Faculty Connection is your source for curriculum resources and Microsoft tools to help with yourteaching needs. Visit the Resource Center to search for additional material and other educational content.

1. Faculty Connection
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Curriculum Resources

2. What is Faculty Connection
Tech Faculty Engagement
• > 108K + registered users
• Newsletters
• Articles, events, info
• Geographic Regional sites
• MS Research feeds
Repository of Resources
• 3K + curriculum materials
• Access to Software tools
• Curriculum Resource kits
• Training materials
• Presentation videos
• Provides technical resources, training, and software tools
• Source for MS specific news, technology highlights and events
Also:
• Facilitates development and sharing curriculum resources
• Material is for non-commercial, academic use
• Faculty-only membership/access is available for sharing
solutions, faculty experiences and pedagogical feedback
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3. Home Page

4. Resource Center
Resource Center page has all you need to find curriculum resources and tools
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5. Search home page: grid view
Visual Search is now integrated; full screen button option is available
Switch to
Full screen
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6. Visual Search: filtering and sorting
Selected Software Eng-g and Programming materials sorted by Technology topics in Graph view
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7. Visual Search: displaying object properties
Select any object to view its properties - see the strip/window on the right
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8. Visual Search: explore content using Deep Zoom
Select an object and click Explore to display internal content of a file (from zip to PPT)
Select a doc and click
Preview to see the doc
content
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Note: Video
preview is not
available for WMV
files yet
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9. Registration Pages
Once Registration menu selected, it’s “one click”, “one page” process
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10. Register for Faculty Connection Newsletter
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11. Curriculum Resources:
highlights

12. Faculty Connection: Suggested Resources
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17. Suggested Resources: plans
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18. Microsoft Academic Search Beta
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
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19. Resources
Microsoft Faculty Connection
http://www.microsoft.com/faculty
Microsoft UK Faculty Portal
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty
Microsoft UK Faculty Connection Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/uk_faculty_connection
Software Resources
DreamSpark http://www.dreamspark.com