Earlier this week I was a guest of Bradford University (thanks chaps), and presented to local school teachers about how we need to excite students around ICT.

Core message was that kids of all ages are now demanding consumers of technology, and have accordingly demanding expectations when it comes to the classroom. And then we teach them to use MS Office (insert equivalent software here). Enthusiasm nose-dives, and they go and download more iPhone apps, rather than wondering how they can build their own.

So I demonstrated a bunch of MS goodies that we can use to encourage creative storytelling, exploration and downright fun amongst school students (as well as teaching them how to program!). Some you may know, some may be new – but they’re all freely available and linked below.

Photosynth	Deep Zoom Composer	Small Basic

WorldWide Telescope	Kodu

Andy