Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Education Technology   (RSS)
Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:34 AM

Nominate Your Tech-Savvy Superintendent

Now don’t laugh. There are some very tech-savvy superintendents of schools out there. This are people who lead by modeling behavior, who fight for technology for their schools, and provide training for teachers and tech support people. e School News is
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Monday, November 10, 2008 9:09 AM

Free Copy Of OneNote for Teachers

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about upcoming free online presentations in the education area from various people at Microsoft. (See that post and the full list here .) Well Mike Tholfsen has announced on his blog that any teacher who attends this week’s
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:16 AM

Interactive Geometry Tool

The Live Geometry project is “A computer model of plane geometry that allows you to create interactive ruler and compass constructions and experiment with them.” Looks very cool to me. I can imagine lots of ways for teachers and students of geography
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 8 Comments
Monday, October 27, 2008 6:01 AM

Tech Talk Tuesday For Teachers

I got a lot of “T” words in that title. What I found this week was a whole calendar of videos and presentations created by the “ Microsoft in Education ” team that are aimed at teachers, Tech Coordinators, and others involved in using computer technology
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Monday, October 13, 2008 5:44 AM

Video Games As Educational

Last week Microsoft announced a large investment in research into educational games . There have been a lot of educational games over the years. Some of them I think have been educational in theory more than in practice. Others more accidentally educational
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Friday, October 10, 2008 5:09 AM

Friday Links 101008

I have a small backlog of interesting links so I decided to group some of them in this post. Some are different from what I usually post and some are more typical. But I think they are all interesting to someone who is likely to be reading this blog.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Monday, October 06, 2008 6:18 AM

Teachers, Trust, Teaching and Filters

So long time readers know that I am not a fan of filtering of the Internet in schools. My wife is a librarian who enthusiastically marks Banned Books Week every year for the chance to discuss censorship with her students so its a family thing I guess.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Friday, September 19, 2008 5:38 AM

New Teaching Ideas and Resources Blog

It looks like a couple of members of the academic team in the UK have opened up a new blog for teachers . Kristen Weatherby and Stuart Ball are both former classroom teachers who now work with Microsoft’s UK Innovative Teachers Network which is part of
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 6:44 AM

Time To Start Thinking About NECC and Other Conferences

Wait, isn’t NECC in the summer? Well, yeas actually it is – June 28th to July 1st 2009. So why should I be thinking about it now? Two reasons actually. First is that now is the time to start working on your administration to put some money aside to send
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:43 AM

Teacher Favorite Templates: Ms. Stivers for 6th and 7th grade

OK these teacher templates recommendations from LeeAnn Stivers who teaches at the International School in Bellevue, Washington look awesome to me. Grade book, curriculum planners, a seating chart tool using PowerPoint and more. They were all done for
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:25 PM

Educational Uses For Collections of Images

My wife does a middle school research project using “landmarks” as a theme. Students research places like the pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and on and on. Obviously images are a part of this project. Students, especially today, are interested in what things
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:07 AM

Microsoft Institute

Here is something more for the administration side of the education business. Microsoft Institute Overview Participate in a unique professional development experience that will provide you and your organization with tools and resources to create and support
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:26 AM

Visual Declarative Designer

Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was announced and I wrote about it in my blog . Today I wanted to give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual Declarative Designer - looks like. This one really deserves the “toy”
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:22 AM

Foundations Of Digital Games Conference

The Game Development in Computer Science Education conference has been renamed and this year’s event is called the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games . This is the premier educational conference for faculty who use game
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:25 AM

Teaching Flowcharts – Have the Computer Draw One

Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was announced and I wrote about it in my blog . Today I wanted to give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual Programming Flow Chart - looks like. It’s really pretty simple to use.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker