- [Baldwin] Hello educators, I'm Baldwin Ng from Microsoft.
Today, I'm going to share with you
how you can improve student engagements in remote learning
with Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge apps
created by some of our highly innovative Microsoft partners.
During the current COVID-19 pandemic,
engaging students in a remote classroom setting
is not the easiest.
In order to keep your students focused in your classroom,
first, it will be super critical
that you regularly assess your students' knowledge
with formative and summative assessment tools.
Second, you'll find that remote classroom management tools
will be your best friends as they can help you
quickly spot students who get distracted from home,
so you can put them back on track quickly.
Third, school is supposed to be fun.
In the following segment,
we'll be demoing a few fun learning apps
that are optimized for Windows Ink,
Touch and Windows 10 in S mode.
Now let's bring on some of our best
Microsoft education partners to demo their latest apps.
- [Patrik] My name is Patrick Nilsson,
and I'm VP and Head of Sales at Dugga.
Dugga started out as a research project
at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics
with a purpose to build a state of the art
digital assessment platform.
So, what can Dugga do for you?
Well, it is a one-stop solution for tests, exams,
assignments, for all levels and types
of knowledge assessment that you can do in class,
or at home remote.
With Dugga you can save 70 to 95% of your time
when correcting, grading and administering tests.
So, there's a lot of win here.
Dugga is available in Teams, Office 365 and Windows 10.
And one of the great things is the fast onboarding
for schools and school districts.
To onboard as an entire school district in Teams
takes somewhere between five and 10 minutes.
Not only that you can save time
with onboarding and as a teacher,
students can save time since it goes twice as fast
compared to handwritten exams to do exams in Dugga.
Students provide better answers in Dugga,
and that is supported by research.
Within Dugga you will find several accessibility tools
integrated into the platform,
providing equal opportunities to all students.
Dugga is fair, Dugga has a lot of security,
and you can be sure that students cannot do anything else
than the exam at hand, when you're using
any of the full lockdown opportunities in Dugga.
Let's have a look inside of Dugga.
This is how it looks like inside of Dugga.
You have a cover letter,
you can see the student's name, can see the time left,
and here you have the Quick Navigation bar.
Here you have a question with a solar system
where you're supposed to connect the dots as a student.
Here you just have another question in economy
where you're supposed to write an answer,
and everything is automatically marked and graded.
Here, you can write or make a graph
if you would like to as a student,
and answer also the question over here.
Here you have another question
where you supposed to match different things.
And another question
where you're supposed to connect the dots.
With that really brief demo,
I would like to say thank you for listening to me,
and please contact us at sales@dugga.com,
and in addition, we have a 30 day free trial.
So, go to dugga.com/ISTE and claim your free Dugga trial.
And last but not least,
I'm really happy to say that we are
the 2020 global partner of the year winner in education.
So thank you very much Microsoft,
and thank you for listening to me.
- [Kelly] So my name is Kelly, and I work for GoGuardian,
and GoGuardian helps thousands of K-12 schools
maximize the learning potential of every student
by creating safe and effective
digital learning environments.
And while teachers used to be able to kind of
look out on the classroom and make sure that
students had their books open to the right chapter,
you don't always get that same transparency
when students are using devices.
And especially now that students are learning remotely,
it can be difficult for teachers to connect with students,
and keep them focused wherever they learn.
With GoGuardian Teacher,
you can, you get a digital window
into student online activity.
So teachers can see what students are doing
on their devices and whether they're off task or need help.
And the cool thing about GoGuardian is,
not just being able to see what students are doing,
but you can actually correct on task behavior
by locking their screen or closing tabs
with distracting content.
So I wanted to open a tab or chat with a student to say,
stay focused, I can easily get students back on track.
GoGuardian has recently implemented
video conferencing capabilities
so that teachers can actually connect with students
through voice calls, video calls,
and even a lecture presentation option,
which allows teachers to show themselves,
to speak to their students, share their screen,
and they can even record their lessons
so they can distribute that to absent students
to make sure no one falls behind.
- [Rough Voice] Yeah.
- [Kelly] So another cool thing about GoGuardian Teacher
is it's detailed reporting.
So it captures all of the browsing history of students,
and displays it in this nice timeline view.
We also have detailed classroom reports,
so teaches rather than waste time during class
checking attendance and engagement,
they can actually get these reports
so that they can correctly report that information.
Thank you so much for joining us
for a demo of GoGuardian Teacher on Windows devices.
And if you are looking for more information,
please go to www.goguardian.com/teacher.
- [Donald] I'm Donald Carney, the CEO,
and one of the Co-Founders of Fluidity Software.
We make FluidMath.
FluidMath is a teaching and learning tool for mathematics.
FluidMath it's like a smart piece of math paper
that recognizes handwritten math notation,
written with a stylist or a fingertip
on the screen of a touchscreen device,
like a tablet or an interactive display.
FluidMath gestural based user interface
enables you to move fluidly
in between mathematical representations
with the stroke of a stylist or your fingertip,
handwritten math notation turned into graphs,
tables, solutions, animations, and more.
Let me show you how it works.
FluidMath is like a smart piece of math paper
upon which I can write math.
So, for example, one, plus two,
that's pretty simple math.
FluidMath recognizes what I write and I can get an answer.
FluidMath also recognizes
mathematical expressions, algebraic expressions.
Here's a mathematical expression.
The slope intercept form of the line equation,
y equals mx plus b, with a simple gesture,
I can create a graph.
In FluidMath, we can also turn hand drawn sketches
into mathematical animations.
Let me show you an example.
So here's a car, and a road.
I can label the car a, and I can give length to the road.
I can write a mathematical expression
that represents the motion of car a,
and in FluidMath, when I press the Run button,
we can see the car moving across the screen
in an animated simulation as described by the math
I just wrote on the page.
If you'd like to learn more about FluidMath,
please visit fluiditysoftware,
or search for FluidMath in the Windows Store.
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- [Andrew] My name is Andrew Herkert,
I am the Head of Growth here,
and we'll just jump right in with some of our key features.
Squigl's top features as a cloud-based
storytelling application include text to video,
interactive video and our native Teams integration.
And so what that really means is we are enabling students,
faculty, teachers, educators, worldwide,
and end users in the corporate landscape
to become storytellers where they would usually send reports
or just text, now they can quickly Squigl it.
So here, I'm gonna jump straight into the demo,
and show a quick development of a story
as if I was quickly writing a story
about Sir Isaac Newton here, right?
So you can see I've entered this script
where Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician,
and we, the legend has it that
he was sitting under an apple tree,
and that's how he discovered gravity.
So, the first thing I do is I enter that script,
then I go over here and I have picked my audio.
So, there's an automated voiceover here
that I can choose as many voices.
Then I'm actually gonna choose the keywords.
So this keyword choice is done by
the artificial intelligence engine.
The point here, is that our natural language processing
is actually choosing these images,
and building the storyboard on my behalf.
Again, to recap, the text to video feature,
is what drives the Squigl engine,
rapidly condensing the production pipeline.
That makes all students, all teachers,
all faculty and staff, and even corporate learners,
and educators truly storytellers
in place of what could be a static presentation,
or simply a written outward processed report.
Now, with the click of this button, with just squiggling it,
one can quickly and easily create this format,
or genre of presentation.
So, for more information,
anyone can attend our website at Squiglit.com,
S Q U I G L I T.com.
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- [Jeremy] Hi, this is Jeremy Spencer,
I'm Executive Director of Product Development
at Britannica Digital Learning.
Britannica has been at the forefront
of the information revolution for 250 years.
We continue to be the prevailing trusted source
for factual information,
serving 140 million students in over 80 countries worldwide.
Today, I'd like to talk to you about Britannica LaunchPacks,
and Britannica School Insights.
All right, so let's take a look at how,
one of the Britannica's selection products.
Britannica School operates within Windows 10 environment,
and within the Edge browser.
So within Britannica School,
we have three different levels of content
geared to each of the different grade,
typical grade bands in the United States.
For now, I'm gonna take a look at our
Britannica School, high level.
And one of the things you'll see that as
you kinda scroll down the page,
we have a number of engaging features
designed to encourage students to learn more,
and follow their own curiosity at a self-guided pace.
I'll take you in to a few couple of examples,
but let's take a look here at what we call
one of our features Flash Facts.
And there we'll click on a volcano article,
and here you can also see that we have an additional
optional integration with Microsoft as well,
where you can click here and you can learn about,
or you can take the content and embed that
into your Microsoft Teams experience as well.
So that's another way that also we've worked well
with Britannica and Microsoft in the Edge browser.
We also have a new extension for Chrome Edge,
which is called Britannica School Insights,
and with Britannica School Insights,
you have a basically, you know, a great way to experience
learning with Britannica and your search results experience.
So I'm gonna show you a little bit of what that looks like.
So, I've got the extension installed.
And if you were to take a look
for some content on Einstein,
you'll see over here that on the right side,
now a Britannica section appears on the upper right corner
of your search results page.
And in that experience you'll see
Britannica content shows up here,
with that you can see Britannica School Insights
changes how students and schools will discover
by bringing fact-checked information
to search results pages.
It also supports digital literacy skills development
by searching trusted resources
in parallel with regular search results.
And then I'll also show you that
you can kind of expand it a little bit more,
and then you can also get an opportunity to see
some related topics, things that we'll explore
a deeper exploration of the content and within context.
Along with that,
we also have our new offering from Britannica,
which is our new option for searching
within our LaunchPacks product.
We've supplemented this product with some additional content
that is targeted at the fighting for equality,
African-American experience,
which is intended to support schools
with their diversity equity and inclusion initiatives.
There's 20 multimedia content sets,
which provide teachers with thoughtfully selected
curriculum resources and a clear path
to engage students in difficult topics,
while also enabling students to build social,
emotional skills such as empathy and awareness.
So if you'd like to learn more,
just go to britannicalearn.com,
and then you can learn more about Britannica's
various educational offerings, thank you.
- [Voice Over] All right, thank you so much
for joining this ISTE session on Windows 10,
and Microsoft Edge apps for education.
Hope you find this helpful,
please check out these links to learn more, thanks again.
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