- This month on What's New on EDU
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- Hi, welcome to What's New in EDU
a hub where we give you all the new updates
coming from Microsoft Education.
I'm Frank Chiappone.
Let's start with a recent event Microsoft held
in New York focused on education.
We made several exciting announcements there,
all geared toward helping you educators, administrators
and students.
We talked a lot about an affordable and accessible
learning platform,
modern tools for a collaborative classroom
and experiences that spark creativity.
- Today's event is about education and technology.
More specifically, it is about empowering
the students of today to create the world of tomorrow.
- One of the bigger announcements in New York
was education experiences coming from Microsoft Teams.
Ari, are you ready to talk to us about Teams?
- Absolutely, Frank.
More and more everyday, we work in teams across the world.
Even this video couldn't happen without collaboration.
And that's the spirit of Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is the hub for teachers, students
and staff in Office 365 for education.
Teachers can connect with their peers
and continue their own development in
professional learning communities, or PLCs.
Here is a PLC team with conversations,
including instant meetings and threaded conversations.
PLC OneNote Notebook and a power BI app for analytics
on our students.
It also includes whatever you need to share content
and conversations with this group,
like adding video discussions with Flipgrid.
At the start of the year, we might use Flipgrid
to introduce ourselves across the district with video.
- Hello there, I'm Anthony, principal at
Bear Creek Middle School.
- And share what technology we've been using
in our classroom.
- Yeah, all that stuff sounds great in Teams
and we're also building in controls to help you
monitor and manage conversations right within Teams.
And all the conversations are discoverable from
within the Discovery Center.
Teams can be managed like any other user based license
in the Office 365 admin console,
meaning you choose who can use it.
And there's another big announcement.
- I'm proud today to introduce to you
to Windows 10S.
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- The "S" stands for streamlined, security
and superior performance.
Windows 10S is Windows 10.
It delivers modern PC experiences customers want,
including inking, 3D, mixed reality and more.
Windows 10S will be available on a range of devices
from affordable to higher end,
including the cool new Surface laptop we just announced.
Windows 10S devices will run apps only from the
Microsoft store for education, so as an admin
you know the apps are safe and secure and
wont' put a drag on performance ever.
- And there are some great new apps coming to
Microsoft store for education on these devices,
like Paint 3D and Minecraft Education Edition,
now with code builder.
- So here the agent's gone to work running code
digging down and identifying the resources
that are underground.
We know it's engaging.
We know it's working.
We know it's reaching both boys and girls.
- Yeah, those are some great apps, Ari
but as IT you want to be able to deploy
and manage them all and you can with Intune for Education,
which we just announced is now
generally available worldwide.
In fact, with Intune for Education you can set up
a classroom full of devices in just about an hour.
You can manage all your Windows 10 devices within
InTune for Education, set up classes and groups,
pull straight from your SIS with School Data Sync,
curate apps from the Microsoft Store for Education
and then configure all those devices with just a
USB stick using the Set Up School PC app.
And just like that, you're done.
- Finally, the next big event for us here at
Microsoft Education
is ISTE 2017 in San Antonio, Texas.
We have a great opportunity this year to invite
all the global educators to participate with our
Hack the Classroom live event taking place on the
evening of June 27th during ISTE.
- Also, at ISTE we'll have some great sessions
to help IT and technology advocates get ready
for their summer deployments.
And even if you can't attend,
don't worry we'll have all the deployment resources
available for you
So that's it for us this time.
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