Microsoft Education Technology New England

Office Labs has created a second version of Ribbon Hero: a game that teaches the Office UI and specific Office features by having users solves challenges in four applications -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Office becomes more valuable when you...

We just officially released Office for Mac 2011 SP1 this morning. I know many of you are anxiously awaiting this update. If you are using Automatic Update (MAU) you should get prompted at some point today. If you’re not using MAU, you can get access...

I've been fielding lots of questions on accessibility lately. In short, pick Live@Edu and Office 365 for Education to provide an accessable collaboration solution and limit litigation risk. For more than 20 years, Microsoft has been investing in...

Continuing Education Webinar Series Webinar - Managing Student Success with Aspect and CommunityOne Register — March 15, 2011, 10:30 - 11:30 AM CST Helping students succeed is the most important job for any college or university. This begins...

Register now to attend Microsoft SharePoint Conference, the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies! SharePoint Conference 2011 will be the only conference to hear experts from Microsoft and around the world...

In beta testing and launching soon, Microsoft Office 365 for Education provides your institution with the same great communication and collaboration experiences used in enterprises around the world while saving time and money. Office 365 includes f ree...

Sonja Delafosse delivered a fantastic presentation on how the Lake Washington School District adopted and uses OneNote. She provides great tips and suggestions for training educators and ideas around how to use OneNote in the classroom and beyond. ...

Download this free graphing calculator for your PC Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 provides step-by-step instructions and visual ways to explain complex problems for a better understanding of fundamental concepts in pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, physics...

Working in conjunction with Windows-Hied listsrv representatives, Microsoft Education is pleased to host the 7 th Windows Hied Conference at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA, April 4 th - 6 th , 201 1 . Conference Goals As has always been the...

TecheEd 2011 is May 16-19 in Atlanta A limited number of academic discounts for TechEd are available this year for $1,195 (current college or university faculty and staff) Additional discounts: -Active Students can get in for $999 (current/fulltime...

Nelson Mandela once said that “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Education is the core focus of any country’s national agenda to drive student achievement and global competitiveness. ...

This year Michelle Obama announced the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals being held in the US for the first time ever and in October President Obama recognized winners in some Imagine Cup categories at the White House. We would love to see your high...

We released an update to Mac Communicator (13.1) earlier this week which enables customers to share their desktop from a Mac. This release includes a huge new feature as well as some important bug fixes for our enterprise users. For the first time, we...

The US Public Sector Team has worked to put together a new promotion to enable you to trial our Azure platform without requiring you to enter a Credit Card with the below pass and associated Promotion Code. New! 30-day Windows Azure platform no-cost...

If the Founding Fathers had MIcrosoft Word their task of writing the Declaration of Independence might have been a lot easier. This cool video from the Word team shows what might have been... http://bit.ly/eQv8J2

Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite Update (1.5 hours) Microsoft will update the capabilities included in the Enterprise CAL suite for FY11. The ECAL Suite brings together the latest Microsoft products to provide schools with the newest innovations in compliance...

This year’s conference will be 4/4 – 4/6, 2011 Monday thru Wednesday. Sunday night there will be a pre-conference mixer. Brad was kind enough to set up a survey for potential topics for this year’s event. If you have any ideas...

InterroBang?! is a game where you get to have fun with problems. Students complete real-world missions with deeds that can win prizes, improve problem solving skills, and connect them with others to do things that just might change the world. Students...

We invite you to Join us for a Full Day Technology Briefing Join us for a full day education technology briefing. We will present several sessions focusing on Microsoft solutions for Education, share best practices and provide you with demonstrations...

Please join the Microsoft Education Team on December 3, from 10am to 2pm (and optional 2pm session), at our Cambridge office, as we discuss a number of resources that will save you time and money and help make teaching and learning more effective. ...

Here's a great resouce from the guys in the UK for deploying Live @ Edu. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukliveatedu/archive/2010/06/29/live-edu-implementation-guide.aspx

EVENT DETAILS This half-day event is the best way to get an early look at Microsoft Lync Server 2010: the next generation of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Lync Server 2010 offers: • A single interface uniting voice communications...

This is a nice doc one my my peers created. it provides a summary of some of the tools and programs from Microsoft related to Education. tinyurl.com/schooltools

I know it was a major bummer that Windows SteadyState was not carried forrward with Windows 7 support; however, most of its features can be replicated by using native Windows 7 features and free tools from Microsoft. More Information Creating...

One of my peers (Larry) has a cool post on free books from Mr Softie: http://blogs.technet.com/b/education/archive/2010/09/17/free-ebooks-amp-guides-from-microsoft.aspx