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• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• It’s 10:00 a.m. Do you know where your data is?

  28 Jun 2010

  Nearly 70% of Americans already use some form of cloud computing (Pew Research). 80% of Office Web Apps beta users found it easier to access and edit their docs from anywhere--doing so via the cloud. More than 10,000 businesses of all sizes are already using the Windows Azure cloud computing system....
• 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...
• Lucky mud*

  17 Oct 2009

  When my colleague Daniel sent this link around, it quickly put what until then had been a lackluster day into perspective. It's a BBC story about Babar Ali , a 16 year-old from West Bengal who has taken charge of educating more than 800 local children too poor to attend school any other way. What began...
• Adult education: where do you want to go?

  26 Aug 2009

  Dear readers and job seekers, Adult education, or continuing education, can get you promoted, away from a boring job, or get you on a track to your dream job. I've found some resources for you, including job outlook information by state , but also came across good questions to ask yourself: What are...
• Check out the (Microsoft) student lounge

  20 Aug 2009

  I spent some time exploring the new Microsoft Student Lounge last night, a community site where students from all over the world can exchange information about technology, careers, causes they support, you name it. The Lounge is Microsoft’s answer to students who asked for a place to confer, so if you...
• Game On! Share your best templates in our new contest

  4 Aug 2009

  Earlier today, Leslie shared a number of great Back-to-School templates available on our site. Did you know most of our best templates come from you, our loyal users? That's why we love to have contests, and feature the winning templates for all users to see and download. And, just in time for Back-to...
• Stifled genius, K-12?

  28 Jan 2009

  In my recent post about creative competence , I promised I'd follow up with more posts about creativity, broadly defined. Here's one of the videos I wanted to pass along. Sir Ken Robinson's presentation at TED.com describes how our educational system--still based on a 19th-century model--is tailor-made...
• A stupid way to teach

  16 Jan 2009

  Warning--I'm not happy. It's late on a Friday and I'd normally wait until Monday to catch you fresh, but this is time-sensitive and I'm ticked off. And I owed you another post about creativity anyway, so here we go: On my way home tonight I heard a story on my local NPR station, KUOW , that riled me...