Watch the video to see how this is done:

As a recap, these are the steps necessary to take in order to print multiple sheets from a single page in Excel:

1. You must add a camera to your quick access toolbar located at the very top of the screen.
   • Go to top of the screen and click on the down arrow (located by the save and undo buttons)
   • Click on “More commands”
   • From there, choose “commands not in the ribbon”
   • Click on “Camera” and Add to the toolbar
2. Now, highlight the data you want to be added to the other page.
   • Click the camera icon which is now located at the top of the screen by the save and undo buttons.
3. Go to your other spreadsheet and now everytime you click, a photograph of the highlighted material you chose will appear.

Note: The snapshot will still update in real time so you can edit even after you copied it onto the other page.

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Incentivizing Engagement

The driving factor of SEO is website traffic and sharing across multiple platforms. There is only so much one company can do for themselves in order to promote their brand, they ultimately need to rely upon customer advocates to spread the word and eventually, help with their search rankings. The first way to endorse this behavior is to incentivize the advocate process. By awarding points or rewarding prizes to those actively engaging, you will give people a reason to take time out of their busy schedule in order to promote your brand. The higher the incentive, the more people you will entice into becoming an advocate; the more they share, the higher your website ranks in search engines.

Encourage Competitions

If the reward isn’t enough to gather adequate engagement on behalf of your customers, try instilling the spirit of competition through the use of leaderboards. Remember back in grade school during Track & Field day where everybody wanted to bring home the blue ribbon? You can not only reward similar badges to customers for liking or sharing so many of your posts, but also allow them to see who the best of the best is; “the blue ribbon winner” for advocating your brand. When they see that they are only 5 shares away from taking the top spot over John Doe, you bet they will take the extra fifteen minutes out of their day to show John Doe who is boss. This race between advocates to be number one will encourage more sharing and ultimately, greatly improve your websites reach and ranking.

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Conducive Environment for Feedback

By incentivizing engagement and encouraging competition, you are also providing an environment that will stimulate feedback. Feedback can take multiple forms: constructive criticism on your product or services, creating unique content to be shared on your website, participating in forums about relevant issues in your company’s industry, and even registering an account or completing a profile on the website itself. The more involved you make someone with your brand; the better they will be able to convince others of the greatness of your company. As more people jump on your bandwagon, more traffic will be driven to your website and distributed content; making your SEO climb higher.

At the end of the day, it is essential to remember that there is only so much a company can do to manipulate their SEO ranking. Search engine spiders are now built to seek out deceptive practices like those used in Black hat SEO, so save yourself the time and trouble by building a legit audience of advocates that will promote your brand. Gamification fosters an atmosphere favorable for customer engagement and brand loyalty; inspiring those who might not otherwise share your content throughout social media and the Internet to promote your company in a fun and exciting method.

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Positives:

–Tech Mastery- Can you remember when they replaced typewriting classes in schools with keyboarding classes using computers instead? Now, it’s practically assumed you are a decent typist before you even enter your basic computer education classes and they may now go as far as teaching you basic graphic design and Microsoft Office skills. Technology advances quickly and it is important for students to be able to use and practice new computer skills before they are thrown into the job market which will require this knowledge (if not more).

–Multitasking Frame-of-Mind- In most gaming environments, participants are required to handle and interpret multiple things at once. You don’t always get this in your traditional teaching environment, yet it is a requirement for most jobs to be able to multitask efficiently.

–Teamwork- Believe it or not, but a properly set up gamification system can encourage teamwork through building a social network within the game. Most people would perceive games as an isolating activity but there are ways to encourage teamwork through adding a social component into the game itself.

–Focus and Planning Skills- In traditional schooling you have deadlines for big projects or papers but how do you keep a student’s focus in the meantime? Gamification can help with this dilemma because in a well-designed game, players become engrossed in the action which heightens their concentration. We all know of people that can spend days straight playing a newly released video game and using is in the educational sense will also play on that same principle.

–Personalized Instruction – A gamification program is tailored to each individual student which allows them to work at their own pace and perfect their work. In a traditional classroom, it is extremely difficult to personalize lesson plans for each student. Typically the progress through material depends on comprehension as a collective, so you are only as strong as your weakest link.

Negatives:

–Expensive- To develop an effective and well-designed gamification system, it will cost you a lot. Between the cost of the equipment, software, and any additional training for teachers/instructors, it will be very expensive to implement. However, after the initial costs, the main financial strain should lessen as long as you don’t incur many maintenance/upkeep expenses.

–Limited Content- Since game creation can be rather complex, you would be limited to the content originally created as far as learning material goes. However, we all know that learning is an evolving process and incorporates many different things, so a game may fail to target everything it needs to. Instead, games are better for focused learning and used as one element of the broader curriculum.

–Lack of socializing- A positive of gamification is that it could include teamwork and a social network, but that doesn’t mean it is guaranteed in your specific game. Even if the game does include a social network, you won’t have the same face-to-face and real-time interaction as you would sitting in a classroom with your peers.

–ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder has been an ever-growing problem with children and some like to link the root of the cause to video games. They believe that people exposed to high doses of gaming expect the same quick action and fast results in real life as they receive in games.

Whether you are for or against gamification in education, there are definitely pros and cons to each side of the argument. What may work great for one school might not for another, so it’s important to decide whether implementing a gamification system would benefit your students and enhance learning. If your motive is just to provide a “more fun” environment, you probably won’t achieve an end result of better grades and participation from your students. The real point to gamification is to bring education in a new way and combine it with technology and our human desire to play games in order to provide students with the best education possible.

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