In The Spotlight

​Today 100 amazing educators arrive to Microsoft's main campus for the Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum. Educators representing 78 different projects and 25 states will be exhibiting their work and vying to be one of 10 projects that will represent the United States at the Partners in Learning Global Forum in Washington, DC this fall. On the agenda for these teachers over two days will be project exhibitions which will be evaluated by a panel of judges, learning excursions to some of Seattle’s best known landmarks such as the Space Needle and Pike Place Market where...

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Mouse Mischief is an add-in that Microsoft makes available free of charge, and that allows teachers who use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to make interactive presentations. With Mouse Mischief, teachers can add multiple choice questions to their presentations, and large groups of students can answer the questions using mice connected to the teacher’s PC. Mouse Mischief not only gives students the ability to engage, have fun, and learn in new, interactive ways, but it also provides teachers with a more affordable alternative to purchasing expensive student...