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Virtual Learning Series: Teaching Online
Welcome to the Virtual Learning Series! This page will be your one-stop shop for all Microsoft resources related to our Teaching Online workshops.
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place, letting teachers create vibrant learning environments. Build collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and connect with colleagues—all from a single experience.
This workshop will look at how to use the video call feature inside Teams to start connecting with your students right away.
Microsoft Teams est un hub numérique qui rassemble les conversations, le contenu scolaire, les devoirs et les applications en un seul endroit, permettant aux enseignants de créer des environnements d'apprentissage dynamiques. Créez des salles de classe collaboratives, connectez-vous dans des communautés d'apprentissage professionnelles et connectez-vous avec vos collègues, le tout à partir d'une seule plateforme.
Cet atelier examinera comment utiliser la fonction d'appel et vidéoconférence dans Teams pour immédiatement commencer à vous mettre en contact avec vos élèves.
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place, letting teachers create vibrant learning environments. Build collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and connect with colleagues—all from a single experience.
In this workshop you will learning how to set up a new Team and how to add your students to your digital classroom. You will learn how to create channels within your Team and best practices when using them. In addition, you will learn how to create content tabs in your Team to pin documents, have quick access to external apps and more.
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place, letting teachers create vibrant learning environments. Build collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and connect with colleagues—all from a single experience.
In this workshop you will learn to how create assignments and projects for your students within the Teams environment. You will learn how to provide feedback on your students work, and support them in their virtual learning. In addition, you will learn how to grade multiple student submissions, create rubrics and submit final marks.
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place, letting teachers create vibrant learning environments. Build collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, and connect with colleagues—all from a single experience.
In this workshop you will learn to how create assignments and projects for your students within the Teams environment. You will learn how to provide feedback on your students work, and support them in their virtual learning. In addition, you will learn how to grade multiple student submissions, create rubrics and submit final marks.
Discover how learning can easily become accessible to all students with the Office 365 suite. You'll discover features like immersive reader, dictation, subtitles and more! All of these features are inside the programs you like and already use.
Techie Bestie Show: Engaging Students with O365
Ready to rock the Microsoft World with creativity and fun!? Join the Techie Besties as we will look at some engaging, and powerful ways to enhance teaching and learning using Teams, PowerPoint, OneNote and more. We will even showcase amazing extras for students to show their thinking with images, audio, and video.
Looking for ways to engage your students with Microsoft PowerPoint and step up your creativity game? This interactive and hands-on PowerPoint workshop will feature digital design skills, tools, themes, layouts, publishing, and live demos to engage learners of all ages.
Let's change the way we bring pen to paper using Microsoft OneNote. Find out how to organize years worth of teaching material with OneNote. This platform will become your new virtual binder, filled with Math Equations, Online Videos, Speech to Text and SO MUCH MORE!
Transform your traditional pen to paper notes and learn the benefits of using Class Notebook to grow your 21st century classroom. Come and discover how to set up a Class Notebook and use its primary functions. Set your students up for success as we transform the way they keep their classroom work organized and accessible.
Come and discover how Class Notebook engages your students with multi-media, accessible, and straight up FUN features! All this can be brought directly to your students through Microsoft Teams. Homework assignments and feedback become a breeze! It truly is a perfect pair!
With an integrated design model, Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling app to create interactive reports, presentations and more. Come and see for yourself how this app can change the way you create your presentations!
Come and be introduced to Flipgrid, the video discussion tool that supercharges student voice. Learn how to document conversation data in ways that engage students and inspire creativity. Create grids, explore the tool, learn to give feedback and see how it integrates seamlessly with Teams.
Minecraft has planted itself in the hearts of our youth and now educators are using the game to provide dynamic learning experiences. With Subject Kits available for LA, Science, Math, SS and more, the classroom implementation possibilities are endless. Join us for this 1 hour beginner session where we will walk you through Minecraft for Education and placing your first blocks. Come learn how Minecraft for Education has the power and the ability to captivate and motivate your students to learn.
Minecraft Education Edition (MEE) has so many endless possibilities and there is so much to learn and do inside the world of Minecraft. Now that you have been able to move and play inside of the world you are probably wonder whats next? How do I make this useable for my students? How do I get this to be more then just a game? In this session we will be diving deeper into the MEE world. We will be looking at the various lessons that are on the website, exporting and importing worlds, talking about cameras, blackboards, portfolios and so much more. Come and enjoy this hands on virtual workshop as we build your capacity in MEE. Please have MEE downloaded on your computer and office 365 education login ready to use.
Coding continues to be an important Modern Learning skills. We often here that the world will need programers and coders as technology continues to envole but the question lies how do we teach our students these important skills. Minecraft EDU blends the both the world of construction with the skills and development of coding. Come and level up your Minecraft skills with MEE code agent. Participants will learn some coding fundalmentals as well as some fun lesson to engage with our students. Please note participants will need an MEE account (office 365 Education) and some working knowledge of Minecraft Education is helpful.
Mathematics is a beautiful language that can express the beauty of the world around us. Come learn how we can engage our students in this language by mathematizing our Minecraft worlds. In this session, participants will work with different blocks to build math concepts both for Elementary and High School. We will also investigate some pre-made lessons and dive deeper into exploring big ideas in Math through Minecraft. Please have Minecraft downloaded and your sign in ready as we will be playing and building in Minecraft itself. Minecraft works on PC, Macs and iPads. If new to Minecraft participating in our intro course may be beneficial.
Wouldn’t it be nice to teach just like you’re in your physical classroom even though you’re now teaching from home? Enter myViewBoard, a live collaborative workspace that brings the best of in person learning, even at a distance. With myViewBoard you can use all your content (Google Docs, YouTube, websites) on a live collaborative whiteboard with built in quizzing and student huddles. Join us for this workshop and see how we can change the face of distance learning, one virtual whiteboard at a time.
Tips from Experts in the Field
Join us as we bring in experts to share advice and best practices for teaching in a virtual environment. Long-time educator in TDSB, now the Director of Innovative Learning at Keystone Academy in Beijing, Sandra Chow will join us on April 1st. Seven weeks into school closure, she'll share her never-ending positivity and give us strategies for moving into Virtual Teaching.
Tips from Experts in the Field - Microsoft Education Focused
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020
Time: 8pm EDT/5pm PDT
Watch the recording here.
Follow along with our slide deck here.
A focused learning environment isn't easy to achieve away from the physical classroom. Microsoft is here to support multimedia online experiences that keep educators, students, and families connected.
