Bing: The Getting Started Guide for Educators
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Save time, make lesson preparation easier, and increase student engagement with Microsoft Bing. Bing is more than a search engine, it's a decision engine that includes both search and interactive components, including: Bing Search, Bing Maps, Bing Translator, and Bing Visual Search. Together, these can help teachers and students find and present engaging, interactive content that can help improve learning.
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The decision engine that helps make Internet searching a visual, organized, and successful experience
Bing Search helps you save time by presenting most the useful results on top, organizing search results by category, and providing mouseover previews of the results content. It also helps by providing lists of related links, as well as offering a visual search tool to aid further discovery. Bing Maps use dynamic, interactive content to immerse students in interesting places, historical information, maps, and humanitarian activities around the globe. With Bing Translator, you can instantly translate your findings into over 30 languages. Finally, Bing Safe Search filtering keeps offensive and inappropriate content out of your search results and your classroom.
Bing gives you a rich, organized way to search:
- Reduce information overload and enjoy productive searches
- Make lesson plans more dynamic and visual
- Find rich content quickly
- Take students on virtual field trips
- Translate information for multilingual students
- Photo of the Day changes daily with fun and interesting facts about the photo
- "Look before you click" – preview info before clicking on a link
- Improve vocabulary for elementary students
System requirements:
- 512 MB of RAM or more
- A 500 MHz processor or faster
- Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
- Microsoft Silverlight 3 or later
- Windows Internet Explorer 6 or later, or Firefox 3.6 or later; Bing Bar will work on Firefox 3.5, but it isn’t specifically supported
- 50 MB of free hard disk space
Resources
Bing Search
Search whatever comes to mind, and give your classroom a limitless approach to creative learning.
Bing: Getting started guide for educators
Supply your classroom with a tool built for learning. See how Bing can help your students move forward on their homework when you can’t be there to help.
Bing Translator
Break the language barrier! Translate Spanish to English, Greek to Lithuanian, or French to Italian with ease. Communicate globally, and explore the world's many languages.
Photosynth | Bing
Explore these amazing 3D Bing experiences created by members of Photosynth.net.
Bing Visual Search
Search visually on topics like movies, songs, famous people, sports, historical destinations, and more. Compare and find via rich images & data.
Bing Maps
Explore the world from your classroom! Get directions to anywhere and navigate your way across the globe.
Bing Mobile
Study class subjects while on-the-go! Access and search the web directly from your mobile device.
Applications for Bing Bar
Raise the Bar! Download the Bing Bar and enjoy a better, faster way of searching the web.
Bing Translator Add-on
Bing Translator is a free online language translation service for text and web pages. Easily translate any text on any page with this Accelerator.
Internet Explorer Gallery Add-ons
Quickly map any address or location inside your browser with the Bing Maps Accelerator!
Bringing Mathematics alive with Mathematics 4.0 and Bing Maps
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Use Bing Maps as a tool to apply mathematical concepts in real world scenarios.
Language Learning with Bing and Office 365
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Learn to use the Bing Translator as a communication tool.
Using Bing Maps for Collaboration
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Understand how Bing Maps can be used for collaborative activities.