Hey everybody welcome back to What's New in Edu.
I'm Toney a fourth grade teacher from Hackensack, New Jersey, and I'm here on the BETT showroom floor.
This place brings together people, ideas,
practices, and technologies, so
educators like me can learn all about new updates and features and right now things are about to get a lot cooler.
literally!
I can feel it right now. I'm being transported to a frozen environment with the help of Melinda.
Toney, thanks!
Melinda you got to tell us more about this. I know that you're using Microsoft photos. How are you able to make all this happen?
So, photos now has a video editor, so we've got text filters motion,
but best of all special effects. So let me show you how we can get this video view that we just took right
Into our Photos app great. I'd love to see it. So this is the video editor. Let's add from mobile.
This is the photos companion app we're working on built with teachers in mind.
So, the wires connecting it. There are no wires. It's transferring wirelessly from this device to the other one.
So this file can be added directly into my video project so no need to hunt for it on your PC. There it is.
So we'll drag this down to our storyboard; let's go ahead and make this really come to life.
So we've connected we are connecting to remix 3d to the full library of content created by
Microsoft and other creators.
Let's see if we can get you a penguin friend.
I've got a buddy that's perfect! There we go, put him down there in the sand.
That's everything.
Also to really make that really
come to life, we'll add some snow
extend it for the length of the clip and then add one more icy blast.
Make sure everybody knows you're freezing out here.
Super easy to move these effects around and adjust when they start and stop on our timeline. So let's see how we did.
That's unbelievable! I'm starting to feel a little chilly again, thanks so much for showing it to us.
Well now you can see there is no end to the amazing things you're gonna be seeing from Microsoft here at BETT.
Now we've got something else to show you check out what Jay's got for us.
Hey guys, I'm Jay Paulus for Microsoft
and we're here at day three of Bett
We're so excited talking to all the teachers this week we announced four new devices from our partners like Lenovo.
I want to talk to you about these two devices from Lenovo. First of all we've got the Lenovo 100e which starts at
$189 and the Lenovo 300e which starts at $299.
Now the 300e is a two-in-one that supports digital ink and it's a great value at $299.
Both of these devices have 4 gigs of RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage.
Now, what's so great about them? First of all, they run Windows. That means schools get the power of office and Minecraft?
Paint 3D and all the other great things that windows can do in the classroom. The next thing is they're built for classroom life
They've got two by two Wi-Fi, so they have great connectivity
they have all-day battery life
and they've been ruggedized to survive the rigors of classroom life. That means I can drop them onto the floor
and they just keep on rolling.
So, the kids don't have any problems. You're not going to have problems with the kids taking them home and having the device is broken,
they just keep going. The next thing is
they have drain holes out at the bottom that means the keyboards can survive spills and
so you know these things are really gonna survive in the classroom. We're so excited. What's more, if you compare these to Chromebooks
you're going to find you get more for less. Not only what windows can do,
but the fact that they've got more storage and just more capability than you're going to get with the Chromebook.
We're so excited about all the work
we've done to do to make these super easy to get into the classroom and get connected to your school systems.
Now, we can't wait to see what happens this year with these and in classrooms.
Now, let's take it over to Toney and Dan in the Windows mixed reality area.
This is incredible! I wish that you all could see what I'm seeing right now.
Even though I'm at Bett in the UK, right now
I'm standing on a cliff overlooking mountains off in the distance thanks to virtual reality.
Dan here is going to tell us more about that. Hey Dan. Hey man, how's it going? It's amazing. I was just transported somewhere.
Can you tell us more about that yeah? It's incredible isn't it?
I mean the transformative power of this technology is really mind-blowing when you think about what you can do with it in
Education, right? You can literally take your students anywhere in the planet, anywhere in the galaxy!
You know, it's great for things like Anatomy, Sciences, Chemistry. The applications with them are really almost limitless.
And when you think about where it really gets interesting is because it fits right into classical educational theory, right? Like learning by doing.
So, just imagine as a teacher rather than simply doing a lecture
you can do some kind of lecture and then put students into whatever
It is you were just talking about to reinforce that learning.
And that's where we see things like grades go up, retention goes up, engagement goes up, right?
It's just like, so much exciting for the students as well. And you know, you were on the cliff head
It's checking that out, but we have tons of content, and you know some of the content
we're really excited about at the show here today, for example is Pearson, right? Here's one of the like, leading
developers of curriculum in the planet and, you know, we're going to be doing six applications with them spanning a range of grades,
so, everyone can kind of get in there and check this out.
So it's really really incredible. A couple of things, I think at the end of the day
It all comes down to the teachers, right? Like this is just another tool for the teachers to use and it's up to them to
best decide how to use it. So, when I'm talking to teachers and they ask me like hey
this is amazing, how do I get this started in my classroom?
My recommendation is always start small, right? think about a makerspace, a computer lab,
maybe school library. Get a couple of laptops and a couple of devices, start putting your students through these experiences
and the teacher is really going to find the best application from there
and they're going to find all kinds of ideas on how to work this into their curriculum.
okay, so you just hit all the right notes there. Start small, right? This whole thing is so big and tech can be overwhelming but
I love that you're getting two amazing innovation with practical application. Thanks so much for that. Oh, thank you!
Well, right now we're going to kick it over to Ari, who's live at FETC. Check it out.
Thanks, Toney
I'm here at FETC 2018. Ari Shore reporting live and the Microsoft Education booth
and I'm here to share with you some of the new Intune for Education updates that we announced this week.
Let me show you a quick demo of what I'm talking about.
So, first and foremost we have the Intune for Education console right here, and it's simplified for the needs of even a part-time IT,
non-technical staff. One of the things that we announced this week
from feedback from customers is the ability to delegate
administration from a district or large school system down to the school level. We might have a school based administrator.
So here if you go into groups for
Contoso High School you actually see the ability to see the Contoso High School admins
who are the admins for their devices and users at the school level and
only their devices and users are the ones that they can manage.
The other thing we announced are things like the ability to add Wi-Fi profiles, so you see that.
That's that's a Windows 10 setting that's now manageable via Intune and we announced new reports like Windows Defender
Reports that make sure that devices are safe for students to use.
Among other things, we announced
many new features and updates on our blog here, and so if you go to aka.ms/intuneedubett18blog you'll get all the updates that I just shared with you and a lot more.
Thanks a lot, Toney. Back to you
Alright, folks that's it. We're wrapping up our what's new and edu coverage at the BETT show 2018. It's been unbelievable!
We've looked at what's current, what's new and even what's next.
I've got a ton that I'm going to be bringing back to my classroom
and I can't wait to implement. If you haven't go check out all the rest of the videos so that you know
What's up, too. We'll see you soon!