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• Find content easily with the Microsoft Office Interactive Content Pivot

  22 May 2013

  Sonia Atchison is a Senior Writer on the Microsoft Project team. The Microsoft Office Interactive Content Pivot helps you find the SharePoint Server 2013, Project Server 2013, and Office 365 technical content that you’re looking for. The content pivot brings together content from TechNet and Office...
• May 28 webinar: Office 365 Education and SkyDrive Pro

  3 May 2013

  In this webinar, we’ll show you what students, faculty, and staff can get for free with Office 365 Education, plus you’ll learn how to create websites quickly and how to save and share documents with SkyDrive Pro. Non-educators with Office 365 for business will also find helpful hints. We...
• Taking higher ed even higher with Office 365 University

  11 Feb 2013

  Guest blogger Devin Pastoor is a University of Maryland grad student working on his PhD in pharmacology and biomathematics. Devin shares how he uses Office 365 University to manage his life and stay organized and productive with constantly demanding deadlines. My life is a whirlwind of classes, assignments...
• Take a look at Microsoft's back to school deals

  1 Aug 2011

  This blog post about Microsoft back to school deals was written by Kristina Libby, a writer for the Windows Experience Blog . It’s August 1st and that means one thing: we all have to start thinking about school. Whether you are gearing up for school, sending kids off to school, or just plain happy...
• Hey, parents! Do you know what your kids really need for back to school?

  1 Aug 2011

  This post about selecting the right computer hardware and software for your back-to-school needs was written by Chris Dawson. Chris writes ZDNet's Education Technology column and is the Vice President of Business Development for WizIQ , a virtual classroom and e-learning services company. My mother-in...
• Office 2010 for back-to-school: 10 tips + free OneNote 2010 student planner

  21 Jul 2011

  The annual back-to-school routine is right around the corner, and this year a projected 55.5 million K-12 students and 19.7 million college students will head for the classroom (according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics). That’s a lot of laptops and jeans! Whether you’re...
• Giving personality to information, Part 3 (video)

  16 Dec 2010

  People pay attention and respond to personality, stories, emotion, and fun. Here's the third of three sets of examples of what Office.com is doing to help our videos communicate more effectively by letting some personality show through. Again, I've chosen videos that have a third-party "stamp of approval...
• Giving personality to information, Part 2 (video)

  13 Dec 2010

  People pay more attention and respond to personality, stories, emotion, and fun than to dry, straight-backed delivery. So here's the second of three sets of examples of what we're doing at Office.com to make videos more effective by letting our personalities show. Each of these videos won a Telly award...
• Ahem. Care to share with the whole class? Giving personality to information (video)

  9 Dec 2010

  Do you want people to listen to you? For a long time, the classic schoolroom model governed how we received information. Some authority figure would speak from a lectern, or an actor in a doctor's lab coat would talk on the television, and listeners, sitting attentively and still, would (supposedly)...
• It's back to school time: Does your youngster PowerPoint?

  17 Aug 2010

  A fact recently rounding the Internet: 79% of Office users aged 18-24 learned to use the Office programs before learning to drive, compared with 24% of their elders aged 25 and older. So, where’s Driver’s Education for Office? Over the next few weeks, we will be giving you our best advice...
• Back to School: New free Education add-ins, templates, and teacher how-to’s for Office 2010 and 2007

  16 Aug 2010

  Today we're releasing 2 more education add-ins, 20+ new education templates, and how-to materials designed to help teachers inside and outside the classroom. The new Interactive Classroom Add-in, Mathematics Add-in, and Learning Essentials templates can save time and engage students. Jump right to the...
• Is the Web messing up your mind? Take the test

  29 Jun 2010

  Do you remember "This is your brain on drugs"? A 12-second video of an egg in a hot skillet swept the airwaves in the late 1980s, courtesy of the Partnership For a Drug-Free America. Debates raged over whether TV rots the brain. Update that to the 21st century and the question shifts to our newest habit...
• Mouse Mischief: 1 computer + 25 mice equals a cool (& free) education tool

  30 Apr 2010

  Mouse Mischief , a free PowerPoint add-in debuting today, fills a great need at many schools: how to get kids involved with computers on a budget. The trick here is up to 25 kids can interact with one computer (the teacher's) with just one mouse per student. See how one school works with Mouse Mischief...
• New Office Add-in for Moodle saves teachers time

  6 Apr 2010

  Picture this. You're a teacher. It’s a few weeks into the semester and one of your units is taking longer than expected, so you want to update the syllabus at Moodle * to push out the date for the unit test. Yesterday, you’d have had to open up a copy of the syllabus, make the change, save...
• Elevate America offers free training for thousands in California (and other states)

  11 Mar 2010

  Elevate America gives out free vouchers for training on Microsoft products including Office and Windows. The program hit a high water mark this week as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announces his state is signing-up and making 166,500 vouchers available to his state’s citizens. Thirteen...