I Love to Learn… from My Students

My Students, Rock!

I don’t claim to be an expert… at anything. Every single time, I step into a classroom or sit down with a student… I learn something new.

These are just some of the few things that I have learned from my Students:

1. Two new things in Excel
   • when reordering your columns; select the column by right clicking on top of the letter and then left click on cut > little dancing dots appear around the column > right click again on the column where you want to move it to > left click on insert cut column
   • to expand a formula further down the column or row instead of copy/paste/paste/paste… after entering in the formula… click and hold on the tiny little green box in the lower right corner of the selected cell and drag the little box down to the bottom of that column or end of that row to populate the formula into all of the remaining cells in that row or column
2.  Royalty Free Photos and Icons
   • https://unsplash.com/
   • https://www.foap.com/
   • https://pixabay.com/
   • https://www.pexels.com/
   • https://thenounproject.com/
3. Pressing the W key – toggles bounding boxes so that you can SEE your document without the guides in Adobe Creative Suite applications
4. Apple Symbols Font Glyphs – for special characters and emoticons
5. Canva.com – an online free photo editor
6. About.Me – which I now share with all of my social media marketing students.
7. Grammarly.com – an online proofreader.
8. FotoFuze.com – enhance your product photos with professional backgrounds.
9. During a Photoshop Elements class
   • Email out the same easy to use photos for everyone to work on the same photos to follow along and learn how to use the various Tools.
10. From my Friend’s 16 yr old daughter using iPhone Messages App
    • Just before sending your text message > press and hold on send icon > and you can select from balloons, fireworks, laser, confetti, etc…
11. During an Android Class
    • Facebook launched colored posts only for Android
    • iPhone eventually followed
12. That there are 11 different ways to get something done on the computer… for a long time there were 3 ways, then 6 which lasted for a while, then 8 and now finally 11 different ways!
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Right clicking with your mouse or touchpad
    • The Menu in that App
    • In Microsoft Apps > the Controls which can be customized
    • On new laptops > the Function keys
    • Waiting for the Cursor to change shape