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Mouse Mischief - Creating Mischief in the Classroom
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Mouse Mischief is a tool that Microsoft makes available free of charge, and that allows teachers to work with Microsoft Office PowerPoint to make interactive presentations. With Mouse Mischief, teachers can add multiple choice questions to their presentations...
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Mouse Mischief: Increasing Student Engagement in the Classroom
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For some time now, Microsoft has been involved in an ongoing dialogue with teachers, school administrators and students to explore how we can best enhance learning experiences. We discovered, regardless of geographic location, that students are excited...
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Teachers are in control with Mouse Mischief
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We’re less than a week into the official launch of Mouse Mischief and the response from teachers and educators around the world has been overwhelming. To share just a few: Clarise Carr writes on our Facebook wall : “ I will be starting my 42nd year teaching...
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Back to School with Mouse Mischief
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Everything’s new at the beginning of the school year—classmates, classrooms, teachers, schedules, grade, content, maybe even the school. That can make everybody a little nervous. How you start a new school year can influence how your year...
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Lesson Plans and Summer 2010
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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...
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Classroom Response Systems and 1:1 Classroom Computing
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The term “Classroom Response System” refers to any software and/or hardware system that allows teachers to easily obtain instant feedback from their students. This is typically done by using remote control devices with some sort of portable...
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5 Tips for classroom management during multiple-mouse lessons
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As a follow up to our " Teachers are in control with Mouse Mischief " post, we've decided to showcase the buttons and features within Mouse Mischief and break down the program some more for you with five simple tips for managing a multiple-mouse lesson...
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Practice Mouse Mischief lessons so you can light up your class the next day!
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You know the payoff of careful lesson preparation—a successful and satisfying learning experience for your students and you. Even though your days are rushed and the demands on you are great, it’s worth it to take the time to prepare so your...
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Another way to preview a multiple-mouse presentation before you play it in the classroom
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In our last blog entry (“ Practice Mouse Mischief lessons so you can light up your class the next day! ”), we shared one way to preview a multiple-mouse presentation. If you have a single computer and only one mouse, you can still preview...
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Learn how to master the presentation controls by viewing this Mouse Mischief video
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If you have explored Mouse Mischief and you’re wondering how to use all the features on the presentation controls, check out our video below to learn about using the presentation controls. --- Presentation controls for playing a Mouse Mischief...
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Steve Ballmer makes Mischief in Singapore
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Yesterday students at Ngee Ann Secondary got a treat when Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer visited their school on Wednesday. In Singapore for a day, Mr. Ballmer wanted to see how the school was making innovative use of cloud computing technologies for educational...
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Protecting students’ anonymity and avoiding copycat behavior
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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,...
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Free Lesson Plans - Mouse Mischief Templates
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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...
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Drawing slides help students grasp and integrate information
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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...
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Go green with Mischief!
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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...
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Give Every Child a Mouse Today!
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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...
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Homeschooling blahs? Energize your routine with Mouse Mischief lessons.
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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...
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Mouse Mischief @ ISTE 2010
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It was a true privilege to share the floor with more than 15,000 K-12 teachers, school IT administrators, and technical coordinators at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) recently, from June 26–June 30, 2010. The conference...
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Share your multiple-mouse lessons!
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Why upload your Mouse Mischief lessons to the Office online site? It takes time, energy, and creativity to create high quality lessons and keep our students engaged in learning. Even the best teachers can’t do it all by themselves. We need...
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New to Mouse Mischief?
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Mouse Mischief is an exciting new classroom tool that is available as a free download to Office 2010 and 2007 users. Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and it enables you to insert interactive...
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From KWGN in Denver, CO: "New Microsoft Software is Helping Kids Learn"
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Nina Sparano, Technology Reporter for KWGN in Denver, did a wonderful back to school piece on Mouse Mischief . Excerpt and video below. "As tens of thousands of Colorado kids prepare to head back to the classroom, educators are preparing their curriculum...
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5 Questions with our first Twitter Re-tweet winner!
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Congratulations to the first winner of our Twitter Re-tweet contest, Jessica Egolf! As you know, each week through May 21 st we’re giving away a Mouse Mischief starter kit which includes five wireless mice and a USB hub. The rules are simple, re-tweet...
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