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One of the challenges educators and students
face when they first start to use new technology
is how best to integrate new tools into their
programs. In collaboration with educational
institutions, and with your needs in mind,
Microsoft has transformed the familiar
applications that students and educators use
every day into a customized set of tools that
puts high-quality teaching and learning within
reach of every school and district.
Our appropriate business software solutions have
had an educational platform overlaid on them,
retaining the interface power and robustness of
the originating software. Educators can focus as
well on tools and programs to increase
accessibility and communication, which include
the following:
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Learning
Gateway.
The Learning Gateway makes it easy
for students, parents, educators,
and administrators to share
information and collaborate through
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Managed Operating
Environment (MOE). MOE
makes it easy for school IT
administrators to quickly and
efficiently build a school network,
bring schools online, and automate
deployment of software and
applications for a school
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Learning
Suite.
Schools and Higher
Education: Learning Suite packages
together educational software to
demonstrate Microsoft value and
relevancy for educators. Within
Learning Suite, Learning Essentials
for Microsoft Office: Learning
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Microsoft also has a Graphic Calculator,
Microsoft Encarta Academic Online, Microsoft
Student, School Agreement Subscription Licensing
Programs, and more software solutions to enhance
and support the learning experience.
To enhance the teaching and learning process
these are some of the solutions to provide:
• Accessibility
• Learning software
personalized:
these learning applications are student-centered
applications supporting the learning process in
any discipline associated with an organization's
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Communication and Collaboration
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Search:
systems, applications and interfaces
organizing the world of searchable
information in ways conducive to the
academic environment |
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Decision Support:
applications designed to collect, organize
and report intelligently on academic data so
that it becomes usable and actionable within
the instructional process |
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Messaging: applications
supporting voice, video, e-mail, instant
messaging and the converged interactive
environment that allow students, educators
and academic professionals to choose how and
when they want to interact with one another |
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Portal: consolidation
of enterprise information systems around a
role specific, personally relevant portal
infrastructure as an enabling capability for
broad mission supporting activities |
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Virtual Teams: systems,
applications and facilities that allow for
scheduled and ad hoc collaboration among
physical and virtual communities |
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Conferencing: systems
and application that facilitate real time
collaboration |
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Document Management:
applications enabling intelligent
management of documents, versions, document
descriptions and the data contained within
documents
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Workflow: applications
and processes that facilitate the automation
of otherwise labor intensive, paper
intensive, and/or bureaucratic
administrative requirements |
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• Content management:
Systems designed to enable easy, high fidelity
content creation and seamless integration into
curricula
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Accessibility
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Learning Software
Personalized
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Communication
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Content Management
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Accessibility
These are some examples of Best
Practices on Accessibility in Latin
America (with the links to access
further information):
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The
Colombian
Minister of Education signed a
School Agreement that covers a
Windows Upgrade for 100% of the
PCs located in public schools.
This means more than 266,000
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School Agreement is
a Microsoft School
Agreement Partners in
Learning (PIL) year
subscription licensing
program specifically
created to address the
unique needs of public
primary and secondary
schools and districts.
These organizations will
get a free Windows
upgrade and the complete
office suite at very
accessible costs ($2.50
USD). In Mexico
this agreement could
include other products
such as Encarta or
Servers. 142,800 public
schools (175,190 PCs)
have a School Agreement
PIL Licensing program
which means 76% of the
public schools are
involved.
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Learning Software Personalized
These are
some examples of Best Practices on
Learning Software Personalized in
Latin America (with the links to
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E-BLOCKS
was developed in
Brazil
in partnership with
Positivo, as a research
based, innovative method for
teaching English, Math and
Portuguese as an initial
literacy exposure to those
subjects. Based on the
premise that children learn
by doing, the E-Blocks
approach provides unlimited
hands-on interaction between
children and the subject
matter.
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In
Peru,
Ecuador and
Bolivia
a
Quechua
translation program was
created. In 2004 Microsoft
Peru signed an agreement
with the Ministry of
Education to translate
Windows and Office to the
Quechua language to benefit
3 million people in this
region.
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In
Chile, Microsoft
Windows in
Mapudungún
(Mapuche language) is a
local language initiative
created through an agreement
with the Instituto de
Estudios Indígenas (IEI) --
part of the Universidad de
la Frontera de Temuco. They
will translate more than
100,000 terms in Windows
using Microsoft tools to
develop an interface.
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Microsoft
deployed tools such as
Learning Essentials,
Unlimited Potential courses
and all the Digital Literacy
Curriculum to 44,000
teachers as part of the
Puerto Rico’s
Department of Education’s
goal to provide training and
certification to all
student-facing employees. As
an incentive, the Department
of Education will assign
equivalent credits to the
Digital Literacy curriculum
towards the continued
required education for
teachers.
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Communication and Collaboration
These are some examples of Best
Practices on Communication and
Collaboration in Latin America (with
the links to access further
information):
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An agreement
with University Francisco
Santamaría in Chile
has been signed to create the
Centro de Innovación Tecnológica
to motivate the software
industry in this country. |
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In
Brazil, three
teachers from a
Bradesco
school developed a Web
lesson project based on
specific goals and
activities. The lesson
“Reading and writing? With
the computer!” is for
third-grade students at
Osasco. They were elected as
one of the
winners
for the WW Microsoft
Innovative Teachers Award
2007. |
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Content Management
These are
some examples of Best Practices on
Content Management in Latin America
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The
Learning Gateway in
Brazil
is a deployment at
a Bradesco Foundation school
that creates a collaboration
environment for students and
teachers. The students can
store their portfolios, have
their own personal web
pages, receive assignments
from teachers, manage
agendas, and talk to
classmates or teachers
through the Live
Communication instant
messages service. In the
Instituto Ayrton Senna the
Collaborative Learning
Experiences also make use of
the Learning Gateway as a
space to share ideas,
experiences, and
information. In the
Innovative School Lumiar,
the Learning Gateway will be
used to store and share
learning projects, record
student progress and as a
communication and
collaboration tool among
students, teachers,
administration, and parents.
There are 1,282 students
involved, along with 45
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El Salvador
achieved Grado Digital
Certification through
the
MINED Virtual Examen.
This exam is based on
the self-study courses
developed for teachers
and students as part of
the Ministry of
Education (MINED)
“Digital Grade” program
using Microsoft software
and training.
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been trained and
31,000 have been
certified. |
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Microsoft
deployed 50,000 Live@EDU hosted
email accounts for all the
teachers and School Directors in
Puerto Rico. |
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Latin American Primary and
Secondary Education Roadmap |
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Enciclomedia
in
Mexico |
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Enciclomedia
is a
concept
developed
by the
Secretaría
de
Educación
Pública
(SEP) to
create a
new
learning
environment
for K12
students
supported
in the
official
curricula
enriched
with
digital
content.
SEP
needed
to:
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Increase
the
Quality
of
Education
Programs
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Integrate
Information
and
Communication
Technology
in the
Classroom
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Rethink
the
Teaching
/
Learning
processes
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Enhance
the
resources
and
elements
needed
for
classroom
practices
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Increase
the Pisa
Scoring
and
rating
of
Mexico’s
Students
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Focus on
skills
and
abilities
more
than
concepts
MS
presented
several
alternatives,
as SEP
reviewed
Encarta;
they
developed
the
Enciclomedia
Concept,
establishing
a
developing
relationship
with
ILCE in
2003.
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First
version
of
Enciclomedia
was
deployed
in
21,000
primary
classrooms
in 2004.
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Public
bid to
cover
100% of
5th and
6th
grades
was
launched
on July
2005,
deployed
from
November
2005 to
April
2006.
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Enciclomedia
software
digitalized
official
textbooks
enhancing
them
with
thousands
of links
to
static
and
dynamic
images,
videos,
audio,
animations,
maps, MS
Encarta
and
interactive
activities
that
complement
the
learning,
so that
the
student
deepens
and
extends
his
horizons
in
relation
to each
one of
the
subjects.
• MS
Commitment
and
Participation:
Collaboration
Agreement;
Partners
in
Learning
support;
Technical
support;
E-Learnings;
Teachers
training;
Softgrid
for
Classmates;
Applications:
–
Win
Server
–
Office
–
Encarta
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Classrooms
deployed:
| Grades |
Total |
Installed |
Pending for installation |
| Classrooms |
Classrooms |
% |
Classrooms |
% |
| 5th and 6th |
125,562 |
123,685 |
99% |
1,877 |
1% |
| 7th and 8th |
42,500 |
5,444 |
13% |
37,056 |
87% |
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Teachers
trained:
| *Teachers trained |
Topic |
Hours |
| 150,000 |
Introducción a las
habilidades tecnológicas |
40 |
| 150,000 |
Introducción a las aplicaciones de escritorio |
40 |
| 150,000 |
Introducción a proyectos
de aprendizaje |
40 |
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Some
results:
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Students
are
grading
higher
in
Science,
History
and
Social
subjects.
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Students
participate
more
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Students
assist
more
to
school
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For
more
information
visit:
www.enciclomedia.edu.mx
Or
contact
Adriana
Herrasti
Coqui:
adrianah@microsoft.com
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Enciclomedia
is a concept developed by
the Secretaría de Educación
Pública (SEP) in
Mexico to create a
new learning environment for
K-12 students that supports
the official curricula
enriched with digital
content. The government
official educational program
is delivered on an Encarta
Engine for 130,000
classrooms.
Enciclomedia
software digitalized
official textbooks,
enhancing them with
thousands of links to static
and dynamic images, videos,
audio, animations, maps, MS
Encarta and interactive
activities that complement
the learning. Microsoft’s
commitment and participation
included a Collaboration
Agreement, Partners in
Learning support, technical
support, E-Learning, teacher
training, Softgrid for
Classmates and Win Server,
Office and Encarta
applications. As a result,
students are grading higher
in Science, History and
Social subjects, they
participate more in class
and attend more school.
Although the Enciclomedia
project is still working to
become a replicable model,
other countries, such as
Colombia and Costa Rica,
have approached Microsoft or
SEP to replicate this
program.
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