EdTech Magazine

MAY 22, 2019

3 Ways Microsoft Edge Makes the Internet More Secure. Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 brings numerous improvements over Internet Explorer. It strips out much of Explorer’s legacy code for a more secure base, and it is bolstered by several new defense technologies in Windows 10. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 05/22/2019 - 14:22.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Pritzker announced mandated school closures in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, school districts such as Peoria Public Schools knew they’d have to lean on technology to teach remotely for an indefinite period of time. When Illinois Gov. They also used the platform to co-teach and develop lessons together, the newspaper notes.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2020

Pritzker announced mandated school closures in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, school districts such as Peoria Public Schools knew they’d have to lean on technology to teach remotely for an indefinite period of time. When Illinois Gov. They also used the platform to co-teach and develop lessons together, the newspaper notes.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

How Primary Students Can Use Technology Effectively. Like any classroom tool, the youngest learners need good guidance and examples when it comes to engaging with technology in the classroom. It’s simply naive to think that our littlest learners can’t or shouldn’t have access to classroom technology. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2018

Microsoft Unveils New Tech to Create Personalized, Immersive Education. Thanks to the latest Microsoft updates, creating an innovative learning environment has now gotten easier. Microsoft’s Learning Tools for OneNote already create accessibility by supporting students with disabilities and learning differences.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Access is Microsoft''s well known data base tool. OpenOffice / LibreOffice Base - OpenOffice and LibreOffice are free alternatives to Microsoft Office and both have a database tool called Base. It also can work with SQL and Access files. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 30, 2021

Techquity” refers to the infusion of technology and equity, and equity refers to the concept of every student needing what they need to be successful in the classroom. Guest Post by Victoria Thompson Number 3 is one of my personal favorites: it focuses on Techquity! Specifically, how do we make meaningful connections with all of […].

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 2, 2018

Microsoft to Use TV White Space to Put Wi-Fi on Rural School Buses. Microsoft wants to outfit school buses in Hillman, Mich., with high-speed internet to help bridge the “homework gap” that many rural students face because of lack of internet access at home. And without this access, many students fall behind.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In this post, you will learn how to use Microsoft Teams as a Live Broadcasting platform for morning announcements, assemblies, Board of Education meetings, and any other type of digital meeting. Are you looking to take your school building communication to the next level? The times have changed and so has technology. Click SAVE.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Nearly every list of major IT or educational technology issues for 2023 includes the need to further harden educational systems and infrastructure. It is particularly common for struggles between organizations that utilize the Google Suite verse those that use a Microsoft Suite.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 26, 2019

Accessibility is an important topic in education and encompasses the classroom space, digital tools and resources and much more. Creating an Accessibility-Friendly Classroom Environment Is the classroom bursting with patterned borders on the bulletin boards and bright colorful posters/word walls/anchor charts?

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 18, 2019

How to Leverage Mainstream Technology to Boost Special Education. Federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) , as well as state allocations and local funding, give schools access to resources to support students with special needs. Assistive technology may be the best option. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 29, 2022

As education goes online driven by the evolution in digital technologies and the COVID 19 pandemic, several companies are wooing the learners, academic institutions, and corporate houses with powerful tools to conduct online and blended learning programs. Benefits of KITABOO and Microsoft Immersive Reader Partnership.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blending in Technology Boosts K–12 Instruction. Technology is an ideal vehicle for teachers to better blend classroom instruction with learning opportunities occuring outside of the traditional school day — and outside of the brick-and-mortar school building. . 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two years may seem like a long time from now, but when it comes to making necessary technology updates in K–12, time can run shockingly short. Microsoft is planning to sunset support for Windows 10 by Oct. 14, 2025, and that means schools should start planning now to make these updates.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

District technology leaders once again named cybersecurity as their top priority, yet school districts continue to fall victim to cyberattacks. While K–12 education is a leader in cloud adoption, driven by the embrace of Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, districts often aren’t properly securing it.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In this post, you will learn how to use Microsoft Teams as a Live Broadcasting platform for morning announcements, assemblies, Board of Education meetings, and any other type of digital meeting. What is Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Teams is an application that is found in the Microsoft 365 suite.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

There’s no doubt that education technology or ‘EdTech’ is an important and fast-evolving entity in the digital age, and one that is having a dramatic impact on the quality of students’ learning. On a similar note, educational technologies are adaptable to the needs of students. The Use of Augmented Reality in Teaching.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we welcome Billy Krakower, a nationally recognized educator with 16 years of experience and a passion for bringing technology and creativity into the classroom. I highly recommend this free AI course from Microsoft. AIforEducators.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Future of School (FoS) today announced that Microsoft has joined as a partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP) to provide access to valuable training sessions from Microsoft Store aimed to support educators with remote and hybrid learning.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Undoubtedly eye-gaze technology has created the greatest advance in access for people with serious immobility such as those suffering paralysis or ALS. In fact eye-gaze technology is now being preferred even by students with limited mobility due to its increasing accuracy and ease-of-use.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The US Office of Educational Technology says, "Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities while also protecting against the dangers that may arise as a result of AI being integrated in educational technology." Is this a problem we need to care about or talk about?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of apps that enable you to remotely access your computer and view your files and installed applications as if you were sitting down next to it. Some of these apps offer way more functionalities such as webcam access, audio and video streaming, collaboration, and many more.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Assess your accessibility. It’s also smart to consider the physical needs of all participants and make the meeting easily accessible to everyone. This might involve using accessible meetings spaces or using special technology to accommodate those with disabilities.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, the integration of technology in the classroom is not just a luxury but a necessity. However, understanding how to effectively integrate technology can be a challenge. First, I explored what technology integration really means. What is Technology Integration?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

Keep Adaptive Technology Top of Mind in MLE Planning. Create Accessibility-Friendly Classroom Environment by Decluttering. A way schools can transition learning environments into a more accessible space is by purposefully removing certain classroom items. Creating an Accessibility-Friendly Digital Environment.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2019

Technology Makes or Breaks Esports Programs. In competitive gaming, milliseconds matter , and the technology supporting students can make or break an esports venture. My advice, always, to schools starting out is to ensure that all equipment and networking technology can support the speeds and processing the sport requires.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 21, 2016

Microsoft has a lot of Education resources for IT, Educators and Students. Microsoft Education Site for Educators - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/educators/default.aspx?Search=true This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Here are some of them that I have found useful. includes why go MS, etc.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Microsoft Education Community is a great, free resource for teachers. It has free web courses on using Microsoft tools and on best practices for using technology in education. It also includes 21st Century Learning, Accessibility and more. Related: Microsoft Education Resources, including Office 365.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

5 Steps to Creating a Technology Internship Program. We are constantly thinking of ways to bring out the grit, passion and intelligence inherent in our students by providing them with equitable access to education. She has been in our technology internship program (TSI) throughout her high school career. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Technology can finally give students with learning differences the personalized lessons needed to help them work with — instead of work around — their disabilities. He is an expert contributor to the global nonprofit Made By Dyslexia and Microsoft Education and co-founded the Association of LD Schools (ALDS).

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology. Given the surge in Smart Classroom technology requirements, the demands on these IT professionals gets ratcheted up ever further.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The metaverse is an emerging technology that is gradually becoming more mainstream within education, in part because it delivers immersive learning experiences for students. What’s more, the metaverse itself can be accessed using a variety of devices.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

4 Ways K–12 Can Maximize the Impact of Immersive Technology in the Classroom. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality and 3D scanning are becoming so hot that educators across the country are beginning to roll them out for students of all ages. Education technology purchasing is similar. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 19, 2021

Maximizing Student Engagement With The XP-PEN And Microsoft Education Apps. Microsoft Education apps include a trove of free digital educational tools and services for modern teachers determined to spark student creativity and collaboration in the curriculum. contributed by XP-PEN Graphics Tablets.

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