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1 TB of OneDrive storage coming to an Office 365 near you

by Jevon Fark, on June 23, 2014 | 16 Comments | 133

Since we introduced Office 365 for consumers nearly a year and a half ago, customers have told us that one of their favorite benefits of the subscription service is the additional OneDrive storage–for accessing and sharing files on their favorite devices and getting things done from home, school, work and everywhere in between. These are precisely the reasons we included additional OneDrive storage with every Office 365 consumer subscription–and we’re happy that people are realizing the value.

Today, OneDrive and Office are announcing a BIG change to that benefit for consumers, to the tune of 1 TB per user. That’s right–we’re increasing the OneDrive storage allotment included with Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal, and Office 365 University from 20 GB to 1 TB. That’s a whopping 50 times, or 5,000 percent increase in storage–and it’s going to be here before classes are in session!

As previously announced in April, all Office 365 business customers will also get 1 TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their Office 365 subscription, which will begin to roll out in July.

What’s a terabyte? Here’s some perspective:

• 1 TB is equivalent to approximately 50,000 trees made into paper and printed
• 1 TB can store about 1,000 copies of the full edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
• 1 TB can hold around 2,000 hours of audio recorded at CD quality
• 1 TB can remember roughly 8,000 times more data than the average human

While other cloud storage providers charge more than $100 a year for the same amount of online storage, we’re bringing in a full productivity suite too–with Office 365–starting at just $6.99 per month:

Office 365 consumer subscription options

Application availability varies by platform. Skype world minutes available in select countries. Seewww.office.com/information for details.

If you’re an Office 365 Home, Personal, University or Business subscriber, you’re good to go. Your TB of OneDrive storage is on its way and will be added to your existing account beginning in July. You should not be concerned about current files that are stored in OneDrive as they will not be affected by this change.

Things are about to get a lot more spacious, and we hope you enjoy the added legroom.

–Jevon Fark, Office Team

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37 Links to Summer Professional Development Opportunities for Librarians 

From the excellent blog of Julie Greller

JUST FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS

ALA Las Vegas- American Association of School Librarians schedule HERE

EasyBib Professional Development- on demand and free

Summer Getaway Professional Development Workshops- for school librarians from the Graduate
School for Library and Information Science at the iSchool at Illinois.
The flyer can be downloaded HERE.

On Common Core 2014: Professional Development for School Librarians- instructional webcasts
from School Library Journal

Summer Institute 2014- South Carolina Association of School Librarians

FREE
Annenberg Learner- view videos in these subject areas: arts, foreign language, literature and language 
arts, math, science, social studies and history

Annenberg-Newseum Summer Teacher Institute- three-day institute in Washington, DC for teachers 
using new media; application deadline is May 26, 2014.

Coursera-  verified certificates for certain courses

edCamp- list of all edCamp schedules (it's worldwide!)

EdmodoCon- 11-hour virtual event

Free Professional Learning Through ASCD's Professional Development Tools- includes webinars, 
virtual learning, book study guides

Google Teacher Academy- this summer: Atlanta, GA, Mountainview, CA and The Phillipines

Hidden Histories: Free Summer Professional Development and Lodging for Teachers-  for 
North Carolina K-12 teachers

NEA Member Benefits: Professional Development

NJEA Professional Learning

NSTA Learning Center- science teachers can find workshops in New Mexico, Texas

Smithsonian Educator Workshops- includes the Mobile Learning Institute

Summer Professional Development Blog Series- Edutopia's list of virtual workshops, tools and
resources and their Summer Rejuvination Guide

YALSA Academy- Young Adult Library Services Association's online educational video initiative



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2014 Civics and Civil Rights Institute- Washington, DC 

2014 Summer Institute- Learning Forward's four-day event in Chicago

American Studies Summer Institute- Defining "Public" and "Private" in America: Cultural, Social 
and Political Arguments Past and Present (Washington, DC)

Annenberg Learner- full courses for graduate education credit, courses for continuing education units 
and certificates (Through Colorado State University); facilitated or self-paced courses through PBS TeacherLine

The Art of Education Conference- online conference for art teachers

Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute- covers teachers of grades K-12

The Conference Calendar- lists conferences for all types of educators

Hybrid Institutes for Grades 3-8 Educators- in conjunction with Framingham State University and 
Cambridge College

ISTE 2014 Atlanta- The International Society of Technology in Education

Kansas Summer Institute for School Librarians- open to in and out-of-state teachers

Learning and the Brain- "Connecting educators to neuroscientists and researchers."

Massachusetts Teachers Association Summer Conference

Millard Oakley STEM Center- for Tennessee teachers

NJEA Summer Learning Opportunities

Richard Byrne's In-Person PD Opportunity- Maine

Summer PD Opportunities- Mathematics, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies teachers from 
Ohio

Summervision DC- sponsored by the National Art Education Association

Teaching the Holocaust at the Middle School Level-  at the University of New Hamshire

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