Here’s a new whizzy wheeze:  a series of weekly emails to help you, bit by bit and drip by drip, to become more proficient in your use of ICT. Based on the technology you use every day – Microsoft Office – and focused soundly on things for English, Teachit Tips are a gobbledegook-free way of genning up on some technical wizardry.

• Learn the tricks that will help you save time and cut a dash in the classroom – from setting your computer up properly, to mastering invaluable keyboard shortcuts and even controlling two screens at once.
• Find out how formatting techniques can be enlisted for English teaching – move words around the screen with text boxes, use borders and lines to explore structure, and experiment with meaning by manipulating fonts, alignment and spacing.
• Create magical resources of your own – deconstruct images in Microsoft Excel, use Flash files within PowerPoint presentations, resequence texts onscreen.
• Discover wonderful new teaching ideas – collapsing and filleting texts, word walls,  found poems and other inspirational approaches.