Project Tuva is an Enhanced Video Player from Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Research’s Project Tuva explores core scientific concepts and theories through presenting timeless videos with its new Enhanced Video Player featuring fully searchable video content, linked transcripts, relevant links, dynamic note taking abilities, expert commentary, references, and interactive extras.
- Explore core scientific concepts.
- Interact with timeless videos.
- Experience expertly curated content.
Featured Video Series: The Messenger Lectures
The Messenger Lectures include seven videos of Dr. Richard Feynman speaking on physics at Cornell University in 1964. His signature speaking, style, humor, and clarity is enhanced by Project Tuva's interactive annotations and full transcripts.
Developed especially for schools and colleges, Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office extends Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint functionality to be more applicable
to teaching and learning. Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office includes a substantial number of templates, toolbars, and tutorials for students
and teachers. Some language versions include tools to create e-learning content
that conforms to SCORM standards.
With Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office,
students and teachers can get started, stay organised, and successfully complete
high-quality work. Teachers can create effective instructional resources, complete
administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies.
Using the Content
Development Kit, teachers can create additional templates and tutorials that
integrate with familiar Microsoft Office applications. And students can use templates with project assistance to coach
them through a variety of assignments.
The English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian,
and Spanish versions of Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office also support SCORM standards. SCORM
Tools seamlessly convert Microsoft
Office documents into standards-based e-learning content that
can be managed and reused by any SCORM-conformant learning management system.
Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a free download for Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007.
Expression Encoder 4 imports and encodes video files, produces live webcasts, enhances media with watermarks and advertising, and publishes with Silverlight.
Encode a wide array of video file formats, stream live from webcams and camcorders or screen capture your PC.
Make simple edits to video files and enhance your media with overlays and advertising.
Choose encoding settings, choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.
The Microsoft Math Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 makes it easy to create graphs, perform calculations, and solve for variables with equations created in Word.
Microsoft Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device plug-in rival to the Adobe Flash Player plug-in.
Microsoft Silverlight 3 includes a number of new features including support for hardware-based graphics acceleration and new codec support for H.264, AAC audio and MPEG-4.
Other new features to be found in version 3 include the ability to run Silverlight 3 outside the browser using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), support for multi-touch applications, ability to convert images into three dimensions thanks to the implementation of Microsoft Photosynth, upgrades to the Microsoft DeepZoom technology and new pixel shader effects.
Tags: Add-Ins and Plug-ins, E-Learning from Microsoft
Import your photos from your digital camera; the Windows Live Photo Gallery will automatically organise them based on date and time. Keep your images organised by name, date, rating, and type. Locate similar photos with tags you add.
Create a cool panoramic view by combining multiple photos. Capture the moment by adding captions. Enhance your photos by adjusting things like color and exposure. Improve your photos with simple crop and red-eye fixes.
Windows Live Photo Gallery resolves the biggest complaint about the original Photo Gallery - its oversimplified import path. The revised import wizard groups photos by date and time and lets you pick and choose which ones to import. It also adds a whizzy bit of technology that lets you stitch photos together into widescreen panoramas. Its tagging and basic photo editing features are mostly unchanged, which is just fine. All in all, this free download is one of the best programs Microsoft has developed in ages.
Make home movies like a pro with Windows Movie Maker 2 and this brand new collection of creative extras, including video titles, music, and sound effects.
Windows Movie Maker 2 Winter Fun Pack 2003
Download now for fun holiday transitions, effects, animations, sound effects, and background images. Plus, get a cool tool for importing movies to your Pocket PC or SmartPhone.
Digital Video with Windows Movie Maker 2 Winter Fun Pack Download
Check out this expansive collection of wintery sound effects, holiday music, titles, video titles, and cut scenes for use with Windows Movie Maker 2 and Windows XP.
Microsoft FUSE Labs works in partnership with product and research teams to ideate, develop, and deliver new social, real-time, and media-rich experiences for home and work.
FUSE Labs experiences give users new ways to create, connect and collaborate with the people, information and ideas that matter to them.
Microsoft Showcase is your central location for viewing rich media from Microsoft.
Scan the Quick Picks for the latest videos, enter a search, or choose a category from the Video Guide.
Then tell Microsoft what you think by rating what you’ve watched. If you like what you see, share it with a friend or colleague, or link to it in your blog using one of the community features.
Project Emporia filters updates from the Twitter public feed and automatically develops lenses on topics based on the likes/dislike preference of readers, providing suggested insight into what’s happening in Twitter around that topic seen through people’s eyes.
There is no login required to browse by topic and filter down by relevance.
This allows people who have never used Twitter to search for useful information about topics they are interested in.
For example, by choosing the ‘technology’ lens with four stars of relevance, you would see results of what people are talking about from the public Twitter feed and, as a result, what’s happening now in the technology industry.
If you chose to broaden the search, you could go to only two stars for additional results around related technology topics to appear. Or you can also simply search by topic removing the relevance filter.
Microsoft Pivot is an application intended to make it easier to view and interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.
It enables the visualization of trends in related information using Microsoft Seadragon technology.
Microsoft Pivot at TED2010
Gary Flake: is Microsoft Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
Gary Flake demos Microsoft Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online.
Built on breakthrough Microsoft Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.
The Microsoft Silverlight PivotViewer provides a visual way to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, informative, and valuable.
PivotViewer lets us present thousands of things at once and visualize them in a way that exposes value from the group. PivotViewer experiences range in complexity to build.
All involve the creation of a collection. PivotViewer is now available for you to begin building and embedding your collections directly onto your webpage.
Microsoft Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.
The technology in Microsoft Photosynth works by scanning collections of photographs, which can be taken from different cameras at different times.
It picks out distinctive features in each image and cross-references them against the other photographs, checking for similarities.
This allows it to pinpoint a feature's 3D position and to also calculate where the position of the camera would have been when the picture was taken.
Microsoft Photosynth at TED2007
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Microsoft Photosynth (based on Microsoft Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo.
Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar.
"Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007.
Indeed, Microsoft Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images.
Maps of the world, street map search, route planner, directions and traffic, satellite and aerial images, birds eye view, yellow pages, 3D cities, white pages, and more.
Introducing Microsoft
Semblio, a new set of content assembly tools that will help
you easily make dynamic and engaging lessons and presentations for your students.
Microsoft Semblio will make it easy to create or customise rich multimedia content from within
a single application.
With Microsoft Semblio, you'll be able to
bring together text, audio, video, and other multimedia materials like never
before to make engaging, dynamic lessons. And Microsoft Semblio will have familiar
features similar to those in other Microsoft Office products, so it will be easy to learn and use.
Microsoft Semblio will also make it easier
to do administrative tasks such as tracking, reporting, and assessment. With Microsoft Semblio, you really can bring
learning to life.
Multimedia content and lesson plans are currently being developed for Microsoft Semblio,
which will launch in 2010. Check out this demo for Microsoft
Semblio and see how you can bring content to life.
(Right click and Save Target As... to download
the video and embed in to your Microsoft Powerpoint using Part 1 of the Efficient
Information Transfer Mechanism.)
(Right click and Save Target As... to download
the video and embed in to your Microsoft Powerpoint using Part 1 of the Efficient
Information Transfer Mechanism.)
This add-in enables you to embed Creative Commons
licenses directly into Microsoft 2007 Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents.
Plug-in to Microsoft Office 2007 which connects
to the Creative Commons webservice in order to generate and embed XML and bitmap
representations of Creative Commons licenses.
Build new applications in the cloud - or use interoperable
services that run on Microsoft infrastructure to extend and enhance your existing
applications.
The Microsoft Windows Azure platform provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the internet.
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images - including RAW captures.
The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos, view and edit metadata, and more, leveraging the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local.
Microsoft Research presents AutoCollage, an advanced computer vision and image processing program which automatically creates collages of your pictures.
Microsoft Kodu Game Lab is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone.
Microsoft Kodu Game Lab provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing your own new games.
Microsoft Kodu Game Lab programming environment will run on a Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.
Tags: E-Learning for Primary Schools, E-Learning from Microsoft
Microsoft DreamSpark is simple; it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and designer tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.
Currently, you can get the following Microsoft tools from DreamSpark:
* Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
* Microsoft Expression Studio 1.0
* Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Trial Edition (includes Web, Blend, Media, and Design)
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
* Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition
* IT Academy Student Pass
Plus, you can download software at no charge, including:
* SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
* Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition
* XNA Game Studio 2.0 (with 12-month Creators Club Student trial membership)
* Virtual PC 2007
* Visual Basic 2005 Express
* Visual C++ 2005 Express
* Visual C# 2005 Express
* Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
* Visual Basic 2008 Express
* Visual C++2008 Express
* Visual C# 2008 Express
