This webcast is hosted by Center for Digital Education. Learn how Loudoun County Public Schools uses Kinect to engage and inspire students in classroom activities and in physical education, and how Kinect is supporting their students with special needs.

Join co-hosts Microsoft and the Center for Advanced Technologies (a public magnet program housed at Lakewood Senior High School, in Florida), and see demonstrations of student-developed solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform.

Learn about education desktop solutions designed to help your IT organization maintain security, streamline management, and cut costs.

Collaborate across your campus, your city, the nation, or the world with cutting-edge solutions like Microsoft Live@edu and Microsoft Office Web Apps. Keep your students, educators, and staff connected—regardless of platform, device, or location.

See how Microsoft solutions can facilitate smooth, efficient operations. Help meet student and teacher recruitment and retention goals, improve alumni/constituent relationship management, maximize funding from grants, and collaborate more effectively.

Discover the new license program, Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES), an easy, cost-effective offer that provides qualified academic customers a simplified way to acquire Microsoft software and services under a single, subscription agreement.

Microsoft operational efficiency solutions can help you simplify education IT infrastructure, reduce costs, and improve the outcome for your school and students.

Help protect anywhere, anytime access. Microsoft business-ready security can help schools protect their assets and infrastructure while addressing shrinking budgets and increased regulatory pressure.

See how you can develop on the Windows Azure platform—the Microsoft cloud platform as a service (PaaS) offering—and how to scale your systems as the needs of your institution grow.

Discover new ways to make quick work of daily tasks, collaborate with teachers, share information, and engage students with Microsoft Office 2010. These tips can help you make the most of the built-in tools in Microsoft Office for education.

You can deliver IT as a service (ITaaS) for your education institution using technology you already own. In this second webcast on the Microsoft private cloud, learn more how cloud computing can benefit your school, college, university, or district.

Learn about the many Microsoft cloud benefits available to education organizations, and discover easy, effective partner solutions that make the most of them.

Inspire your students, and boost engagement in the classroom with intuitive tools from Microsoft that can help you improve education outcomes.

Learn more about Microsoft Partners in Learning expansion into higher education including the Teacher Education Initiative and how the program is developed by and for faculty.

Ollie Bray, Deputy Headteacher at Musselburgh Grammar School in Scotland, talks about using gaming and helping students focus on their interests to learn core subjects.

Find out how students at the Fulford School are using Microsoft applications to allow the real world to come to life.

Watch this presentation from the Education Leaders Briefing in London, January 2012.

How does passion for motorcycles go hand in hand with fashion, business and technology? What does ERP do for a company and how do you succeed in your first job? Open up the door to the ERP world.

Why would you want to work for a Microsoft Dynamics partner? What is ERP and why is it so important to get introduced already in your study years? It opens up the doors to the world.

With Office Web Apps, any team can accomplish great things and work together easily.

Learn how to interactively control a lesson with your interactive whiteboard.

Learn how teachers use Windows 7 to take advantage of the applications you already have.

Learn how teachers can take advantage of Windows 7 to make every day tasks easier.

Learn how teachers can take advantage of OneNote to help get organized.

Learn how faculty can take advantage of OneNote to help get organized.

Microsoft's end-to-end virtualization strategy impacts the IT infrastructure management lifecycle, and helps drive greater efficiencies, flexibility and cost-effectiveness throughout your organization.

The commonwealth deploys cloud service to more than 700,000 people and expects to cut $6.3 million in costs in one of the world’s largest cloud rollouts.

In this video we look at best practices for piloting and deploying Live@edu to your users.

Learn about Microsoft's vision for the cloud

This session presents an overviews of the Windows Live @ edu services portfolio and offerings and provides an up to date view of Microsoft's services roadmap.

This introduction video is the first in a series of videos focused on sharing some of the things we are learning from our customers on cloud security, privacy and reliability.

John Howie, Senior Director, Microsoft Global Foundation Services discusses business agility and other potential benefits of leveraging cloud computing.

Mark Estberg, Senior Director, Microsoft Global Foundation Services provides insight on cloud transparency as an element of trust.

More from Mark Estberg, Senior Director, Microsoft Global Foundation Services, on cloud transparency as an element of trust.

Get security, standards, enterprise reliability, and flexibility for your education institution.

This Teaching and Learning podcast for Instructional Technology Directors provides a high level overview of 3 rich collaborative tools: SharedView, OneNote 2007, and SharePoint.

See how Microsoft solutions for real-time system integration and complex workflow scenarios can integrate your existing education systems and processes to take optimal advantage of cloud computing resources.

Join us for this webcast to learn how Microsoft Live@edu can offer your K-12 institution the ultimate suite of collaboration applications for your students at no cost to your institution.

A one hour application-based webcast on the uses of Live@edu in the classroom.

Learn about Live@edu, Microsoft's newest platform for delivering student and alumni email, communication and collaboration services.

Learn about Live@edu platform updates for higher education.

Learn about Live collaboration tools

This webcast provides an in-depth look at the tasks and tools your administrators will use to manage the Live@edu domain, users and groups.

Learn about Microsoft Azure in research

Learn about Microsoft collaborative campus with this Live@edu overview and demo.

This live demonstation highlights the features of BizTalk that enable you to quickly automate, analyze and improve your institution's business processes.

Learn how to manage financial and operational management in Higher Education with financial insight, budgeting and planning, and alignment of department initiatives with institutional goals.

Microsoft business intelligence (BI) tools make it easy for any decision-maker to access, interact with, and analyze information. Watch this webcast to learn more.

Watch this presentation from the Education Leaders Briefing in London, January 2012.

Educators at Lakeside Park Primary school in South Africa share their experiences with an innovative new use for Kinect—using the controller-free gaming device for Xbox 360 in the classroom to engage young students.

Learn about three Mentor Schools in the Partners in Learning Schools Program that are creating a culture empowered by Microsoft technology to enable children to develop 21st century skills.

This video showcases a school in Colombia that using Microsoft technology in creating a Personalized learning system for students and teachers to use so that students drive their own learning.

Watch this overview of free tools made available for faculty by Microsoft.

OneNote helps keep research organized. Learn how to use this digital notebook to prepare for lectures, papers, and symposiums.

Learn about these free tools for the classroom.

Find out how to create and share cool videos in minutes.

Find out how to collaborate with OneNote for faculty.

Bing in the classroom - first chapter of a three chapter series on Bing for teachers.

With the hidden text feature in Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can help students improve their writing skills. Create worksheet templates that include writing prompts or offer helpful instructions.

WordArt can make titles much more interesting in worksheets or assignments making use of color and images, such as a report on the life cycle of flowering plants can make a title come to life with colorful pictures and a bright, engaging WordArt title.

You can format Excel cells to display decimals as fractions. Office Excel 2007 also performs mathematical operations on fractions and reduces and rounds fractions automatically.

You can make it easier for students to understand data relationships by converting them into a pictograph - a graph with pictures. Office Excel 2007 stretches or stacks pictures to represent the values being graphed.

You can use Microsoft Office Word 2007 to easily add mathematical expressions, equations, and formulas to quizzes and worksheets. Use one of the built-in equations or create one of your own. To reuse an equation, simply save it in the Equation Gallery.

To count all of the numbers in a group or range of cells, or just the ones that match a certain condition, there are specific functions in Office Excel 2007 that can help you do this fast and easy.

Understanding research and data collection methods is an essential tool for learning. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 can help you collect, manage, track, and organize data sets of any size.

Watch this overview of free tools made available for teachers by Microsoft.

Windows Live Movie Maker is the fast, easy way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies and slide shows that you can share with your class, on the Web, or on DVDs. And it's free!

With Office Word 2007 plus Office Suite, Students can create colorful assignments that rival Web and other media by adding borders, outlines, fill colors, tables, text boxes, WordArt, and other effects to emphasize ideas and an attractive page layout.

See how to use Windows Live Movie Maker to make your teaching more compelling.

Show your students how events relate over time by laying out information along a timeline. Demonstrate progress, support themes and ideas, summarize details, and help students visualize trends. Timelines let students see and understand the big picture.

Students benefit from collaborative projects that develop team-building and problem-solving skills such as a class newspaper. Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps quickly and inexpensively publish a newspaper, giving students time to write creatively.

Students can add movie-style end credits to their presentations by using the animation effects in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

Students can design a class survey project to include interviewing many people with a Microsoft Word questionnaire, capturing data in forms, entering results in a database, and track/analyze the data using Microsoft Excel.

Students can learn to gather data and manipulate different variables in a scenario to change the end result. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 saves scenario data and lets them substitute it to perform “what-if” analyses to predict different outcomes.

Students can work together or by themselves to design an interactive story using hyperlinks in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. When readers run the slide show, they decide how the story progresses by clicking buttons that link them to different slides.

Testimonials and showcasing of Microsoft’s product accessibility features in education.

The AutoSummary Tools in Office Word 2007 can highlight and assemble key points of a document. For example, a student can use it to autosummarize a long list of science articles, edit it or even quickly create an abstract for a finished history report.

Office Excel 2007 sets you up an initial spreadsheet grading system, then save the Excel worksheet as a template and use Office Excel 2007 to calculate, providing the data views you need, and producing grades and reports for every class.

Office PowerPoint 2007 animation can help students stay focused in presentations by making them more engaging, adding transitions between slides, animation within slides, simplifying busy charts, and synchronizing each chart section with the discussion.

Office Web Apps give faculty and students the freedom to work with many Microsoft Office programs, virtually anywhere there is an Internet connection.

Learn how to use Windows Live Movie Maker to share your educational movies with a broader audience through the Internet.

Learn how you can help a student to concentrate on learning by creating an orderly PC learning environment and by reducing the number of screen elements vying for a student’s attention.

Learn more about creating a photo slide show in Windows Live Movie Maker including adding music, narration, and more.

Learn more about Live Preview in Windows Live Movie Maker and find out how to create more compelling presentations and look like a pro.

Macros save you time, and we know how busy a teacher’s life can be. When you find yourself performing a task or series of tasks repeatedly, it is helpful to create a macro in an Office Excel 2007 worksheet.

Microsoft Mathematics for teachers; helping students understand and improve math skills.

Microsoft PowerPoint is an effective way to present new concepts and learning material to a class. Now teachers can extend their ability to use PowerPoint outside of the classroom wherever there is an Internet connection.

Learn how to insert drop caps into a document

Learn how to make words stand out in a document

Learn how to move captions and pictures together

Learn how to use photo slide shows in Windows Live Movie Maker and add music, narration, and more.

Learn how to use Photo Story in class

Learn how to use tools in OneNte Web App to help you stay organized in the classroom and on the go.

Imagine that Teachers and students can easily combine illustrations with creative writing, add descriptions to shapes, create holiday decorations, worksheets, handouts, and signs that are engaging and fun using Microsoft Office Word 2007.

Instead of creating a table of contents after the writing is finished, your students can use Office Word 2007 to help them organize their writing as they go.

Introduction to Bing for faculty - first chapter of a three chapter series on Bing for faculty.

Is there a better way for students to understand people who made history than to walk in their shoes? They can write and send postcards to and from famous historical figures to promote a speech or to announce a significant change to the government.

It's often difficult to see patterns, trends, and details in large databases filled with grades and other data. When you convert a database to a table, you can change how you view the data by clicking the arrows in the header row.

Learn about sharing your movies on the Web using Windows Live Movie Maker.

Learn about the benefits of Songsmith in the digital musical classroom.

Learn about the five ways the Windows operating system can help make the PC easier to see.

Learn how faculty can take advantage of Windows 7 to make every day tasks easier.

Learn how Microsoft Office 2010 can help you save time, be more productive, and better collaborate with colleagues and students.

Learn how Office Web Apps can help you get your work done on or off campus.

Learn how OneNote Web App can help you organize notes, and store multi-media content and web links to better prepare for lessons.

Bing Maps in higher education - third chapter of a three chapter series on Bing for faculty.

Calendars help you and your students manage project schedules, school dates, and weekly planning. Curriculum-related calendars include "This Day in History," temperature or weather, weekly spelling words or vocabulary challenges.

Exploring in class with Bing Maps - third chapter of a three chapter series on Bing for Teachers.

For students with dyslexia, OneNote has many features that can help students take notes faster and in different ways, stay organized, and meet literacy challenges, such as spelling and grammar.

For years, the ubiquitous red pencil has been the primary tool for written communication between teacher and student. By using the Review tools in Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can turn cursory one-way feedback into a collaborative experience.

Get tips and tricks for making the most of your Microsoft Office in your educational setting.

Help students develop greater control at the computer by making a few simple adjustments to the mouse.

If a child you know is having difficulty hearing you or their classmates speaking, they’re probably also having trouble hearing their PC. Learn about options to help students to hear their PCs more clearly—without making them stand out in class.

If you already use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 for common tasks such as managing your email, contacts, and calendar, you can easily start using the other tools and features in Office Outlook 2007 to help stay organized.

Children often don't recognize how multiple stories or events fit together. To develop perspective and learn storytelling they can create movies with images and text from their day's activities, and publish to the Web to share.

Create compelling media presentations controlling sound or music within a slide show. Students record their own voices, sounds, and movies and insert them into slides to tell a story. Teachers use sound to prompt questions or narrate text.

Create tri-fold brochures for anything: language arts, math, social studies, science, and art. Student created brochures promote their activities or sports. Quick and easy brochures serve as great hand-outs for a student orientation or parents' night.

2007 Microsoft Office available in 35 languages; English has Spanish/French proofing tools, spelling, grammar, autocorrect. Installable language packs help switch among multiple languages. For occasional words, shortcut keys manually insert characters.

A better way to search for faculty - second chapter of a three chapter series on Bing for faculty.

A better way to search for teachers and students - second of a three part series on Bing for Teachers.

A Venn diagram can help students understand or explain relationships, such as comparing and contrasting differences of what their classmates enjoy or don't enjoy doing. It can help students see the overlap of similarities and the distinct differences.

Learn what happened when 700 of the most innovative global educators from 70 countries gathered to discuss the future of technology in education.

Salvador Ortiz de Montanello, Vice President of Education, Integar Schools, Mexico, talks about learning without walls and bringing the school to home by giving all students, parents, and teachers access to technology in Mexico.

Office Web Apps allow you to work with your Office files from more places and on more devices by providing browser-based viewing and lightweight editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files.

This overview of Office 2010 addresses your educational challenges. This session presents enhanced communication and collaborative capabilities and demonstrates the Office suite, the new Office Web Apps and many education add-ins designed for classrooms.

More than 500 educators from nearly 70 countries attended this event in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2010 to celebrate innovation and share best practices.

Microsoft Partners in Learning is a global initiative designed to actively increase access to technology and improve its use in learning.

In this webcast, we explore how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help schools and universities improve their insight and performance process by integrating monitoring, analysis, and planning capabilities into one application.

Find out how Microsoft Partners in Learning is inspiring educators, administrators, and students with new ICT applications in the Netherlands.

Find out how the Magellan Project is offering affordable laptops for primary school children in Portugal.

Microsoft Partners in Learning is helping students learn to innovative technology to develop good study habits and prepare for careers.

Find out how Microsoft Partners in Learning is helping students in Denmark build their digital pencil cases.

Find out how Microsoft Partners in Learning is supporting innovative teaching practices and technology adoption in Finland.

Find out how Microsoft Partners in Learning is helping students in Sweden prepare for university with innovative computer technologies.

Find out how Microsoft and the Swiss Network for Innovation in Education studied the use of netbooks to enhance creativity and improve communications in the classroom.

Microsoft IT Academy provides students with real-world technology skills they need to be successful in college and a career. North Carolina is the first state in the nation to implement Microsoft IT Academy statewide to all 628 public high schools.

View amazing images of the universe through the technology of WorldWide Telescope.

Microsoft Partners in Learning helps immigrant students get coaching from trainee teachers via Windows Live Messenger in the Swedish language

See the winners of the 2011 Global Forum Educator Awards including projects on soiless planting in China, developing nonfiction writing skills, research at a local wetland, and many more.

Hear directly from a teacher in Wales who won an Educator award for music technology education.

Get a behind the scenes look at the 2011 Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum held November 7-10 in Washington D.C. Feel the excitement of the event and see what really happened on stage, backstage, at special events, and on the conference floor.

Discover how they are used in a participating school in Australia and behind-the-scenes glimpse of the types of data that the team is collecting when the children are engaging in the tasks.

Microsoft Research, in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of São Paulo, deployed a network of sensors to study the Serra do Mar rainforest in Brazil.

Students interested in technical fields can get software, training, and job access. The program also connects students to jobs being offered by companies working with Microsoft.

Microsoft unified communications technologies use the power of software to deliver complete communications messaging, voice, and video—across the applications and devices that people use every day.

Learn what's new in Microsoft Office 2010

Learn how to engage your students using Microsoft Windows 7.

Learn how to make tasks easier with Microsoft Windows 7.

Watch how a teacher and her students use Windows MultiPoint Server in the classroom.

See how MultiPoint Server 2010 enables schools in Indonesia to provide more students access to computers.