UK Academic Team Blog

I have just received a sizeable quantity of these handy brochures which are packed full of good ideas to help students be more productive. This includes: Effective use of Windows Siedebar and Gadgets Searching for documents in Windows Vista Tabbed browsing...

With lots of coursework and other pressures it is understandable that some students may be daunted by the amount of work required to enter the Imagine Cup . The format for the Software Design Challenge has changed this year so that round one is about...

February 28 - March 3, 2008 Aboard the Celebrity Century Cruise Ship GDCSE ‘08 – the Third Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education – is a focal point for academic efforts using computer and console games...

The Software Design Initiative of the Imagine Cup is always one of the most popular categories in the UK. To help you get to grips with what is required, Ed and Ben have created a sample entry . Please make your students aware of this, it could make all...

With 17 dates behind them and another 37 yet to come, Ed and Ben are having a great impact on the students that they present to as part of the Inspiration Tour . We love to get feedback, both good and bad but our favourite so far is: The talk you gave...

Based in Reading and London, our placements last 48 weeks, beginning with a week-long induction designed to introduce the student to all the different areas of the business and identify objectives for their professional development. Subsequent learning...

The MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDN AA) Program was first introduced to address the needs of the academic community focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The MSDN AA Program has now grown to include a family of membership offerings...

Regular readers of this blog will already know about the Academic Resource Centre. This is a repository of articles and resources contributed to by academics and researchers from around the world. Last month the top ten downloaded articles were: Windows...

Ed Dunhill is on the case again and today blogged about the XNA v2 beta which is now ready to download. His post gives all the detail you need to get started and you will be pleased to read that it is free and no uninstalling of v1 is required. Let...

Ed Dunhill, Academic Developer Evangelist, answers just this question in his blog and links you to the XNA team blog too. There is still massive interest in XNA v1 and so we have produced some more of the popular 'Getting started with XNA' DVDs. If you...

Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup , Students The Imagine cup registrations are flooding in and the competition is definitely hotting up. If you need any more compelling reasons to prompt your students into registering (apart from the chance to win an Xbox...

This year we have been running an Embedded Technologies Pilot Project with a number of UK Universities... Westminster UWE Aberystwyth Hull Hertfordshire Wolverhampton Birmingham Staffordshire Glasgow Caledonian London Metropolitan Manchester Metropolitan...

As more and more students are registering for the Imagine Cup I have noticed that many are not giving us factual names and addresses. We understand a person's reluctance to provide such personal info but there is a very good reason why we need it - last...

Hi everyone, We held our events at Gamecity Nottingham last week and were delighted by the enthusiasm of everyone who attended. The afternoon saw the academics eating popcorn while hearing about: XNA Game Studio 2.0 the XNA User Group , Rare's 2008 lecture...