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• Microsoft Tech-Ed 2007 Conference DVD sets to give away

  Good morning, I thought I’d start the week with a give-away of the ten Tech-Ed Conference DVD sets sitting on my desk. So, if you live in the UK and would like me to pop one in the post to you, email me your address details and the first ten to reply will get the goodies. Have a good week. Allison Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 3:29 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Training, Technology, competitions, Silverlight, Embedded, Software, Beta, Security, Microsoft

• remix UK – a 48 hour conversation

  Hi Everyone If you have been wondering 'where next for the web?' this event might just be for you and there is an early bird saving for the first three hundred people to book. Click here to reserve a place. And if you have any ideas for a topic you would like to see presented at remix UK and have a good idea of just who you’d like to present it, there is a chance you can get it added to the mash up. Best for the weekend, Allison Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 8:51 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, XNA, Technology, Web, Robotics, Silverlight, Embedded, Software, Microsoft, Software design

• How do I do my videos?

  A customer asked me today how I do my videos for my site...they would not tell me if they thought they were good or bad...but I told them what I do anyway.  I thought I would share the info with you as well.  Most of what I do has got relevance in an education environment as well, so I hope it is food for thought...   I record the videos using Camtasia Studio - a simple to use, yet fantastic product for doing all sort of video related work.  I use it to create a WMV file from my screen captures. I set the resolution of my screen to 800x600 during the recording...although Camtasia can do a resize afterwards if you have done something larger. I use a ZOOM Handy Recorder H2 plugged into my laptop - another brilliant piece of kit.  It sits about 20 inches from me on my desk, but you can still hear me breathing :) I upload all of my videos to my account on http://silverlight.live.com, which in turn provides me with a download URL and an iFrame statement that I embed into the HTML of my blog. Best of all the SilverLight site allows me to stream so you all get a better experience. I use Windows Live Writer to keep my blog going...which of course is running on http://spaces.live.com. I use a public folder on my Skydrive, to share out files and so on. At some point, I am going to have a fiddle around with Expression Encoder, which will allow me to do more funky video overlays and controls...some day I'll get round to it... So I hope that helps Jonny Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:54 AM from Live@Edu Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• New Silverlight Videos

  Hi, For those of you with an interest in Silverlight I thought you might like to take a look at a series of 'how to' videos available from the Silverlight team. You'll find everything from the basics through to best practices and even a series of tips and techniques. For example, Todd Miranda shows how to dynamically add markers to a video at runtime and Peter Bahaa shows how to handle the back and forward buttons, all in Silverlight 1.0. To browse the library of videos click here. All the best,   Allison Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 10:05 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology, Academics, Silverlight, Software

• Mix it up!

  Hi! I'm Alfred Biehler, working with Microsoft UK alongside Claire in Microsoft's Developer platform group. My focus is on all our UK developers, and I've been given the opportunity to attend the MIX conference at Las Vegas. My expectations of the event was high, and I'm not disappointed! For starters: You can join in this amazing event by going to http://www.visitmix.com. You can see the sessions on http://sessions.visitmix.com, and/or you can even attend a UK re-run later this year in the UK... more details to come. Let me briefly share with you the biggest wow moments for me during the first keynote, that just finished: IE 8 beta is available for download now. (This beta is intended for developers). Amongst the new capabilities shown in IE8, was the ability for web apps to detect and act on losing a network connection, and a back button that really goes back - even on AJAX pages! SQL Server as a service has been announced. This is huge! I've been talking about this since the end of 1999, and it's fantastic to see this now becoming available. This would allow developers to build applications that draw data from "the cloud", without the need to manage and run the database yourself. Silverlight 2 beta 1 has been announced, with awesome demos, including how we'll experience the Olympics in a few weeks, how HardRock Cafe has a memorabilia site utilizing DeepZoom (seeing a 2bn pixel photo, zooming into any area very quickly), Aston Martin's virtual showroom experience and more. I really enjoyed seeing also some of Microsoft's partners (that also competes with us) on stage, e.g. AOL email using Silverlight, and DoubleClick (Google) for building Silverlight Adverts. And lastly - we saw demos of how Silverlight apps just worked on Nokia phones after the agreement that has been reached yesterday with Nokia to support Silverlight on their phones. One statistic that blew me away, was that we're getting about 1.5 million downloads and installs of Silverlight per day. If you do have a moment - go and have a look at the sessions @ Mix online! Alfred Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:29 PM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Technology, Web, .NET, Silverlight, Beta, Microsoft, Software design

• Joining instructions for the Bletchley Park SIlverlight Academic Day

  Last week we announced that we are accepting registrations for our Silverlight Academic Day at Bletchley Park on March 12th. This event is aimed at both designers and developers and we are pleased to say that we are almost sold out of developer seats. If you have already pre-registered by emailing me then we have reserved your seat but you now need to obtain your joining instructions by calling: 0870 166 6630 If you would like to reserve one of the remaining seats then please also call the number. Any questions, please let me know Claire Share this: Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 6:54 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Silverlight, Microsoft

• 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

• Tales from the Inspiration Tour

  The Inspiration Tour is underway and our presenters Ed Dunhill and Ben Coley have so far presented at Manchester Metropolitan University and Staffordshire University. Check out their blogs to read comments from the students and to access links to some great accompanying resources. Next they are off to Bradford, Hull, Essex and Aberystwyth, oh and stopping by Nottingham to help with GameCity. Those of you who have already booked a date should now have an email from me with the electronic version of the flyer and in the next few days you should receive a poster tube with some hard copies too. Don't forget to let me know how many students will be at your session so that I can send you enough t-shirts and other items to give out. One smart university set up a simple registration system so that they would know when the event was sold out and conversely, if more marketing needed to be done. We do this with all of our internal events and allow for a 30% drop-out rate. If you have any questions about the tour or still haven't booked your slot yet then please email me i-claipe@microsoft.com. You can check date availability here Claire Technorati Tags: Inspiration Tour, Students Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:52 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, XNA, .NET, Silverlight, Embedded, Student

• The Microsoft Inspiration Tour

  Last week we announced that we are sending our team on the road from October to March to talk to your students. The response has been excellent and sadly I have to report that ALL of the Wednesday slots before Christmas have now been taken. There are still a few Tuesday and Thursday slots available this term but I urge you to get in touch with a selection of dates as soon as you can. Claire Technorati Tags: Students, Teaching Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:38 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, XNA, Teaching, Silverlight, Embedded, Student