1. Interactive Online Presentations Made Simple
mix.office.com
Interactive Online Presentations Made Simple
Thank you for taking time to coming to this session. I will like to provide a brief introduction to Office Mix for Education. It is a powerful tool that makes authoring and sharing of online presentations simple. If you know and use PowerPoint today, you’ll find it familiar and can be productive right away.
So let’s get going. <click … next slide >
Interactive Online Presentations Made Simple
Your Name: Brandon Jacobson Title, Affiliation: Technology Evangelist, Microsoft (Vega Consulting) Contact

2. Online Presentations for Education
Teachers
Blended learning and flipped classrooms
Sharing best practices and lessons with colleagues
Students
Project reports
Storytelling
Communication Skills
Administrators
Professional development
Leadership communications
A brief overview of the variety of use cases we envision for Office Mix. I am sure you will find even more.
For teachers, a key question always is how to make the best use of classroom time. Blended learning and flipped classrooms are emerging paradigms that allow students to watch lesson-videos and take simple quizzes at home. Classroom time is used for more in-depth discussion and personalized coaching to advance learning. Office Mix makes it incredibly easy to create such interactive online lessons by ANY teacher if they are familiar with PowerPoint.
Another important use-case for teachers is sharing best practices on how to teach a topic well and share with their colleagues.
For students, Office Mix can be a great way to submit project reports. Wherever you ask students today to submit a PPT deck, that could now be a mix with their voice and annotations. It is a great storytelling tool and can help build communication skills that are incredibly important in today’s world.
For administration and staff, Office Mix can be an incredibly powerful tool to create content / courseware for professional development. The content can be created by subject-matter experts directly rather than requiring professional studio staff, and easy to update based on feedback. Because of the ease of authoring, it is also a tool administrators can directly use to share messages with their leaderships teams or the broader staff at schools.

3. Challenges for Online Presentations
Difficult to author online lessons
Difficult to make them engaging
Difficult to publish and share
Difficult to get relevant analytics
Authoring and sharing engaging online lessons is hard today.
-- It’s difficult to author them … most require learning video-editing tools … and that is not for everybody
-- It’s difficult to make them engaging or effective. Adding quizzes, polls, interactive simulations is hard
-- If you have added these interactive elements, no obvious places where you publish or share (YouTube doesn’t work)
-- And it’s difficult to get analytics to understand what portions students watched, how they did on quizzes, … and all of this in a FERPA compliant way (for the US … and similar laws elsewhere).

4. What is Office Mix? What is Office Mix?
Free add-in for PowerPoint that makes it easy to create interactive online lessons
Free web-portal to publish, share, and see analytics for lessons
Browser-based interactive player for lessons that works on all devices
Extensible platform supporting novel interactibles, embedding, analytics, … leveraging standards

5. There are three major components to Office Mix
There are three major components to Office Mix. 1) Cross-device player experience; 2) Authoring within PowerPoint; 3) A portal where you manage, share, and see the analytics.
Let’s start with #1 that is the interactive consumption experience.
-- Start with home page … then take them to the gallery … you can find a bunch of content here created by educators. I will showcase only a few of the lessons and the player features. You can come back and browse again anytime.
-- Math: Stacey Roshan:
-- ELA: An intro to Poetry from Jenni Baldwin:
Christie Norris: In Search of a Son:
-- Ohm’s Law: James Mickens: Colleague at MSR … your teaching and comedy skills combined.
-- Many many others.
Features to showcase: Any modern browser, Nice table-of-contents with waffle (usually missing from videos), ability to have hyperlinks embedded, ability to speed-up, ability to add quizzes/simulations, all animations of slide deck work, … Scalability of UX.
Let’s now go to #2, Authoring within PowerPoint. Basically, if you are familiar with PowerPoint, you can create mixes.
Talking points:
-- Say here is an ordinary deck similar to the current one that I will use. Use demo deck in same folder.
-- Show that once you download the add-in you will see the mix tab. (Note: Most teachers in US already have access to PPT-2013)
-- Introduce the various icons within the tab. Say we’ll first play with the Recording button that let’s you add narration and inking.
-- Say that you are working on Surface Pro 3, but there are $300 tablets available with stylus now. Or you can use touch or a separate stylus pad.
-- Show how you get per-slide recording, and ability to resize and reposition videos, and do audio-only recordings.
-- Add a quiz, and then go through the publish process to create the mix.
-- Here I want to show you a few more advanced features.
-- What you have on your disk is still the PPTX file … that is your source code / master copy for the mix
-- You can update the slides when you get inspiration at a later point. Then you just republish the mix.
-- Let’s this time also add Khan Academy video, a Phet Animation, and a web page
-- Then show how you will republish the video and show updated mix
Let’s now go to #3 aspect of the Office Mix solution, the web portal. This is where you go and manage the mixes you have created.
-- First go to officemix.com and login
-- Then go to my mixes tab
-- You will see the latest mixes you created
-- You can add delete and do variety of operations
-- In particular, you can go and edit the title, add an abstract, decide on a category, and keywords for mix.
-- You can also change the permissions and whether you desire to have discussion board with your mix.
-- Finally, you can see the analytics with the mix. Let’ see the variety of ways we can do that.
-- Well that’s it for now. You are already able to do a LOT of stuff that will be super hard on ANY OTHER platform.
Office Mix Demo

6. What you just saw Free Authoring familiar and simple as PowerPoint
Start from or revise existing decks
Adding interactivity simple as adding clip-art
Share easily and securely
Rich playback on all devices
Built-in analytics for insights
Free

7. Extending Mix Apps for Office Player.js 1 2 Standard for MS Office
Interactive elements are Apps for Office (HTML5+JS)
Extending Mix
Apps for Office
Standard for MS Office
Office.js and Labs.js
Add new types of interactibles
Player.js
Open source Player APIs
Host can manage player easily
Adjust look and feel
Player.JS is a widely adopted open source Player APIs designed to allow a host system to effectively manage our player. For example, the host system can get and set the following actions: pause, mute, the current time and slide. These API’s enable a host system to completely control Mix navigation and can be used to bring usage data into other systems.
Microsoft created the Labs.JS API to enable sophisticated HTML widgets (aka quizzes and simulations) to run within the PowerPoint authoring tool as well as in the Mix player. Widgets leverage this this set of API’s to configure and get/set state to and from the Widget and PowerPoint and our mix player.
/labshost.html?lab= 2
Player implements Player.js

8. Embed Experience Publish to thousands of sites and platforms via
oEmbed
embed.ly
SCORM
Coming soon: LTI
Facebook
Twitter
Blogs
edX
Moodle
SharePoint
LTI (sample)
Your Mix content can be embedded within Learning Management Systems and portals. Mix content can be Uploaded to Office Mix, exported to video, uploaded to Office 365 Video, and exported as a SCORM package.
And thousands more

9. Extensions Post Mixing Live Mixing
Creation of engaging Mixes from slides and videos post-facto.
Live Mixing
Creation of engaging Mixes recorded during the live session.
In many cases, video is recorded during a live presentation. Post-mixing is a process to take the recorded video and the slides and put it together as a mix. The post mix tool allows for synchronizing the slide timings with the video and producing a mix. You have the choice on a per-slide basis to decide how the slide will look (full screen video, audio only or picture in picture). If you are interested in getting early access to the post mixing tool, please send to
Live mixing is another extension where you can create mixes from live sessions.

10. Create a Mix today – mix.office.com
The best way is to create one and try it out. If you download the add-in it will ask you to create one in the next 3 minutes. Give it a try.
Create a Mix today – mix.office.com

12. Some Example Mixes Math and science teachers
English and language arts teachers
Young children
Professional development

13. Tips and Tricks
If old PowerPoint deck, then open and save as “pptx” with PowerPoint 2013.
Use external webcam. Better A-V quality. No stylus noise.
Audio is key. Adjust microphone volume with slider in recording pane until signal-bar shows activity until middle of scale. Consider external microphone like Blue Yeti, Nessie.
Record first slide, and playback to see all ok before recording other slides.
Pause briefly between slides. It makes it easy to re-record individual ones.
Use video where essential, but audio-only allows greater focus on content and delivery.
Ensure video check-box off when uploading, until close to final version. It considerably slows down the publishing process.

14. Useful Links For users: For IT administrators and developers:
Office Mix:
Office Mix for Education: and
Get copy of Office 365 / PowerPoint-2013:
For IT administrators and developers:
Apps for Office:
Office Mix Labs:
Player.JS:
edX integration:
Moodle Integration: