- G'day, everyone,
welcome to another edition of What's New in EDU?
This episode, we're going to do a recap
of all of the news that came out of Bett 2020.
I'm just about to hop on a Teams call
with my good friend Stephen Eustace
to talk about what we found out.
(Stephen vocalizing)
Hey, g'day Stephen.
It's great to see you again
after hanging out with you last month at Bett 2020.
Today Stephen and I are going to do a recap
about last month's awesome BETT event.
Stephen, what is that you enjoyed most about Bett 2020.
- Talking to teachers.
Hearing some really inspiration stories
about how the technology is used in the classroom.
Seeing some amazing EdTech innovations
that are gonna really change the game
for educators and learners
and improve student outcomes for everyone.
- Yeah and one of those products
that I heard everybody talking about was Microsoft Teams.
- I know right?
- What is that you love about using Teams?
- For me I think
some of the things I love about Teams
is that it's just really social.
It's a really great way to keep in touch with people,
to improve communication
and collaboration in your classroom,
to help with assessment,
and I think promote active learning as well.
- [Mark] That's great and we had a chat to Justin Chando
while we were at BETT, let's watch it right now.
- [Stephen] Okay I'm gonna just click that one moment,
give me a second.
Right, I'm pressing play, let's do this.
- So here is some update to Teams,
we're really excited to share with you.
'Cause they'll make collaboration way more fun
and effective.
- We are introducing a new experience for educators
to gain insight into student performance.
The Class Insights tab, look for it.
Educators can add the new Class Insights tab
to their class team and see average grades,
on-time assignments, average return time
and conversation activity for their class.
Now educators will have a single view
to observe individual student and class performance.
With student data right at our fingertips,
we can make more informed decisions about course content,
pace of instruction and student engagement.
- Hey Mark, oh gee.
Ohh, teamception.
That's teamceptional.
I just forgot something at the start, Stephen.
Do you mind if I record this meeting?
- No that's perfect, yeah.
- Just give me a second.
- I'm not sure if you're aware
but you can do any type of recording really,
it's not just Microsoft Team's meeting recording,
on any device.
Think we saw earlier at Bett,
Leslie Fisher did a great video on that one,
so let's have a little look.
I'm just gonna put that link in the box there, right now.
- You can make your own videos from your computer screen,
no matter the device.
Let me show you how to do this right now.
We're going to come in here, into Microsoft Stream
and we're gonna click on Create and select Capture Screen.
And then when we click on record,
you can actually choose if you wanna record one screen,
two screens or a specific browser window, which is great.
You're going to notice that it even creates a picture,
and I can annotate it, which is super cool.
When you're done recording,
you actually have the option to trim the video,
you can even edit directly in the middle of it,
there's all sorts of editing tools
that are available for you.
Then, when you're done, you simply click on Done,
you click on Publish and it publishes the video
in the specific location that you want
with the specific people that you wanna share it with.
- [Stephen] Gee, that was awesome right?
- Yeah that Leslie, she's always got amazing insights.
Now, while I was at BETT,
apart from seeing Justin and Leslie, I also saw you.
- [Stephen] Me and Frank had a great chat.
We were talking about devices that are affordable,
rugged, have got some great innovations as well,
like garaged stylus, that was amazing.
And I think students and teachers
are really going to enjoy these devices
'cause they're really gonna impact the classroom
in a really positive way.
- And some of the improvements on these,
they're even more rugged.
So you're talking about taking these to the zoo,
you could take this to the zoo, right?
You could put a pounding on these guys--
- Put it in the lion's mouth.
- Don't do that. (chuckles)
- Now another hot item that I heard everybody talking about
was live captions and subtitles.
Coming across products including PowerPoint.
And I've just popped the link into the chat pane,
so we can have a look at it together.
- [Stephen] Perfect, again I'm gonna click on that, nice.
- I'm right now in PowerPoint
and I'm gonna go to the Present Live option.
And I click on Present Live.
Once I click on Present Live,
it's gonna display a QR code.
So I take my phone, open the camera,
and I'll go here and now I'm able to click on the QR code.
That's gonna actually load the presentation,
there it is right there.
Why hasn't it moved yet?
I, as a teacher, haven't started the presentation.
So when I do, it changes.
And now only that, I, the student now,
can change it into over 60 languages.
And whatever is spoken from the teacher,
will be displayed on my device.
On top of that, I can click in here
and there's a few emoji ratings that I can give it.
So I can give it a thumbs up, I can give it applause,
and when I do that, it's automatically gonna show up
on the teacher's display.
When the presentation is over,
the student will be given an overall graded report.
So guess what, the teacher's get graded.
And they're able to choose on a scale of one to five
on how they felt about the presentation,
they're able to leave a comment
and they're able to send that to the teacher.
Later on, the teacher will get an email
that gives an overall score into each topic area.
So that's PowerPoint Present Live,
I suggest you check it out.
- Okay, let's talk Office Lens for a moment.
- It's one of my favorite tools
for stripping out text from an image.
(slow electronic music)
- Whoa.
- Let me show you how easy this is.
Check this out.
I'm gonna take a picture of this sign,
and the interesting thing that Office Lens will do
is even though the sign was only one part of it
and at an angle, it cleans it all up.
So once I do that I click on Done,
and then I click on Immersive Reader.
I can come in here and I can change the font size,
I can select and change syllables,
I can even bring a line focus.
I can even turn on picture dictionary.
And one of the coolest features that I have found,
I can change the language.
So I can go and take a picture of something at an angle,
have it set the correct way,
change its language and have it even read back to me.
And remember there's over 60 languages available.
- One of the things we announced at the BETT Keynote
was the release, in March,
of new research the staff of 2030.
- So as we enter this new decade,
we're excited to explore the intersection of human emotions
and technology, and how they converge.
- How many of you have experienced
being overwhelmed at times as an educator?
- It's about shifting the narrative
of what technology is capable for.
- We believe that technology
has the potential to be a game changer
in how young people access and experience learning.
- AI and humans collaborating with those systems
has huge potential.
But what's most important here
is that these systems work for us.
They can even help improve our overall health,
our emotional wellbeing.
- And one of the highlights from that research
is the critical role of professional learning for teachers.
- I think the new and improved
Microsoft Educator Center really changes the game
when it comes to continuing professional development.
By providing courses and resources that are 100% free
and are a real game changer.
- Hey Stephen, thanks for hopping on the call with me,
it's been really fun to reflect on the news
and the announcements that came out of the event
and we hope that everybody watching
also found the information and the insights useful.
- Please check out our new tech tools,
free teacher's courses and resources,
STEM and computer science materials
and advice on boosting future ready skills
for your students.
- Yep and as always, share your feedback with us on Twitter
by using the handle @MicrosoftEDU.
- See you next time.
- What are you doing still there?
- I thought I was gonna be--
- [Mark] Come down the corridor.
- Hey! - If you were
down the corridor, why didn't you just come into my office?
- [Stephen] I just love Teams so much, I thought, hey,
let's call Mark on Teams.
Hey Mark, great "Team" work today.
- We brought our A-Team, this is sign language for an A.
This is A, E, I, O, U.
- Are you serious.
- I got the whole alphabet.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G...