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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

• UK High Performance Computing Award

  Hello Everyone, The Windows Server HPC team have created a special award for UK Software Design competitors who use the Windows HPC Server in their Software Design solution of the Imagine Cup. Microsoft want to stimulate the thinking of UK students about how HPC can change the world.  We want students to think big, and to use the world’s fastest systems to solve the world’s biggest problems.  That’s what the HPC prize in the Imagine cup’s about. You know how mutli-core is about writing a program that uses more than one cpu?  Well HPC (High Performance Computing) is the next step up: it’s about programming for hundreds or thousands of CPUs.  This is for all the stuff that needs more compute than you can get from a single server.  Think about online gaming, when you have hundreds of people simultaneously modifying a visual database – that needs more power than you can get one a single CPU.  Think about calculating the temperature over 20,000 land sites in the UK and then projecting that forward into the future, one minute at a time, for 500 years.  This all needs heavy duty computing – and that’s HPC.  It’s the A380 of the computing world. To win the HPC prize you don’t need to have a working system – but tell us how your design would scale-out from one CPU to a thousand.  And explain how all that power would help.  The award will be given to the Software Design teams who demonstrate technical competency with HPC,  have a real world need for high performance computing and present the commercial viability of their implementation. HPC is used in lots of places – last year the two winners used HPC for genetic engineering and motorway design.  People in the UK use HPC for everything from theology to thermodynamics, archaeology to aerodynamics, gaming to genetics.  How could you use it? If you’ve got questions please contact your local HPC or SuperComputing Centre.  Or email Michael... Good luck and hope to see you at the finals. Best, Allison Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:11 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, Technology, Student, Software, Microsoft

• ITA Student Pass

  Hello, I’d like to tell you a little about the ITA Student Pass which gives students access to a large number of e-learning courses free of charge. The e-learning materials will provide your students with access to training on real-world technology and industry-recognised certification. You might even envisage an opportunity to incorporate some of the e-learning into the curriculum for new courses or simply to replace existing materials. If you would like your students to have access to Microsoft e-learning materials I can supply, upon request, a series of unique codes for you to distribute to them. To see a demonstration of what e-learning has to offer please click demo. For the codes themselves, please email i-allmc@micrsoft.com with a subject header of ITA Student Pass. With Best wishes, Allison Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 11:00 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Technology, Teaching, Student, Microsoft, Software design

• Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass

  In an earlier blog I directed you toward the free Preparation Kit for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam 70-571 and, following on from that, today I’d like to introduce you to the Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass which provides free e-learning courses to verified university students and is an excellent way for them to supplement their degree studies with additional learning on Microsoft technologies. Your students may also want to explore Microsoft technical certifications, and the IT Academy Student Pass is a perfect entry point to five different certification paths. Please encourage your students to visit the site and learn more. Best wishes, Allison Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:54 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Students, Careers, Training, Technology, Teaching, Student, Microsoft, 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

• 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