Education News
Education News
July 8, 2008
In This Issue:
News
Higher Education Institutions
Primary and Secondary Schools
Events
Product Updates & Offers
Download: The Microsoft Teachers Guide
Office Live Update 1.1
MSN Toolbar 3.0
Comments? Suggestions?
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Stay organized and work more effectively
OneNote   
Educators and students alike can use OneNote 2007 to create and deliver notes, projects, and presentations, and share it all with seamless collaboration.

Learn how you can use OneNote in the classroom
Downloads: Teacher toolkit, sample notebooks, videos
Try OneNote out for free 

News
Learn how universities around the United States are achieving performance gains and improving their research capabilities by using Microsoft high-performance computing (HPC) solutions.
Share your teaching experiences (and read and comment on others) and become eligible to win gift certificates for school supplies and free software from Microsoft for your classroom and students. Hurry, contest ends August 15, 2008.
Educators can access best practices, instructional strategies, and other resources from your school district—all from a centralized Web portal—using the new Learning Village from Microsoft and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology.
Visit our new Administrator portal to find solutions, special offers, and other resources from Microsoft.

Higher Education Institutions
Jeff Bigham, a student at the University of Washington, won the first-ever Accessible Technology Award for Interface Design in the 2008 Imagine Cup technology competition.
Mercer University adopted a Microsoft-based unified communications solution that improves collaboration, facilitates online learning, and provides for greater mobility.

Primary and Secondary Schools
More than 500 K–12 schools around the world have signed up for Microsoft Live@edu, a suite of no-cost, innovative online communication tools that allows teachers and students to access documents from almost any computer with an Internet connection.
By upgrading its computers to the Windows Vista operating system, the district provided teachers with state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities for creating more engaging learning experiences that better prepare students for college and work.

Events
See Microsoft at NACUBO...
July 12–15 | Chicago, IL
Register and explore with colleagues new initiatives, new points of view, and new approaches to old problems.

...and Desire to Learn (D2L) FUSION
July 20-23 | Memphis, TN
Connect, learn and enjoy yourself among the Desire2Learn community. And visit with Microsoft pros while you're there.

...and Campus Technology
July 28-31 | Boston, MA
The focus is on technologies of strategic interest to the mission of higher education, whether in the classroom or campus wide. Register today.


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