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More success for UK educators at Berlin Innovative Education Forum 2010
We’re all back from Berlin, in spite of the BA strikes over the weekend. Once again we had a great week – I always wish that every teacher I work with could accompany us to these Innovative Education...
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Accessibility guide for teachers
We’ve just issued the third edition of our accessibility guide for teachers, and it’s available as a download from our accessibility site. The site also includes a number of accessibility video case...
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Prepare for Earth Day with your students - The 40-Day Low Carbon Lunch Challenge
Did you know that the food system is responsible for approximately 1/3 of global greenhouse gases? Our friends at TakingITGlobal, a non-profit community for young people around the world have come up...
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New and easy ways to integrate Office with your Moodle learning platform
Does your school or local authority have a Moodle learning platform? (If you don’t know, find out!) If so, the Microsoft Education Labs team have just launched the Office Add-in for Moodle, which might...
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Tune in to Science TV
Those of you who are old enough may remember school science broadcasts, where you sat with the whole class, (often a number of classes) waiting patiently for the countdown to the programme start to...
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Free Tools for Teaching – from Microsoft
We were thrilled to see an email from our colleagues at Microsoft headquarters recently that contained a link to all sorts of free guides, videos, templates and other tools to help you use technology...
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UK Partners in Learning YouTube Channel launched
Over the past year, the work we have undertaken with teachers and schools has resulted in us creating and collecting a plethora of video resources. We wanted to make sure that we are able share these...
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We have a winner – Microsoft Innovid netbook competition
We received a great deal of interest in our Innovid competition from teachers all over the UK (and even from some in other countries!). In the end, though, the judging panel had the difficult task...
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Fun, Free Friday for Schools – and Teachers – a free event at Microsoft UK on...
Our colleague Ray posted this placeholder for a new “Fun, Free Friday” event on his blog earlier in the week. We wanted to repost here, as teachers are invited as well! We’d like to have as many...
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The Geography collective – a unique teacher network.
I am always amazed at the various professional networks that teachers belong to. When I was teaching, my professional network revolved mainly around the teachers I met on local authority organised...
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Mouse Mischief for PowerPoint released
Last month I wrote a blog post about Mouse Mischief , unfortunately it appeared on the day they removed the beta version, Whoops! But, I am really pleased to announce that the full version is now...
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Microsoft Office 2010 – Planting the seeds of ideas
Kristen and I are quite excited about the launch of Office 2010 (I think we need to get out more!). We have gathered some resources from our colleague Ray Fleming who writes the UK Schools Blog; he and...
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Friday by the sea – Delivering netbooks to our Innovid contest winner
I don’t know about all of you, but Stuart and I had a lovely Friday, driving from our offices in Reading to Margate, Kent to deliver a car full of Stone Netbooks to Nicki Maddams, our Innovid video...
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Practice makes perfect- What is it teachers are professionally developing?
On a recent car journey with Kristen, I was amazed at her multi-tasking ability to drive fast, navigate the M25, brake late, drink coffee and discuss her Doctorate research. Now, I am honestly really...
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Practice makes perfect – A viewpoint
We really welcome comments and these thoughts from Steve McCorquodale, Principal Education Consultant at European Electronique, add to the mix on thinking about the question ‘ What do we mean by a...
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Please excuse us whilst we’re changing
Over the next week, we are moving the thousands of blogs that run on the blogs.msdn.com site over to a completely new web platform, which will give us lots of new ways of keeping in touch. We’ve had a...
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What do teachers really want?
Stuart and I work with a lot of teachers. We both used to be teachers (Stuart more recently than me). We meet teachers from all over the world and spend a lot of time in schools. Yet there are times...
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Bing - Visual Search, teaching questioning skills
Don’t confuse visual search with image search, visual search is about finding information using images rather than a keyword. Bing has number of visual data collections, some of which are ideal for...
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Change is a good thing – Our New Blog design
You may have noticed a few changes to our blog, this because the system it is hosted on has been completely re-built, giving us the opportunity to completely re-design the blog’s look and feel. We have...
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Introducing – Subject Snacks on the UK Teachers blog!
In our blog "What do Teachers Really Want?", we mentioned that we want to provide you with more ideas of how you can use Microsoft technology to teach your specific subject area. For the next several...
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