A Day in the Life of a Teacher

re: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

Neil — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:00:51 GMT

The design and utility of this analysis is exactly what I was looking for from a teacher's perspective. I can use it to easily walk busy educators through the tough discussions of either Office 365 or Google Apps for Ed, or both. Thank you! (haven't looked yet, but I'm hoping there's more in the "A Day in the Life" series comparing O365 and GA4E!

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What a horrible comparison between the two products — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:25:13 GMT

With a little deeper review of the products the Google Apps is far more capable than office 365. They have features that will take microsoft years to implement if ever.

re: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

Tony Tai - MSFT — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:09:20 GMT

@Garth, @ Salamander: When considering Office 365 for education, schools have a choice in electing a free or a paid version (http://bit.ly/bSG86v). After a nine month evaluation, the All India Council for Technical Education chose Microsoft cloud services and will move from Live@edu to Office 365 for education. They chose Microsoft services over offerings from both Google and IBM, for 7.5 million users across the country. Over twenty years of productivity expertise made Microsoft stand apart in key, decision-making criteria. The company’s service roadmap, with a complete commitment to education across all of the Microsoft’s products and programs, made it their choice as the trusted, long-term supplier of cloud services. Microsoft has extensive experience delivering cloud services for students, in delivering Live @edu to over 22 million users, as the world’s most widely used productivity service for education. (http://bit.ly/IHUJBQ )

re: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

Garth — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:07:32 GMT

365 is not free, Google Apps is. Free can overcome many short comings!

re: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

Salamander — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:36:48 GMT

Wow, what a lop-sided comparison. I couldn't give this give this infographic a lick of credibility if I wanted to. A good IT person has an open mind and knows that every solution has it's own strengths and weaknesses, and no single solution has such an overwhelming punch on the competition.

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Ian Ray — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:42:28 GMT

How does Lync Online provide captioning for things like recorded lessons?

re: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

Tony Tai - MSFT — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:48:10 GMT

@Ian: Accessibility is important consideration in Microsoft product development. Check out how Lync 2010 is accessible here (blogs.technet.com/.../microsoft-lync-2010-accessibility.aspx), as well as how Microsoft helps Teachers create accessible teaching materials here (www.microsoft.com/.../teacher-materials.aspx).

re: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

Ian Ray — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:52:22 GMT

Both Google Apps video and the video playback in Google Drive are excellent. Also, both services allow for easy captioning of videos.

Recording a lesson with Lync does not allow captioning afaik. Users are even complaining about this on office365's community pages:

community.office365.com/.../24701.aspx

And, once again, the infographic complaining about accessibility features is inaccessible itself.