Are you or someone you know using technology in innovative ways to engage students in more effective learning? Has this learning process helped to improve the learning outcomes among students? Every year, Microsoft recognises New Zealand’s most innovative educators to highlight and celebrate the great work achieved through utilising ICT in the classroom. Nominate yourself or one of your peers for a Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award. All current full-time…
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A "thought provoking, inspirational" Innovative Schools Workshop Last Week
The two-day workshop at Botany Downs Secondary School reached maximum capacity, as more than 120 educators gathered to discuss, debate and collaborate on the best ways to utilise information communication technologies (ICT) within the classroom. The event was part of the Partners in Learning Programme which is a global community of education leaders and teachers who encourage and share…
Another Weekly Office365 for Education Tip!
Another Office365 for Education tip for you all! This week we are looking into mobile access of Office365 for Education. Now more than ever students are using mobile phones and it becomes important to take advantage of this in the classroom. Have a look at this video from Leigh in the Education Team at Microsoft and her tips on mobile…
Innovative Schools Workshop Receives Overwhelming Interest
We have received an incredible amount of interest in our Innovative Schools Workshop held this week at Botany Down Secondary College, with more than 100 educators gathering to discuss, debate and collaborate on the best ways to utilise information communication technologies (ICT) within the classroom. The event facilitates two days helping school principals and senior leadership teams to build a…
Weeky Office365 for Education Tip
Another weeky Office365 for Education Tip! This week we have a video on Outlook and Lync. These two applications are built into Office365 for Education and enable instantaneous collaboration and communication between students and teachers. [View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDXyxnHlDM] For more information of Office365 for education see here.
Bring Your Own Device To School Whitepaper
Bruce Dixon, from the Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation and Sean Tierney, from the worldwide Microsoft Partners in Learning Programme are both passionate advocates of 1:1 learning programmes and have recently come together to publish their first ‘Bring Your Own Device for schools’ whitepaper. The overall aim of the paper is to examine the potential deployment models from teaching, learning and IT management…
Weekly Office365 for Education Tip
Here is your first weekly Office365 for Education Tip! With Office 365 for education, you can collaborate from anywhere through SharePoint class websites. Students and teachers can simultaneously work together on the same document and share project and assignment information through their class site. This short video, produced by colleagues in the US, aims to…
Introducing the New Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker
We are happy to announce new versions of Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows 7 and Windows 8. A few new capabilities have been added while also taking advantage of some advances in Windows 8. Movie Maker and Photo Gallery are two essential Windows applications hundreds of millions of people have come to rely…
The New Zealand Catholic Education Convention is Underway!
The Catholic Education Convention kicked off yesterday at the Wellington Convention Centre where Microsoft presented the keynote on Building collaborative learning communities – Microsoft’s vision for 21st Century Learning, presented by Microsoft’s Education Lead, Evan Blackman. For those of you who missed it, this keynote provided an overview of Microsoft’s vision for 21st Century learning with the new Microsoft global partnership with…
Celebrating innovative teaching
At the U.S. Partners in Learning Forum this week, over 100 innovative teachers came to together to share how they are incorporating technology into their classrooms. The Microsoft event focuses on showcasing and celebrating educators and the work they are doing for their schools. See the video for highlights of the event including teachers incorporating programming, Microsoft Kinect and…