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…
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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…
Thailand selects Office 365 for every student nationwide!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5kCLGLdviY:0:0] This week, Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) is announcing a sweeping cloud education partnership with Microsoft, one that will provide 8 million students and 400,000 teachers throughout the country with free access to the world's best cloud-enabled productivity software, Microsoft Office 365 for Education. The deal will allow students and teachers…
Introducing Office Mix: Online lessons made simple.
We are very excited to bring to you Office Mix, helping you to make online lessons simple! Turn your PowerPoint presentation into an interactive online lesson. We call this a mix. Everything you need to create and share your mix is included. Add audio and video of yourself giving your presentation, write on slides as…
Infographic: Teachers are heroes!
It's almost Friday and we thought we'd boost your spirits. The infographic below was posted on the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education blog. Check it out, share it and tweet us your thoughts. More importantly, take a minute to pat yourself on the back! Kiwi teachers really are our heroes and we couldn't…