** But in order to provide the best service to their clients, consultants need to be able to quickly and easily access information and expertise. Booz Allen recently integrated Yammer as a social layer across business tools because the cloud-based platform enables consultants world-wide to collaborate virtually. When o

This website provides dozens of links which each have ideas for teaching with technology.

A.C. Moore's store website. This can be used to look up items sold inside of the store, to order items online, and to come up with new craft ideas for the classroom.

This website is dedicated to lesson plans. It assists in the development of lesson plans, finding ideas and resources to form a lesson plan, and allows one to view existing lesson plans.

This site provides everything a teacher could be looking for. There are lesson plans, ideas for technology integration, and solutions to school issues.

Teaching website. Has lesson plan ideas, how to develop as a professional, information on the administration, technology integration, school issues you may face, and more.

This website offers contests, ideas, inspiration, and articles all about the art of movie writing

A website based in vermont dedicated to educators. This link has some great info and advice for new teachers. Topics range from starting the year off right to building a teaching portfolio and what documents to keep in it.

Mrs. Alphabet is a website that would help future teachers of younger children come up with lesson plans according to holidays and times of the month. It would also help teachers with ideas on how to teach the alphabet, phonics, and mathematics.

This website is the site for the CreativeCurriculum strategy of teaching for children up to the age of five. It describes what creative curriculum is and helps teachers with strategies and ideas.

In correspondence with the New York Times, this website provides recent news relevant to education issues, lesson plan archives and daily lesson plan updates. The website has three categories; teacher connections, student connections, and parent connections.

Lesson planning site! This site is specifically used for giving teachers ideas of connections for using in their lesson plans.

This essay comes from the blog of Jo McLeay, a secondary school teacher in Australia. Ms. McLeay explores the idea of using Twitter and similar microblogging technology as a way of enhancing a student's learning and help integrate technology into the classroom.

This site has great new ideas for teachers. It has puzzle makers, lesson plan guides, technology information and so much more.

This is teachers talking about their professions. New and old they can come together and have people that share their interests to converse with. The teachers talk about their classes, and different ideas for the classroom.

While parts of this website cost money, there are thousands of free worksheets, reading comprehension ideas, research report concepts, and theme units for multiple subject areas. This website is perfect for worksheets, ect. that can enhance a lesson plan.

This site is really great for picking a lesson plan topic or even unit plan topics. It lists the topic, for example U.S. History, then under that there is a list of ideas.

This website offers ideas and tips on ways that everyday people should stay environmentally-friendly

This website, part of the teaching magazine websites tracks popular tends, ideas, and beliefs about, and affecting teachers.

This allows teachers to search for new ideas for the classroom. There are articles, activities, and guides available.

This site provides many different kinds of informal assessment ideas.