Education - All Comments

re: Is there academic pricing for Windows Azure? No, but there's something better…free Azure

Malcolm — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:50:29 GMT

Data Sovereignty is a huge issue in government schools and organisations, and so is bandwidth speed, country situated azure servers, could see government schools and organisations getting on-board the azure path.

re: Stories of Windows 8 early adopters in education

Keldie Bray — Sat, 11 May 2013 06:40:39 GMT

I'm no educational establishment, just a teacher! But we started a trial of 1:1 hp elitepad900s this week, in yr 4, in qld. Going great so far!

re: The 5 factors which affect school performance

geoff — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:01:38 GMT

most learning particularly for primary school children occurs at home and school is just there to fill the gap between 9-3 when parents have to work. Perhaps we should focus of improving patents educational skills or at least give them the concept of supporting their childres education rather than throwing billions of schools Did your analysis includes students inate learning needs/motivation?

re: Busylight for Lync–Good Idea or Evil Genius?

J Dubya — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:31:37 GMT

It seems the price has gone up since this post. The price now is about $50 US. There is also "Blync Light" (www.blynclight.com) which I like better since it's bigger in size and works just as well for about $40 US (although I think if these were to hit the $14-$20 price point, they'd sell like wildfire). I can't seem to find the I-Buddy WLM version in the US at all (Blync is the Lync version of the I-Buddy and mine came from Australia), but it is nice to have.

re: Final version - Free Windows 8 programming ebook

Shailesh Soni — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:45:13 GMT

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re: Photo Story 3 - free software for teachers in February

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re: Ten of the best - Australian education websites built on SharePoint

Susan French — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:06:29 GMT

Have the app 4kidcal and wish to post it on an educational site for young children. Please advise

re: Building an engaging Windows 8 education app for students

Ray Fleming — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:27:07 GMT

Hi Emily,

All of these are design concepts, rather than real applications, provided to help developers with ideas and starting points.

However, I often use OneNote in snapped mode on Windows 8 for notetaking - for example, I can watch a video snapped to the side of the screen, and run OneNote on the rest of the screen for my notes (either pen or typing)

Ray

re: Building an engaging Windows 8 education app for students

Emily — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:48:49 GMT

Hi,

This is great information, can you tell me what app you are using for the notes.

re: One in six schools block Wikipedia

TWW — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:27:58 GMT

This is very disappointing. All schools should block Wikipedia, or at the least educate their children with enough information literacy that they will know to block it themselves.

BTW, when searching you can block WP results by adding "-site:wikipedia.org" to the end of the search string and some browswers allow you to add text to the search string automatically so you can always avoid the site when using the browser's search box. I've been doing this for years on Opera.