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Progress Report – New Initiatives with Microsoft
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- Tom Murray, Lynchburg College and Cindy Hudson, Randolph-Macon Women’s College
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For the past several years Lynchburg College has developed Microsoft tutorials for use with academic classes and faculty, student and staff training. The tutorials are now used internationally. After the 2003 ASCUE Conference, Joanne Salas, Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington, asked that I visit their campus to work with selected faculty on using the Office XP Tutorials. While in Bremerton, visits with Microsoft were arranged. During these visits, several new initiatives were discussed. As I am drafting this proposal, I am working with Microsoft to make the tutorials part of the Microsoft K-12 (Innovative Teachers) and Higher Education websites. Microsoft has indicated that the tutorials will be featured on these sites and that they will be hosted on a server which Microsoft will provide. The tutorials will also be available, when the next version of Office becomes available. They will now be created using Beta Office software supported by Microsoft Field Engineers. We are also working on a free Microsoft Office Certification for students, faculty and staff at K-12 and Higher Education institutions. We will also be creating a new K-12 and Higher Education program called “Best Practices.” This will be a forum, with Microsoft, where faculty will be identified as having created “something Microsoft,” which can be of wide application to everyone. It is envisioned that “winners” will receive a Tablet PC, Microsoft software and some cash. This presentation will furnish the latest information on all of these initiatives, as well as some others which are “unfolding” at this time.
Each participant at this session will receive a copy of the current tutorials.
Microsoft has indicated that they will supply significant “gift” software for the this conference.
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