Silverlight

Our latest teaching programme is around the new Silverlight technology. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the web. The teaching programme opened with a launch event held at Bletchley Park on March 12th. At the event key speakers demonstrated the full power of Silverlight and Expression and discussed our vision of web 2.0 in an academic context.

In the weeks following the event, our aim is to recruit 30 universities to our teaching programme. Participant universities will receive: .
• Free tickets to a “deep dive” technical training event in the summer where they will learn the ins-and-outs and tips-and-tricks of coding with Silverlight and receive teaching resources.
• Membership of the Silverlight Academic community and therefore additional resources, local peer support, links into the global community and local Microsoft support.
• Invitations to further events to discuss progress

Priority places will be given to University departments that are not already engaged on one of our other teaching programmes and/or who teach full undergraduate or masters courses. If you were not able to come to the launch event but would like to be involved or if you have additional questions please contact us at ukacinfo@microsoft.com

In the meantime, take a look at some great examples of what Silverlight can do and/or access the latest tutorials