Category: Teacher Digital Literacy

skills and knowledge teachers require to enhance learning and teaching

What is Microsoft Stream?

Microsoft Stream in Glow is a video sharing platform for learning and teaching.

  • Create your own content, share, collaborate and distribute work to your learners or colleagues.
  • Stream can be added to your Team or an existing O365 group.
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Microsoft Stream within Glow by watching the videos below.

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What is Microsoft Stream?

An Introduction

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What is Microsoft Stream?

Linking with your Microsoft Team

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLmQKize88]

What is Microsoft Stream?
Home Page Features

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What is Stream?
Content, Groups and Channels

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmeI9z5010]

What is Microsoft Stream?
Creating Videos within Stream

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpgZRXMStdc&w=560&h=315]

What is Stream?
Uploading Content

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZinMoicWp5o]

What is Microsoft Stream?
Linking with your Microsoft Team

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLmQKize88]

What is Microsoft Stream?
Additional Addice and Support

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What is Microsoft OneNote?

Microsoft OneNote is a Digital Folder for all your notes and resources.

  • Use OneNote for your own work content, collaborate as a team or distribute work to your learners.
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Microsoft OneNote within Glow by watching the videos below.

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Getting started with OneNote – An Introduction to OneNote in Glow

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43sQsp8M2eI]

Overview of Microsoft Class OneNote
within Teams

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJWjzDusP8Q&w=560&h=315]

Home Tab

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View Tab

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Insert Tab

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Draw Tab

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45aCSXt6Z4M&w=560&h=315]

Pages

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Sections

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Sharing Options

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Maths Tools

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU97_BLgrA4&w=560&h=315]

OneNote Desktop Version

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaxfNeRJepU]

Explore Microsoft OneNote

Click on the hotspots to find out more about each of the areas within the application

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What is Microsoft Sway?

Sway can be used to create multimedia, interactive presentations

  • Sway allows you to create Digital Stories that flow beautifully, displaying interactive multimedia content.
  • The built in click and drag feature makes it easy to upload content from various sources.
  • Sway is intuitive and easy to navigate with simple menus.
  • You can unleash your creativity by designing your own look and feel.

 

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What is Sway?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPlO_GxXzQ&w=560&h=315]

Creating a New Sway

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1g8zNiewU]

Sharing Your Sway

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=928l1E_mnRg]

Creating a Sway from a Document

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yu8lpD3ys]

Creating a Sway from a Template

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8yOZNuKztU]

Creating a Sway from a Topic

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Microsoft Immersive Reader

Microsoft Immersive Reader

Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms and the Edge browser, that implement techniques to improve reading and writing skills.

Immersive Reader can:

  • Customise text size, spacing and background colour

  • Isolate content to improve readability

  • Display pictures for common words

  • Highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

  • Real text aloud

  • Translate content in real time

  • Split words into syllables

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Explore Microsoft Immersive Reader

Click on the hotspots to find out more about each of the areas within the application

Microsoft Immersive Reader Bitesize Videos

Microsoft Immersive Reader – Text Preferences

Microsoft Immersive Reader – Grammar Preferences

Microsoft Immersive Reader – Reading Preferences

Microsoft Educator Centre Courses

Microsoft Educator Centre Course

Dyslexia Awareness Part 1, in partnership with Made By Dyslexia 

Duration: 1 hour 

Description 

This course will provide essential insights into dyslexia, which we believe all educators and parents should have. Microsoft and Made By Dyslexia have a shared mission to empower every person with dyslexia to reach their potential, and we have partnered to create tools to help make this happen. 

Microsoft Educator Centre Course

Accessibility tools: Meeting the needs of diverse learners 

Duration: 1 hour 

Description 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower all people and all organizations to achieve more. The classroom is no different. Microsoft Windows and Windows-based applications like Office, together with other assistive technologies, offer features that make computers easier to use for everyone – giving teachers the opportunity to provide personalized learning, and students an improved experience and equal opportunity in the classroom.  

Microsoft Educator Centre Course

Dyslexia Awareness Part 2, in partnership with Made By Dyslexia 

Duration: 1 hour 

Description 

This course will provide an overview of ways teachers can elevate their practice to scaffold support for students in any content area. Microsoft and Made By Dyslexia have a shared mission to empower every person with dyslexia to reach their potential. 

Microsoft Educator Centre Course

Empower every student with an inclusive classroom 

Duration: 1 hour 

Description 

This course is designed for educators of all subject areas who want to empower students to utilize tools to unlock their full potential by addressing a diversity of needs. 

Practice creating an accessible and personalized experience in Windows 10 and Office 365 

Learn the tools and apps available to create accessible content 

Understand the importance of personalizing the learning device 

 

Upcoming O365 webinars

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What is Microsoft Forms?

What is Microsoft Forms?

Microsoft Forms is a tool for creating surveys and quizzes

  • Microsoft Forms allows users the ability to create surveys and self marking quizzes.
  • Forms can be shared with Glow users and externally with parents and the community.
  • Forms automatically collates data which is displayed in interactive graphs.
  • All this data can then be exported into Excel for further analysis.

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Managing Your Forms

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgUJy3x2C04&w=560&h=315]

Populating Your Form- Question Types and Sections

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3bjOfhyOk&w=560&h=315]

Questions – Creating Quizzes in Forms

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szbb9Iigydc&w=560&h=315]

Creating New Forms, Inserting Headers and Media

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8D-JZSpEw8&w=560&h=315]

Sharing, Settings and Accessibility Features

Upcoming O365 workshops

What is Microsoft OneDrive?

What is Microsoft OneDrive?

OneDrive can be used to store and share your files and folders.

  • It can host up to 1TB of materials for learning, teaching and professional development.
    You can work independently on a document with autosave ensure the latest version of your work is available anywhere, anytime.
    You can share and collaborate with others in real time.
    There are apps available for your Windows, iOS and Android devices if you do not wish to run the web based version.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtuAGkLkQo]

Uploading Your Own Content to OneDrive

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJzcJiMfmA&w=560&h=315]

Creating Content within OneDrive

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlBsMi5T3CI&w=560&h=315]

Sharing and Collaborate on Files with Colleagues and Learners

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzmZcImVe9s&w=560&h=315]

Managing Access to Your Files

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwyLMJAS96s&w=560&h=315]

Moving and Copying Files and Folders in OneDrive

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJgAWeutHPc&w=560&h=315]

Menus and Settings

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmSj9yOFPo&w=560&h=315]

Ater and Organise the Layout of Your OneDrive

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Explore Microsoft OneDrive

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Other O365 apps

Upcoming O365 workshops

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What is Google Docs?

Google Docs is a tool for creating text documents and can be used to:

  • Create a page of text but can also contain tables and images
  • Support accessibility, with translation, voice typing and text reading
  • Share documents with Glow users and externally with parents and the community

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVu-TKjtvcY&w=560&h=315]

Find out how to access Google Classroom and Docs in Glow and how to add it to your Glow Launch Pad for quick and easy access.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJx2LZlr5Y&w=560&h=315]

Find out how to create Google Docs, save your work and type with your voice.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnL_mGzK6o&w=560&h=315]

Suggestions on how you can create more engaging worksheets for you learners with text boxes, numbered questions and interactive diagrams.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS9535xa58c&w=560&h=315]

See how learning tools in Google Docs can make learning more engaging for learners, including AI to find information, translating text to different languages and having Docs read aloud.

Other Google Workspace apps

Upcoming Google Workspace workshops

google sites web page builder

What is Google Sites?

Google Sites is a tool for creating web pages and websites:

  • Sites can contain a range of media, inlcuding text, images, video and sound
  • Sites can be shared with Glow users and externally with parents and the community

 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg6un2oOZ7k]

google classroom

What is Google Classroom?

Google Classroom is a digital hub for collaboration.

  • Classroom can be used for communicating with learners, creating and sharing lessons, and assessing learning
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Google Classroom within Glow by watching the videos below

google workspace logo

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A_JllboAEA&w=560&h=315]

Joining and creating a Class

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdzCdckvPn0&w=560&h=315]

What is Stream?

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What is Classwork?

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Creating Topics in Classwork

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Creating an assignment on Classwork

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Other assignment types

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Using rubrics for assessment

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Adding and Accessing from your Glow Launchpad