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Get More out of Office 2013 with Office Online and OneDrive.com Introduce yourself, telling participants who you are as well as thanking them for coming. Show genuine excitement for having them attend the academy. SAY: This Teacher Academy focuses on ways you can get more out of Office 2013 and OneDrive.com – such as, by allowing you to communicate, share and collaborate more effectively, and bring more satisfaction to you as a teacher and to your students as learners. The next six hours will be focused on you becoming extremely comfortable with working in this online environment as we address ways you and your students can best use these tools. Ask about their experience with online learning tools and what they expect from the session.

DO: Discuss the learning objectives, and rather than reading right off of the slide, summarize in discussion format. Use the following script as your guide. SAY: This Teacher Academy is designed to give you some ideas on how you can use Microsoft Office Online, as well as how students can meet the Common Core standards in comprehension and collaboration. By having access to Office Online anytime, anywhere, students are able to organize and prepare for projects using OneNote, build on each other’s ideas and provide peer reviews using Word, collect ideas through the Excel Survey tool, and present their learning using PowerPoint; all within a collaborative space in OneDrive. Teachers will learn to utilize the free tools available to manage files, work collaboratively, and create a seamless transition between school and home. We’ll take a couple breaks along the way, and a lunch about half way through the day. After lunch, you’ll get some time working in OneNote Online, as well as talking about some best practices for responsible student use of online tool. In general, we’ll always leave time for practice, reflection and review of your skills. We’ll close the day by giving you some best practices for keeping your skills fine-tuned, as well as provide some resources for how you can learn more. There’s a great deal of information out there, so you’ll always have access to resources that will not only keep you on track with the tools, but also provide further inspiration for using OneNote in the classroom. ASK: Any questions? Let’s get started! Objectives

Activity: Getting Started With Office Online DO: Before getting participants signed in and started with Office online, play video, and introduce everyone to Office online. If you bookmarked this site prior to the start of the academy, open site in your web browser. If the site is not bookmarked, click “Video” on the slide PPT, or copy and paste this link into your web browser: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office-online-help/get-started-at-office-com-HA101785172.aspx. SAY: Once you are signed in, you can click on any of the tools to get started. Activity: Getting Started With Office Online Video

Overview: OneDrive and Office Online Throughout the day, allow participants ample time to practice as different topics are covered. It is also important to ask them questions and provide anecdotal evidence as to how this can be used professionally. Give them time to ask questions as well, but also add outstanding questions to the “parking lot” as needed, so that they can be covered at the end of the day, or along the way. SAY: OneDrive is your online, cloud-storage solution that provides 7GB of free storage for all of your Office Online Documents, PDFs, pictures, or whatever else you want to store. Before we get started, let’s bookmark the support page so that as you begin to work in Office Online, you have a place you can go to for help. Play Video (If you bookmarked this site prior to the start of the academy, open site in your web browser. If the site is not bookmarked, click “Video” on the slide PPT, or copy and paste this link into your web browser: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/getting-started-onedrive-tutorial.) Overview: OneDrive and Office Online Video

Working with Documents After establishing the basics, take a deeper dive into each web app and discuss the features. For each one give enough time to practice. Locate the document that was created in the OneDrive in the introductory section and double click it to open. If it is open, close it and show how to open it. Have everyone practice opening the document from OneDrive because they need to realize that every time they open a document, they will need to always open as read only and will always need to select “Edit Document” and select “Word Online.” Some important background information can be found here on the differences between using a document in the browser and in Word.

Break 10 Minutes

Working with PowerPoint SAY: Now let’s take a look at PowerPoint, and through the process of creating a basic presentation, you’ll learn some of the core features!

SAY: In this part of the session, we’re going to spend some time talking about Excel. Today teachers and administrators are consistently asked to process and review data. The tools that Excel offers are the best for simple data analysis and manipulation. DO: Discuss with participants the benefits of being able to access this data from any web enabled device with or without an Excel App. Excel Online

Lunch

The What, Where and How of OneNote SAY: Now we’re going to start talking about OneNote, and then give you a chance to dig in to the app. So what is OneNote? Simply defined, Microsoft OneNote 2013 is a: Digital notebook that provides a single place where you can gather all of your notes and information, With the added benefits of powerful search capabilities to find what you are looking for quickly,

Break 10 Minutes

Best Practices when Working with Students SAY: When working in the online environment, it is important that we teach our students the standards of ethics and responsibility they are expected to have while collaborating and communicating with their fellow students and educators. In this section we will cover a few basic rules, discuss with all participants their experiences, and provide resources for future use.

Office and Office Online SAY: Although being able to work entirely in the cloud is great, sometimes the more robust set of tools found in the client version of Office are needed. However, you can still save directly to OneDrive without having to download and re-upload! Let’s give it a try Office and Office Online

Q&A DO: Answer any participant questions, and address any remaining parking lots items.

Teacher Academy’s Reimagining Teaching and Learning with Windows 8.1 SAY: I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s Teacher Academy and that you take the skills you learned today and use them in your classrooms. DO: Mention any other academy’s available. Reimagining Teaching and Learning with Windows 8.1 In the Cloud: File Storage Collaboration and Communication with Office 365 The Ultimate Collaboration Tool: An Introduction to OneNote Get More Out of Office 2013 with Office Online and OneDrive.com

SAY: I hope you’ve enjoyed the workshop today!