Microsoft Learning Essentials

If you are using Microsoft Office on a Windows machine, there is a tool available that will greatly benefit both you and your students. It is Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office. It provides both teachers and students with powerful enhancements to benefit instructional use of the office applications. Learning Essentials includes both teacher and student module that includes a vast array of templates and tutorials produced by leading education publishers.

The teacher module opens to let you view tutorials on using office applications specifically for classroom use. It teaches you to use Excel to make interactive photo’s and diagrams that give information about specific parts of the picture. It also includes many templates for creating worksheets with a powerful equation editor to make even advanced math, algebra, geometry, science, and calculus a breeze. I also like the classroom management templates including a grade book, seating chart, and grading rubrics, and more.

The student module includes instruction on the writing process, from the well known Write-Source writing program. Other publishers include Intelligence Online, Pearson-Prentice Hall, Tom Snider Productions, and McGraw Hill. You ca also customize and create your own tutorials and templates to add to the student interface. This training enables students to use hands on computer based manipulative, and helps instruction in math science and writing. It also includes templates to help kids get stared on projects, and writing assignments.
Learning Essentials is a high quality and very valuable program. I’m not just saying that because Microsoft is giving me the equivalent of cost of 100 licenses of this program to write this article, oh by the way the program is free. It can be downloaded from Microsoft. The free price tag and the valuable content make this program a must have, if you are fortunate enough to have a Windows PC, running Microsoft Office XP or above.

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