Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com 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/ Microsoft Education Resources for Teachers and Students – comments/additions [email protected] – Page 1 Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com 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 Microsoft Education Resources for Teachers and Students – comments/additions [email protected] – Page 2 Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com 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 Microsoft Education Resources for Teachers and Students – comments/additions [email protected] – Page 3 Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com 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# Microsoft Education Resources for Teachers and Students – comments/additions [email protected] – Page 4 Check for updates: http://msedu.wordpress.com 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.