Microsoft NZ and ShareThePoint bring you "Office 365 and SharePoint 4 Schools Essentials" – Register now! DescriptionThis one-day intensive course is an introduction for people who are new to SharePoint 2013 and want to use it for staff intranets, classroom sites, class blog sites, document management and student-parent collaboration. Please refer to the attached PDF…
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Yammer Enterprise now included in Office 365 Education plans!
As of 7th July, Yammer Enterprise was made available to all academic institutions at no additional cost. Yammer basic was always available for free as an enterprise social network option but did not allow for granular management of this environment as many organisations require. Yammer Enterprise is now free under Office 365 for Education A2,…
SharePoint in Education Event – Register now!
SharePoint in Education – your invitation! If you are from the education sector, and would like to learn more about SharePoint and specifically how it is used in Schools, then this is for you! Microsoft is hosting an afternoon get-together with a few presentations followed by networking and drinks. Although FREE to attend, places are strictly…
Office Mix is a Game-Changer for Teachers
Last month, we announced the customer preview of Office Mix, a tool designed to make it easier for teachers to incorporate online content into their lesson plans. Since then, we’ve been gathering feedback about what educators find most useful about the tool and how to make it even better, and we’re sharing what we’ve learned at…
Trading In The Whiteboard for OneNote and a Surface Pro
Once again, Sam McNeill, the Director of ICT at St Andrew’s College, has blown us away with his innovative and creative use of technology in the classroom. Sam runs the St Andrew's College "eLearning Stories" blog which provides a virtual “look through the classroom window” into the exciting eLearning happenings in the various classrooms around the fully-independent, co-educational…
Kiwi students set to compete in the 2014 Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals
Four University of Auckland students who designed an innovative social interaction app for mobile devices have been selected to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals in Seattle, USA, next month. Hayden Do (19), Jason Wei (19), Chris Duan (30), and Derek Zhu (22) beat out more than 150 other teams from around the…
In Education, the Device Doesn’t Matter… Until it’s the Wrong Device.
This blog was originally posted by Jacqueline Russell, Microsoft Surface Education Manager, on the Microsoft Surface Blog. Jacqueline gives such fantastic insight into the benefits enjoyed by Cincinnati Country Day School, the first school to adopt the Surface Pro 3 as their 1:1 student computing device, we had to share it with you. We hope you…
Don't Forget to Register for the Next CAA Webinar!
Don't Forget to Register for the Next CAA Webinar: What’s the problem? A Cambridge guide to developing, managing and assessing collaborative Math problem-solving in the Primary classroom. The Collaborative Assessment Alliance welcomes Claudia Bickford-Smith, Director of the International Education Business, University Printing House – Cambridge University Press, and Janet Rees, Cambridge University Press Primary Maths…
Getting Started with the OneNote Setup Tool for Teachers: A Walkthrough for Teachers
This post was originally blogged on the Microsoft Office website. You can access it here. The OneNote Setup Tool for Teachers is an App for SharePoint Online that helps you set up OneNote in your class. This tool will create a class notebook, which includes three types of sub-notebooks: Student Notebooks – private notebooks that…
Building formative assessment into game-based learning – an innovative example!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2-kYxNyMc#t=10:0:0] Game-based learning (GBL) is an innovative practice that is working to engage kids in learning important 21st century skills and content. In this sixth grade classroom at Quest to Learn, ongoing feedback is embedded throughout the course of a collaborative geography game called Galactic Mappers. Check it out! Game-based learning is predicted to take the…