Education Desktop

It’s all about…

Empowering educators and institutions to

•Express their ideas, easily and naturally

• Interact with others, content, and data

•Explore and discover the world

•Manage the learning process

•Assess quality and quantity

Trends and Forces – cause change

PeoplePeople

EducationEducation EconomicsEconomics

TechnologyTechnology

‘‘Change’Change’

Managing the Change

Too much focus on the technology itself rather than the right application to successful delivery of education

How do we become more in touch with the ‘Millennial’ student ?

Microsoft’s Education Desktop framework can assist…

Applications of TechnologyEmpowering educators and learners

Facilitating Learning Managing Learning Assessing Learning

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•Express •Interact

•Explore and discover

•Organize •Automate

•Orchestrate

•Measure•Evaluate •Document

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Blackboard, Microsoft Class Server, WebCT, etc

Communication &Collaboration

Learning Management Systems

Institution and Class Connectivity

Personal Creativity & Productivity

Learning Content Management Systems

Accountability and Assessment

Solutions

Portfolio Solutions

•Office 2003 System•Producer 2003•Encarta•OneNote•Project, etc…

•Sharepoint Portal Server 2003•Windows Sharepoint Services•Windows Media Services

•Exchange 2003•Live Communication Server

Create Scenario = Education Desktop

Empower educators and learners to: •Express•Interact•Explore & Discover

The Education Desktop is a combination of Microsoft Productivity tools allowing an Administrator, Educator and Student to achieve their ultimate potential

Learning Gateway & Education Desktop

CustomComponents

LMSClass Server

EducationDesktop

Microsoft Word

Bringing Ideas to Life !Rich document editing capabilityFull Document Recovery in the event of a

hardware crashAbility to share documentsAccess to a full Research Library – without leaving

WordAccess to online clip art, templates, training and

assistance Interoperates with all Microsoft Office Applications

– including MacintoshDocument Protection – Digital Rights ManagementPlus so much more….

Research available everywhere

The same Getting started and research panes are available across;

Outlook PowerPoint Word Excel Publisher OneNote, and Visio

• This enables student to use the rich and integrate help, research and assistance functionality across the Education Desktop

Microsoft Publisher

Design Central !Support students creative flair allowing them to

create any style of publication – print or web based

Invitations, awards, title pages, websites, the limit is their imagination

Useful for administrators or alumni staff in attracting new students, keeping in touch with existing ones – Professional Design done in house !

A highly expressive tool – with an easy to follow wizard based format – so that an easy start leads to a fast finish !

Visio

Diagramming Excellence! Create diagrams to think through, organize, and better

understand complex ideas processes, and systems. Templates and drawing tools to support students regardless

of discipline Context sensitive help functions Share diagrams in workspace files with Sharepoint Annotate diagrams using digital ink on the Tablet PC Track teachers' comments and changes to shapes and digital

ink using the new review mode Integrate data from your Visio diagrams by importing them

into other Office System Applications

Challenges with Student Note-Taking

Writing, transcribing notes can be inefficient & inaccurate• Handwritten notes often illegible• Key points missed, notes incomplete

Notes often misplaced or unmanageable• Notes stored in many places• Difficult to organise notes for studying

Information not effectively reused or shared• Difficult to reuse notes for formal papers or reports• Different note-taking methods & styles makes sharing hard

OneNote – notes made easy

• One place for all notes, so students are always prepared for class, exams and study sessions

• A great way for teachers to keep course notes, teaching suggestions and track student progress

• Brings out the benefits of digital ink on the TabletPC

• Students can easily share notes, integrate 3rd party content and tasks

• Lectures can be recorded and synched to the notes

Educational Value of OneNote

"OneNote is great. I can record the lecture [which] is synchronized with the notes I took during class…it's easy to find the right part of the recording without wasting a bunch of time.”

Justin Lai, Sophomore MIT

"OneNote is great. I can record the lecture [which] is synchronized with the notes I took during class…it's easy to find the right part of the recording without wasting a bunch of time.”

Justin Lai, Sophomore MIT

OneNote allows students to take typed, audio, video, graphics, web content and handwriting all in one place

Synching voice to notes

"Using OneNote has made my studying much easier…I can search through my notes faster than with a traditional notebook. Within seconds, I can find what I'm looking for." 

David Cirigliano, Sophomore, Northeastern U.

"Using OneNote has made my studying much easier…I can search through my notes faster than with a traditional notebook. Within seconds, I can find what I'm looking for." 

David Cirigliano, Sophomore, Northeastern U.

OneNote allows students to use key word search to find the information they need quickly.

Advanced Search features

"Thanks to OneNote, the process of information-sharing, has become much more efficient. OneNote enables our students to use notes taken by others almost as soon as a lecture has ended."

Dr. Peter A. Lalley, Director of the Center for Baccalaureate and Graduate Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology

"Thanks to OneNote, the process of information-sharing, has become much more efficient. OneNote enables our students to use notes taken by others almost as soon as a lecture has ended."

Dr. Peter A. Lalley, Director of the Center for Baccalaureate and Graduate Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology

With Outlook 2003, students can email notes easily. Their notes are captured as HTML in the body of the mail.

Ability to easily share notes

Encarta

Encarta – Microsoft’s No.1 Learning Resource Fully functional, dynamic encyclopaedia –

including the richness of video, photo’s, live links and virtual tours

Now with a special interface for 7 to 12 year old children

A new online Math tutorial service “Encarta Researcher” builds a repository of research around

specific topics and auto builds the outline of a report Update feature – as world events occurs Encarta is updated

to include the latest world events Interactive World Atlas provide a useful linkage to country

and city information and statistics Doing research, assignments and homework becomes

enjoyable !

Create Scenario = Education Desktop

Empower educators and learners to: •Express•Interact•Explore & Discover

The Education Desktop is a combination of Microsoft Productivity tools allowing an Administrator, Educator and Student to achieve their ultimate potential

Before we go…

Let’s not forget the educational value of gaming technology Many educators are now using strategy and skill based games as

part of their curriculum Using gaming technology as part of your educational desktop

adds a nice edge of diversity and is a keen way to keep students interest levels high

As discussed in the previous session – Microsoft has many of these games to download as trials

Some Australian schools are using such games as Flight Simulator as part of their curriculum to teach skills such as co-ordination, navigation, weather, mechanics and of course - flight skills

“I never try to teach my students anything…

I only try to create an environment where they can learn.”

Albert Einstein

“I never try to teach my students anything…

I only try to create an environment where they can learn.”

Albert Einstein

Parting thought…

Thank You