speaker: hello everyone and welcome to our webinar for today windows 8 starter guide and educational apps. i will be moderating the session. if you have any questions, please feel free to post them in the chat window. i'll tell you about your presenter. r i c a is dedicated to technology training for faculty staff and students. she has abundant experience teaching neck technology.
distance education at e l c a m i n o college. she is part time instructor at c y p r e s s college. master of arts in educational technology and bachelor of science in computer science and certified office specialist. thank you. take it away. speaker: good afternoon. it is a pleasure to present this webinar. i appreciate the fact you are spending your lunchtime with at one. today i would have loved to show you but unfortunately there is a
little bit of a glitch going on with windows 8 in c c c confer so most of the things i will be doing to show you screen capture of windows 8 and talking about it. if you have a question, please feel free to ask and i would be happy to address that. one of the things we will be talking about today is the different editions for windows 8. i would like to talk about the new features. it is dramatically different from the previous versions. i would like to talk about apps and about the difference between an app
and pop up application. let me move to my next slide. these are the things i will be discussing today in this webinar. on screen. there are four editions of windows 8. windows 7 i believe has windows 7 if not 8 editions. windows had trimmed it down to four. on screen. let's talk about the differences between these versions. windows 8 is for home user, desk top p
cs and lap tops. before i continue i see in the chat box that the audio is m u m b l i n g. i would like to pause and see if it is still happening. speaker: i'm not hearing any issues with the audio, no. speaker: thank you. windows 8 is designed for home user, desk top p cs and lap tops. windows runs apps from the windows store. if you have windows 8 you will be able to perform the daily task -- on screen.
most of the average users will be very happy and content with the windows 8 version. the next is windows 8 pro. it is designed for businesses -- on screen. it has all the features of windows 8. you can do presentations and documents in windows 8 pro you can run apps and desk top applications. among features it has are group policy support -- on screen. if these sound foreign to you and functions that you don't use, then there is
no point spending extra money to buy windows 8 pro. however if you use media center in previous versions, only windows 8 pro has windows media center and the other three versions don't have it. this is something you might want to consider. the third edition is called windows 8 enter prize. this is for organizations with volume licenses. on screen. it can run desk top applications except medias media center. it has the feature windows to go. it allows you to save your settings or windows 8 settings in
a flash drive so when you plug it in another computer it duplicates those settings and looks like you are at your desk top or home computer. finally windows r t. most of you have heard about windows r t. it is designed for tablets only. if you have an operating system that is built and preinstalled in the tablet. therefore if you have windows r t it can only run apps and microsoft programs. other third party like a
adobe flash and dream weaver and third party won't work. it is important when you buy a windows tablet you have to evaluate if you have to run third party apps because most have preinstalled. there are tablets that have windows 8. it is important you another thing windows r t you can't buy it. it is preinstalled in the tablet. it isn't something you can install in a tablet or computer or upgrade your old operating system. it is built in. it is right there.
are there any questions regarding the four windows version and editions before i go? i'm checking. speaker: can you run third party apps or not on windows r t. speaker: you cannot. the only full desk top applications that you can run in windows r t is microsoft office programs which are word, excel, power point and access. if you want to run let's say other third party applications such as flash or dream weaver, or auto pad or illustrate or, unfortunately that is something that windows r
t cannot do. i have another question here. it says can you tell us about the windows pro tablet. windows pro tablet it has the operating system windows pro installed in it. just like windows 8 and windows 8 enter prize it will be able to run apps and third party applications. the convenience is you don't want to be a consumer but a creator. next question -- how hard is it to switch from windows 7 to windows 8?
how hard for colleges to switch from 7 to 8? i believe every time there is a campus wide upgrade of the particular operating system or a particular version it is always hard because the i t people would have to make sure that this is something they can support and they have taken care of the glitches that come with it. it really -- i'm not on the i t side. i'm more of a consumer and program user although i have experience because every time there is a new program or software out there i want it in my computer right away. most businesses or most companies have a really hard time upgrading it
right away because of the issues they have. it is based on support and making sure they can support all the users of the system. the second is the change bigger than from x p to 7? definitely bigger. a dramatic difference from windows 7 to windows 8. x p and windows 7 has a little bit difference in how they structure the files and folders and it looks a little more fluid. the difference between windows 7 and windows 8 is even bigger. if you remember the growth from microsoft office 2003 to 2007, that
would become comparable to that difference. any other questions? i see one. how much user training is required? user training for windows 8 is definitely needed. again, there is the big learning curve. it will really depends on your staff development department and your staff trainer as well as i t. based on my experience it is a big learning curve and it is a big project. speaker: a question about all versions excludeing r t both 32 and 64 bit available?
speaker: yes, definitely. there are 32 and 64 bit versions available for windows 8, windows 8 pro and windows 8 enter prize. there will be desk top on campus with windows 8 -- that could be true. however the good thing about windows 8 version now is they are trying to really make it work seemlessly from a mobile phone to a tablet to a personal computer. moving on, the new features of windows 8 include the following. on screen. the start
button is no longer available on the desk top. you see a start screen. when you see windows 8 installed there is a locked screen and depending on whether you have a touch screen or not -- for the touch screen all you have to do is tap it and it shows you the log in button and you can type your pass word. once you type the pass word and have the correct log in information you see a start screen and you will not see the desk top. another feature are the tiles. the tiles are things that are on the start screen and these are the short cuts for your app and desk top applications. there is a charms bar. if you take a look at the graphic on the right, the charms bar is the black bar where you see
the search button and start devices. it is the charms bar. it is appears on the right hand corner of the screen. there is also windows store app built in in windows 8. internet explorer version has been upgraded to 10 which is dramatically different. if you search for windows you might not get the correct result because the new name is file explorer. it was ribbons . also windows 8 allows you to connect to the cloud or their version is -- i will talk
about advances of using sky drive. you will be able to create a picture pass word. if you look at the graphics on the current slide you can see you can select a picture and have hand gestures and draw a line and i believe a circle, line and i'm not sure if the other one is square. you will be able to create those gestures so you want to use a graphic pass word and get more security that is an option. any questions involving features? in chat. you can use gestures on the non touch screen by using your
mouse and draw a circle and a line. any other questions regarding features? i'll move on. why is there such a dramatic difference between windows 7 and the previous version? the way i look at is using the analogy of the i pad and mac operating system. i'm pretty sure most of you have worked on i pad and at one point in your life i'm pretty sure you have used a mac as well. if you notice operating system in the i pad is different from the operating system in a mac device or a mac computer. the i pad operating system is lighter and faster and it is
icon based. your applications are on the home screen and you see it as icons or tiles. there are applications in your i pad that will work with the application in the mac computer. for example, if you use i tunes and i pad it will be almost the same application in your mac. if you use e-mail for mac it will almost be the same for both the i pad and operating system. the challenge since both are two different operating systems they
may work seemlessly. i know i devices try to make every i device work as seemlessly as possible but for the most part it is a different interface because it is a different operating system. when i open my i pad i don't have the same interface as when i open my mac computer because as you can see in the slide there it is two different interfaces. i will be able to use the same apps for the most part in general. it is not the same. it is two different systems. that is why i believe windows 8 came up with a dramatically different version because they merge the operating system for a tablet or a mobile device and an operating system or computer and a
desk top p c. you can see in the slide this is how the start screen of windows looks like or windows 8 looks like. you will not see a desk top. you will see tiles. on the first two groups these are the apps that you have down loaded from the windows store or apps that are actually built in in windows 8. the next group are your full desk top applications. if you have a windows tablet running on a windows 8 operating system you will have the same interface and the same experience if
you move to a computer that also has a windows 8 operating system. is that something that is clear for everyone? i'm hoping that if you have any questions, feel free to ask because i believe this is really crucial and important concept to grasp for windows 8 because that is what makes it confusing for everybody. there are apps and desk top applications. there are two different ones. the reason why it is so is because microsoft would like the users to have the same experience with the operating system regardless of the device you are using. be it a tablet or p c or desk top. any
questions with the difference between the operating system and this particular slide? can i see a show of hands please if it is something clear or something that most of you understand? good. there is more and more. let's move onto the next slide. now every time you start your windows 8, this is the start screen i was talking about. as you can see, it is very very different from the desk top application or the desk top environment we are used to seeing in previous windows version. the start screen the apps that you down loaded that are built in windows 8
are down loaded from the windows store and the third group the group that says work are the third party desk top applications. one of the things that makes it easy to determine whether it's an app or a full desk top application is by looking at the icon. on the left group or the first group you will see the windows store app and it's icon like a shopping bag. it has music. it is easy to tell app versus desk top by looking at the icon. another difference between the app and desk top application is for
example if you open the app or the store tile from the start screen, it will give you a full window and then you will be able to use the app. however if you open one of the desk top full applications on the right let's say excel, it will open and bring you to a desk top so you can work with the full application. there are two modes in windows 8. your start screen that runs the app and your desk top screen or your desk top mode that runs the full apps from the third party. how do you toggle back and forth between the desk top and the start screen. if you look at the lower left-hand side the tile that has a sun flower is
the tile for the desk top. if you click that, it will actually change from the start screen to the desk top mode. unfortunately i do not have the slide for a desk top. i'm trying to go through and see. the desk top in windows 8 is basically the same as other versions except for the start button. you won't see the start button. you will see a start tile in the lower left hand corner. when you click that it brings you back to the start screen. any questions regarding the start and the desk top mode?
i'll continue. speaker: question for developers is it easier to accommodate all options offered with windows 8 or do they like working on the mobile device differently. speaker: say it again. speaker: in chat. i would say the latter. my first exposure with windows 8 i barely new the start screen. as soon as my computer
started i added the desk top and i used it like the previous versions of windows 8. it is more convenient because i do not -- i'm not using a lot of apps from the windows store just yet. currently i use the desk top mode and also having seen other people they use the desk top mode more often because it is the one that can run the third party desk top applications. it cannot run on the start screen. the start screen can only run the apps that are built in and from the windows store. any other questions? speaker: are the apps dynamic?
speaker: you mean the tile? speaker: he is saying the one thing he likes about the android that is missing from the i l s. speaker: the tiles -- if you look at the tile that has pictures on it, those tiles are life and they update with the most recent -- the tiles for the photos shuffle through the /tpoetz ^ oh ^ the photos and the tiles with the news they update them with the most recent updates. any other questions? speaker: does the old
tab still work for key strokes. speaker: if you are in the desk top mode the a l t tab will still work to move from one program to another. i'm glad you brought that up. if you aren't a mouse person and an are a key board person another way to toggle back and forth is which using the windows key. if you click the windows key and you are on the start screen it will take you back to the desk top and if in the desk top and click it again it will take you back to the start screen. speaker: i think that answers all the questions at this time.
speaker: there are three command bars in windows 8 that are also one of the many new features. the first command bar is the charms bar. take a look at the slide. it is the one to the right that has all these buttons. the search bar is one of the most helpful tools for windows 8 users who are using windows 8 for the first time. this /kharplz charms bar whether in desk top mode or start mode will appear. if you are on the desk top mode and you can't find the programs or the file all have you to do is click the search bar. it really works well because it groups all the results by app, by files and by systems.
the next button is the share button. it makes it easy to send your pictures through e-mail. if you are in the start screen you can click one of the tiles on the start screen. select the pictures and click share and you will be able to create an e-mail or type in the e-mail address of the person you want to share it with and share it instantly and quickly instead of opening your e-mail and attaching the photos and sending it. the start button on the charms bar is another way to toggle back and forth between the most recent app and the start screen. if you have recently opened the desk top, you click the start button on the charms bar it will take you to the desk top and once you are on the desk top
and click the start button again, it will take you back to the start screen. devices -- it gives you a list of all the devices such as scanners and printers. if you open a document from the reader app, you will be able to send it to the printer by clicking the devices tab. finally the settings. the settings is where you will find the shut down button and the /re start button because if you get confused at first even if you know how to go back and forth between the desk top and start screen -- it is under the settings. other things are wireless network and ability to personalize your desk
top. if you want to change the color of your start screen, you will be able to. any questions regarding the charms bar? okay. the next bar is called the app command. s. they are usually on the bottom and in some instances are on top depending if you are in the start screen or using an app. the app command the name indicates a command for the app. if you are in desk top mode you won't be able to see the app command bar because you can't run apps in desk top mode. the last command bar is called the most recent app so we are
used to seeing our open our currently open app on the task bar. if you are on the start screen you will be able to see that by pointing to the left and dragging your mouse down and it will show you the apps that are currently open. those are the three commands that are available in windows 8 and available in all views -- start screen and desk top mode and even if you have an app open, these command bars you will be able to see. any questions? speaker: yes, can you only see apps or open apps from the start screen? speaker: yes. you can open it from the start
screen easily. if you are in the desk top mode there is another way. what you have to do is use the search button and type in the name of the app and click the results or the name of the app from the results. really i'm retracting my statement. the answer is actually no. you will be able to start the app from the start screen as well as the desk top however you have to use the search button when you are in desk top mode. speaker: thank you. is it possible to switch out the system default? for example make google instead b i n g the default internet search or can you change photo app or mail app to another function?
speaker: that is a good question. that will bring me to my next point. you will be able if you use internet explorer you will be able to change it to any web page you want. the people app the calendar app and all the other built in apps -- after i answer all the questions we currently have. speaker: can you see a list of apps that are currently open like a task master. speaker: yes. that is one that shows on the screen right now which is the most recent app bar. if you have a touch screen you can swipe left and right and it will
appear. if you don't have a touch screen, you can move your mouse to the upper left corner and then down and that command bar will actually show the currently opened apps. not just the apps but the desk top applications. that is what you see on the current screen right now. like a task bar you will be able to select an app you want to maximize or close the app from there. speaker: do you still have access to the task manager? speaker: yes the same thing. there will be an option to lock three other options and then task manager. speaker: thank you. that is all the questions at that time.
speaker: the built in apps that come with windows 8 are actually very interesting and very useful. now windows 8 is an operating system that will work best if you tie it or log in with your microsoft account. your microsoft account is your live dot com account or hot mail account -- if you log in with that or set up your windows 8 with that particular account you really will be able to maximize everything. one of you asked will you be able to add other accounts to it. yes. if your windows 8 is logged in
microsoft account every time you open the mail app you will see all your hot mail e-mails but you can add other e-mail acts as google, y a h o o, outlook, a o l and any other e-mail accounts for that matter so when you click the mail tile, you have access to all your e-mails in one place instead of opening it one at a time in different windows from your browser. the same with calendars. you can connect your calendars. the other one that you can figure is your messenger. you can con figure with all the messengers out there and finally the people app stores all your contacts in your
hot mail account. you can add your facebook account, your twitter account, your google circle, link in accounts and have all your contacts in one place so that every time you need to look for their information all you need to do is open the people app. i think that is something -- be /tph-g ing in this mobile technology generation we have several pass words and we have several accounts. it is convenient to have it in one place particularly on a start screen like this. another built in app in windows 8 is the windows store. the windows store is equivalent to i should say the app store.
although i should say that it is really hard to compare it just yet because there is not a lot of apps in the windows 8 compared to the app store. i should say the ratio is one to hundred really if not more. there are a few interesting apps that you might want to explore and use for educational purposes. when you open the app store it is very simple. it groups it -- you have different groups such as photo and video. just like the app store it gives you a list of the top three applications. unfortunately i cannot show you the
screen right now. in my other computer i'm opening the top three educational apps from the windows store. there is brain pop, dictionary 8, programming tutorial. all these languages such as android, c plus, plus, my s q l -- in that particular app. another educational app for windows that is very helpful is the chemistry that has periodic table. there is translate like google translate. i'm checking the top app. it is one called windows 8 training. it is 999.
it has more than 7 hours of training. it is something you might want to purchase if you want more training on windows 8. there is an application called ^ oh ^ -- anatomy. it is 199. it allows you you can look at the windows store and see all these apps. there aren't a lot. you will be able to find one or two you can use for your class. another built in app in windows 8 is internet explorer. again this one is very different. this is what it looks like. it is on the screen right now. basically your address bar is now on the bottom.
the back arrow is also on the bottom and refresh and tools are on the bottom. on the top you see the tabs or windows that are currently open and you can close them. other than that is there any other difference between internet explorer 10 and the previous versions? i don't think so. basically just that. your address bar is at the bottom. it looks very different. however these are still the commands that you had used for a long time. it is just in a different place. i'd like to discuss sky drive. it is one of the best built in apps in windows 8. the reason why
is if you like the cloud, but unlike the cloud you don't have to -- it is like the cloud or icon or drop box or the google drive but unlike most of those cloud storage applications, you do not need to down load the file from the sky drive onto a local computer, then edit from there and feed it and upload it back to sky drive. sky drive works seemlessly with windows 8. i think -- microsoft do a good job. they are going to take the market back. what i noticed and this is no offense to the apple users and the mac. i'm speaking from my own experience. i have an
i pad and an i phone but i'm a p c person. i have already used windows as my operating system. that doesn't work for me seemlessly if i have a mac. with microsoft windows 8 operating system outright now they make it seem less across all the mobile devices too. as a consumer even if i have an i phone or an i pad, i will not -- instead of buying a mac book or an i mac so i will have a seem less transition from all of the devices i would rather just buy a new tablet or a new phone that has windows operating system with it. it is easier and
i'm more comfortable with a p c anyways. if you use the one note -- microsoft one note you will be able to put almost everything in there whether you are annotating or typing and whether you using your windows, your p c or your windows tablet. sky drive allows you to actually edit your files within the app itself. say for example you save your document from your desk top to sky drive. if you move to another computer you log into sky drive dot com and you see the file you have uploaded to sky drive. usually -- before we would down load the file onto the local computer and then make the changes or make some additions.
however sky drive is word web app. meaning the computer doesn't have microsoft word installed in it, you will still be able to edit the document with almost full functionality using the word app. after that you save it and when you go back home you will see all the changes that you have implemented using just the web app. it is seem less and easier for me. it may not be for everybody but that is my experience. those are the built in apps. speaker: you have a couple of questions and we need to wrap up a little bit here. do you want to go to your last slide and then we'll answer questions.
speaker: that is my last slide. i'd love to show you how to change and move around the tiles in the screen. you can do that. one advice i usually give the new windows 8 users is there is no start button. put the programs you frequently use in the task bar so you have easy access to them. other than that i hope you guys will try it out and even if the learning curve is a little steep and high there is nowhere else to go but forward and this is it. i encourage you to try it and if you need help, i'd be happy to address that. speaker: i'm going to go ahead to resources slide so everybody can see that
really quick and i will place these links. there are links for all of these. if i can get to them. i'll paste these in the chat window so you have all of them. i want to take a minute if you wouldn't mind completing our survey about this session that would be great. i'll launch that for you while we answer your questions. you want to answer questions from the chat window while i put up this other information. speaker: sure. speaker: question -- there is default tab you see when you turn on your tablet. i don't use one but use another one
like skype can i switch them. speaker: is that on the public chat box? speaker: yes it is. it is on the room. in chat. speaker: 12: 49. speaker: i'm getting there. there are default tiles you see when you turn on your tablet. if you don't use one but use another one like skype can i move the skype app to the main window? the main window meaning the desk top window?
speaker: i think she means to the tile to the start screen. speaker: move the tiles? the start screen -- you can move any app and full desk top application on the start screen. however if you are in the desk top mode you can only create short cuts for the desk top application and not the app. it paragraph next question can educational organization set up microsoft accounts for all of
it's employees and then have a subset of apps on the microsoft store available for employees to down load and install? that is an i t question. unfortunately i do not have a definite answer. it should be possible. it is possible. i would double check with the i t. can one windows 8 computer be associated with multiple users? yes you can add several accounts in windows 8 and add several users with their pass words just like the previous version. .
does it work seemlessly within office applications. it doesn't with office 2010 and 2007. i may interpret what seem less means here. i do not have any problems working with windows 7 and office 2010. before i upgraded windows 8 in 2013 it's the same experience. windows 8 in 2013 is the same experience there. is no dramatic difference between office 2010 and 2013. it is how it looks. most of the tools and the commands are still at their usual places. i think
it was an extra 400 dollars for an extra 10 g b. i'm glad this has been informative despite our technical difficulty. i want to know how to switch out app tiles. the app tiles that you don't use you could remove them so you can right click it and once you right click the app command from the bottom will pop up and allow you to delete an app you don't need. the tiles you actually use -- there is a screen called all app. it will give you the list of all the apps installed on your
computer both from the windows store and the third party software. you can right click and a p p e n d it to the start screen as a tile. does that answer your question? couple more minutes and you have additional questions -- i want to thank you for participating in our webinar today. if you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us at at one training or go to our website. you can e-mail me. the archive for the session will be available. you will receiveit via e-mail. look out for that if you want to go back and /re
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