Microsoft Sway is one of Microsoft's newest apps. Sway allows you to create professional looking content which can be shared with students in the form of tutorials or flipped classes with different forms of multimedia embedded. This course will give a brief introduction as to some of the ways in which you can use this to create communication and collaboration, as well as to empower students.
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we'll take a look…at one of Microsoft's newest apps, which is called Sway.…Typically, when we think of Microsoft Office,…we think of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint,…but now joining the team of powerful apps is Microsoft Sway.…I've heard people describe Sway as a PowerPoint alternative,…but I think it's much more than this.…My goal in this chapter is to briefly introduce Sway…and then show some ways for educators…to use it to improve student learning, including…creating tutorials, newsletters, and flipped classes.…
We'll also discuss ways that we can…empower our students to use Sway…in order to demonstrate their learning of the content.…In this course, we won't be going over…the basics of Office Sway.…If some of these ideas are ones…that you're interested in trying out…but you need to learn more about how to use Office Sway,…you can check out our course Sway Essential Training,…which is in our library.…Let's get started exploring Sway.…
Author
Oliver Schinkten
Released
12/5/2018- Overview of Microsoft Office 365 for educators
- Creating effective and engaging presentations in PowerPoint
- Recording presentations for flipped classes
- Creating tutorials and flipped classes with Sway
- Tracking student progress with Excel
- Creating visual representations of data in Word
- Sharing resources with OneDrive
- Creating class notebooks with OneNote
- Communicating and collaborating with Microsoft Teams
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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1. Overview of Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Office Online2m 36s
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2. Microsoft PowerPoint for Educators
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Effective presentations3m 9s
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Engaging presentations2m 52s
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Link actions6m 10s
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3. Sway for Educators
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What is a Sway?5m 39s
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4. Microsoft Excel for Educators
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Track student progress7m 25s
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Filtering results2m 39s
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5. Microsoft Word for Educators
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Use Word templates1m 46s
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6. One Drive for Educators
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7. One Note for Educators
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OneNote Class Notebooks7m 59s
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OneNote Web Clipper2m 59s
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8. Microsoft Teams
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Create a new class4m 44s
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Create assignments5m 14s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 54s
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Video: Introduction to Sway for educators