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I’ve just got back from holiday (a week in Corfu, thanks very much for asking) and I’m just about to head off for a last few days (a long weekend camping in Dorset – which may be challenged by the weather!) . Which means I missed the teachers Summer Camp...
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Sorry, when I originally posted this blog post, it had the wrong URL for the downloads. I've now corrected the original, and here it is again, with the correct URLs. This happened because I was on holiday during the release, so had to pre-write the...
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The education products team in Seattle have been busy writing add-ins for Office 2007 and Office 2010. They’ve just released 2 free education add-ins, 20 new education templates, and how-to materials designed to help teachers both inside and outside the...
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I noticed last week that Scott Guthrie announced the release of the beta of WebMatrix . Basically, it’s an easy and free way to get started building Web sites on Windows. WebMatrix is a tool for building, customising and deploying your Web sites in one...
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In the ‘good old days’, whenever school leaders were presenting their school stories at conferences, they would always include the proportion of children on Free School Meals – if the number was high, it was shorthand for saying “We’re in a challenging...
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If you’re like me, you’ve been bought up using Office. As each new version comes along, you discover new features, and you latch onto them. I remember when Pivot Tables were first introduced into Excel, and how it made life so much easier...
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Are you rolling out Office 2010 this summer? Or perhaps you’re one of the schools who already has. Well, here’s some good news: We’ve just had the new Office 2010 posters delivered, to replenish our stock of Office 2007 posters that had dwindled to zero...
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Are you rolling out Office 2010 this summer? Well, here’s some good news: We’ve just had the new Office 2010 posters delivered, to replenish our stock of Office 2007 posters that had dwindled to zero in the last few weeks. The last set had four different...
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Today, we had a fantastic day at the office, when we hosted the “ Fun, Free Friday for Schools ”. Just over 100 schools attended, and we had an absolutely packed agenda, as we demonstrated lots of the free Microsoft software available for...
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Filed under: Training, Live@EDU, free stuff, free events, moodle, training materials, free downloads, bing.com, DreamSpark, Partners in Learning, SkyDrive, curriculum resources, PiL, Photosynth, Education Labs, Kodu, Office Web Applications, digital literacy curriculum
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I’ve noticed that over time, I’m using Word less and less, and Windows Live Writer more and more. I guess it reflects two things: Most of the things I write are designed to be published on the web – often on this blog I love software that makes it really...
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It’s your last chance to book for our " Fun, Free Friday for Schools " event. The whole idea of the day is to share with you some of the free software and resources that are available for schools. I know that it is sometimes difficult...
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We’ve been inundated with requests to come along to our " Fun, Free Friday for Schools " event, so we’ve just moved it from a smaller room into our big auditorium, that takes 240 people. Which means that instead of the event being ‘nearly full...
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Advance notice: Stick a placeholder in your diary, as we're shortly going to announce booking details for the free Microsoft " Fun, Free Friday for Schools " at the Microsoft Campus in Reading on 11 th June 2010. A lively Q&A after the...
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We’re supporting the team running “ Project Genie ”, which is all about making climate change meaningful to pupils in primary schools. In the pilot programme, the schools that took part saw energy use savings of up to 40% – which is pretty significant...
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Kodu for PC is a (free) visual programming language which was launched earlier this year. In the past it’s been available for Xbox, but now there’s a PC version, and it gives you another way of developing programming skills in your students. And as it...