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Windows Tablets now come with free training for schools…

I wrote a recent blog post on the tablet procurement Framework here in Scotland towards the end of last year, mainly about how it has been a positive move but also how we might consider improving it,...

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Be Creatively Subversive with Windows 8

Its very often the case in education that we stumble across things by accident. And as educators, we often get to thinking – “hey, I could use that with my classes”. It’s very often not the way the...

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Tablet Pecking Orders…but it’s now a battle of the Ecosystems.

We often make big assumptions in education, as we do in everyday life I guess. When it comes to Tablet devices for Education, the assumption has been that the iPad is the ‘Gold Standard’ and all the...

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Windows 8 Apps for Education

I’ve written about the three ‘killer’ iPad apps before, and more recently, about my favourite Android apps, and so its time to do Windows 8. Now Windows 8 came late to the party; the Android and Apple...

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iTunesU – Half a Million Ways to Consume and Create

Apple and Microsoft both have really mature education ecosystems, with the Apple Professional Development/Distinguished Educator and Microsoft Partners in Learning/ Innovative Educator programmes....

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Apps For All

Whatever your platform there’s a list of great apps f or you. The helpful folks at Tablet Academy UK and Tablet Academy Scotland have compiled three lists of favourite apps for education. They are a...

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Will Google Apps for Education catch up?

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about Microsoft’s Office 365 for Education platform, and compared it to Google Apps. The main comparison point I made was that whilst Office 365 was a complete...

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Turbo charging PowerPoint…

 I appear to be writing much more regularly about Microsoft this year, but they do keep coming out with great things to blog about.  They really do appear to be taking the education market very...

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Delve and other Office 365 for Education Developments

It’s no secret that I am a pretty big fan of Office 365 as a managed learning platform for education. After preferring Google Apps for a long time ( here’s my take on this), the change came about...

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Sway for engaging online presentations

Microsoft Sway is a presentation tool which is free and works on any device. It can start with a simple word-processed document (or from other sources such as Powerpoint or PDF) where you’ve put your...

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Personalised Learning for Teachers about Digital Technologies for Learning

Microsoft in Education is a site which provides free on-demand personalised learning for teachers in exploring the use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching – learning at a pace...

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Office Lens….through a lens!

It’s been a while since I blogged (a freshly minted child and 2 house moves will do that kind of thing to you….) but I saw something this week that made me think “People need to know about that. I...

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Microsoft Maker Space at #BETT2017 [@BETT_Show @microsofteduk]

I was really impressed with the Microsoft Maker Space at BETT 2017. It was packed full of practical and fun activities for both kids and adults to try out. I think my favourite was the robotic hand...

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Microsoft Maker Space at #BETT2017 [@BETT_Show @microsofteduk]

I was really impressed with the Microsoft Maker Space at BETT 2017. It was packed full of practical and fun activities for both kids and adults to try out. I think my favourite was the robotic hand...

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