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• Student Technology Day - Future User Experience Technologies

  Hello All, Filmed at the Royal Festival on 1st October, please find below the session by Paolo Barone on Microsoft Surface: If for any reason you cannot view this clip, please do let me know. Best wishes,   Allison Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 10:02 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Students, Training, Technology, Academics, Student, Software design

• Student Technology Day videos

  Hello All, For those of you who made it along to the Royal Festival Hall and, especially for those of you who had other commitments, please find below Steve Ballmer’s Keynote Speech:   If you have any difficulty in viewing the clip, please don’t hesitate to let me know.   With best wishes,   Allison Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 9:23 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology, Academics, Student, Steve Ballmer

• Microsoft Certification for Windows Embedded CE 6.0

  Hello All, I know that many of you are considering incorporating the Microsoft Certification Program into your curricula so that graduating students supplement their degrees with an industry recognised certification. With this in mind I thought you might like to know about the the free Preparation Kit for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam 70-571 together with the 50% off voucher which you can redeem against the examination until 5th January 2009. If you’d like to learn more, please click here. And good luck! Best, Allison Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:28 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Academics, Embedded, Student, Software, Software design, Graduates

• News from the Faculty Summit

  Lee Dirks, the Director for Education and Scholarly Research, announced five new ‘lifecycle’ tools for academics and researchers. The tools are as follows: Research Information Centre Creative Commons (an add-in to Microsoft Office) Article Authoring (an add-in to Microsoft Word) E-Journal Hosting Service Research Output Repository Platform To hear more about these tools from Lee, please visit Channel 8. If you have any questions, do contact me and I’ll see if I can get them answered for you. Best, Allison Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:03 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Students, Technology, Academics, Teaching, Student, Software, Academic, Channel8, Graduates

• Pixel Poetry

  Hi, It was our very great pleasure to sponsor and support the Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering 2008, at the University of Cambridge. Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel If proof were needed, these photographs exemplify the strong connection between art and science and that engineering particularly, has an inner beauty. The winning photograph, Blue Spikes, by Sonja Findeisen-Tandel, together with other stunning entries can be viewed at Microsoft Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering. Which puts me in mind on Imagine Cup 2009 and the category for best photo story. It isn’t too soon to get your students involved and thinking about the competition.  You never know, the lucky winner could be from your university and joining us in Cairo for the world finals. The next set of photographs could be of the pyramids and feluccas on Nile. For an overview of the photo story competition please visit Photo Story. All the best, Allison Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:14 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, competitions, Academics, Student, Games, Microsoft

• Films for Learning

  One of the exciting new projects being demonstrated at the BETT show this year is the Films for Learning Project. I know that many of you work with your feeder schools to establish links, provide extra curricular activities and to foster enthusiasm for Computer Science and Engineering subjects and I think this resource could help you. I see potential for you to help your feeder schools make videos that other schools can benefit from, either in your area or across the country. I see students demonstrating their programming, electronics, robotics projects to their peers. What do you think?   Claire   The details of the project are: Films for Learning (FFL) is a project that has been inspiring schools for two years now to create their own video resources and share them with others online as part of core curriculum. FFL is organised out of Thomas Hardye School in Dorset with the first year of funding from NESTA. · Audience for FFL is youth 6-18 years of age and teaching professionals. · All submitted videos are moderated by UK teaching professionals before publication to ensure the site content is safe and appropriate for education use. · Microsoft is a sponsor of FFL and helped to re-launch www.filmsforlearning.org. This collaborative site and online community will serve as an educational resource that inspires and helps teachers and students to make their own video productions. · Approximately 50 schools in the UK take part today (note that most school/classrooms are already undertaking video projects but haven’t had a place to interact around them more broadly. · School participation costs – a DV video camera, a PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista for access to Windows MovieMaker, Internet connectivity to publish the video to filmsforlearning.org · The Films for Learning community members provide student and teacher activity/training days, using a travelling film lab with equipment funded by Microsoft, to help schools start media enhanced, personal learning activities. The introductory FFL video (provided as a WMV) is available here – please watch if you wanted to see and hear more about FFL by the teachers and pupils doing FFL today! http://community.filmsforlearning.org.ultimahosts.eu/video/FfL-Film-2008.wmv Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:53 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Technology, Web, Academics, Robotics, Teaching, Embedded, Student

• Inspiration Tour Update

  With 17 dates behind them and another 37 yet to come, Ed and Ben are having a great impact on the students that they present to as part of the Inspiration Tour. We love to get feedback, both good and bad but our favourite so far is: The talk you gave today was absolutely awesome, as were the demos. Loved every minute of it from the front row. You even had me crying when you were talking about the opportunities - everything I dreamed about. Thanks to both of you. All dates are now booked but if your university has missed out then please get in touch and we will see if we can fit you into an additional slot.   Claire Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:12 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, XNA, Careers, Technology, Web, Academics, Silverlight, Embedded, Student, Software

• What's new with XNA v2.0?

  Ed Dunhill, Academic Developer Evangelist, answers just this question in his blog and links you to the XNA team blog too. There is still massive interest in XNA v1 and so we have produced some more of the popular 'Getting started with XNA' DVDs. If you are a UK Academic then please let me know if you would like some and how many (max 50). Claire Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 2:33 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: XNA, Technology, Academics, Teaching, Student

• Life changing prizes to be won the the Imagine Cup

  Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup, Students The Imagine cup registrations are flooding in and the competition is definitely hotting up. If you need anymore compelling reasons to prompt your students into registering (apart from the chance to win an Xbox 360 Elite) I thought I would share with you the prizes that are on offer which could really make a difference to their live's and give them a great start into their chosen career.   Competition Prize Software Design 2 weeks in Seattle working alongside the Popfly team. A great work experience opportunity to see how Microsoft builds software that the winners can use when they apply for jobs and go into industry Game Development 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft Games Studio in the UK Embedded Development 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft embedded partner IT Challenge A Tranquil PC Windows Home Server Project Hoshimi 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft Games Studio in the UK Algorithm A top specced desktop PC with Visual Studio 2008 Interface Design A top specced desktop PC with Expression Studio Short Film An HD video camera with tripod and accessories Photography A Digital SLR camera, tripod, extra lens and accessories   As you can see some of the prizes could really make a difference to your students future,so what are you waiting for go to the Imagine Cup Website and find out how you can get involved.   Kate Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 10:30 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, System Administrator, competitions, Academics, Teaching, Student