Webinar on Office 365 Education and SkyDrive Pro

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In this webinar, we’ll show you what students, faculty, and staff can get for free with Office 365 Education, plus you’ll learn how to create websites quickly and how to save and share documents with SkyDrive Pro. Non-educators with Office 365 for business will also find helpful hints.

Can't view this video? It's also available here at Microsoft Showcase. Need a sneak peek? Watch a 30-second trailer.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

What you get for free with Office 365 Education Build a teacher or class site SkyDrive Pro vs. SkyDrive Share a doc, or keep it private 

References for this webinar

Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series.

--Doug Thomas

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Liz Wilkins, Senior Marketing Manager, Adobe Education UK responds to launch of new comparison website for university courses

Last month’s launch of Unistats by Vince Cable is a positive move during a time of great uncertainty for students, which will help to reassure those that may be questioning the value for money they will be getting from their University now they are paying higher fees.

We’re experiencing the most radical changes to the Higher Education sector in decades. The student experience will naturally evolve as a result – but it’s important that undergraduates who are starting their University careers this Autumn feel it is changing for the better. As well as judging value for money on factors such as teaching hours and future job prospects, our own research* tells us that students are scrutinising access to support facilities such as libraries (60%) and the provision of more than just basic ICT so they can develop the ‘essential’ skills needed for the workplace.

We welcome this fresh approach to supporting students in navigating the new obstacles they face in choosing a University. But for it to have real impact, University Vice Chancellors must ensure they’re in a position to be able to meet the demands of the next generation of student, particularly with regard to the provision of industry standard technology which many young people consider to be instrumental in helping them secure employment later on. Needless to say, those able to adapt their strategies will be far more appealing to students looking for reassurances that they’ll have more than just debt to show for their University careers.

*Adobe Digital Campus report, September 2012

Liz Wilkins is Senior Marketing Manager for Education at Adobe Systems UK. Her involvement with Adobe Education products has seen her work closely with a range of educational institutions, championing the use of digital media tools in the curriculum, and their integration into a number of subject areas in order to better prepare students for the future demands of the workplace. Liz works closely with teachers and administrators integrating software, curriculums, and instructional resources as well as certification options and professional development tools. Through promoting digital literacy in cross-curricular education, teaching essential career skills, and streamlining administrative processes Liz has experience working in partnership with a diverse portfolio of schools and further education institutions.

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Pioneering licensing agreements in Higher Education

It’s true what they say – education and self study has changed a lot, especially when I compare it to when I was studying! Gone are the days when you have to fight for a seat in the computer lab or the library ahead of deadlines and dissertations – well not exactly; but with greater accessibility to software and programmes, self study has very much become a private personal activity. One that people can now do at home, in the park, or a coffee shop.

 Ravensbourne, a specialist higher education institution in London, has taken this idea a step further.  Specialising in vocationally focused courses from fashion, television and broadcasting, to interactive product design, architecture and environment design, to name but a few, the University has placed pioneering technology within education at its core by introducing our Education Enterprise License Agreement (EELA).

 This enables the provision of industry-standard software to both staff and students from any device, at any time and any place – truly fantastic! A practical way of implementing Ravensbourne’s philosophy of open, applied, learning and the amalgamation of skills, the EELA agreement exposes its student community to technology and software used by disciplines other than their own. So for example, a fashion student now has access to tools traditionally used by their peers studying graphic design.

 Chris Thompson, director of enterprise and innovation, Ravensbourne said: “By working with Adobe, Ravensbourne enables students to express their ideas and knowledge through a variety of digital channels and media, building essential digital communication skills as well as ignite a new passion for learning.”  

 Ravensbourne is just one example of how higher education institutions are paving the way, helping their students to gain a wider skillset for their transition into the working world.

Liz Wilkins is Senior Marketing Manager for Education at Adobe Systems UK. Her involvement with Adobe Education products has seen her work closely with a range of educational institutions, championing the use of digital media tools in the curriculum, and their integration into a number of subject areas in order to better prepare students for the future demands of the workplace. Liz works closely with teachers and administrators integrating software, curriculums, and instructional resources as well as certification options and professional development tools. Through promoting digital literacy in cross-curricular education, teaching essential career skills, and streamlining administrative processes Liz has experience working in partnership with a diverse portfolio of schools and further education institutions.

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New education inspiring Tablet PC and OneNote-

Ritzen--with a Tablet PC all class Diskussionen--facilitate is a teaching strategy that analyzes Patrick Harless in the monthly journal of mathematics teacher. Harless, algebra and geometry teacher at Fay school in SOUTHBOROUGH, Massachusetts, describes how his students the inking unit ability a Tablet PC and Microsoft OneNote use, work by mathematical concepts.

If you a math teacher working on lesson plans for geometry classes, you have hit the mother load. Cracks: a technology-based instruction strategy your step-by-step guide for teaching the polygon could sum set and the third set of angles with a scribe.

For everyone else, the article clearly describes cutting best practices that could implement all teachers. Harless argues that his students math concepts in a way to understand that never only hear it from him would talk helped cracks.

As the writer, what other students say to interpret, is the entire class responsible for the correction of the writer, if they take notes in OneNote notebook. This collaborative effort requires discussion and of course, each student pushes articulate their thoughts, apply their knowledge and to understand the concepts taught.

Further in the discussion to draw you, Harless appears in his assessment of the cracks as pedagogy. This article is such a great resource for the teaching community, I'd blog about it. And, of course, I love the integration of OneNote.
Not a math teacher? Take a look at these examples of integrated as an English teacher OneNote in their teaching:

If you are new to this technology, see how Office works on a table PC touch screen (video).

For more ideas, read how you can use OneNote on the Official blog of Microsoft OneNote. Another great resource is the OneNote Guide for teachers!

Do you use OneNote in the classroom? Leave a comment and let us know why or why not.

--Jennifer Bost

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