Deep Dive into Minecraft Education Edition is an activity that aims to introduce displays and controls basic in Minecraft Education Edition to educators. In this workshop, it demonstrated how to use Minecraft Education Edition. In addition, this workshop was also explained about “Minecraft Education Edition Hack! Competition. This agenda intends to increase the interest of students in studying Minecraft Education Edition. This workshop was held in November 18, 2016 at Balai Tekomdik Yogyakarta. The participants were coming from teacher across Yogyakarta (elementary / junior high school / Senior High School) and it represents the school's participation. This workshop contained several age...

MSEC (Microsoft Educator Community) Campaign is an activity program that focuses on improving teachers' competencies through integrated training. Leveraging the resources and the materials that are contained on the portal MSEC (education.microsoft.com), this workshop has the objective to maximize the usefulness of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in teaching and learning. Carrying the concept of training-to-trainer, it is expected brought impact continuous. The teachers who enrolled into this activity hopefully can be influencers that are able to provide examples and understanding for other teachers, either in the school or in the community. MSEC second quarter brought the ...

In the previous series, Microsoft Innovation Center was held the same mini workshop that learned about Project Ideation. Then, in this ocassion, it covered and discussed about creating user flow, wireframing and prototyping. This mini workshop wal held on November 11, 2016 at E-Library of Engineering Faculty, Universitas Gajah Mada. This was attended by 26 participants coming from both inside and outside students of UGM. There were some agendas that covered in this session. To begin with, the trainer explained about Interaction Design as well as activity that became follow up from  Product Ideation. Afterward, it continued with the stages in making the interaction design of a product suc...

Power Bi & Azure allow the user to directly get real-time insight to the business easily and quickly. The combination of PowerBi and Azure facilitate the process of business intelligence work. To support and help business that can stay ahead, Microsoft Innovation Center tried to held mini workshop that covered about Power Bi & Azure. This workshop was held on November 9, 2016 at E-Library Technical Engineering Faculty, Universitas Gajah Mada. This workshop invited 30 participants to lear more about Power BI & Azure. To broader the participants' insight about PowerBI & Azure, this workshop contained some agendas. Firstly, The participants got an overview and basic understa...

Microsoft YouthSpark is a series events that aims to empower young generation to survive in the digital era. Through an educational approach, Microsoft YouthSpark prepares the young generation with capabilities that are needed in this sophisticated era. That vision is in line with the ideas coming from Government in realizing Indonesia to be an economic digital ASEAN leader by 2020. As one that wants to blow through this program, it held series events to provide deeper understanding competence and development of digital products. To support this activity, Microsoft Innovation Center held a Workshop Introduction on TouchDevelop as a platform application for developers for five days that i...

As follow up of Minecraft utilization for educators, a competition entitled Minecraft Education Edition Hack is held to hone ideas from teachers in utilizing the platform games in learning. After Minecraft was acquired by Microsoft, the game platform is now more personalized to the needs of education, so that it was launched in a version of Minecraft Education Edition. Besides, Minecraft version can be accessed for free for schools, teachers and students using Office 365 for Education account. Besides enhancing the creativity of players, Minecraft Education Edition is designed to increase collaboration between teacher and student. The teacher can create area for game and the student can ...

Creating a startup is easy, however the challenge is how to survive. Community VSID held series activities to prepare yourself to develop startup ranging from small and measurable. With development of Microsoft technology, Microsoft Innovation Center invited participants to understand the twists and turns in the development of Star Up. This event was held on October 21, 2016 at E-Library, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gajah Mada and it was Attended by 30 of participants. To discuss deeper about the startup and its development, this event invited speakers such as Ridi Ferdiana (Microsoft MVP), Randi Eka Yonida as Startup observer and editor in social Daily social. Besides, another s...

Power BI is a free web-based application created by Microsoft that facilitate users to visualize data. Power BI is very useful for researcher, professional worker, or academics who are conducting research related with data. The data visualization result from Power BI is not only in static graphs but also it can be in interactive graphic that can be as media for communication or data presentation that displayed more attractive. Based on these needs that relating to research activities, Microsoft Innovation Center tried to facilitate a mini workshop that discussed about Power BI. This event was held on October 19, 2016 at E-Library, Faculty of Engineering UGM. In this workshop, the partici...

We see a clear future of modern website development in order to improve student professional online portofolio. Therefore, on 27 September 2016, Visual Studio ID Community that is supported by Microsoft held TeachReady session with topic "Creating Personal Modern Website using WebMatrix". The event is with several agendas such as: Introducing the modern web platform and tools. On this session Ridi Ferdiana (Microsoftr MVP) shares a fresh program that can be joined by developers namely Visual Studio Dev Essentials. Furthermore, Ridi discuss the process to develop modern web. Demo Session: on this sessions Ridi shares several demo that is related with modern web such as ASP.NET 4.6 and...

Microsoft hack the Classroom is an online live free event for teachers in Indonesia are designed to provide insight into the latest developments in the world of education. Teachers will learn from Microsoft's innovative educational practitioners and educators on their way in transforming the use of technology in learning activities. This event was simultaneously held in four major cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Semarang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya. For Yogyakarta, the event was held in Balai Tekkomdik Hall and it started. This event was attended by 54 teachers either from Yogyakarta or from outside Yogyakarta. This event was opened by several sources such as Paullina Pannen - Higher ...