Office 365 User Adoption: What is an MIE Expert and how do I become one?

02/18/20 • 17 min

Microsoft 365 User Adoption for Schools, MATs and Districts

We speak to Elaine Topham at Grimsby Institute about the Microsoft Innovative Educator program. Elaine is the Senior Learning Technologist at the college and is an MIE Fellow (one of only six in the UK).
How could it benefit your school or college? What are some of the perks? How do you apply? Listen to find out all of the answers.
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School Leadership with Microsoft Teams

In this episode we speak to Gareth Rose at Notley High School & Braintree Sixth Form about School Leadership with Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft Teams is a great collaboration tool and can be used to extend the classroom. In our latest podcast, Tony and Darren from Cloud Design Box discuss the real benefits of using Microsoft Teams in the classroom. This time we are focusing on the file sharing aspect.

Communication is central to good lessons and learning in the classroom. That could be teacher to student, or it could be students working together in the class. Teams allows this communication to happen anywhere by extending the classroom.

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Office 365 User Adoption Podcast Episode 10 - Virtual Lessons using Microsoft Teams

We have been asked by some schools facing part-closure to create a podcast about delivering content in virtual lessons using Microsoft Teams.

In this podcast, we focus on using Microsoft Teams to provide remote lessons. This should allow some continuation of learning even if the teacher or students are remotely located and unable to get into school.

You can try and replicate some of the real things you would do in a real classroom. You won’t have the same eye contact or body language as you would in person, however you can still do a lot to deliver the lesson.

Take away points:

Start a video call to broadcast the lesson and record it (in the General channel)
Mute students as they join the video call (you should only need to do this for the first 5 students entering the meeting)
Use the video recordings as revision material (or if students can’t make the live lesson)
Students do their work in Class Notebook or they could create files in the Files tab during the lesson
Teachers can virtually walk around the classroom by looking in the student class notebook sections
Have one-on-one conversations by using instant messaging
Use group conversations to discuss topics within the class
If you want to do group or project work – use channels to split up the class

Make sure that students and teachers have good access to the internet and a device. Mobile devices work fine for watching lessons but might not be great for participating.

We recommend that you use these tools in a normal classroom environment to begin with (not working remotely). This is great for becoming confident with the tools and training students on how it will work. Then, if you are faced with a situation where you need to teach or learn remotely, you will be prepared!

EXTRA TIP:

Measure student activity by seeing if they have done any work, asked any questions or contributed to the lesson.

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