Janis Juarez

I was forwarded an email yesterday from our VP of IT once again extolling the greatness of Microsoft Teams. Among some new “enhancements:”

End meeting for all participants – Rolled outCustom video b […]

I set up my iPad on a stand, pointing straight down at my notepad, and connected it via its Lightning-to-USB cable to my iMac.

Then I opened my Zoom Personal Meeting Room and started recording. I […]

I’m teaching two Web Technologies classes this quarter. They have slightly different focuses, and I love each of them. Part of the reason I love these classes (especially as compared to teaching Excel or Word or […]

A Fulbright scholar from the National Defense University’s presentations at the BC campus tomorrow:

Market and Competitive Intelligence: How to Analyze the Market to Outsmart the Competitors
Ellicitation […]

Always seem to be working on the BTS 165 final project. Tweaking it to make it better…

One realization I had in Monday night class last night is this: this project is, essentially, like creating your own […]

Spotted in the Seattle Times on June 8, 2015:

According to the Washington State Education Research & Data Center’s Earnings Dashboard, Bellevue College grads have higher median wages than University of […]

I just heard the first official word about Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delivers-first-public-preview-of-office-2016-for-mac/

Also interesting to note is that, while […]

I’m having some kind of fun playing with the various features of Bellevue College’s new Microsoft Office 365. One of the coolest, most promising features is embedding Office documents into web pages. Over the […]

When I teach Excel, I always highlight what I consider the two most important features that make Excel useful: formulas and charts. Formulas are important because they allow us to analyze, manipulate, twist and […]

This 5-year-old passed the Microsoft Certified Professional exam. Granted that the kid may be special, but, seriously, what does that say about the Microsoft Certified Professional exam?

I’ve taken the […]