In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: The Insert Key
Category: Keyboarding
Q: When I type, the new words cover up everything that comes after. I’m losing all my work as I edit. How do I fix that?
A: Push the insert key. It toggles between ‘insert’ and ‘typeover’. You are probably in ‘typeover’.
This is an option in MS Office and most programs deselect it as the default. If yours is active and you want to change that, go to
File>Options>Advanced
…and check the boxes shown in the inset.
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
