Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #115

The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at http://bit.ly/2up3a8p. The link to the back-dated posts is: http://bit.ly/1GVLTUZ


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