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Windows 7 deployment is building momentum. Take a look for yourself, and find out what happened when the following schools started term with Windows 7: West Hatch High School in Essex Lodge Park Technology College in Northamptonshire The Long Eaton School
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Drawing on recent research, Paul Kelley – Headteacher - argues that it is time to challenge long-held assumptions and use more productive scientific processes to improve education. Kelley places special importance on gathering detailed real-time information
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Here’s another great story from Marsh Academy who have developed a broad use of technology to support learning, and are now focused on 1:1 access to enable Anytime Anywhere Learning for all students. The Overview link below goes to the Microsoft Showcase
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Microsoft Surface in Education is going to be huge! It has the potential to be the ‘Next Generation Whiteboard’ which means there are approximately 600,000 classroom opportunities in the UK alone. If you have any doubts about the potential of Surface,
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In the very near future we’ll have a great Surface video available, filmed at Churchend Primary School in Reading. In the meantime here’s a ‘behind the scenes’ video showing some of the aspects of how the application was pulled together – the considerations,
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“Using the Microsoft App-V solution to deliver software over the network makes it vastly simpler to extend our reach to remote students, while providing on-campus students with much better service.” - Scott McCollum - Director of Information Technology
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We need your help identifying partners who are successfully leveraging Microsoft tools, resources and technology to thrive in the current economy. We want to identify these partners and capture their success stories to help support our Partner Economic
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‘Fast, reliable, robust network’ ‘Industry standard’ ‘You forget that you’ve got an ICT system’ ‘Bring in the professionals from the outside’ ‘86% first fixed – mostly within 30 minutes’ ‘ICT provision should be done by ICT experts’ ‘What we’ve got now
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January 14 2009 London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a consortium of all London’s local authorities, has today launched Microsoft Live@edu services for up to one million students across London. This is the first network of its scale for schools, and the LGfL
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Launching in spring 2009, Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suites enables a predictable and recurring revenue opportunity for partners, and provides Enterprise Class Software for their customers. Below you will see new examples where Solution
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The Press Release for the Innovative Schools case study videos was released yesterday, and it includes an endorsement quote from Jim Knight, Minister for Schools and Learners: Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners commented: “Innovation
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Partner Video Here’s a new tool for partners we’re launching soon. It’s called Digital Forum and it’s a streaming video site dedicated to Microsoft partners. Partners will be able to upload their own “rough-cut” videos that explain their solutions. It’s
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A research group at the University of Cambridge has been using the advanced capabilities in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 database software to extract information from data that was originally collected 150 years ago. The timing couldn’t be better because
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As a commercial Microsoft partner, you may not be aware of all of the other partnerships that Microsoft has within the education sector. One of the programmes that we have been running for a while is PiL, or Partners in Learning. This has been run by
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If you're intertested in how technology is starting to have an impact it maybe worth taking a look at the HMCI Annual Report. Here's one small extract from a very big report! There were examples of schools using information and communication technology
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