Your School's Guide to Digital Learning
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Your school's guide to digital learning Welcome Our aim at Microsoft is to empower every learner and educator Sharing and Microsoft inspires students and teachers to create and share to achieve more. collaboration tools in entirely new ways. Modern teaching and learning requires exploration, adapting to individual learning needs and creating The role of technology has fundamentally changed how we teach with technology. and learn. Technology opens up a whole new world of creativity, team work and access to knowledge. Office 365 for Education gives students and teachers flexibility using: Microsoft tools and solutions will support you on this journey. • Familiar Office applications like Word, PowerPoint and Excel Throughout this booklet we showcase resources for you and • Outlook and OneDrive for email and file storage shared on your school. You’ll find some fun learning ideas for your students all your devices to enjoy. • OneNote to collaborate on project work Get started today by emailing the Microsoft Education Team • Sway and Office Mix to create amazing presentations at [email protected] Find out how your school can get started with Office 365 Regards, by emailing [email protected] Dr. Kevin Marshall Microsoft Head of Education Here’s some great learning OneNote in the classroom – Create and share interactive class Turn your PowerPoint presentations tools with Office 365 your digital notebook materials with Sway into interactive lessons with Office Mix • Perfect for gathering information & ideas • Sway is a digital storytelling app • Create reference material for students • Great for project or problem-based learning • Office Mix was created with educators in mind • Create portfolios of work, take handwritten • Teachers can create interactive web-based notes and illustrate with OneNote lessons, assignments, project recaps, • This is a free add-in for PowerPoint • Keep everyone connected, share lessons newsletters & more • Easily create & share interactive online & spark creativity • Students can work together and use Sway lessons • Make working together easier to create engaging reports, assignments, • Embed a quiz or an app and even create & projects, study materials & portfolios track a personalised learning experience for • Make feedback richer with audio and video each student recording tools & inking in OneNote Get started today at www.microsoft.ie/sway Learn more at www.microsoft.ie/OfficeMix Learn more at www.microsoft.ie/OneNote Learn how to create a sway at or watch a OneNote tutorial at www.microsoft.ie/SwayIntroCourse aka.ms/OneNoteforEducators Sway Office Mix Benefits of Windows 10 • Familiar • Builds Skills Apps for education Simply search 'Education' in the Apps section of the in the Irish classroom • Suitable for All Ages • Includes Assistive Technology Microsoft Store and download to get started. These apps are really useful teaching and learning tools for inside and • Available on multiple devices • Secure outside of the classroom. • Numerous Education Apps • Easily Deployed Creativity Apps Contact us to talk about Windows 10 for your school by emailing [email protected] Book Creator, StaffPad, Sway, Adobe Photo Express You can also learn more about Windows 10 in Education by taking Teaching Apps the following courses: Khan Academy, FluidMath, Socrative, GeoGebra www.microsoft.ie/Windows10forEducation www.microsoft.ie/MVAWins10forEdu App for GAA fans The official GAA Windows 10 app is now available for all players Windows 10 and fans to keep you up-to-date with the latest news, fixtures, results, photos, videos and venue information. Learning courses Courses for everyone Courses for content creation Specialised courses Microsoft supports Continuous Professional 1. Development & Induction Workshop 1. Creating Interactive Lessons with 1. Accessibility tools: Development (CPD) for educators. 2. Windows 10 in Education OneNote Class Notebook Meeting the needs of diverse learners To assist educators in their teaching of 3. Office 365 in the Classroom 2. Flipping the Classroom with Office Mix 2. Building a Class Community 21st century skills to their students, 3. Digital Storytelling with Sway 3. Microsoft Parents’ Course Microsoft offer a series of courses which 4. OneNote, the Ultimate Collaboration Tool are available to you. Register your interest at www.microsoft.ie/cpd and we’ll be in touch to arrange your training course(s). Alternatively, you can email [email protected] if you have any queries. What Irish schools “We use Microsoft products and technologies across the curriculum… Fun learning Create a MindRising project to tell Our students in a few short months have developed a high level of a story about our past or our future are saying things to do 1 with Minecraft. Learn more at ability in the 21st Century skills of communication, innovation and www.mindrising.ie collaboration.” Alan Mongey, Find free online courses that teach computer Principal, Watch their story at programming for absolute beginners. Visit 2 www.microsoft.ie/code for more details Claregalway College http://aka.ms/Claregalway and learn with the Microsoft Virtual Academy. Learn how to make amazing new interactive 3 stories with Microsoft Sway. Get started at "We trialled a set of iPads and Microsoft Surfaces and we decided www.microsoft.ie/sway the Microsoft Surface was best for us because of its full laptop capabilities and detachable keyboard. The pen was very important Start coding with an Hour of Code! to us also so students continue to write as they’ll have to do a written Help Steve and Alex from Minecraft 4 build a world through code. Check Junior Cert exam." out https://code.org Brendan Cawley, Join a CoderDojo Year Head, First Year community. Learn how to Technology & Engineering Teacher, code, develop websites, apps, programs, games Coláiste Pobail Setanta 5 and explore technology in Watch their story at a fun creative environment. Find out more at http://aka.ms/CPSetanta www.coderdojo.com Learn more Email the Education Team at [email protected] to talk about digital learning in your school Sign up for email updates at www.microsoft.ie/EduUpdates Visit www.microsoft.ie/education Follow us on Twitter @MS_eduIRL Microsoft Educator Gain easy access to lessons and online training created by educators Community for educators by visiting education.microsoft.com Support from your local Your Microsoft Partner is there to help you successfully Microsoft partner integrate technology into your school. Fill out your details at www.microsoft.ie/ContactEduTeam.