SUNY Signs Cloud Agreement with Microsoft

Dec 29, 2010

EdTech: Focus on Higher Education: The State University of New York system signed an agreement with Microsoft to make Live@edu available to SUNY’s 64 campuses across the state of New York.

Real-World Solutions from World’s Youth

Dec 14, 2010

The Gates Notes: Bill Gates blogs about Imagine Cup Solve This and encouraged students to register for the technology competition.

Got Game: How to Keep Girls Interested in Computer Science

Dec 9, 2010

Edutopia: Article highlights a game programming club that encourages high school girls to foster an interest in technology, formed by high school teacher Pat Yongpradit.

Microsoft helping nonprofits solve technology problems with Imagine Cup

Nov 22, 2010

Seattle Times: Microsoft launched Imagine Cup Solve This, a crowdsourcing solution for technology challenges faced by nonprofits and NGOs, or non-government organizations..

North Carolina Students Offered Microsoft Certification Course

Nov 17, 2010

eSchoolNews: North Carolina is on track to becoming the first U.S. state to offer Microsoft certification and training in every high school.

Innovative Teacher Awards Presented

Nov 1, 2010

Tech & Learning: Microsoft Partners in Learning announced the winners of the 2010 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at the sixth annual Worldwide Innovative Education Forum.

New Program Helps Classes Tackle Environmental Problems with Tech

Nov 1, 2010

T.H.E. Journal: Microsoft’s education division has teamed up with the Smithsonian and TakingITGlobal, an organization that facilitates online collaboration among young people, to launch a global program intended to inspire teachers and students to participate in environmental issues.

New Web Site Combines Project-Based Learning, Social Responsibility

Oct 27, 2010

eSchoolNews: Shout, a new partnership between Microsoft, the Smithsonian Institution, and TakingITGlobal will encourage teachers to use educational technology to improve the way students learn.

White House Science Fair Recognizes U.S. Imagine Cup Finalists

Oct 19, 2010

Wired: U.S. Imagine Cup Finalists Christian Hood and Wilson To attended the White House Science Fair.

Windows Phone 7 Ushered In At Open House Event

Oct 18, 2010

The Daily Illini: Student journalist report from the Microsoft Open House event in New York City.

Artists, Futurists Amass Ed-Reform Exhibit In NY

Oct 8, 2010

CNET: RE:FORM School is weekend-long exhibit in Manhattan designed to raise awareness and funds regarding the need to reform American education.

As The Productivity Suite Wars Heat Up, Microsoft’s Live@edu Adds More Partner Schools

Oct 4, 2010

TechCrunch: Microsoft announced a number of new schools joining the Live@edu platform.

Microsoft’s REDU Aims to Galvanize National Discussion-and-Action To Improve Education

Sept 8, 2010

eSchoolNews: REDU is a new web site from Microsoft powered by the company’s Bing search engine, that aims to help parents, teachers, students, and education advocates learn more about the state of U.S. education, have conversations about education, and take action to bring about change.

New Microsoft Software is Helping Kids Learn

Aug 17, 2010

KWGN: Microsoft released new Office add-ins, Interactive Classroom and Mathematics, to help engage students as they head back to the classroom.

Microsoft creates Office addins that take 1:1 to the next level

Aug 16, 2010

ZDNet: Highlights new Microsoft Office education-specific add-ins, Interactive Classroom and Mathematics.

Teacher Innovation Gets Royal Treatment

Aug 2, 2010

eSchoolNews: Highlights the Microsoft 2010 Innovative Educator’s Forum. The article features a sampling of the teacher projects, including one that utilized the Worldwide Telescope.

Another Major University Enrolls in Microsoft’s Cloud

July 29, 2010

ReadWriteWeb: The 85,000 students, faculty and staff at University of Georgia join the over 11 million students and educators worldwide who have adopted Live@edu.

Looking Back at the Imagine Cup 2010

July 26, 2010

GeekDad: Final installment in a series of blog posts covering the Imagine Cup 2010 event in Warsaw, Poland.

Compassionate Coding: Students Compete in Microsoft Competition to Write Humanitarian Apps

July 9, 2010

Scientific American: Highlights Microsoft’s Eighth Annual Imagine Cup competition.

Imagine a world saved by software

July 1, 2010

Atomic: Special feature highlighting Microsoft’s Imagine Cup event in Poland.

Citing the Real Author, Not Mr. Google

June 30, 2010

Education Week Blog: Microsoft released the Critical Thinking in the Classroom Curriculum in partnership with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

School of the future focuses on the basics

June 21, 2010

CNN: The network noted that the School of the Future recently graduated its first senior class and that all graduating seniors have been accepted to pursue further education opportunities.

Microsoft cloud service deployed by Kentucky schools

June 3, 2010

IDG News: Microsoft is supplying the Kentucky Department of Education with free, cloud-based services for its 700,000 faculty, students and staff.

Microsoft Releases Free Classroom Interaction Add-on for PowerPoint

April 30, 2010

THE Journal: Microsoft has released a new piece of free software designed to help make PowerPoint more of an interactive tool for classroom learning.

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010: Students Take On Big Problems With Tech

April 27, 2010

Gizmodo: Highlights the U.S. finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup, an annual competition that encourages students to tackle big problems with technology.

Earth Day 2010: Ways to make your impact

April 22, 2010

USA Today: In honor of Earth Day, Bing hosted a photo contest that will benefit education, especially environmental education, through DonorsChoose.org.

ePals + Microsoft Live@Edu = K-12 game changer

April 21, 2010

ZDNet: Microsoft has announced a partnership with ePals, a leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools, to add Microsoft Live@edu’s email and calendar software to the services it provides to educators.

Microsoft adapts Office Web Apps for Facebook

April 21, 2010

ZDNet: Microsoft announced Docs.com which allows Facebook users to share, edit, and discover Microsoft Office documents.

Tip of the Week: Chemistry in Word

April 13, 2010

New York Times: Tip of the Week: Chemistry students and teachers should check out Microsoft’s Chem4Word add-on for Microsoft Word.