Minecraft Education Edition is a series of Microsoft YouthSpark Yogyakarta in 2017 that focuses on enhancing educational competence and competitiveness among students in the field of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology). This activity is a continuation of the workshop that was held earlier which used Touchdevelop as a media to create a game. However, this workshop focused on teaching techniques and practices regarding on the use of Minecraft: Education Edition as a platform to increase collaboration between teachers and students in learning and teaching. Simply through this game, players can create a play area and in it the teacher or students can work together solvi...

TechTalk Office 365 for Education is a session facilitated by Microsoft Innovation Center in partnership with Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. Specifically, It was held by Certification and Education Division and it was led by Randi Eka Yonida as Manager of certification and education division. This workshop aimed to share about the advantages of Office 365. This event was held at January 25 – 26, 2017 at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) and it was attended by around 70 lecturers from the Medical Faculty. First, the participants were guided to activate their 365 account. Then they were guided by the facilitator to learn the basic of One Note, including how to create a sectio...

On January 17, 2017, Microsoft Innovation Center was trying to facilitate the students from STIMIK AKAKOM Regarding with Windows 10 Security socialization. Many students do not know that Windows 10 has completed with virus protection. Therefore, Certification and Education Division, at Microsoft Innovation Center cooperated with STMIK AKAKOM held a mini workshop that discussed about Security in Windows 10. Ridi Ferdiana as Research Advisor at Microsoft Innovation Center and person in charge that has duty to make sure that the participants maximizing the various features that existing in Windows 10. This mini workshop was attended by 38 participants coming from students at STIMIK AKAKOM. ...

Office365 OneNote is a mini workshop that covered about Microsoft OneNote, one of the Office applications that has function like paper records where the users can write, draw, insert objects, write, featuring screenshots, leave comments, and share them with other colleagues. OneNote integrates with Microsoft Office and the user can write anything and anywhere, synchronized with OneDrive, and easy to collaborate and share notes. This mini workshop was conducted at the Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta that held on January 18, 2017. This event was attended by 46 participants who are students from UTY. This event was organized by the Certification and Education Division of Microsoft Innovati...

Techtalk: Word for Research is a mini workshop held to finalize the participants' knowledge about the facilities formatting in Word for writing scientific documents. Features such as setting page, setting footnotes, contents list creation, and page numbers learned in this workshop. This mini workshop emphasized the direct use of Word on the implementation in the academic environment, adjusted the utilization of the features of the writing rules that apply in accordance with the rules that have been defined. This event was followed by academic community who have an interest for writing documents and academic publications. For this purpose, Microsoft Innovation Center and Certification and ...

Cloud Computing became one of the most influential technologies in the last decade. The flexibility and performance that promises can be attract the implementation of these technologies in various sub-sectors. As one of the largest university in Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada feels the need to begin to touch the latest technology, to enhance the educational services that exist in it in terms of information and communication technology facilities. Direktorat Sistem dan Sumber Daya Informasi (DSSDI) is the official sector in this university that specifically address the needs of information technology and communications. Working closely with Research and Innovation Division of Microsof...

The teacher always expects to be able presenting a learning activities that is fun for the students. A space that spurs creativity, cultivate the spirit of learning and fun for the students. Various methods are used to present this mission, starting from brush up the materials, transform learning plans up to presented digital facilities in classroom. However, in fact all this thing will be back on how the teachers create creativity in learning models. It is because software and hardware will only be the tools and the key point is in the way to deliver.  Facilitating teachers’ spirit to present new model of learning, Certification and Education Division of Microsoft Innovation Center in p...

21st century learning is always paired with digitation era, in which information and computing technology be the foundation for many things included education field. It implicates the teachers as a front guard who forms educational models need to move forward in order to initiate and transmit to other entities in the school. One of the most powerful way to follow the development of digitation is combining the digitation into learning process, with the aim to create effective teaching activities for the teachers and the learning process for students. Microsoft as a technology innovator offers a variety solution and way to start digitation in the education. One way to cover that goal is th...

Office 365 service offers many softwares to subscribers. The service allow user to use Microsoft Office apps, use the storage space on OneDrive, chat and create a conference call using Skype service. These are only the few of what 365 offers. There are still many of Office 365 Apps such as Sway, SharePoint, Flow and many other available 365 apps that can be used to increase productivity. “Improving Productivity using Office 365” is a workshop aimed to student to introduce them with many of Office 365 apps, how to use them as a tool to help them improving their productivity. This workshop which was held at 1 December 2016 in DSSDI UGM was attended by 40 students and staffs from UGM. The ...

"Intelligent Future Campus and Management" is a Joint Presentation Session between Microsoft and Academic institutions around Yogyakarta and Central Java, held at Hotel Tentrem on 23 November 2016. In this session, MIC, and other academic institutions from Yogyakarta and Central Java gather together to share and discuss ideas to improve the productivity around academic activities. Dr. Ridi Ferdiana, the Research Advisor of Microsoft Innovation Center Yogyakarta also delivers presentation in the first session. The first session, participant were introduced with the benefits of using Azure for Education, and how to utilise it optimizely in the organization, including storing and organizing...