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1 new Consider a way to seek and fi nd. With the multitude of Web sites to choose from, how do you find exactly what you need? Turn to Bing, the decision engine that helps make searching a visual, organized, and successful experience. Plus, Bing has dynamic content that can help engage students around nearly any topic. BING 1

Explore. Find. Succeed. Bing is more than a search engine. It s a decision engine that helps professors and students find what they need fast in a visual and organized way.

2 Explore. Find. Succeed. Bing is more than a search engine. It s a decision engine that helps professors and students find what they need fast in a visual and organized way. Bing can save time by making research or preparation for lectures easier. Dynamic features such as Related Searches and Map Apps can increase student learning and engagement. Top 3 reasons to use Bing 1. More organized Search engines can overwhelm you with hundreds of Web links. Bing organizes results by categories. Bing also offers Related Search results to help professors and students trigger a slightly new path to find the right content. 2. More engaging Start a class discussion with the Bing home page. The fascinating Photo of the Day, together with its clickable facts, fuels students sense of curiosity and exploration. More than simply learning facts, your students are learning to think and discuss. 3. Less clicks, more success With Bing Preview, you can hover over a search result and reveal a useful, descriptive summary of that Web site. This preview can save you time clicking back and forth and searching link after link. BING 2

This Bing feature helps speed your search by grouping information in areas such as Images, Videos, Maps, and News. The best comes first.

3 A fast way to freshen a lecture. Today s students are raised on multimedia. They absorb information fast when it is visually presented. Bing helps professors search for engaging content that improves student learning. For convenience, Bing organizes search results into categories on the left side of the Bing page. This Bing feature helps speed your search by grouping information in areas such as Images, Videos, Maps, and News. The best comes first. Bing presents the richest, most useful result to your search query, front and center. Bing summarizes the site and offers time-saving links that let you jump directly to relevant content found deep within the recommended site. Look before you click. Blindly clicking on search results is unproductive time. Let Bing lead you to compelling content in less clicks. Simply hover your cursor on an interesting search result, and Bing gives you a quick view and helpful summary of the site. So you can judge its quality before you click. Enhance your lectures. Sometimes lectures can use a lift. Bing can help you find compelling, relevant multimedia photos and videos to engage students on a topic. You challenge. They respond. Related Searches is another Bing feature that organizes your search into relevant and related areas you may not have considered. 3 BING

Take your teaching to new places. Nearly any topic has an origin of interest that can be traced on a map. Bing Maps and dynamic Map Apps will have your students looking at the world in unique ways.

4 Take your teaching to new places. Nearly any topic has an origin of interest that can be traced on a map. Bing Maps and dynamic Map Apps will have your students looking at the world in unique ways. How to find Map Apps. Bing Map Apps are free tools that bring learning to life. To see the diverse and growing collection of Map Apps, first go to com/maps and follow the links to Map Apps. Maps can be about people and cultures, not just roads and rivers. The Global Action Atlas Map App, in collaboration with National Geographic, introduces your students to humanitarian activities from environmental protection to cultural projects taking place around the world. Simply use your mouse to roll over pushpins on the map to see a quick project overview. Want more information? Click to see photos, videos, project details and more. Bing Maps also offers bird s-eye views of famous landmarks and Streetside Photos of cities from Vancouver, Canada to Paris, France. You will find everything from World- Wide Telescope that lets students tour the solar system to Today s front pages that presents views of newspapers each day from around the globe. 4 BING

5 Immerse your students in a subject. It s amazing what you can find on a Bing map. Discover interactive, 3-D Microsoft Photosynth technology and encourage students to explore historic or curious places as if they re standing right there. 4) Study architecture. Photosynth lets you compare the colorful domes of St. Basil s Cathedral in Moscow to the majestic Taj Majal in India to Toronto s modern SkyDome. Rotate and twist each Photosynth for architectural perspective. 5) Make any subject more engaging. Imagine lots of crisp digital photos stitched seamlessly together to create eye-popping experiences that you control. The world of photosynths offer ways to engage your students no matter the subject biology, sociology, history, oceanography, geography, art or anthropology. It s a world of possibilities found on Bing Maps. Teaching with Photosynth 1) Share fresh views. Other online maps will show you the roof of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art or a statue at the Museum of Modern Art. With Microsoft Photosynth, you can explore the galleries in 3-D. 2) See ecology as it looks today. Head to the Amazon rainforest, the Serengeti plains, or to the Antarctic and share a current view of habitats through firsthand 3-D synths. 3) Take a trip in a time machine. Bring ancient Greece and the Parthenon to your lecture hall. Get close enough to see the lichen on the rocks of Stonehenge. Stand on the Great Wall of China. Or climb the steps of an Aztec pyramid. For more information, including a step by step instruction guide and videos, go to: 5 BING

Instant answers and hottest tweets. Today s college students are wired, and not just from too many espresso drinks. How does a professor keep an educational edge?

Bing offers accurate, organized answers from reference experts Wolfram Alpha. Plus Bing has instant answers to common health and medical information. Find published content with one easy click.

Get real-time commentary on news and society. With 70 million users, Twitter is socially vital to educators.

Professors can search and use timely, intelligent tweets as a catalyst for financial, cultural, political, scientific, and other challenging class discussions.

6 Instant answers and hottest tweets. Today s college students are wired, and not just from too many espresso drinks. How does a professor keep an educational edge? Bing offers instant answers right from the search box on math, language, chemistry, general reference, and more. Discover a quick, reliable reference. Bing offers accurate, organized answers from reference experts Wolfram Alpha. Plus Bing has instant answers to common health and medical information. Find published content with one easy click. Bing gives one-click access to categories and articles from popular media and publishing sources. There s no need to go to the publication s home page and drill down for the article you need. Get real-time commentary on news and society. With 70 million users, Twitter is socially vital to educators. Bing organizes real-time content from Twitter to make it quicker to find, digest, and discuss. Professors can search and use timely, intelligent tweets as a catalyst for financial, cultural, political, scientific, and other challenging class discussions. Teacher Tip Staying current and provocative doesn t have to take hours of online work. Use Bing Visual Search on the Bing homepage to sort the top Twitter contributors. The power of Bing s Visual Search is impressive and engaging when you share it with students. A simple click instantly reorders Twitter search results by categories such as, most followed, top business leaders, most tweets, and more. Teacher Tip Show students a faster method of locating accurate, reliable reference information. With Instant Answers, Bing lets you type a specific question, or even a math equation in the search box. The result is a reliable and focused answer provided by reference experts Wolfram Alpha. Bing can even assist with graphing of math problems. 6 BING

Where to start looking. Bing Search: bing.com Bing Maps: bing.com/maps Bing Visual Search: bing.com/visualsearch Microsoft Photosynth : photosynth.net Or for more information, visit www.microsoft.

7 Where to start looking. Bing Search: bing.com Bing Maps: bing.com/maps Bing Visual Search: bing.com/visualsearch Microsoft Photosynth : photosynth.net Or for more information, visit SafeSearch filtering Bing SafeSearch filtering keeps offensive and inappropriate content out of your search results. You can either change your computer s setting or ask your network administrator to set SafeSearch for your whole school using Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server. For more information download the Step by Step guide located at Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT. Microsoft, Bing, and Photosynth are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. 7 BING

You ll also be able to add markers like Placemarks to keep track of some special locations.

You ll also be able to add markers like Placemarks to keep track of some special locations. Google Earth Basics Google helps bring the world to your desktop with Google Earth. This program allows you to search for specific locations and then zooms in to bring those areas to life through aerial