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30 Microsoft Tools in 60 Minutes Tech Boot Camp ~ Everett School District August 15, 2013 ~ H. M. Jackson High School Anne Carnell Barbara Stolzenburg Assistant Principal Teacher Librarian Penny Creek & Woodside Elementary H. M. Jackson High School Sonja Delafosse Instructional Technology Coordinator Everett Public Schools TOOL: URL: ANNOTATION: Learning Suite www.pil-network.com Over 20 of our most popular tools and teacher resources, all in one place. Learning Suite by Microsoft is a set of innovative applications for education that create a robust, creative and collaborative learning environment for students and educators. It includes a new, integrated interface that lets you access all these applications in one place, where they are grouped around four categories aligned to how you work. It makes managing your tools simpler, and it's especially efficient when combined with Microsoft Windows® 7 and Office 2010. Autocollage http://www.pil- Photo collages celebrate important events and themes in our lives. Pick a network.com/Resources/Tools/Details/1d1fb29 folder, press a button, and in a few minutes AutoCollage presents you with a 2-d251-4d52-9fbd-9dd9cc45a076 unique memento to print or email to your family and friends. Inspire your students' creativity and help them better remember information by using AutoCollage to encourage both visual and verbal learning. With AutoCollage, you can engage your students in a fun and creative way by quickly creating a collage of images. Use it to focus on selected subjects, showcase school events, and much more. AutoCollage uses face and object recognition to swiftly create a collage of several images. You choose the collage that delights you and best displays the relevant content. With three easy clicks, you open, select, and save your image files, then AutoCollage does the rest by presenting your images in a perfect collage. 1 Photosynth http://photosynth.net/create.aspx Photosynth is a powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D. You can share your creations with your friends on Facebook, publish them to Bing, or embed them in your own blog or Web site. Here’s the big picture: Movie Maker http://windows.microsoft.com/en- Import and edit slide shows and videos US/windows-live/movie-maker-get-started Quickly add photos and footage from your PC or camera into Movie Maker. Then fine tune your movie just the way you want it. You can move things around, speed it up or slow it down—it’s up to you. Edit the soundtrack and add a theme Enhance your movie with audio and a theme. Movie Maker adds transitions and effects automatically so your movie looks polished and professional. Share your movie online Once your movie is ready, share it online on Facebook, YouTube or other social networking and video sharing sites. Send a link to your movie in an email to family and friends so they won’t miss it. Song Smith http://www.pil- Songsmith automatically generates musical accompaniment for anyone’s voice network.com/Resources/Tools/Details/e4aa34 and can help you teach music, math, and many other subjects in innovative ed-e2c7-458b-89bc-4a9a94614d77 new ways. Sometimes helping kids “find their spark” is the hardest part of stimulating learning; Songsmith is a great way to encourage creativity. Photo Gallery http://windows.microsoft.com/en- Create a panorama US/windows-live/photo-gallery-get-started Capture an entire mountain range in a single photo—select the photos you want to use and Photo Gallery stitches them into a panorama for you. Merge shots with Photo Fuse Did someone blink when the flash went off? Choose everyone’s best pose from several different shots, and Photo Fuse will merge them together into the perfect group photo. Slide show adventures Show off your road trip or birthday party photos with a slide show that looks polished and professional. Choose your favorite theme and Photo Gallery puts it all together for you. Kodu http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills. Kodu Teaches more than Programming 2 Kodu (cont.) Kodu is a rich tool for narrative creation and storytelling Kodu demonstrates that programming is a creative medium Kodu helps children with critical thinking, breaking a complex goal into manageable steps, and iterate on the design process – an approach applicable to all academic subjects, business and personal relationships Kodu introduces the logic and problem solving of programming Kodu introduces conditions and sequences, which teaches cause and effect Students learn about cooperation, logic and creativity in addition to programming Small Basic http://msdn.microsoft.com/en- Programming is Fun, again! Coding us/ff384126.aspx Microsoft Small Basic puts the "fun" back into computer programming. With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming. Simple Small Basic combines a friendly environment with a very simple language and a rich and engaging set of libraries to make your programs and games pop. In a matter of few lines of code, you will be well on your way to creating your very own game! With a new and revolutionary IntelliSense®, Small Basic makes writing code a breeze. Touch-Develop http://www.pil- TouchDevelop is a new approach to teaching programming create mobile apps network.com/Resources/Tools/Details/27490d everywhere for all your devices, using simple programming and a touch-based 7b-18b4-478d-a213-a7638fd5c965 code editor. Anyone can write programs with this free and easy to use Windows Phone application. TouchDevelop allows you to focus on the exciting aspects of mobile devices, such as the GPS, the accelerometer, the gyroscope, songs, pictures, and web site access, without the same complexity of regular programming. 3 Touch-Develop Teach your students to create phone apps quickly and easily. TouchDevelop (cont.) allows you to write mobile apps on any of your devices with or without a keyboard. Anyone can publish and download apps written with TouchDevelop, you can even submit them for certification to the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store. TouchDevelop is the easiest and most engaging way to introduce students to (mobile) programming. Your students will be able to create fun games and utilities in no time. Using a touch based-code editor, TouchDevelop can let you take advantage of a phone’s sensors and data. Even complex apps can be created with a few taps on the screen. Teachers can use TouchDevelop in the classroom to teach programming concepts and use it for classes on Mobile Computing. The TouchDevelop programming environment is available as a free web application or as a free application on the Windows Phone Store. Ribbon Hero http://ribbonhero.com/faq.html Do you feel like you're using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote the same way version after version, or have you avoided using one of these apps because you don't know how? And you know there's so much more Office could be doing for you if only you knew how to access it? No more! Straight from the secret lairs of Office Labs we present Ribbon Hero 2: Clippy's Second Chance. ChronoZoom http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=play http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2012/03/14/presenting-the-history- er_embedded&v=3jvJD8Qv5ec of-everything.aspx What, you might ask, is so wonderful about ChronoZoom? After all, history resources abound. There are thousands of digital repositories, collections, libraries, and websites full of images, videos, documents, facts, and figures— not to mention the wealth of content squirreled away in private offices, personal computers, and university servers. But the sheer volume and disparate locations of these resources confound researchers, educators, and students, who spend untold hours searching this information, seeking to better understand history and its lessons for our future. What if we had a tool that could bring all these resources together? Moreover, despite increasing collaboration, the sciences and humanities are still largely taught and researched in silos. For example, when I took an East Asian Studies course in college, I learned what was happening in China in the 1400s, but not what was going on in the Middle East or Africa or Latin America, 4 ChronoZoom or what was taking place in the scientific realms of physics and chemistry. If we (cont.) brought these worlds together, would we ask different questions? Would we arrive at new understandings of the past, resulting in different innovations and insights today? Such are the questions we hope to answer with ChronoZoom, which makes time relationships between different studies of history clear and vivid. In the process, it provides a framework for exploring related electronic resources, including videos, text, charts, schematics, images, articles, and other multimedia content. ChronoZoom thus serves as a "master timeline," tying together all kinds of specialized timelines and electronic resources, and it aspires to bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences. In the spirit of “make no small plans,” ChronoZoom seeks to unify all knowledge of the past and to make this information easy to understand. In so doing, ChronoZoom emerges as a potentially vital tool in the evolving field of Big History, which attempts to unify the past—all of the past, from the beginning of time, some 13.7 billion years ago, to the present—through the four major regimes: cosmic history, Earth history, life history, and human history.