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Another take on qualifications – have you thought about the Microsoft IT Academy?
If you’re running the ICT systems in your school, and NOT running the curriculum ICT, then you may want to forward this onto the ICT Co-ordinator, or to the Deputy Head in charge of Curriculum Development. Although it’s got ‘IT’ in the title, the IT Academy Read More...
What have Microsoft ever done for us?
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have th e Romans ever done for us? If you’re looking for nostalgia, take a look at the Life of Brian Read More...
Do you get asked "How do I do that?" by friends, neighbours and parents?
If your teachers and students (and friends and family) are always asking you how to do something on the computer, even though you know you showed them at least three times already, you won't be alone - statistics from a recent ICM survey carried out on Read More...
Free Partners in Learning DVD
Following on from my blog article earlier this week about the five-year extension of our Partners in Learning programme , you may want to get hold of a copy of the DVD that we distributed at the BETT show. It's a free DVD full of helpful resources from Read More...
Partners in Learning programme relaunched
For the last 5 years we have been running a programme, called Partners in Learning, to extend and expand the development of learning, and especially the ways that ICT can support learning in schools. Globally this programme has invested £125 million into Read More...
What are 21st Century Skills?
A colleague and I were engaged in a debate recently, in a team meeting, when we were discussing plans for BETT 2008. For the show we've added three themes to Microsoft's "Realising Potential" message. Those three themes are: Raising Standards Personalising Read More...
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