Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com Thank you for your interest in Education Tools from Microsoft. We hope you will find these tools useful in your schools and district offices. Microsoft is determined to assist educators and expand the Power of Education for all through Personalized Learning. Our job is not to create the education model; our job is to expand what educators are already doing while helping to provide an opportunity for individualized learning. Free Hosted Student Email and More... 10 Gigabyte Inboxes 25 Gigabytes of Online Storage and Applications Live@edu is more than just free email accounts. With a Microsoft-hosted solution, you get a reliable and easy-to-manage solution for your school. Let us help you increase your school’s ability to communicate and collaborate with a suite of online tools, including shared calendars, documents and workspaces. http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-email-accounts.aspx?locale=en-US&country=US SkyDrive is a file storage and sharing service that allows users to upload files to the computing cloud, then access them from a web browser. Accessing my documents anywhere is great but what about editing my Word, PowerPoint or Excel documents online? Enter the Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote Apps! With these streamlined companion programs you can easily open you document in a browser and make light changes. Later when you get home or school you can reopen them with the full version of Microsoft Office 2007/2010 to complete your work! Nothing is lost in the cloud! http://skydrive.live.com Also read what’s coming around the corner with Microsoft Office 365 http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/learn-about-office-365.aspx?locale=en-US&country=US#1 Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office adds curriculum-based templates and toolbars to Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to guide students and teachers through projects. There is a separate set of tools for teachers and students. Some language versions include tools to create e-learning content that conforms to SCORM standards. https://www.microsoft.com/education/products/office/learningessentials/default.aspx#overview
Partners: Photosynth takes your photos, mashes them together and recreates a 3D scene out of them that anyone can view and move around in. Different than static photos and video, Photosynth allows you to explore details of places, objects, and events unlike any other media. You can’t stop video, move around and zoom in to check out the smallest details, but with Photosynth you can. And you can’t look at a photo gallery and immediately see the spatial relation between the photos, but with Photosynth you can. http://photosynth.net/
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WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. You gotta see this - mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/research/projects/WWT/WWT_Eye_Candy_060108_JP.wmv Download: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx Useful tool that can zoom in and out of portions of your screen when used with a data projector. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
With Windows Live Movie Maker, you can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies. Add special effects, transitions, sound, and captions to help tell your story. And sharing with friends and family is easy—whether on the web, a computer, TV, mobile device, or a DVD.* http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker Import photos from your camera, organize them into albums, and edit them so they look their best. Use powerful photo tools to create stunning panoramas, movies, slide shows, and more. When you're ready to share, publish your photos and videos to your favorite websites like Facebook and Flickr directly from Photo Gallery. http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery?os=other Ever sing in the car? Maybe in the shower? You know who you are. Admit it, you like to sing, and you like music. Ever thought of writing your own music? Most people never get a chance to try... but we want to give everyone a piece of the songwriting experience, so we’ve developed Songsmith, an application that lets you create a complete song just by singing! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/about.html Get this application free if you join the Innovative Teachers Network here: http://us.itn.partnersinlearning.com/Pages/Welcome.aspx Support virtual collaboration in managing your next class brainstorm session. http://www.officelabs.com/projects/stickysorter/Pages/default.aspx
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com $ Listed only for reference – If you are looking for a low cost ―thin client‖ solution for your classroom read on. Microsoft designed Windows MultiPoint solutions specifically for non-technical professionals to be able to set up, manage, and use, so that educators and students can spend more time and resources on what’s important: creating, teaching, exploring, collaborating, learning, and developing. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/learn-more.aspx Photo collages celebrate important events and themes in our lives. Pick a folder, press a button, and in a few minutes AutoCollage presents you with a unique memento to print or email to your family and friends. Get this application free if you join the Innovative Teachers Network here: Go here. http://us.partnersinlearningnetwork.com Login or create a new account. Click the Resources link on the top banner. At the bottom of the page find the link for "More Tools and Programs >>" Click it. Middle of the page should see "AutoCollage - Free download for educators" Click to download. Once you’ve created your account be sure to look around and see what other teachers are discussing and sharing around the world! Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input. http://fuse.microsoft.com/project/kodu.aspx
Add-in: Microsoft Mathematics Works with Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Office Word 2007, and Microsoft OneNote 2010. With this add-in, you insert an advanced math problem (from algebra to calculus, physics, or statistics) and then click to simplify complex expressions or to solve. Use these advanced math computational and graphing capabilities to: Plot a function, equation, or inequality in 2-D or 3-D, and save the results. Solve an equation or inequality. Calculate a numerical result. Compute the inverse of a matrix, matrix operations, list operations, and integrals. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ca620c50-1a56-49d2-90bd-b2e505b3bf09
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com Add-in: Interactive Classroom Works with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft OneNote 2010, and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 This add-in connects a teacher’s PowerPoint presentation to students’ OneNote notebooks. During a presentation, teachers can: Poll students with multiple choice, true/false, or yes/no questions. Distribute the lesson to students with OneNote Include real-time ink and text annotations. Students can answer and respond through their individual OneNote notebooks, hand-held clickers, or computers, and the results display in the presentation. Students also get consolidated notes that match those of the instructor so they can keep track of what they need to learn. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d93f4cb5-e2bb-4543-a3bb-cd6a8ecb42cc Math worksheet generator Do you spend a lot of time searching for worksheets with practice problems to give your students? Now you can easily create your own in just a few seconds with the Math Worksheet Generator. This is a tool that generates multiple math problems based on a sample, and then creates a worksheet that you can distribute. By analyzing the math problem you provide, or one of the built-in samples, the generator determines the structure of the expression and provides similar problems. We tack on an answer sheet too. http://www.educationlabs.com/Projects/MathWorksheetGenerator/Pages/default.aspx# Office Add-in for Moodle Uploading files to Moodle has never been easier. The Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM) is an add-in for Microsoft Office (versions 2003 and 2007) that allows teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website. Today, teachers who use Office and Moodle have to switch back and forth between their web browser and Office applications. With the OAM, teachers can create, open, edit, and save Moodle documents from within the Office applications. You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle. http://www.educationlabs.com/projects/officeaddinformoodle/Pages/default.aspx# Try a little Mischief. Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen. http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/lessons.aspx Microsoft Math provides a set of mathematical tools that helps students get school work done quickly and easily. $ - This is one of the few products listed in this sheet that costs money. At < $10 a copy this can be of great benefit to those who cannot afford to purchase $100+ calculators at the store. (please refer to your educational reseller for pricing models) https://www.microsoft.com/education/products/student/math/default.aspx#overview Teacher Guides - Watch videos, and download guides and e-books to inspire your class and to help you make the best use of tools and technology in your lessons. http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/default.aspx
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Microsoft Robotics products and services enable academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. Watch the videos below to see how pptPlex can help you organize and present information in a non-linear fashion. Test drive pptPlex and wow your audience with your next presentation. http://www.officelabs.com/pptplex
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com The Microsoft IT Academy program enables academic learning institutions to connect the world of education to the world of work by enabling faculty and students to acquire new technology skills in an academic setting. For one price ~$1700 give your faculty and staff across your district access to over 300 online training courses on Microsoft Technologies. From the basics of Word and Excel to infrastructure professional certification. https://www.microsoft.com/education/msitacademy/default.mspx Microsoft Digital Literacy curriculum is to teach and assess basic computer concepts and skills so that people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. http://www.microsoft.com/About/CorporateCitizenship/Citizenship/giving/programs/UP/digitalliteracy/eng/default.mspx
Free online translation service for a truly worldwide web. Language translation tool that can translate text excerpts or complete web pages into a range of languages. http://www.microsofttranslator.com
Community Clips – Free Screen recording utility. So if you see yourself as a software guru you can start creating your own How-to tutorials and How-to guides with this screen capturing software recorder. http://www.officelabs.com/projects/communityclips/Pages/Default.aspx http://www.officelabs.com/_layouts/olsite/TryIt.ashx?downloadUrl=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117503&project=Comm unity Clips Find new ways to enhance student learning through technology. Use the search tool below to find lesson plans and how-to articles for your relevant subjects, grade levels, and products. You can also browse the links below to find a sampling of the lesson plans from Microsoft by subject that cover grades K-12. http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx • Create a timeline of President Obama's life • Design, administer, and analyze a generation gap survey • Discover the science of archaeology Lesson plans
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Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers; anytime, anywhere. Use SharedView to put your heads together and collaborate - create, convey, and communicate…across physical boundaries, through firewalls, and down to the smallest details. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95AF94BA-755E-4039-9038-63005EE9D33A&displaylang=en HD View is a new viewer developed by Microsoft Research's Interactive Visual Media group to aid in the display and interaction with very large images. http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/HDView.htm
Writer is a full set of tools for blogging on Windows Live Spaces and your other favorite blogging sites. Not just for hard-core bloggers, its familiar feel allows anyone to tell great stories online. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/Writer Accessibility makes the computer easier to see, hear, and use. Discover what's possible with accessibility today and read inspiring profiles of accessibility in action. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com We are a global community of educators who value innovative uses of information & communication technology that improve learning outcomes. By joining the Partners In Learning Network, you can: Create or join communities & discussions Find lesson plans and activities, as well as share your own resources Access free tools and learning programs for your classroom and school Collaborate with like-minded colleagues, improve education in your own classroom and community, and ultimately help improve the quality of education globally http://us.partnersinlearningnetwork.com/Pages/default.aspx Start Using the Microsoft Education Competencies View the complete list of competencies, and take the first steps toward incorporating them into your professional development and hiring practices. Learn more. https://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/default.mspx DreamSpark is simple: It’s about giving students Microsoft professional tools at no charge. https://www.dreamspark.com/Default.aspx
The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens. http://www.digitalcitizenshiped.com/ Read about the process and best practices in building the Philadelphia School of the Future. The School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft have worked together on an ambitious and purposeful task: To build a School of the Future. https://www.microsoft.com/education/schoolofthefuture/
Students, teachers and parents can purchase Office 2007 Professional for less than $70? Check with your Microsoft Account Manager or Microsoft Authorized Reseller for details about the Microsoft Student Select program. https://www.microsoft.com/education/howtobuystudents.mspx
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com Partners in Learning is a global initiative designed to actively increase access to technology and improve its use in learning. Our goal is to help schools gain better access to technology, foster innovative approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development and provide education leaders with the tools to envision, implement and manage change. http://www.microsoft.com/unlimitedpotential/default.mspx The Innovative Teachers program is built on the understanding that informed, empowered teachers are at the heart of meaningful and effective teaching and learning. By inspiring and learning from each other, educators around the world are transforming the way their students engage with the world and their learning. http://www.microsoft.com/education/pil/IT_home.aspx See how other school districts are using Microsoft technologies throughout the nation to improve student achievement. http://www.microsoft.com/Education/CaseStudies.mspx
Whether you’re in the office, at home, or on the road, Microsoft Office Web Apps help you get more things done virtually anywhere and anytime. These convenient online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote offer you an easy way to access, view, and edit documents directly from your Web browser. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps Ok this one is a little more involved but worth asking some questions. Your institution purchases Microsoft software thru what we call LAR’s (large account resellers). Ask your IT leader if they have heard about the Microsoft Student Select program. If not haven’t tell them to work with their reseller or one of the partners below to get this up and running. Once the agreement is in place the students, faculty and staff in your organization can purchase; for example Microsoft Office 2010 Professional for ~$70ish. This is the full product that would cost ~$600ish at Best Buy. This is for home use and personal use, your institution may have some type of ―Work at Home‖ rights but this is different. You buy it you own it. MS Partners that will help your institution set up an online store: E-Academy- http://www.onthehub.com/ www.e-academy.com Journey Ed- http://www.journeyed.com Find new ways to enhance student learning through technology. Use the search tool below to find lesson plans and how-to articles for your relevant subjects, grade levels, and products. You can also browse the links below to find a sampling of the lesson plans from Microsoft by subject that cover grades K-12. http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx
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Technology - Programming Teachers Read This Microsoft Faculty Connection is the site to support your institutions technical faculty who have chosen or are considering using Microsoft technology in the classroom. http://www.microsoft.com/education/facultyconnection/bz/default.aspx?c1=en-bz&c2=BZ
Technology - Programming Teachers Read This Find your path to success in a centralized learning environment that is specifically targeted to beginner programmers. The rich array of content starts with the very basics, and guides you through each step of the process to become a full-fledged developer. After you're ready, become a Champion and show off your project. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx Ok – Since I am (was) a developer by trade: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coding4fun/ Microsoft PTA helps governments achieve policy objectives through public-private partnerships that deliver technology solutions to underserved communities and students. http://www.microsoft.com/industry/publicsector/pta/capacity_building.aspx Microsoft Learning builds innovative learning products that enable you to make the most of your investment in Microsoft technology. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/default.aspx
Now free to Live@Edu customers! The MSDN Academic Alliance is the easiest and most inexpensive way for academic departments to make the latest Microsoft software available in labs, classrooms, and on student PCs http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/default.aspx
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Academic Search is a free engine developed by Microsoft Research Asia to help users quickly find information about academic researchers and their activities. It is also a test-bed for our object-level vertical search research. With Academic Search, you can easily find top researchers, their papers, conferences, and journals. You can also find relationships between researchers in terms of co-authoring papers. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ One-stop Portal for Students to provide discounts, training tools, contests, newsletters and connections to other students and the community. http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/us/default.aspx
Sponsored by Microsoft Research, The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and ideas with other students, judges and conference attendees, understand practical applications for research, perfect communication skills, and receive prizes and gain recognition from ACM and the greater computing community. http://www.acm.org/src/ Microsoft Career counseling site for students provides information to assist students with career guidance, tools, tips and templates for writing resumes as well as information about career opportunities with Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/US/career/career-counseling.aspx Microsoft Student Lounge is the online community for technology students. It creates a venue to engage in transparent, and direct dialogue with the community, including students, developers, customers, and people who just love technology. Through Microsoft Student Lounge, students get a place to communicate, share ideas, work on projects, and just have fun while they reach across barriers and boundaries. It provides the tools and resources students need to achieve their personal and professional goals. http://www.msstudentlounge.com/
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Why Microsoft cares about education and what we are doing about it. Anthony Salcito Microsoft Corporation Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector – Education http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoftuseducation/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/msdn/UqRg Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Program is the world’s premier student technology program. It challenges students to apply their imagination, passion, and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world. http://www.imaginecup.com/
Microsoft Student Tech Clubs connects students with top-rated user groups, meetings, community sites, blogs, forums, events, and breaking news! This is a place for students to share and promote top-notch content and community resources. http://www.studenttechclubs.com/MyStudentTechClubs.ugss The Expression Studio suite of software provides easy-to-use professional Web design tools that allow users to create dynamic, interactive Web sites. You can get the full line of design tools for free using the DreamSpark program listed in this document. This site gives you a Launchpad to Free Curriculum for the tools. http://expression.microsoft.com/education
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com Office 2010 Looking for the nucleus of Microsoft Office 2010 information, training, support and templates? What’s new in Microsoft Office 2010? What’s new in Microsoft Word 2010? What’s new in Microsoft Outlook 2010? What’s new in Microsoft Excel 2010? What’s new in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010? Getting social with Microsoft Office 2010…did you know you can sync your Outlook to LinkedIn? Top 10 Reasons to try Office 2010? Aside from the fact that it’s what all the cool kids in sweater vests are using, click here for a summary of great features http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/top-10-reasons-to-try-office-2010-HA101673609.aspx Everything you need to know about PowerPoint 2010 Function and Design Click here to see a very funny video on the latest and greatest in PowerPoint. http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/278b143c-5e7f-4c44-8e61-41fb9f6c340d http://blogs.office.com/b/office-show/ Search Commands http://www.officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/Pages/default.aspx Save as PDF http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B-63B07BA5F2E5&displaylang=en Getting Started Tab – Add in http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102146851033.aspx Office 2003/2007 compatibility pack http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx Microsoft Math add-in for Microsoft Word
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Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=030fae9c-704f-48ca-971d-56241aefc764&displaylang=en More 2010: Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-HA101794130.aspx How-To’s http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/FX100485361033.aspx?pid=CL100605171033 scroll down and select the office version your using… More than 150,000 free images and sounds http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx?pid=CL100570201033 Templates http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/FX100595491033.aspx?pid=CL100632981033 Education specific templates http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT012261901033.aspx
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions I’m receiving from around the world! John Whitaker Microsoft Public Sector Education - USA John_whitaker@hotmail.com
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