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I saw a tip today that would be really useful to PE/PD teachers, others who act as sports coaches in their spare time, and also parents like myself. The question was:   Does anyone know of a Windows Phone app that allows you to play back a video frame by frame? I’m trying to help someone improve...

Today we had our Microsoft Education Partner Summit in Sydney, and one of the things that I talked about was the great range of Australian Windows 8 education apps that have been created already, and are still appearing on the Windows 8 app store. One of the things I demonstrated was a very simple journey...

There's a rapidly growing list of Windows 8 education apps in the Windows Store – simply too many to keep up with, so what I'm now keeping my eye open for are ones that are completely different, and especially those that take advantage of the touch interface of Windows 8 to create an immersive experience...

All week I've written about new Windows 8 apps for education from nsquared . They're all apps that are designed to be used with touch computers in the classroom, and you can have up to four children using them at the same time. It's a very different learning experience from a single child using a tablet...

Another day, another free Windows 8 education app for primary schools from the nsquared team of developers in Sydney! It's designed to be used with touch devices, and can either be used by one child, or up to four sitting at opposite ends of a Windows 8 tablet that's laying flat on a desk. nsquared herding...

Here's yet another free Windows 8 education app from nsquared . Like their other apps ( missing card , numbers , and snap ), it's ideal for pre-school and primary school children, and is designed to support collaborative learning – allowing groups of students to work together on a single Windows 8 touch...

Here's another free Windows 8 education app from nsquared. Like their other apps, it's ideal for pre-school and primary school children, and is designed to support collaborative learning – allowing groups of students to work together on a single Windows 8 touch-enabled PC or tablet.   nsquared missing...

In my last blog post I wrote about nsquared , a Sydney-based company producing education software that works with touch devices, and the first of their free apps for Windows 8 – nsquared snap . Today, here's their next free Windows 8 education app – numbers.   nsquared numbers Link nsquared numbers...

nsquared is a Sydney-based company that have been producing great interactive classroom software recently. Historically, they have created some great interactive education software for the original Microsoft Surface (the original table-sized interactive computer that is now made by Samsung, and called...

Here's an interesting poster for your IT classroom walls, highlighted by Steve Clayton on the Next at Microsoft blog . Apparently it was created for the Microsoft careers team, to highlight some of the different career options linked to the many different technologies that we work with at Microsoft....

In December, I came across Lesson Coder , a Windows 8 educational app to help teachers record their own lesson observations, and check them against the NSW Quality Teaching Framework. It's a professional development tool for both experienced and trainee teachers, and it made a lot of sense to use on...

As promised yesterday, here's some another Windows 8 Education app developed in Australia. Lesson Coder Link Lesson Coder , is from Lucas Moffitt , who's a developer in Newcastle (the Australian version, not the English one). It's an app designed to allow teachers (or other lesson observers...

Time to look a bit closer to home for the sixth update of Windows 8 Education Apps. There's an array of Australian developers that are working on education apps, and some of them have now hit the store. So here's my small selection of Windows 8 Australian apps for education users from just one developer...

At last, after a long semester, the summer holidays are just around the corner for many Australian education institutions (or may even have started if you're lucky). In my experience, the last couple of days before the students finish, and the first couple of weeks of the holiday tend to be manic – lots...

Less than a week ago, I wrote about the free Windows 8 programming ebook " Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript " from Microsoft Press. The link I gave then was to the second version, but five nights have passed, and Microsoft Press have now released the full and finished...

Those nice people at Microsoft Press released an update in August to their free ebook – it’s a preview version of “Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript”. And it seems perfect timing to highlight it (being absolutely transparent, I didn't read it when it came...

NB You can see a complete list of my previous recommendations of new Windows 8 apps for teachers and students on the Windows 8 Education Apps page, that I published on this blog earlier, and which I update regularly. And all of the apps I've highlighted so far are free. Windows 8 Education apps I noticed...

I thought this week I'd highlight three Windows 8 education apps that have been created by universities - DePaul University – College of Computing and Digital Media Windows Store link for DePaul University Windows 8 app The DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media Windows Store App...

Doug Thomas is in the part of the Office team that writes help content for Office on the Office.com website, and in the help pages of the software. And he's recently branched out to producing mini webinars to help you discover new parts of the Office suite. They're run every week, but unfortunately for...

There's significantly less than two years to go before Windows XP is unsupported , and of course if you're still running Windows XP in your school, it's worth remembering that Windows XP was probably born before some or many of your students . But for schools making the shift to Windows 8, there's still...

Since last time, that I've installed some more apps, so here's my additional recommended education apps for Windows 8: Mathrathon Windows Store link for Mathrathon It's a simple maths game – you're shown two numbers along with a simple addition or subtraction sign, and the answer. All...

My colleagues in the UK Education team , working with Ollie Bray , an educational leader from Scotland, have produced a brilliant ebook " Exciting Learning: Using Technology to Improve Education " The new eBook aims to address the following: Enhance the understanding of the benefits of ICT...

Most education customers already have licences to run Windows 8 (either through an existing academic subscription like EES, a School Agreement or a Campus Agreement; or through MSDN/DreamSpark), so if you've not given it a go yet, I'd recommend installing it on a spare laptop or desktop computer. That...

Over on our Microsoft News site, there's a list of " 10 Things You’ll Never Have to Say With the new Office ". They are all good thoughts, but there are two that are particularly brilliant for me: Use Word to load and save PDFs And once you've got them open, you can edit and save them, or copy...

Three new tertiary level courses are now available on Faculty Connection each with instructor guides, PPTs, labs/tutorials, and videos. There are tons of courses on the site, and although they are designed for tertiary students, I'm convinced that they are useful for many others too, including high school...