Free internet based services and other tools from Microsoft.
Live@edu – a complete solution
from Microsoft for your school’s email and collaboration needs for students
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Description |
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Live@edu |
A free co-branded service offering student email (Outlook Live)
and a range of collaborative online services. |
Internet based services that you
can access through your browser:
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Name |
Description |
URL |
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Office Live Workspace |
Online storage and sharing for teachers: ·
Allow students anywhere, anytime
to access class information ·
Store course material,
assignments, and class notes, and distribute them instantly ·
Manage schedules, due dates, and
calendars in one place ·
Save money (and trees) by printing
fewer documents |
http://workspace.officelive.com/en-us/online-storage-teachers |
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SkyDrive |
25GB of online storage – your USB stick in the cloud. Access your files from anywhere. |
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Live Groups |
Create social or class groups for sharing, discussion and
collaboration, features include: ·
Discussions ·
Calendar ·
Group SkyDrive for file and
photo sharing |
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PhotoSynth |
Stitch photos together into an interactive and immersive
panorama. Capabilities include: ·
Walk or fly through a scene to
see photos from any angle ·
Zoom in or out of a photo ·
See where pictures were taken in
relation to one another ·
Smoothly change viewing angle
between nearby photos ·
Smoothly zoom in and out of
high-resolution photos ·
Find similar photos to the one
you're currently viewing ·
Send pictures |
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Microsoft Translator |
Language translation tool that can translate text excerpts or
complete web pages into a range of languages. |
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Live Spaces |
Blogging and social networking platform. Teachers can use this to maintain a blog
for their class. Students can use this
to blog on academic activities, or to build themselves an ePortfolio of their
work. |
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Worldwide Telescope |
Explore the galaxies interactively in schools lessons. |
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SilverLight |
A video streaming service offering 10GB of storage. |
PC utilities that can integrate
with online services:
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Name |
Description |
URL |
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Windows Live Photo Gallery |
A photo management application that has a range of editing and
tagging tools. The tool can also be
configured to upload photos to a range of online photo galleries. |
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Windows Live Movie Maker |
Video editing software that can be used to produce a wide
variety of end products. |
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Search Together |
An experimental add-in for Internet Explorer that allows users
to search collaboratively on topics. |
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/searchtogether/index.html |
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Widows Live Writer |
A tool that allows a user to create rich blog posts on their
blog platform of choice. Works with
Windows Live Spaces, and more. |
Other useful free tools
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Name |
Description |
URL |
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Zoomit |
Useful tool that can zoom in and out of portions of your screen
when used with a data projector. |
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx |
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Community Clips |
Record your desktop screen, with audio, and produce a wmv file
of the end result that can be published to the web, emailed, or otherwise. |
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PPTPlex |
Works in conjunction with PowerPoint and allows users to give
more of a free-form presentation as opposed to the ‘normal’ sequential
presentation. |
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx |
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Sticky Sorter |
Support virtual collaboration in managing your next class
brainstorm session. |
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/stickysorter/Pages/default.aspx |
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Image Composite Editor |
An advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a
set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location
and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at
full resolution. |
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ |
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Microsoft Math: Word 2007 Add-in |
Makes it easy to create graphs, perform calculations, and solve
for variables with equations created in Word. |
Teacher Resources:
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Name |
Description |
URL |
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Teacher Toolbox |
A load of free resources that a teacher can use in the
classroom. Lesson plans, templates,
clipart, media, and more |
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Innovative Teachers Network |
An online community for teachers containing: ·
Discussion fora on various
topics ·
Virtual Classroom Tours ·
Professional Development ·
Career mentoring for kids ·
Peer Coaching tools ·
Lesson plans and artifacts |