Office Tech EDU

Best laid plans of mice and men and all that jazz. I had the intention of getting that podcast off of the ground for a year. Since CUE 2019. Actually, the thought had been there for a while, just the execution was lacking. Today, today it went live. Will anyone listen? Probably, maybe, hopefully, but most likely not that many, but if someone can learn even just one thing from it, then it was a good thing that I did it, right? As I move forward I'm going to attempt to blog on the off weeks that I'm not putting together the next podcast. I hope you'll give the podcast a listen, and there are video tutorials in the show notes if needed. Beth

This past week I heard from a coworker that I had the pleasure of working with before taking the position I currently have. We've crossed paths a few times at various work events, and usually, when he's calling me it's because assistance is needed with the student assessment system we use. However, this time, it was because another fellow co-worker shared a slide deck from a presentation two-plus years ago and while he hadn't attended that particular tech session he tried his best to follow along with my slide deck. Of all things, it's one of my favorites within Google Sheets, Filter Views. The issue he was having? He was composing his own student data for his classroom and was keeping his total students tested for that week at the top but wanted to be able to filter the students listed below those totals based on certain criteria. After some troubleshooting as he was getting an error saying that he couldn't filter because of cells being merged, I helped him s...

There's not a lot of events that are held for Educational Office Employees. If you know of a local Association of Education Office Professionals consider yourself lucky. What even is an Association of Educational Office Professionals you might ask if you don't already know? It's a group of office workers, no matter the institution, that work within the educational setting. The various educational councils would be the series of professionals, elementary, middle school, secondary, post-secondary, and educational partners. These associations can be local, such as county or district, state, area (geographical cluster areas) and national. The National Association of Educational Office Professionals is the parent organization for this group of affiliates. The tier then goes, area, state, and local. Depending on your affiliate, if you have one close to you, you may have professional developments, workshop days/nights, team building activities, networking and even celebrating a...