Microsoft Semblio delivers an intuitive, flexible solution for educators seeking to incorporate rich multimedia content into their current lesson plans. Educators can use a familiar, Office-like interface to find and combine video, audio, text, and animation into integrated presentations and assignments that impact a diverse and distracted student population.
- Brings dynamic digital content and media into the classroom.
- Allows educators to creatively supplement traditional materials and methods with real-world multimedia resources.
- A single presentation can reach and inspire a range of learning styles, allowing students to advance at their own pace.
- Free player download for students and teachers makes it easy to view multimedia presentations.
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Check out these featured resources developed by teachers, for teachers. Sign up for updates to be alerted when new lesson plans are highlighted.Math Worksheet Generator
Do you spend a lot of time searching for math worksheets with practice problems to give your students? This tool makes it easy to create your own printable worksheet of practice problems. Just type in a sample expression, and the tool will create a worksheet of more problems just like it. The Math Worksheet Generator supports everything from basic arithmetic through algebra. Try it out!
Partners in Learning "Progress Report on Collaboration"
Teachers around the world have one thing in common share one thing in common: a hunger for new ideas on how to improve the teaching and learning environment. The challenge is that educators often find themselves isolated in the classroom. Online information and collaboration portals are one way to encourage teachers and make it easy for them to collaborate and share learning materials. Learn more and download the progress report. Learn more >
Lesson plan: Animation Antics
All children love cartoons. Animation Antics is a fun project designed to stimulate creativity and collaboration in students—two very important aspects of elementary education. Learn more>
Free posters for your classroom
Share ways for you and your students to communicate and work together on assignments—wherever your learning takes you. Download and print this “collaboration” poster to hang in your classroom. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We think they can inspire even more. Learn more>
Microsoft Faculty Connection
The goal of Microsoft Research is to accelerate research by collaborating with academic communities to create open tools and services based on Microsoft platforms and productivity software. Visit the new Microsoft Faculty Connection for free tools and services for research collaboration. Learn more>.
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Collaborate using the Microsoft Office OneNote® 2007 note-taking program. Learn how you can use shared notebooks in OneNote to work together on projects with other teachers and students. Learn more and get a free 60-day trial. Learn more>
Create a class workspace with Microsoft Office Live
If the H1N1 flu virus keeps your students away from the classroom, continue the learning online by using Microsoft Office Live Workspace to share assignments, distribute handouts, post presentations, and enable group collaboration. Use this free online service to publish and share Microsoft Office Word documents, Office Excel spreadsheets, and Office PowerPoint presentations. Students can get class information from anywhere they have Internet access. Learn more>
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The Innovative Teachers Network:- Unites a global community of educators interested in twenty-first-century learning.
- Enables collaboration and sharing of methodologies, strategies, and content.
- Includes a huge library of lesson plans and other downloads.
- Offers detailed Microsoft Education product tutorials and how-to articles.
- Helps connect educational institutions to the resources they need.
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Essentials
Download Learning Essentials 2.0 for free. Or, to learn more, watch the demo now.
Learning Essentials 2.0 helps you get the most out of your existing Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, or the 2007 Microsoft Office system (sold separately) applications as an educator. The free download includes access to more than 117 templates and 38 tutorials, helping you:
- Save time on administrative tasks, including creating handouts, presentations, grading rubrics, and more.
- Discover new classroom strategies and activities for Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
- Includes a huge library of lesson plans and other downloads.
- Create tests and quizzes without any formatting issues.
- Customize your Office application toolbars for fast access to education-specific tools.
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Dream Spark
High schools and colleges, give your students professional-level development and design tools. Register now and provide your students with access to all twelve DreamSpark product offers.
Student Tech Clubs
Also, for your tech savvy students, there are a host of Student Tech Clubs that can connect them with top-rated user groups, meetings, community sites, blogs, forums, events and breaking news. In 30 seconds they can create a personalized technology resource center, customized with content suggested by like-minded students and student-developers. Student Tech Clubs isn't a search engine or a content repository. It’s a place for students and student-developers to share and promote top-notch content and community resources. Learn more>
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Feel the Excitement for Imagine Cup 2010
Watch the video that presents Poland as home for the 2010 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals!DreamSpark available to high school students
At the 2009 Government Leaders Forum, Microsoft announced that the DreamSpark program, which makes professional-level developer and designer tools and training available to students for free, would become available to high school students for the first time. Learn more or visit the DreamSpark Web site to download free software.Alabama students gain early exposure to career planning to meet new online graduation requirement.
Alabama Department of Education to deploy CareerForward curriculum statewide to help students better compete in the twenty-first–century global economy. Learn more>.Microsoft introduces new ways to help teachers personalize learning at the National Educational Computing Conference 2009.
From the Windows 7 operating system to free teacher resources, through a collaboration between the Microsoft Innovative Teachers Network and the Smithsonian Institution, Microsoft helps educators effectively engage students. Learn more>Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 Poland
Microsoft Imagine Cup, the World’s Premier Student Technology Competition has just been announced for 2010 in Poland. Learn more and have your students sign up. Learn more>Register today for FREE webcasts and podcasts on classroom productivity and other topics.
This site is your resource for webcasts, podcasts, and other valuable information to gain insights into how Microsoft solutions can help enable learning in the 21st century. Register hereTeacher Tech Tuesday
Educators now have an opportunity to learn how to more easily integrate Microsoft technology into the classroom with a live webcast every Tuesday at 4 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. All webinars will be recorded and available on demand. Learn more about Teacher Tech Tuesday.On-demand webcast: "Microsoft Collaborative Campus: Live@edu Overview and Demo"
Looking for innovative solutions for keeping your students connected? Learn about Live@edu, the newest Microsoft platform for delivering student and alumni e-mail, communications, and collaboration services. Join us for this one-hour presentation on Microsoft Live@edu. View now> - Send Feedback
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