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5/ 26/ 2020 Microsoft Teams for Educators Agenda What is Microsoft Teams for Education? Connection & collaboration Inclusion Meaningful feedback & rubrics Staff & learning communities Notebooks 2 1 5/


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Microsoft Teams for Educators

Agenda

  • What is Microsoft Teams for Education?
  • Connection & collaboration
  • Inclusion
  • Meaningful feedback & rubrics
  • Staff & learning communities
  • Notebooks

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Microsoft Teams: Your Online Classroom

Microsoft Teams is the hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in

  • ne place, letting educators create

vibrant learning environments.

  • Engage students with virtual

face-to-face activities

  • Facilitate remote learning
  • Manage grades and

assignments

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Teams v. Teams for Education

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MICROSOFT TEAMS PROVIDES A MEDIUM FOR TEAM COLLABORATION IN OFFICE 365 THAT INTEGRATES PEOPLE, CONTENT, AND TOOLS TO BE MORE ENGAGED AND EFFECTIVE. MICROSOFT TEAMS FOR EDUCATORS BUILDS ON THIS BY PROVIDING EDUCATION-SPECIFIC TOOLS TO INTERACT MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH STUDENTS IN A VIRTUAL (OR NON- VIRTUAL) SETTING.

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Microsoft’s Commitment to Assisting Business Communication During Covid-19

Making Teams available for everyone

  • Teams is a part of Office 365. If your
  • rganization is licensed for Office

365, you already have it

  • If you don’t already have it, there are

some simple ways to get Teams right away

Connection and collaboration

  • Hold Classroom meetings
  • Collaborate on virtual whiteboards
  • Share documents

All-in-one hub for the collaborative classroom

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Viewing Teams

Strategically individualized design

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Channels in Education Teams

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Posts in Teams

  • Instructors can

communicate with students via posts

  • Students are notified when

assignments become available

  • @mentions will tag

individuals or Channel/Team members

Built-in Meetings (Video Conferencing)

  • To Schedule class time, you can

select + New Meeting for up to 250 participants

  • Meet Now offers the ability to

start a meeting right away and add participants directly to the meeting

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Schedule class time

  • Invite Individuals to a meeting
  • Invite the Channel

This will provide later access to meeting recordings and resources shared during class

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Join a Meeting

Join meetings from the channel invite,

  • r from your

calendar in Teams

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Recording Meetings

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  • Meetings can be recorded
  • Meetings will be uploaded to Microsoft Stream
  • Meetings can be accessed from the Chat section of

Teams

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Chat in Teams

  • IM functionality (similar to Skype for Business)
  • Teachers can communicate directly with students about

assignments, or questions

  • Meeting recordings, chat, and files will be stored here as

well

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Learners of All Abilities Are Included

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Engaging ever Engaging every learner in a diverse classr y learner in a diverse classroom

  • om

With daily challenges—and limited resources—educators need to be confident they are able to optimize learning for a diverse population, as well as meet professional goals and standards.

Up to50%

  • f instructional time can be lost to managing

students’ needs, including assistive technology

72%

  • f classrooms have special education students

73%

  • f teachers report working in

classrooms with student reading levels that span four or more grade levels

52%

  • f teachers in the US have English as a second

language learners in their classrooms

Source: Primary Sources Third Edition, Scholastic, 2014.

Building a foundation for futur Building a foundation for future success e success

Inclusive education tools give more students personalized access to their curriculum, optimize teacher time, and improve learning outcomes. Students grow their potential and gain independence T eachers are more empowered to engage every learner Schools build reputations as positive places that promote equity and inclusion

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Pr Promoting independent learning

  • moting independent learning

Accessible technologies help students with disabilities unlock their full potential by addressing a diversity of needs:

Visual Visual Hearing Hearing Mental Health Mental Health Neur Neurodiversity

  • diversity

Mobility Mobility Learning Learning

See Microsoft Accessibility features for every classroom: http://aka.ms/AccessibilitySway http://aka.ms/AccessibilitySway

  • Low vision
  • Blind
  • Colorblind
  • Deaf
  • Hard of

Hearing

  • Dyslexia
  • Dysgraphia
  • Dyscalculia
  • Autism
  • ADD/ADHA
  • Seizure
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Muscle

Dystrophy

  • Amputation
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • OCD

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Microsoft Teams – Real-time meeting captioning

Microsoft Teams – Live Events Captions

Real-time captions in over 60 languages. Support page with details

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Microsoft Translator in the Classroom

In-Line Message Translation

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Immersive Reader

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Empowering Empowering

“The Immersive Reader is an empowering empowering tool. It evens the playing field for kids who are struggling readers. It allows them to feel more like independent learners, not depending on the teacher, not depending on peers.” – 4th grade teacher, Bellevue School District

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Universal Universal

“Nearly all of the study teachers mentioned how Immersive Reader enabled their readers, regardless of skill level regardless of skill level, to access content aimed at a higher reading level. In this case, “access” means comprehension of content that had previously been unavailable.”

State Measured Reading Speeds are Increasing

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State Measured Reading Speeds are Increasing State Measured Reading Speeds are Increasing

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Feedback via Rubrics and Assignments

Assignments & Grades

Class type Teams have…

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Creating Assignments

  • Provide instructions
  • Add resources (OneNote,

Excel, etc.)

  • Assign points/grading

rubric

  • Assign to specific or all

students

  • Assign due dates/times

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Viewing Assignments

  • Assignment categories:

Assigned, Graded, Drafts

  • Clicking on an assignment

will allow a user to edit

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Grades

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Updating Assignments

  • View student’s copy of the

resource (if applicable)

  • Enter feedback
  • Assign grade/points

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Summary of Student

  • Outstanding assignments
  • Returned assignments
  • Graded assignments

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Staff Member Teams

Teams for Educators offers teams specifically designed for staff member collaboration and development, which allow administrators, leaders, and teachers to communicate more effectively

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Supporting ISTE Educator Standards

  • Learner 1a – Set professional goals to explore and apply

pedagogical approaches made possible by technology and reflect on their effectiveness.

  • Learner 1b – Pursue professional interests by creating and

actively participating in local and global learning networks.

  • Learner 1c – Stay current with research that supports

improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.

  • Leader 2c – Model for colleagues the identification,

exploration, evaluation, curation, and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning.

  • Collaborator 4a – Dedicate planning time to collaborate

with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.

  • Analyst 7c – Use assessment data to guide progress and

communicate with students, parents, education stakeholders to build student self-direction.

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Types of Staff Member Teams

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Professional Learning Community Teams

Educator Working Group

Staff Teams

School administration and development

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Staff Members Notebook

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Collaboration Space

Shared across everyone within the organization to share, organize, and collaborate

Content Library

Read-only space where leadership can share information with staff (policies, procedures, etc.)

Private Notebooks

Shared notebook between leadership and each individual staff member Leadership can see every staff member’s OneNote, but staff members can only see their own

Use OneNote for Your Class

  • Facilitate activities
  • Allow digital note-taking
  • Distribute content and handouts

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Class Notebook

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Collaboration Space

A space where everyone in your class can share, organize, and collaborate

Content Library

Read-only space where teachers can share handouts with students

Student Notebooks

Shared space between each teacher and individual student

› Collaboration Space › Content Library › Student Notebooks

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Class Notebook

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Embed Content in Your OneNote

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Consider adding documents, videos, audio clips, and more by inserting, pasting, or linking content. Microsoft Teams supports embedding content from a plethora of applications, which they provide a list of on their website (see link in notes).

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