Education Desktop

It’s all about… Empowering educators and institutions to Express their ideas, easily and naturally Interact with others, content, and data Explore and discover the world Manage the learning process Assess quality and quantity

Trends and Forces – cause changePeople EducationEconomics Technology‘Change’

Managing the Change Too much focus on the technology itself rather than the right application to successful delivery of education How do we become more in touch with the ‘Millennial’ student ? Microsoft’s Education Desktop framework can assist…

Applications of Technology Empowering educators and learners Facilitating LearningManaging LearningAssessing Learning Values Express Interact Explore and discover Organize Automate Orchestrate Measure Evaluate Document Enabling Technologies Blackboard, Microsoft Class Server, WebCT, etc Communication & Collaboration Learning Management Systems Institution and Class Connectivity Personal Creativity & Productivity Learning Content Management Systems Accountability and Assessment Solutions Portfolio Solutions Office 2003 System Producer 2003 Encarta OneNote Project, etc… Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 Windows Sharepoint Services Windows Media Services Exchange 2003 Live Communication Server

Create Scenario = Education Desktop Empower educators and learners to: Express Interact Explore & Discover The Education Desktop is a combination of Microsoft Productivity tools allowing an Administrator, Educator and Student to achieve their ultimate potential

Learning Gateway & Education Desktop Custom Components LMS Class Server Education Desktop

Microsoft Word Bringing Ideas to Life !  Rich document editing capability  Full Document Recovery in the event of a hardware crash  Ability to share documents  Access to a full Research Library – without leaving Word  Access to online clip art, templates, training and assistance  Interoperates with all Microsoft Office Applications – including Macintosh  Document Protection – Digital Rights Management  Plus so much more….

Research available everywhere The same Getting started and research panes are available across;  Outlook Outlook  PowerPoint PowerPoint  Word Word  Excel Excel  Publisher Publisher  OneNote, and OneNote  Visio Visio This enables student to use the rich and integrate help, research and assistance functionality across the Education Desktop

Microsoft Publisher Design Central !  Support students creative flair allowing them to create any style of publication – print or web based  Invitations, awards, title pages, websites, the limit is their imagination  Useful for administrators or alumni staff in attracting new students, keeping in touch with existing ones – Professional Design done in house !  A highly expressive tool – with an easy to follow wizard based format – so that an easy start leads to a fast finish !

Visio Diagramming Excellence!  Create diagrams to think through, organize, and better understand complex ideas processes, and systems.  Templates and drawing tools to support students regardless of discipline  Context sensitive help functions  Share diagrams in workspace files with Sharepoint  Annotate diagrams using digital ink on the Tablet PC  Track teachers' comments and changes to shapes and digital ink using the new review mode  Integrate data from your Visio diagrams by importing them into other Office System Applications

Challenges with Student Note-Taking Writing, transcribing notes can be inefficient & inaccurate Handwritten notes often illegible Key points missed, notes incomplete Notes often misplaced or unmanageable Notes stored in many places Difficult to organise notes for studying Information not effectively reused or shared Difficult to reuse notes for formal papers or reports Different note-taking methods & styles makes sharing hard OneNote – notes made easy

One place for all notes, so students are always prepared for class, exams and study sessions A great way for teachers to keep course notes, teaching suggestions and track student progress Brings out the benefits of digital ink on the TabletPC Students can easily share notes, integrate 3 rd party content and tasks Lectures can be recorded and synched to the notes Educational Value of OneNote

"OneNote is great. I can record the lecture [which] is synchronized with the notes I took during class…it's easy to find the right part of the recording without wasting a bunch of time.” Justin Lai, Sophomore MIT "OneNote is great. I can record the lecture [which] is synchronized with the notes I took during class…it's easy to find the right part of the recording without wasting a bunch of time.” Justin Lai, Sophomore MIT OneNote allows students to take typed, audio, video, graphics, web content and handwriting all in one place Synching voice to notes

"Using OneNote has made my studying much easier…I can search through my notes faster than with a traditional notebook. Within seconds, I can find what I'm looking for." David Cirigliano, Sophomore, Northeastern U. "Using OneNote has made my studying much easier…I can search through my notes faster than with a traditional notebook. Within seconds, I can find what I'm looking for." David Cirigliano, Sophomore, Northeastern U. OneNote allows students to use key word search to find the information they need quickly. Advanced Search features

" Thanks to OneNote, the process of information-sharing, has become much more efficient. OneNote enables our students to use notes taken by others almost as soon as a lecture has ended." Dr. Peter A. Lalley, Director of the Center for Baccalaureate and Graduate Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology " Thanks to OneNote, the process of information-sharing, has become much more efficient. OneNote enables our students to use notes taken by others almost as soon as a lecture has ended." Dr. Peter A. Lalley, Director of the Center for Baccalaureate and Graduate Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology With Outlook 2003, students can notes easily. Their notes are captured as HTML in the body of the mail. Ability to easily share notes

Encarta Encarta – Microsoft’s No.1 Learning Resource  Fully functional, dynamic encyclopaedia – including the richness of video, photo’s, live links and virtual tours  Now with a special interface for 7 to 12 year old children  A new online Math tutorial service  “Encarta Researcher” builds a repository of research around specific topics and auto builds the outline of a report  Update feature – as world events occurs Encarta is updated to include the latest world events  Interactive World Atlas provide a useful linkage to country and city information and statistics  Doing research, assignments and homework becomes enjoyable !

Create Scenario = Education Desktop Empower educators and learners to: Express Interact Explore & Discover The Education Desktop is a combination of Microsoft Productivity tools allowing an Administrator, Educator and Student to achieve their ultimate potential

Before we go… Let’s not forget the educational value of gaming technology  Many educators are now using strategy and skill based games as part of their curriculum  Using gaming technology as part of your educational desktop adds a nice edge of diversity and is a keen way to keep students interest levels high  As discussed in the previous session – Microsoft has many of these games to download as trials  Some Australian schools are using such games as Flight Simulator as part of their curriculum to teach skills such as co- ordination, navigation, weather, mechanics and of course - flight skills

“I never try to teach my students anything… I only try to create an environment where they can learn.” Albert Einstein Parting thought…

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