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Microsoft free tools
for teachers and faculty
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The tools described in this piece are free for teachers and
faculty in the United States. Some of these tools may be
fee-based outside of the United States.
Technology that helps you
Offering free tools that help motivate and inspire students.
Using digital tools to help educators
engage students
Microsoft is helping teachers with free tools
for education
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AutoCollage – create a unique piece of art with student’s photos.
Worldwide Telescope – enable a classroom PC to function as a telescope.
Photosynth® – intriguing 3D experience for sharing or viewing a photo collection.
Songsmith® – bring out your student’s musical and singing talents.
Photo Story for Windows® XP – turn digital photos into compelling slide show.
Windows Live® SkyDrive® – store and share up to 25GB of files and photos, free.
Windows Live® Writer – makes composing and publishing blogs even easier.
Bing™ Translator, Bing™ Search and Bing™ Maps – Free online translation service, improved
Web search and interactive, worldwide maps.
Mouse Mischief – makes lessons interactive using one computer and multiple mice.
Mathematics Add-in – lets students visualize formulas and complex math problems with 2-D
and 3-D graphing functions.
Interactive Classroom – increase student participation with interactive in-class polling and
note-taking
Engage your students
Create a unique piece of art with AutoCollage
• Quick collage-making photo tool.
• Inspire students to gather photos on a subject or snap their own pictures.
• Give your lessons or lectures more stopping power.
Turn a classroom PC into a virtual telescope
• WorldWide Telescope brings together imagery from the world’s best ground and spacebased telescopes.
• Explore the night sky with seamless panning and zooming of stars, planets, streaking comets
and more.
• Includes guided, narrated tours of the galaxy.
• Created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.
Photosynth presents an intriguing, interactive
way to view photos on any subject
• Share a photo collection of a famous place by stitching them together for an engaging 3D
interaction.
• Bring cinematic quality and mind-blowing detail to students’ digital photography.
Bring out musical creativity
• Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match any singer’s voice.
• Choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith produces a finished,
rich-sounding music track.
• Share and post students’ songs online, or create fun music videos.
• Inspire songwriting by simply singing into a microphone.
Create compelling slide shows with Microsoft
Photo Story for Windows XP
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• Create a slide show with a simple click
or two.
• Photo stories bring class subjects to
life for students.
• Easy to use, intuitive tools to enhance,
rotate and crop photos.
• Add special effects, soundtracks, and
voice narration to your photo stories.
Collaborate better
and make everyday
tasks easier
Windows Live SkyDrive — store and share your
files and photos for free
• 25 GB of free storage, online.
• You set password and decide
who can see what files or
folders.
• For a workgroup, everyone
can upload, download and
collaborate.
• Personal folders.
• Store and access your
personal files and photos
anytime.
• Password protected storage.
Windows Live Spaces
& Windows Live Writer
• Blogging made easy.
• Easy creation, customization,
and publishing tools.
• Keep students and parents
informed.
• Share ideas and experiences
with the education community.
• Use student blogs to change
the way students view
self-expression.
Windows Live Spaces:
set up, customize, and
publish your blog
Windows Live Writer:
makes composing, previewing, and
publishing your blogs even easier
Improved Web search with Bing
Microsoft Bing Search helps teachers and faculty find
the information they need faster.
Visual Search makes search results immediately pop.
Bing worldwide maps cover the world from
satellite to street views
Free online translation service
Microsoft Bing Translator — Compare original text with
translated version side by side.
Useful resource for educators doing multi-language projects.
Mouse Mischief — students can use multiple
mice to interact with a classroom lesson
• Easily create interactive
presentations that engage the
class.
• Supports multiple mice using
one computer.
• Students answer multiple
choice questions and draw on
shared screen.
• Simple to integrate with
PowerPoint 2007 and 2010.
• Free to download.
Microsoft Interactive Classroom- More
participation equals more learning
• Conduct in-classroom polls and
get live responses from students
using clicker devices or
computers.
• Create and distribute lessons in
PowerPoint® 2007& 2010 with
multiple choice, yes/no, or
true/false questions.
• Provide students with the entire
lesson using OneNote 2007 and
2010, including, polling results
and the educator’s notes.
• Free download.
Microsoft Mathematics Add-in helps visualize
complex equations
• Improves understanding of
difficult math concepts and
equations.
• Easily create 2-D and 3-D
graphs with a click.
• Help with everything from
algebra to calculus to statistics.
• Number crunching with
multimedia appeal.
• Free add-in to Word 2007 and
2010, and OneNote 2010.
Free tools that help researchers collect,
analyze, annotate and publish research data
Microsoft Add-ins for Researchers:
Chem4Word
• Simplify the authoring of chemical information in Word —
specifically the inclusion of chemical structures.
Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007
• Open and Save Microsoft Office Word files in National Library of
Medicine XML format.
Ontology Add-in for Word 2007
• This add-in should simplify the development and validation of
ontologies.
Additional resources
Additional educator resources
Educator videos, getting started guide and step-by-step instructions
Teachers:
www.microsoft.com/education/freetools
Faculty:
www.microsoft.com/freetools
•© 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
•This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS
DOCUMENT. Microsoft, plus Bing™ Translator, Songsmith, Bing™ Search, Bing™ Maps, Windows Live™ Writer, and Windows Live™ SkyDrive are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be
the trademarks of their respective owners.
•These materials were created from a US perspective, some software may or may not be available in your market for free.
•*Join http://us.partnersinlearningnetwork.com for free to obtain complete free version of AutoCollage and Songsmith (vs. trial).
Free tools & demos
Tool
Where to get it
AutoCollage*
microsoft.com/AutoCollage
Worldwide Telescope
worldwidetelescope.org
Photosynth
photosynth.net
Songsmith Free Trial*
microsoft.com/songsmith
Photo Story for Windows XP
microsoft.com/PhotoStory
Windows Live SkyDrive
Skydrive.Live.com
Windows Live Writer
windowslive.com/Online/Spaces
Bing Search and Bing Maps
bing.com
Bing Translator
microsoftTranslator.com
Mouse Mischief
microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief
Interactive Classroom and Math Add-ins
microsoft.com/officeaddins
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