Teacher Tools
Microsoft has developed easy to use content, including HOW–TO’S and suggestions, for integrating technology into your teaching and in your classroom—many of these technologies are included in the Learning Suite.
Digital Literacy for Educators Description Links
Digital Literacy for Educators

Welcome to the Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum. The goal of Digital Literacy is to teach and assess basic computer concepts and skills so that people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giving/programs/

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System Requirements

The Digital Literacy Curriculum requires the following minimum system configuration:

Hardware

Personal computer with a 233–megahertz (MHz) or higher processor

256 megabytes (MB) of RAM or more recommended

2 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space

Non-ISA network adapter, 10/100 megabits per second (Mbps)

4-MB video adapter

Super VGA (SVGA) monitor (17 inch)

Keyboard and pointing device (such as a mouse)

Sound card with amplified speakers or headphones
Digital
Storytelling 		Description Links
Digital Storytelling
 The Digital Storytelling e-book provides educators a detailed guide to Digital Storytelling as an engaging classroom project for students including links to resources, lesson ideas for different ages and subjects, and links to how-to information to help you get started
Innovative Teachers - 21st Century Skills Description Links
Innovative Teachers
-21st Century Skills
 These five whitepapers address specific learning outcomes and support systems for K-12 students: collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, organization, and assessment. They illustrate the significant role technology can play to personalize learning and help develop 21st century skills. Each whitepaper includes specific theories, case studies, activities, and resources to help educators deepen their knowledge and inspire their own ideas.
Innovative Teachers - How To Guides Description Links
Innovative Teachers
How To Guides
 These how to guides provide step-by-step guidance for the Microsoft products featured in the classroom lessons included in the Innovative Teacher Toolkit.
Innovative Teachers - Tools in Practice Description Links
Innovative Teachers-
Tools in Practice
 These five brief documents provide a quick snapshot of a few key Microsoft products used in classrooms around the world, and how they support the development of 21st century skills. They include: creativity using Microsoft Tools, critical thinking using Photo Story, collaboration using Live@edu, assessment using Mouse Mischief, and organization using OneNote.
Innovative Teacher
Toolkit 		Description Links
Innovative
Teachers Toolkit
 Through research and partnership with innovative and award-winning educators and education experts from around the world, the Innovative Teacher Toolkit is designed to provide teachers with information about 21st century teaching and learning trends. The Toolkit includes an integrated set of whitepapers, lesson plans, and technology resources that help inspire and guide educators. With practical guides for using technology in the classroom, the Toolkit is designed to help improve learning outcomes around key 21st century skills and support systems—collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, organization, and assessment.
Learning Content
Development 		Description Links
Learning Content Development
 The Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses.
Lessons - Cultural Diversity Description Links
Lessons-
Cultural Diversity
 These lesson plans encourage students to explore different cultures in the world, as well as understand the impact of globalization.
Lessons - Health Description Links
Lessons - Health
 These lesson plans help students understand the causes of the world's most deadly diseases of our time, malaria and HIV/AIDS, as well as their impact on societies.
Lessons - Human Rights Description Links
Lessons-
Human Rights
 These lesson plans help students understand human rights including issues of peace and conflict, freedom and security, equality and oppression.
Lessons - Our Environment Description Links
Lessons-
Our Environment
 These lesson plans help students become media savvy, informed citizens, while developing critical thinking and communication skills.
Lessons - The Media Description Links
Lessons-
The Media
 These lesson plans help students become media savvy, informed citizens, while developing critical thinking and communication skills.
Microsoft®
free tools
Description
Links
Step-by-step Guide: how to use SkyDrive and Windows Live Photos to support collaboration and the use of creativity tools.

Getting Started Guide: helpful classroom tips for engaging your students in creative ways with products that are free and fun, like stitching photos together to make a class collage and using your PC as a virtual telescope.

Getting Started Videos: video overview demonstrating the use of many of these tools.
Mouse Mischief Description Links
Engage your students with lessons they can click.

Mouse Mischief is free of charge and integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office Power Point 2007, letting you insert multiple-choice questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your presentations. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.
Office 2007
Office 2010 		Description Links
Step-by-step Guide: how to use OneNote, Word, and PowerPoint.

Getting Started Guide: helpful classroom tips for engaging your students in creative ways.

Getting Started Videos: video overview demonstrating the use of many of these tools, including Web Apps and other new features of Office 2010.
Office Add-In
for Moodle 		Description Links
Office Add-In for Moodle
 Uploading files to Moodle has never been easier. The Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM) is an add-in for Microsoft Office (versions 2003 and 2007) that allows teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website. Today, teachers who use Office and Moodle have to switch back and forth between their web browser and Office applications. With the OAM, teachers can create, open, edit, and save Moodle documents from within the Office applications. You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle.

Requirements: Moodle 1.8-1.9, Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or higher, .NET Framework 2.0 or higher, Office 2003 or 2007

Limitations: Hasn't been tested with Moodle <1.8 or >=2.0; Requires the My Courses module to be visible on course home pages and for it to be showing courses. Does not work with Live Services Plug-in for Moodle
Teacher Professional
Development 		Description Links
Teacher Professional
Development
Workshop
Resources: Overview
 The workshop materials in this section are designed for teacher leaders and those responsible for training teachers to integrate technology in the curriculum.

The goal is provide teacher leaders with the curriculum, presentations and how-to tips to deliver these workshops successfully at your schools.

This document provides an overview and an annotated outline of the resources below to help you navigate these materials and successfully deliver these professional development workshops.
Teacher
Professional
Development
Workshop 		Description Links
Workshop: Classroom
Organizational
Tools for Teachers
 This project-based workshop will help your teachers learn organizational strategies that improve student achievement including how to:

• Organize learners both inside and outside the classroom


• Analyze, evaluate and use data to increase decision-making skills


• Synthesize organized information to ensure comprehension
Teacher
Professional
Development
Workshop 		Description Links
Workshop: Effective
Communication
Tools for Teachers
 This project-based workshop will help your teachers learn how to use technology to collaborate and communicate ideas and develop these skills in your students.

• Participants will learn how to teach students various ways to communicate using audio, video, and    other multimedia

Teacher
Professional
Development
Workshop 		Description Links
Workshop: Tools
for Engaging All
Learners in the
- Classroom
 This project-based workshop will help your teachers learn tools and strategies for engaging learners with technology in a collaborative project environment.

• Engage students in higher levels of thinking through real-world problem solving
Teacher
Professional
Development
Workshop 		Description Links
Workshop: Using
Collaborative Tools
in the Classroom
 This project-based workshop will help your teachers learn how to use a tools to encourage collaboration between students across content areas

• Centered on students’ explorations


• Shift away from teacher- or lecture-centered classroom

Windows 7 Description Links
Step-by-step Guide: how to use many of the best features of Windows 7, including: pin to taskbar, peak, jump list, desktop gadgets for teachers, teacher toolbox, snipping tool, sticky notes, and more.

Getting Started Guide: helpful classroom tips for engaging your students in creative ways

Getting Started Videos: video overview demonstrating the use of many of these tools, including Windows7 and your interactive whiteboard.
Windows Live
Movie Maker 		Description Links
Step-by-step Guide: how to use Windows Live Movie Maker, including making a movie in a minute.

Getting Started Guide: helpful classroom tips for engaging your students in creative ways.

Getting Started Videos: video overview demonstrating the use of many of these tools.