MIE

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Academy

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#MakeWhatsNext
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Empowering the
students today to
create the world of
tomorrow
Empowering students to achieve more
Program overview
The Microsoft Teacher Academy is specially designed for K-12 classroom
educators and educational trainers.

Goals

• Learn and get excited about the many tools Microsoft has to offer students and

teachers

• Reflect and create a customized toolkit of resources to increase engagement,

efficiency, and develop modern skills for a global classroom/society

• Engage in immersive learning activities that build a strong understanding of how to

use technology to improve instruction and meet the needs of students

• Take advantage of many free tools and resources available to students and educators
Let’s learn a little
about each other!

Icebreaker activity…
Full STEAM Ahead! Every Student Future Ready
Interdisciplinary
approach
• Academic concepts coupled with
real-world lessons
• Application of STEAM in the
context of problem solving
• Educated to compete in a
global society
• Addresses complex societal issues
Digital-age, workforce-
ready skills
Enabling learners to become:
• Problem-solvers
• Innovators
• Inventors
• Self-reliant
• Logical thinkers
Learning
environments
• Providing experiences, tools and
collaborative learning spaces to
support PBL
• Supports the promotion of
constructivist learning, and
computational thinking
• Digital skill development is critical to
compete for future jobs
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Today’s agenda

Morning Afternoon
• Introduction to Teams • OneDrive and Office Online
• Microsoft Forms • OneNote and Class Notebook
• Microsoft Sway
• Microsoft Tools for EDU Jigsaw activity
• Accessibility
• Microsoft Educator Community
Saving teachers time with Office 365
Activate Office 365

If you don’t already have Office 365,

go to the link below to activate your
Office 365 email account

aka.ms/taoffice

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Participant
Participantmaterials 
Materials
http://aka.ms/MIETrainerParticipant
Introduction to
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams: A digital hub

Create more collaborative

learning experiences, inside and
outside of the classroom
An Overview
Introducing Rubric Grading in Teams
Speed Grade with Teams
Gradebook within Teams!
Reflection
I see how
Microsoft Teams
will help me…
Supporting modern learners with Forms
Turn and talk
• What kinds of forms are you
currently using in your
learning environment? 
• What benefits do you see for
using electronic forms vs.
paper forms? 
• How are you giving/sending
forms with others? Are you
collaborating to create any
forms or quizzes?
Break!
What is digital storytelling?

• The modern expression of the

ancient art of storytelling

• Digital stories derive their power

by weaving images, music,
narrative, media, and voice
together, thereby giving deep
dimension and vivid color to
characters, situations, experiences,
and insights
 Building skills

Research skills Writing skills Organizational skills Technology skills

Documenting the story, Formulating a point of view, Managing the scope of the Learning to use a variety of
finding and analyzing and developing a script project, the materials used hardware and software
pertinent information and the time it takes to
complete the task

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 Building skills part 2

Presentation skills Communication skills Problem-solving skills Assessment skills

Deciding how to best present Working within a group and Learning to make decisions Gaining expertise critiquing
a story to an audience determining roles and overcome obstacles at all their own and others’ work
stages of project

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What is Sway?

• Office app for students and teachers

• Create interactive multimedia rich
documents on any device
• Automatically adapts to look great on
phones and computers
• All you need is a browser to view
• Produces beautiful polished designs that
POP!
• Part of Office 365 – free for schools
What media can I use?

Where can I create my

digital story and find all these
resources in one place?

Easily start from existing content

in Word and PowerPoint
Then add:
• Pictures
• Video
• Audio
• Text
• Tweets
• Office Forms
• Office Documents
• Embed many more experiences from sites
around the web
Schools are using Sway for:
Teachers
• Engaging interactive class materials
• Enhance project-based learning - student
multimedia presentations
• Communicate with parents - student work,
class news, and events
• Create memory books for events and trips
• Share best practices and teacher training
Students
• Collaborate on group projects
• Deliver dynamic and interactive class
presentations
• Deliver creative research projects
• Build portfolios/resumes
Reflection
What unit of study would you first use Sway
with? What use could you find for parents? How
do you see students using Sway?
Accessibility
features in
Office 365
 1+ billion people require accessible technologies
Disabilities come in many forms both visible and unseen

Visual Hearing Cognitive Speech Mobility Neural

• Colorblind • Hard of • Learning • Speech • Arthritis • Bipolar
• Low vision hearing disabilities impediment • Quadriplegia • Anxiety
• Blind • Deaf • Autism • Unable to • Spinal cord • PTSD
• Seizure speak injury • OCD
• Depression
Accessibility Tools in Office 365

• Alt text
• Editor
• Researcher
• Accessibility
Use Headings in documents

Paste full screen grab here (3:2 aspect ratio). Position and scale using the
• Create sections for a paper image crop tool.
• Break down an assignment
into manageable parts
• Create a table of contents
colorblindness
Accessibility Tools in Office 365

As much as 8% of the male

population and 0.5% of the
female population has some
degree of colorblindness,
according to the National Eye
Institute.
Make your presentations accessible

Text Text
Reflection
Make a plan! What are your next steps for
making your materials accessible to all of your
students?

Hint: #1 should always be to run

Accessibility Checker
Microsoft Educator Community
Choose your own path to become a Microsoft Innovative Educator.
Earn 1,000 points doing any of the following:

Take courses Explore learning paths Find resources

and lesson plans
What is MIE? Let’s watch
 New Guidelines for logging into/signing up for a MEC Account

What does this mean?

All users will require either an Office365 or Microsoft Account: No other sign-in account options will be supported.
You can no longer sign in with Facebook, Skype or Twitter.

What is a Microsoft Account?

A personal Microsoft account that you can set up using an alternate consumer email address.
You can set this up by going to http://signup.live.com

What do I need to do?

If you are new to MEC and don’t have an Office365 account:
1. Create a Microsoft Account(using your personal email address) by going to http://signup.live.com
2. Log onto https://education.microsoft.com/ and Select Sign In

If you are a current member of MEC

• Update your account with your Office365 or Microsoft Account by going to https://aka.ms/MECAccountUpdate
• If you don’t have an Office365 or Microsoft Account, create a Microsoft Account by going to http://signup.live.com
Microsoft Resources Exploration
Instructions:
1. Find a partner to work with on this activity.
2. Go to the Participant folder and open the Microsoft Resources
Exploration document.
3. Save it to your OneDrive and share it with your partner.
4. You will have 15 minutes to complete this activity.
5. Think about how the resources can enhance learning for both educators
and students.
Reflection 2

What are the top 3 ways you plan to

utilize the Microsoft Educator Resources?
Tweet out a new learning from this
morning

It could be about a tool, your lesson redesign,

or pedagogical implications from the morning
session.

#MicrosoftEdu
#{location}
Lunch!
OneDrive and
Office Online
Collaboration in Word Online
Collaboration Activity
20 minutes
1. Create a PowerPoint or Word document about the tools you have learned so far and how you
plan to use them in your classroom. (either on different slides or as different headings in a
Word document) You will need to include the following categories :
• Forms
• Sway
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• Accessibility
• Microsoft Educator Resources (MEC, SITC, Minecraft, MakeCode)

2. One person in the group needs to create the PowerPoint or Word Online document
and share it with the other team members

3. Based on the notes you have taken on the Reflection page, add your plans of use for each tool

4. As your team works on the document/presentation, be sure to read your teammates additions
to see if you have similar ideas.  You can use the comment or chat features to discuss your
ideas and refine the document to a collective list without any redundancies.
Reflection
• Share your thoughts on the collaborative process using
one of the Office Online apps
• Finish the following sentence: I used to think Office
reflection
•
Online… now I know that Office Online…
What group or collaborative project are your students
doing that could be improved or enhanced by using
Office Online?
Save time, organize, collaborate

Getting started using

OneNote and Class
Notebook
Student poll

I haven’t heard of I have heard this I have seen this I know what this I can give a I can give an
this before word before word before word means definition of this example of this
word word
Paper and pencil. Evolved!
A framework for teaching and learning
 How will OneNote and
Reflection the Class Notebook
add-in streamline your
classroom practices?
Exploring more tools
from Microsoft

*Creating your own hacks

What is a Classroom Hack?
An innovative, possible solution to a common classroom
problem that can be universally implemented
Creating your own
hack
• How would you hack the classroom
using your group’s assigned tool?
• You have 30 minutes to complete
the task and 2 minutes to share out
your idea.
Jigsaw Activity
60 Minutes
1. As a team, you will explore the tool assigned to you
2. In the Participant OneDrive folder, one person downloads the Word
document for their topic and then uploads in their OneDrive to share with
others in the group: 
a. Click on Share
b. Invite people- make sure "can edit" is showing
c. Invite your team members
3. You will have 30 minutes to explore the tool
4. Then each group will have 2 minutes to share the tool with the rest of the
group. How can you use this tool to hack your classroom?
Reflection 5
Based on what you learned from each group,
which tool(s) do you feel would help you?  
Tweet about how you would use
the tool you just learned about to
hack your classroom

#MicrosoftEdu
#{location}
Microsoft
Innovative
Educator

Engage in the Microsoft

Educator Community
• Help teachers and administrators
take the next step in rethinking how
we educate our students
• Explore courses, learning
paths, and lessons on the
Educator Community
Earn your Microsoft
Innovative Educator
badge!
Redeem achievement code to
receive your badge now! 

[Presenter,
Insert redeem code here]
1. Go to
Education.Microsoft.com
2. Sign in
3. Select “Redeem
achievement code” under
Profile and enter the redeem
code above
Microsoft Innovative
Education Expert

Who:
Self-driven educators who are passionate about their
careers, inspiring students with outside-the-box
thinking and a true collaborative spirit

How:
Visit http://aka.ms/MIE for more information and
to apply
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#{location}
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