1. Office Mix
Participants will explore the tools in Office Mix in order to create interactive learning objects. Tools may include: voice, video, digital ink, polls, and analytics.
Jennifer Weaver
Resource Teacher
Office of Digital Learning

2. What digital tools have you used to deliver new content to students?+
(positive aspects) Δ
(limitations)
Tool

3. What is Office Mix?
Office Mix is a PowerPoint plug-in that allows you to include:
Audio of yourself narrating information
Video of yourself speaking to viewers
Annotations being drawn on your slides
Interactive “labs” like quizzes and live webpages

4. Do you have Office Mix installed?
Yes No
Go to mix.office.com
Click on Get Office Mix
Follow the on-screen prompts to install Office Mix (administrator rights required)
Go to mix.office.com
Click on Gallery
Scroll down and view an example Mix from one of the content areas

5. Possible Uses Benefits Teachers Students Administrators
Blended learning and flipped classrooms
Sharing best practices and lessons with colleagues
Students
Project reports
Storytelling
Communication skills
Administrators
Professional development
Leadership communications
Benefits
Analytics of viewer interactions
Presentation is viewed exactly as the author intends
24/7 access with simple sharing and permission settings
Easy to “live mix” presentations for archives and reference

6. Let’s Try it Out!

7. Slide Recording
Use the inking tools, audio recording, and video recording to discuss and annotate the parts of speech in the sentence below (noun, verb, adverb, adjective, etc.)
She quickly ran into the line of fire to save the cute chipmunk.

8. Free Response Quiz
Add a free response quiz question of your choice to this slide.

9. Selected Response Quiz
Add a selected response quiz question of your choice to this slide.

10. Embedded Webpage
Add an embedded webpage to this slide.

11. Screen Recording
Create a screen recording that shows viewers how to change the font size and style in a Microsoft Word Document.

13. Uploading 1 2 3 4

14. Sharing

15. Accessing Your Mixes

16. Analytics

17. Analytics cont.

18. Analytics cont.

19. Turn and Talk
How could you see yourself using Office Mix in the coming school year?
In what ways could students benefit from using Office Mix?

20. Questions? jweaver@bcps.org http://bcpsodl.pbworks.com/Office%20Mix
DLU Participants: Reflection is due to by: August 11