prepare your students for tomorrow. classroom organization tools for teachers using microsoft...
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Prepare your students for tomorrow.
Classroom Organization Tools for Teachers
Using Microsoft Education Application Solutions
Setting the Stage
In a true collegial and collaborative workshop, learn organizational strategies that improve student achievement using Microsoft products. Organize learners both inside and outside the classroom.
Analyze and evaluate data to increase decision-making skills. Synthesize organized information to ensure comprehension.
Collaborative Learning Objectives
• Understand Project-based learning• Organize work areas in Windows Vista• Brainstorm in Microsoft Word• Collect and organize research data in OneNote• Analyze and evaluate data in Microsoft Excel• Share and collaborate with Office Live Workspace• Utilize existing resources with Learning Essentials• Synthesize information in Microsoft PowerPoint• Understand content creation using Semblio
Participants Create Organize Share
Participants use both PC and Web based applications with the active learning unit On Location Simulation
Creating Efficiencies
with Organizational
Tools
Microsoft Office 2007®
Project-based
Learning
Microsoft OfficeLive
Workspace®
Microsoft Windows
Vista Ultimate®
Microsoft Learning
Essentials 2.0®
Microsoft Semblio®
Working Together
Project- Based Learning
• Student-centered• Standards-based• Answers an essential question• Integrates all subjects• Collaboration• Technology-rich• Authentically assessed
Organization Strategies
Microsoft Tools
• Windows Vista• Office 2007• Learning Essentials• Office Live• Semblio• OneNote 2007
Discuss Project-Based Learning
Design Principle #1:
Begin with the End in Mind
Design Principle #1:
Begin with the End in Mind
Design Principle #5:
Manage theProject
Design Principle #5:
Manage theProject
Design Principle #4:
Map theProcess
Design Principle #4:
Map theProcess
Design Principle #2:
Develop theDriving Question
Design Principle #2:
Develop theDriving Question
Design Principle #3:
Plan theAssessment
Design Principle #3:
Plan theAssessment
Reach today’s students with authentic, cross-curricular units built on rich ideas.
Organization Tools for the Classroom - Project Learning at it’s Best
• On Location Simulation– Lights! Camera! Action! Students use language arts and
social studies to learn about Africa and Asia while becoming a location scout team that needs to find the perfect setting for a new action adventure movie.
Cross-Curricular Unit
On Location Simulation• Math• Reading and writing• Social studies• Maps• Data collection• Data synthesis and
evaluation• Science (and more!)
Efficiencies in Planning
• Planning with Windows Vista– Documents Explorer– Create and rename folders– Search for content quickly
• Planning with Word 2007– Brainstorm in Word– Select and format text– Create and format a table– Printing options and Send to OneNote 2007
To maximize instructional time, course
files are included
Efficiencies in Researching
• Researching with OneNote 2007– Open OneNote and create a notebook– Move pages to get organized– Use the Clip Tool to collect research– Capture audio to help with note-taking
• Researching with Excel 2007– Analyze with Excel– Sort data in Excel– Filter data to find answers– Research in Excel
Hands-on activities align with standards
Efficiencies in Creating
• Creating with Excel 2007– Create a formula and use AutoFit– Copy a formula with AutoFill– Create and modify a chart
• Creating with Learning Essentials 2.0– Examine LE for Students and Educators– Locate an LE PowerPoint template
• Creating with PowerPoint 2007– Use Outline view to create a slide show– Add audio to a slide show– Add animation to a slide show
Activities have
seamless technology integration
Efficiencies in Delivering Information
• Delivery with PowerPoint 2007– Review in slide show view– Add transitions in slide sorter view
• Delivery with Office Live Workspace– Open Office Live and create a workspace– Post and view a file in your workspace– Comment on a file in a workspace
• Delivery with Semblio– Understand Semblio and how you can use it
Test Your Knowledge
and Curriculum
Connections sections are
included!
Lean to seamlessly integrate new tools and new methods so that the technology is transparent and integral to teaching the core curriculum and beyond.
Communicate Think Apply Skills
• Participants learn by doing• Curricular-relevant activities• Leaders model instructional strategies• Time for reflection and collaboration• Continuous coaching
Tying It All Together
As an educator, you increasingly work with students of diverse backgrounds, cultures, native languages, and ability levels. Project-based learning provides a greater range of learning opportunities to your students. Working on a project with others motivates learners by allowing them to work with content in the context of real-world situations (Katz & Chard, 1989). Additionally, twenty years of research has shown the motivation has a positive impact on achievement (Brewster & Fager, 2000).