Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative Schools Program Document Sharing Tool Teaches Tasmanian Students Real-Life Collaboration Skills “Office Live Workspace has helped us to focus on Overview Country or Region: Australia what’s really important, which is to do everything we Industry: Education can to make it easier for students to learn.” Customer Profile Brendan Vince, Teacher, Prospect High School, Tasmania Prospect High School is located just outside Launceston in the north of Tasmania and has approximately 650 Prospect High School, located just outside Launceston in students from grades 7 to 10. Tasmania, has approximately 650 students from grades 7 to 10, Business Situation and was one of 23 public schools in Australia selected to take Teachers wanted to develop students’ social networking skills into genuine part in the Microsoft Innovative Schools Program. While collaboration abilities. attending the Innovative Schools Forum in Perth, Prospect High Solution School teacher Brendan Vince saw an opportunity to apply Students at two separate schools used Microsoft Office Live Workspace to a learning project he and a Microsoft Office Live Workspace to jointly develop an advertising – colleague in Hobart had been developing getting students campaign promoting tourism in from both schools to collaborate online to produce an Tasmania. advertising campaign promoting Tasmania as a tourist Benefits destination. Students were given shared folders on Office Live Quick setup and instruction Enables anywhere, anytime learning Workspace, where they could place files and other work Promotes real-life skills elements relating to the project, providing them with flexible Teaches responsible online networking behaviours access to resources as well as a host of other collaboration Easily rolled out to teachers features.
Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative Schools Program Document Sharing Tool Teaches Tasmanian Students Real-Life Collaboration Skills Overview Country or Region: Australia Industry: Education Customer Profile Prospect High School is located just outside Launceston in the north of Tasmania and has approximately 650 students from grades 7 to 10. Business Situation Teachers wanted to develop students’ social networking skills into genuine collaboration abilities. Solution Students at two separate schools used Microsoft Office Live Workspace to jointly develop an advertising campaign promoting tourism in Tasmania. Benefits Quick setup and instruction Enables anywhere, anytime learning Promotes real-life skills Teaches responsible online networking behaviours Easily rolled out to teachers “Office Live Workspace has helped us to focus on what’s really important, which is to do everything we can to make it easier for students to learn.” Brendan Vince, Teacher, Prospect High School, Tasmania Prospect High School, located just outside Launceston in Tasmania, has approximately 650 students from grades 7 to 10, and was one of 23 public schools in Australia selected to take part in the Microsoft Innovative Schools Program. While attending the Innovative Schools Forum in Perth, Prospect High School teacher Brendan Vince saw an opportunity to apply Microsoft Office Live Workspace to a learning project he and a colleague in Hobart had been developing – getting students from both schools to collaborate online to produce an advertising campaign promoting Tasmania as a tourist destination. Students were given shared folders on Office Live Workspace, where they could place files and other work elements relating to the project, providing them with flexible access to resources as well as a host of other collaboration features.
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