Microsoft Education Seminar

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Microsoft Education Seminar

• Sydney, October 26th 2005

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Microsoft Education SeminarAgenda

• Innovative Teachers Award State Winners
  Presentations (30 mins)
• Enrich Teaching with Technology Part I (60 mins)
• Refreshment Break (15 mins)
• Enrich Teaching with Technology Part II (45 mins)
• Charles Sturt University Graduate Certificate ICT
  Education Information Session (60 mins)

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Microsoft Education Seminar

• Dan Isele
• Learning Engagement Online Coordinator
• Education QLD, Sunshine Coast Region
• National Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award
  winner, Australia, 2004

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Microsoft Education Seminar

• Guy Wright
• Head Teacher, ICT
• Kingscliff High School
• Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award winner, NSW,
  2005

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Enrich Teaching with Technology

• Jo Bonaz

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Agenda

• Part One
• Microsoft Student 2006
• Learning Essentials
• Maxs toolbox
• Afternoon tea
• Part Two
• Windows Media Encoder
• Microsoft Producer
• Creating your own training tools

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Microsoft Student 2006

• A multimedia computer with a Pentium 500-MHz
  processor or faster (1 GHz or higher recommended)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service
  Pack 4, or Windows XP operating system. Learning
  Essentials requires Microsoft Windows 2000
  Professional SP4 or Windows XP and Microsoft
  Office 2003 or XP.
• Minimum 256 MB of RAM for Windows 2000
  Professional with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP
• 850 MB of available hard-disk space Childrens
  Encarta requires an additional 330 MB of
  hard-disk space
• 4 MB of VRAM 16-bit SVGA or higher monitor
  supporting 800x600 screen resolution (1024x768
  recommended)
• 16-bit sound card with speakers or headphones

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Microsoft Student 2006

• How is Student being used to enhance learning?

• Utilising Encarta
• Art history
• Human potential
• Playing with learning

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Microsoft Student 2006

• Accessing Literature Guides
• The Raven
• Presentations
• Shakespeare

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Microsoft Student 2006

• Essays and Reports
• Mother Teresa
• Creative Projects
• Advertising anti-bullying

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Microsoft Student 2006

• Visualising with the Graphing Calculator

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Microsoft Student 2006

• Research and Brainstorming
• Whales
• Charts and Diagrams
• Personal Best

• Foreign Languages

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Microsoft Student 2006

• Maths and Science
• Chromatography

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Microsoft Student 2006

• Recommended retail price 149.95 (DVD only)
• Available under Volume License for estimated
  retail price 9 - 11 (CD-ROM)

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Learning Essentials

• Teaching templates

• Create your own assessment tasks quickly and
  effectively
• Planning an excursion

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Maxs Toolbox

• Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 SP3 or XP SP1
  operating system
• Microsoft Office 2000 SR2, XP SP1 or 2003
• Recommended system requirements
• Intel Pentium III 500Mhz or higher
• CD-ROM drive
• Windows Media Player
• Sound card and speakers
• 380Mb available hard disk space for complete
  installation

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Maxs Toolbox

• Max Write
• Blends
• Max Count
• Graphing school travel
• Max Show
• My trip to Symbio

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Time for coffee

• Stretch the legsup the sugar levels
• and see you back here in 15 minutes
• to look at how Windows Media Encoder and
  Microsoft Producer can be used to create training
  tools for staff and students.

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Agenda

• Part Two
• Windows Media Encoder
• Microsoft Producer
• Creating your own training tools

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Combining Encoder with Producer

• Create dynamic, self paced, multimedia training
  tools for your students and staff.

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Windows Media Encoder

• Capture and broadcast of audio and video files
  for dial-up modem and mid-bandwidth audiences
  using the Windows Media Audio 9 and Windows Media
  Video 7 codecs
• Single stream and multiple-bit-rate content for
  28.8 kilobits per second (Kbps) and 56 Kbps
  modems
• 300 MHz processor, such as an Intel Pentium III
  or AMD Athlon
• Windows XP or Windows 2000
• 64 MB of RAM
• Supported audio and video capture device

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Microsoft Producer

• Supported Operating Systems
• Windows 2000 Service Pack 3Windows XP
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 or
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002

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• Blurb that leads into next part of the
  presentation

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Thank You

• Resources and training available from Intouch

jodieb_at_intouch.com.au
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Microsoft Education Seminar

• Where to go for more information regarding
  licensing?
• Contact your Computer Coordinator
• Contact your Dept of Education (if public school)
• Ask our licensing expert, Andrea McDonald
• Ask for follow up from a Microsoft Large Account
  Reseller (www.microsoft.com.au/education/education
  partners)
• For more resources for teachers, go to
  www.microsoft.com.au/education/resourcecentre
• Lesson plans, tutorials, tips and tricks

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Microsoft Education Seminar

• What did you think?
• Complete an evaluation form, and receive a free
  set of PC earphones
• Download the presentations from this event, as
  well as all sample files used, from November 17
• Watch this space for details of the 2006
  Microsoft Innovative Teachers Awards being
  announced early 2006!
• www.microsoft.com.au/educationstart