Microsoft Education Webcasts

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.