Setting up SkyDrive

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Getting The Crowd To The Cloud
By Steve Healton AA, BS, MCP, MCSE, CCNA, UFO, OMG
What is this?
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AA
BS
PHD
Introducing Steve Healton
You need something to handle
the cloud.
Ronco’s New
Cloud-O-Matic
Manager
It slices, it dices the cloud, but wait there’s more
 S.A.S.
o Software As Service
 Getting people/students to the cloud
 Organize the use of the cloud in the classroom.
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Microsoft fuels the cloud - 70% of
Microsoft staff doing cloud-related
activities
Steve Balmer at University of Washington
What this generation expects &
demands from education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zzPBbXjWs
USING THE CLOUD IN THE
CLASSROOM
Using SKYDRIVE in the Classroom
Advantages of the Cloud in the Classroom
 The network is the computer – Sun
 Internet 2.0
 SAM = Great
o Get SAM if you can
 SKYDRIVE Works Well
SKYDRIVE IN THE CLASSROOM CAN PROVIDE…
A world class
learning
environment that
can be built with a
minimum of effort.
Easily distribute
projects and notes
Familiar user
interface, like
Microsoft®
Office Suite
Skydive provides
access to software
that helps
productivity
Students & the
faculty has their
communication
strengthen.
Faculty has more
time to focus on
teaching instead of
administration.
J.I.T.
(Just In Time)
Assignments
Keep the account
after graduation
Give tests
ON LINE
Use ExamView
Test Generator
Student turns in
homework ON LINE
Assignments can be
turned in from
anywhere.
Advantages of the Cloud in the Classroom
 PAPERLESS WORK
o Save Money
 Save paper: Could be up to $300 a year
o Paperless tests
o Turn in homework on line
 COMMUNICATIONS
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o
o
Share information on line
Communicate with students in real time – Anytime
Share Videos & web links to enhance learning
Give students additional learning aids on the fly
Advantages of the Cloud in the Classroom
 ASSINGMENTS
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o
o
o
Students can turn in Homework anytime from anywhere
Turned in assignments are DATE STAMPED
File names organize assignments
Assign Homework when students are absent
 TESTS
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o
o
o
o
Don’t have to hand out paper
Change tests minutes before you give them
Each student gets a different test
Tests are self correcting
Tests gives information why the student got the wrong answer
You could be here, checking homework that was
turned in.
Windowslive.com to get a Skydrive
How to Use SkyDrive in the Classroom
Students SkyDrive
Students
Computer
Departments SkyDrive
Instructors
Computer
Create TWO SkyDrives
 Students
 Departments
o Not in the teachers name, but your department.
o A departments SkyDrive allows all teachers to use it.
o Allows a substitute (if they know how) to completely take over
Add student to Hotmail Contact List
Have
student add
Departments
ID to their
Hotmail
Contact List
Setting up SkyDrive
Create File Folders
•For all Students
•For individual class
•For Each student
•For Tests
Setup SkyDrive Files
All Students
One for each student
Group by file name
HW = Home Work
Then by Class Aft = Afternoon
Then Students name
Suggest last name first
Link Student ID to file
Set share options on file
Only the student and you can
get to this file.
Student saves files by
Class name first then
chapter then what
assignment it is.
Self files for the
instructor
Students can see if
they turned in the
assignment
TESTS ON SKYDRIVE
.
USING
Create the file for SkyDrive
Set up Scramble and Number of Questions
You can set it up with higher security,
Even what time to take it and passwords
However it will not set up quantity
of questions.
When the LAN test is done.
Students have to print the test to turn it in
HTML Test will mail to the instructor
Mapping to SkyDrive with XP
 http://skydrivesimpleviewer.codeplex.com/
 Unzip DumpUlrs.exe
 Open up a command window
Map Network Drive – Online Storage
Use SkyDrive
 Microsoft Office 2010 Save directly to SkyDrive
 Links Students and Instructors
 Saves the instructor time
o Distributing tests
o Grading tests
o What Homework has been turned in.
 What students expect from the modern teacher
 Grade from home with out taking a ton of paperwork
o Grade while camping
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