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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 Office Web Apps

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

InterroBang?! is a game where you get to have fun with problems. Students complete real-world missions with deeds that can win prizes, improve problem solving skills, and connect them with others to do things that just might change the world. http://playinterrobang.com/

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/

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

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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

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. By Mark Russinovich 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

"Own Your Space - Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online"

A FREE digital book for Internet savvy "tweens" & teens, and their parents or educators. Written by Linda McCarthy

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=87583728-ef14-4703-a649-0fd34bd19d13

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

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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

$ 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

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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

Zoom.it

Zoom.it is a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. You give us the link to any image on the web, and we give you a beautiful new way to experience it — along with a nice short URL.

http://zoom.it/ 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#

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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#

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/en-us/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/lessons.aspx

FREE FREE FREE Math Calculator

From basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 can help you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. This free downloadable tool includes step-by-step instructions and explains fundamental concepts. The wide range of tools to help students with complex mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that’s designed to work just like a hand-held calculator and ink handwriting support to recognize hand-written problems.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/products/student/math/default.aspx#overview http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9caca722-5235-401c-8d3f-9e242b794c3a

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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Sign up for the newsletter so that each month we can send you the highlights of what we’re doing for and with teachers, students, administrators, and schools. We’ll include education-related headlines as well as product news, case studies, tutorials, events, special offers, and more. http://www.microsoft.com/education/newsletters/default.aspx

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

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

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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 Microsoft Office Online Grade book templates Academic calendar templates Newsletter templates Clip art and media Professional development tool Organization tools from Office Online Lesson plans to teach tolerance and pride Windows Accessibility Resources for Educators Online safety Web site

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Education Specific Office Templates:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT001226190.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=academic&origin=CT010152732

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

Create a treasure hunt! Microsoft Tag. Scan Tags from your mobile phone for instant access to information, websites, videos, reviews, and more. Sign in to Tag Manager to create or edit your Tags, manage Categories and view Reports http://tag.microsoft.com/consumer/index.aspx

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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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

Ribbon Hero is a *gasp* game for Office 2007 and Office 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and now OneNote!) designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. If you feel Office can do a lot more than you have time to figure out, then Ribbon Hero is for you. Play games (aka "challenges"), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office. As a concept test, this is an opportunity for you to try out an idea we are working on and let us know what you think. As with any Labs project, if you have problems we’ll try to help, but no promises! http://www.officelabs.com/ribbonhero

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/

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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

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

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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

Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and softare engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies. Microsoft Research also collaborates openly with colleges and universities worldwide to advance the field of computer science http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/

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

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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

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 Innovative Educator These seminars are designed for teacher trainers and those who have responsibilities training educators on the integration of technology in the classroom. It is encouraged to have teams from schools and districts attend as there will be time set aside to develop a teacher professional development action plan that can be used to train teachers how to incorporate Microsoft technologies into teaching and learning. To learn more and find current events, go to www.microsoft.com/innovativeeducator

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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/

Microsoft Students to Business connects Microsoft-skilled students with partners and customers for entry-level and internship positions. http://www.microsoft.com/studentstobusiness/home/default.aspx

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/

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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

If you are passionate about technology, if you love to share your knowledge and want to develop skills outside your field of study, we want to hear from you. https://www.microsoftstudentpartners.com/login/prelogin.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252F &Source=%2F

Useful Links:

Johns Favorite Windows 7 / Office 2010 Feature: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx

Office 2010

Office 2010 menu to ribbon reference workbooks http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CL101817133.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA101794130

Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010 and related products http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-and-related-products-HA101794130.aspx

Outlook 2010 Help and How-To http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/CL010254592.aspx?CTT=97

Getting Started with Office 2010

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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/getting-started-with-office-2010-FX101822272.aspx?CTT=97

Office 2010 Training Links http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx?CTT=97

Office 2010 Videos http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-video-FX102493438.aspx?CTT=97

Search Commands You know there’s a button for it, but you don’t know or remember where it is. If this ever happens to you, check out Search Commands. You can use this concept test today to quickly find the commands you need in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Just search with your own words and click on the command you need. http://www.officelabs.com/_layouts/olsite/TryIt.ashx?downloadUrl=http://officelabs.vo.msecnd.net/c6acc864-52ae-44d9-8aaa- 20c69ad43267/1.5.0.6/SearchCommandsSetup.msi&project=Search Commands

Office on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/officevideos

Education Specific Templates http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/education-templates-collection-FX101842224.aspx?CTT=97

Office Videos

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?

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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

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

 Interactive Guides for Word, Excel, & PowerPoint 2010 (note at the bottom of the page is a link where you can download all these guides and install them onto clients during the deployment) This tool is hosted online or loaded into Office directly and lets you click on the way you used to do things in 2003 and then shows you where it went in 2010. There’s also a version for 2007 located here.  Here’s a version of the Interactive Guides listed above in an Excel format which is useful for help desk people. Each spreadsheet is broken down by product.  Online training walkthroughs for 2010 (Note at the bottom of the page that all of these can be downloaded and hosted internally as well)  Within every application, the Get Started resources can be found by looking at Backstage View (File|Help|Get Started)  Ribbon Hero from Officelabs is an interactive game which is loaded into Office and teaches people how to use the new features as a social game.  Productivity Hub 2010 is a SharePoint Site focused on training with many resources, videos and social tools incorporated that train users on Windows, IE and Office. It contains the ability to vote, discuss, ask questions and even take tests. If you want to see a read-only live version of Productivity Hub, click here  User Readiness Resources are large format posters and flyers that you can download and print to help spread the word about what’s coming.  The ―Getting Started Guides‖ are series of Word documents that can be distributed to end users for each product in the Office Suite. I’ve

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attached an example of two example documents to this email.  We offer podcasts on many Office and Windows training topics here.  Work Smart Guides (developed by MSIT and shared via Showcase) - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687781.aspx

Geography History/Social studies • Charting the effects of earthquakes on buildings • Create a family history totem pole

• Compare the topography of Earth and Mars • Create a timeline of famous scientific experiments • Create a timeline of President Obama's life • Exploring point of view through aerial photography • Design, administer, and analyze a generation gap survey • Giants of the century • Develop and publish a story • Making and reading maps in the 21st century • Discover the science of archaeology

• Plan and hold a globalization summit • Exploring point of view through aerial photography

• Plan and take a road trip through your state • Giants of the century

• Plan and take a virtual international field trip • Jazz in American history and culture

• Making and reading maps in the 21st century • The story of Sacagawea's son Pomp

• Plan and hold a globalization summit

• Plan and take a virtual international field trip Mathematics • Research the history and culture behind a favorite • Calculate your carbon footprint family recipe

• Calculating profits from selling lemonade • Research the Olympic Games and a host city

• Create and analyze rectangular patterns • Research world landmarks to create global calendar

• Design, administer, and analyze a generation gap • The story of Sacagawea's son Pomp survey • Track the life of a legislative bill

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• Graph dynamic linear equations • Understanding money and current currency exchange

• Graph figures from equations

• Graph related linear inequalities Language arts

• Investigating annual daylight patterns • Create a timeline of President Obama's life

• Meteorologist for a day • Design, administer, and analyze a generation gap survey • Research acid rain in our state • Develop and publish a story • Track your family's water usage • Discover the science of archaeology • Understanding money and current currency exchange • Examining character traits through character mapping • Using graphs to investigate candy color distribution • Exploring point of view through aerial photography

• Giants of the century Science • How frequent seismic activity affects societies • Calculate your carbon footprint • Literary scavenger hunt • Charting the effects of earthquakes on buildings • Making and reading maps in the 21st century • Compare the topography of Earth and Mars • Plan and hold a globalization summit • Create a timeline of famous scientific experiments • Plan and take a road trip through your state • Discover the science of archaeology • Plan and take a virtual international field trip • Explore the stars with WorldWide Telescope • Research acid rain in our state • How frequent seismic activity affects societies • Research the history and culture behind a favorite • Investigating annual daylight patterns family recipe

• Meteorologist for a day • Research the Olympic Games and a host city

• Research acid rain in our state • Research world landmarks to create global calendar

• Track your family's water usage • Use synonyms to make your writing vivid

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• Using graphs to investigate candy color distribution Digital media literacy

• Plan and take a road trip through your state Music • The story of Sacagawea's son Pomp

• Jazz in American history and culture

Physical education Arts/Design • Research the Olympic Games and a host city

• Literary scavenger hunt

• Plan and take a virtual international field trip

Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions I’m receiving from around the world!

John Whitaker Microsoft Public Sector Education - USA [email protected]

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