Educational Origami

Here are a set of resources from Microsoft for working with Windows and MS office in the classroom. This is useful set of materials. accessibility in the classroom - http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/guides/Pages/Accessibility.aspx Mathematics 4.0 in the classroom _ http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/guides/Pages/Mathematics-guide.aspx – this includes a step by step guide, plus links to the download of the product as well Bing (Microsofts [...]

In this update of on the wire we have resources available from MS Australia, the open library a cool school and much more. 1. Free Tools in the classroom – http://www.microsoft.com/australia/education/teachers/teachertools/free-tools.aspx- Applications and resources available through MS Australia. This is a good start and has links and resources for Autocollage Photosynth Moviemaker live Worth investigating [...]

Lots of interesting stuff coming through at the moment. In this update we have Microsoft’s security essentials offering and much more. 1. Microsoft Security Essentials -  http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ This is a security package from Microsoft. It covers viruses, trojans rootkits etc. Its free, but you do need to be running windows genuine advantage. 2. Apple Apps [...]

I have been mulling over the software deal for schools now for a couple of days and it is raising more concerns. The Software for schools deal provides “certainty” for some of the stakeholders, namely the software suppliers. They have certainty of funding and revenue for the next three years. It does not provide certainty [...]

Microsoft and FOSS (Free or Open Source Software) would often be regarded as mutually exclusive or perhaps a contradiction in terms, but occassionally you would be very wrong. Here are two examples that are interesting: The first is MARVIN – http://www.marvin.com.au/ Marvin is a development from the agents (einstien and co) in MS apps. Developed [...]

This is a very interesting article published in the New Zealand Computerworld. Essentially the article reads as follows The New South Wales Education departments has:  downgraded allvista operating systems to Windows XP use open office instead of Microsoft Office The selection of Open Office instead of MS office is interesting as Sun, who make open [...]