One of the greatest challenges in homeschooling is keeping things fresh and interesting, day by day, so kids don’t lose interest. There are lots of ways to boost your kids’ excitement for learning — introducing different approaches...

Editor's Note: Today we welcome Alvin Tan, a physics teacher in Singapore, as our guest blogger. If you recall, he was the teacher who recently had a special in person visit from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer . I first started usin g an earl y version...

In 2003 the School of the Future became the first paperless school. A joint project of the School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft, the School of the Future was created to help integrate technology in the classroom and help the environment. To...

I recently polled our Facebook followers about how they spend their summer : “What do most teachers do during the summer months?” The answers were incredibly varied and surprising. For example, o ne teacher wrote , “I take classes...

Fortunately, we now recognize that students learn in different ways and that to teach effectively we need to differentiate instruction. Many recent studies have shown what classroom teachers have observed for years: involving multiple senses in the...

As you may already know, our team has created approximately 25 PowerPoint templates for you to use with Mouse Mischief . They are currently housed in the template section of Office.com . Since teachers are always looking for lesson plans or lesson plan...

No doubt about it — multiple mouse lessons are fun. It’s great to have your whole class working together on one screen answering questions at the same time by clicking their mice, especially when their mouse pointers are sailboats, trees,...