Video Tutorials

The following are Video Tutorials for individual Office Applications.  Each is less than eight minutes long!  This is a fantastic way to start using each application! 

• Up to Speed with Word 2007 Video Tutorial by Microsoft 
• Up to Speed with Excel 2007 Video Tutorial by Microsoft 
• Up to speed with PowerPoint 2007 Video Tutorial by Microsoft 
• Publisher 2007 Series of Short Video Tutorials by Microsoft
• Access 2007 Video Tutorial by Microsoft 

Self-Paced Courses on Office ’07

The following are also provided by Microsoft.  In this section you can select which content area you would like to view the self-paced lesson for. Each lesson includes audio demonstration, some with an option for visual as well.  At the end is a short test and a quick reference card.     

• Getting  Started with Microsoft Office 2007 by Microsoft
• Word 2007 Courses by Microsoft 
• Excel 2007 Courses by Microsoft 
• PowerPoint 2007 Courses by Microsoft 
• Publisher  2007 Courses by Microsoft    

• Access 2007 by Microsoft

Converting from Office 2003 to Office 2007 

• Word 2003 to Word 2007 
• Excel 2003 to Excel 2007
• PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007
• Access 2003 to Access 2007    

Elementary Examples
http://cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu/beyond4walls/TCEA/
podcasts_by_cfb_teachers.htm
 New Teacher Hotline
http://www.newteacherhotline.com/

Ideas on Podcasting use in Education

From http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/publish/article_610.php
This is not meant to be a definitive list!

• Record lessons for students (and parents!) to access in their own time.
• Enable students to do a presentation about themselves rather than only sticking to PowerPoint!
• Create a short introduction to your school, or the course you run, for potential to access, and to let parents know what they can expect their children to be doing — get student contributions too!
• Create a class radio station.
• Enable students to submit work in the form of a podcast.
• Create audio resources for use by sight-impaired students.
• Find and use podcasts as part of project research materials.
• Use foreign language podcasts to improve linguistic skills.
• Use podcasts to get an insight into another country’s culture, or another person’s daily lifestyle.
• Enable students to create dynamic presentations without the complexity of digital video.
• Subscribe to various podcasts in different subjects in order to provide extra curriculum resources at virtually no cost.
• Provide students with a different way of carrying out surveys in the local area.
• Create an audio blog of a school field trip.
• Create an enhanced podcast entitled “My summer holiday”.
• Subscribe or listen to different podcasts in order to help students develop their critical faculties.
• Ask students to create a podcast to meet a real need, as part of a coursework project, for example for a local business.  

Tutorials:

Podcasting Tutorial: http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/podcasting-tutorial.html
Audacity Tutorial: http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html
Download Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Free Music for Podcasting:

• Garage Band: http://www.garageband.com/htdb/index
• cNet Free Music for Downloading: http://music.download.com/?tag=navtab
• PodSafeAudio: http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
• The Free Sound Project: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php – devoted to sounds not songs. Does require registration.