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Take time to put your head in the cloud! The Cloud offers many benefits for educational organizations. Come learn more about Windows and SQL Azure. This session will cover the basics of both solutions and highlight easy, effective, and valuable partner solutions that leverage cloud computing. From reducing the burden of monthly security updates to providing seamless replication of SQL data, we will start to explain it all. Plus, we explain how Windows and SQL Azure are structured from a cost of services perspective. Come, learn, inhale, and embrace the cloud!

Partnering with top research universities in the United States, Microsoft has developed a cloud-based email and collaboration solution that can meet the rigorous needs of research institutions. Join us and discover how Office 365 can support your requirements for privacy and security, HIPAA BAA, MAC and PC, accessibility, and on premise and cloud environments.

Partnering with top research universities in the United States, Microsoft has developed a cloud-based email and collaboration solution that can meet the rigorous needs of research institutions. Join us and discover how Office 365 can support your requirements for privacy and security, HIPAA BAA, MAC and PC, accessibility, and on premise and cloud environments.

Unleash creativity and boost engagement in the classroom and beyond for students and educators! Learn how the powerful yet simple combination of Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010, Office Web Apps, and Kinect for Xbox 360 can provide the rich, interactive and intuitive tools you need to improve education outcomes. Join us for lively demos and discussion and discover how you can captivate students and enrich learning.

See how Microsoft solutions enable your education institution operations to run smoothly and efficiently. Meet student and teacher recruitment and retention goals. Improve alumni/constituent relationship management. Maximize funding from grants. Collaborate more effectively across classrooms, districts, departments and institutions. By choosing Microsoft, you will benefit from a consistent and familiar user experience and shared applications and services.

Collaborate across campus, city, the nation or the world with cutting edge collaboration solutions like Live@Edu and Office Web Apps. Join Microsoft to learn how to keep your students, educators and staff connected regardless of platform, device, or location.

Learn more about Microsoft Education Analytics solutions can enable your institution to meet federal, state and local standards for reporting. Go beyond the requirements and get into deep insights and analytics about your students to improve graduation rates, identify at risk students and ultimately prepare for dropout prevention.

Education is more than students sitting in a classroom. Online content is supplementing printed textbooks. WiFi hotspots are replacing classrooms. Libraries are going online. The expansion in Internet connectivity and the use of PCs and other mobile devices at home and in schools has transformed learning. Schools and campuses are increasingly both physical and virtual. Microsoft's Teaching and eLearning technologies can help you institution engage students more fully, and enhance staff and faculty communications. What's more, your campus may even have thetechnology in place already. Join Microsoft and Polycom to learn how you can fuel innovation in content creation, communication, collaboration, distance learning, and learning management.

See how Microsoft Institutional Effectiveness solutions can help Higher Education customers meet enrollment goals, increase student performance, make better decisions, and use budgets more efficiently.

Get the most out of your IT infrastructure. To meet evolving institutional needs, your IT infrastructure must continually adapt to support new applications and capabilities. Management costs, security risks, and the need to interoperate and access data affect your ability to maintain service levels. Microsoft Operational Efficiency solutions can help you simplify education IT infrastructure, reduce costs and help improve the outcome for your school and students. Join Microsoft to discuss how you can take your Education IT to the next level.

"In a time of tightening budgets, and the need to deliver communication services to the education community, schools are increasingly turning to federal funding programs like E-rate. Learn how you can build an E-rate strategy to pay for your communications infrastructure and which Microsoft products and services, like Microsoft Unified Communications and SharePoint solutions, are E-rate eligible. Join us for an open discussion and the opportunity to ask questions of our eRate specialist."

"Game Changer: Teaching and Learning with XBOX & Kinect in the Classroom and After-School Programs

Explore 21st century education with Kinect and discover creative ways to keep students engaged, focused, and motivated.

Discover how educators nationally are tapping into students' desire for interactive, fun, and challenging educational content. Explore how educators can use the Kinect sensor to replace vintage drill assignments, while track student individual progress and classroom achievements. With subjects varying from Mathematics to Physical Education, this technology is revolutionizing content delivery and engagement, while supplementing traditional curriculums.

The xBOX/Kinect platform also allows for video conferencing, cross-student and cross-school collaboration, and other digital content sharing."

Learn about the Education Desktop Solutions - are designed to help your IT organization maintain security, streamline management and cut costs. Microsoft education desktop solutions offer flexibility in choosing the best desktop management solution for your education institution. Whether your institution chooses to manage desktops on premise with centralized management or with the cloud; Microsoft offers the desktop environment that scales to your 21st century learning needs.

Microsoft private cloud solutions built with Hyper-V and System Center provide the benefits of cloud computing through the pooling of resources, elasticity, and self-service, while offering deep insights into applications, cross-platform support, and the ability to extend workloads between Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud environments — at a fraction of the cost of competitor solutions. Join Microsoft to discuss how you can optimize your Education infrastructure.

During this session we will share best practices and case studies of deployments, plus you will have the opportunity to ask questions and have conversations with our specialists to help you successfully deploy and get the most out of the Live@edu service.

When we started our well-intentioned move from providing users with paper-based documentation to providing them with electronic access to technical support content, we used the web as just another channel: Help 1.0. We populated websites with digital copies of printed documentation—downloadable, keyword-searchable PDF files. And, we repurposed content from printed manuals, pushing it to other digital formats (e.g., online help, CD, DVD). While these were all steps in the right direction, and at the time, the best methods for helping customers find information they need, they are no longer acceptable support solutions.

During this Adobe eSeminar, TCS Evangelist Thomas Aldous will interview content strategist Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, about Help 2.0. You'll learn how letting go of old school, preconceived notions about technical support have helped some of the world's biggest brands create engaging customer experiences. You'll find out how leveraging the knowledge of the crowd is helping users find the right information quickly and easily, regardless of who created the content. And, perhaps most importantly, you'll discover how adopting a Help 2.0 approach helps these organizations increase sales, reduce customer frustration and build meaningful customer relationships.

About Scott Abel

Scott Abel, aka The Content Wrangler, is an internationally-recognized content management strategist and social networking choreographer whose strengths lie in helping global organizations improve the way they author, maintain, and deliver information.

In addition to his popular business blog, TheContentWrangler.com, an online resource for content professionals with an interest in content management, content standards and content technologies, Scott maintains several online communities on Facebook and Linkedin, and is a popular and influential technology blogger on Twitter. He also manages the social networking activities for several software and services firms in the high technology and digital mobile publishing arenas.

The best in technical communication is here! With the all-new Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5, now you can author, enrich, review, publish and repurpose your technical content with a single integrated toolkit comprising of five powerful software.

Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, for an interactive eSeminar, to find out how you can:

• Expand your outreach by delivering content to multiple channels and devices: Publish content in print or as WebHelp, XML, HTML, or PDF files. Deliver it to smartphones, eBook readers, and tablets (via the EPUB route) with the versatile, single-click publishing capabilities of Adobe RoboHelp® 9.
• Minimize localization time and costs: Smoothly repurpose content with the single-sourcing capabilities of Adobe FrameMaker® 10, as well as tight integration between FrameMaker and RoboHelp and leading content management systems like Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, SDL Trisoft, Vasont Systems, and others.
• Accelerate time to market: Use roundtrip review workflows, commenting-enabled PDF files, and the aggregation capabilities of free Adobe Reader® and Acrobat.com to collaborate more efficiently with peers, SMEs, and others in today’s multiauthor environments.
• Deliver rich, interactive content to engage the audience: Include interactive videos, animations, graphics, quizzes, simulations, and show-me demos with the enhanced multimedia capabilities of Adobe Captivate® 5.5 (including new out-of the-box quiz templates, single-click publishing to YouTube, publishing in MP4 format for high-quality video streaming/podcasts/video tutorials),  Adobe RoboScreenCapture®, Adobe Photoshop® CS5, and Adobe Illustrator® CS5*.
 

*Adobe Illustrator CS5 is not part of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5 and must be purchased separately.

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for an introductory session demonstrating the fundamental components of Adobe Captivate, and explaining how to use these tools to create eLearning modules. This session is intended for beginners who have already seen Part 1 in this series, and it will gently guide you to a stronger understanding of how to use Adobe Captivate to create slightly more complex eLearning content.

If you understand the basics of application development but are new to ColdFusion, this session is for you:  in this session, you'll learn how ColdFusion Builder 2 allows you to create ColdFusion 9 web applications ridiculously easily and how, in conjunction with Flash Builder 4.5, you can easily take your Rich Internet Application development to the next level.

Award-winning instructional designer, Cathy Moore will sit down with Adobe eLearning Evangelist Dr. Allen Partridge on Tuesday, September 7th at 8AM US Pacific (11 AM US Eastern, 4PM London) for an Internet broadcast discussion on Creating Effective & Engaging eLearning. Cathy is an extraordinary force in the eLearning community who's dedicated to saving the world from boring eLearning. She's the creator Action Mapping, a visual system for designing lively instructional materials that support business strategy. Cathy designs eLearning for Fortune Global 500 organizations, helps clients improve their own design skills, and presents at international conferences.