Welcome to 2025!
Happy New Year and welcome back! Hopefully the winter break provided you with some much deserved rest and relaxation.
In previous years we’ve used the first post of the year to list out all of the blog posts we’ve done. However now that the blog has been around for over 2 years, and has around 75 posts, we feel it’s time to deviate from this pattern.
Instead, we are going to highlight our top ten (favorite) posts ever written!
Top 10 Tech Tips Posts
10 – Collections in Edge
This blog post outlines some of the amazing features of Edge, plus introduces Collections in Edge!
9 – Tab Groups in Edge
Tab groups in Edge are a way to organize webpages, and group them together. Particularly important if (like the writer of this blog) you often have dozens upon dozens of tabs open!
Tab Groups (in Edge) Blog Post
8 – Speaker Coach
Speaker Coach is a feature built into PowerPoint that allows you to practice your presentation, and receive real time feedback.
7 – Captions and Subtitles in PowerPoint
Learn how to have captions displayed along with your PowerPoint slides!
Captions & Subtitles in PowerPoint Blog Post
6 – Fun Features of Microsoft Word – Part 3
This blog post makes it into our top 10 favorite posts as it outlines the Quick Access Toolbar. This fully customizable toolbar allows you to have all of your most frequently used features on one handy toolbar.
Fun Features of Microsoft Word – Part 3! Blog Post
5 – Fun Features of Microsoft Word
This blog post is number 5 on our top 10 favorite posts as it outlines two amazing features in Word. The first feature is Microsoft Search, which is helpful when you cannot find a feature or setting you are looking for (and haven’t set up your Quick Access Toolbar). The second amazing feature is Quick Parts which allows you to save and enter blocks of text with a single click!
Fun Features of Microsoft Word Blog Post
4 – Fidget, to Boost Focus?!
Explore how movement and sensory stimulation can actually improve attention and concentration! Not everyone playing with their hair or spinning in their chair is distracted or disinterested. Plus this posts identifies how you can rent fidgets from the library!
Fidget, to Boost Focus?! Blog Post
3 – Read&Write, & the Read&Write LEARN Course
This blog posts introduces the Read&Write Tutorial in LEARN which is designed to support new users all the way from installing to using Read&Write.
Remember: Read&Write, and all of it’s amazing features, are available to all staff and students at RRC Polytech for free!
Read&Write, & the Read&Write LEARN Course Blog Post
2 – Accessibility Features
Learn about different accessibility features of different devices.
Accessibility Features Blog Post
1 – Tech Supports (and Other Supports) and Red River College Polytechnic
Explore some of the many supports that the College has to offer!
Tech Supports (and Other Supports) at Red River College Polytechnic Blog Post
Bonus!
After this post was planned and our 10 favorite posts of the year were picked, YuJa Panorama was integrated into LEARN. Just as we couldn’t help but post about it, we can’t help but include it in our top 10 posts! …and we didn’t want to bump any of the posts we had already chosen!