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We The People Want More Broadband Investments for Our Nation’s Classrooms

Posted 20 days ago

by Higher Innovation

An interesting petition for funding an increase in school broadband hit my inbox this afternoon. How does this petition move the needle on college and career readiness? No related posts.
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The State of Maine Switches to Windows PCs for Statewide 1:1 Learning

Posted 21 days ago

by Margo Day
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I am very excited to share the news that the State of Maine has selected the HP ProBook 4440 running Windows 8 as the learning device of choice for all 7th and 8th grade middle school students. This is a watershed moment as Maine has the only statewide...
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Configuring PerformancePoint in SharePoint 2013

Posted 21 days ago

by Patrick_LeBlanc
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Last week while assisting a customer configure SharePoint BI I ran into an interesting problem when configuring PerformancePoint. After following all the steps precisely on this page: Configure PerformancePoint Services: http://technet.microsoft.com...
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Creating a Shared Dataset with Report Builder

Posted 24 days ago

by Patrick_LeBlanc
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I was recently asked by a customer if you could build a Shared Dataset using Report Builder 3.0. More specifically, can you build a Shared Dataset that combines multiple tables from the same database? To be honest, I wasn't sure initially because I never...
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SQL Lunch - GeoFlow: 3D Geospatial Visualization

Posted 26 days ago

by Patrick_LeBlanc
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Join me next month to learn about a new Geospatial visualization feature of Excel 2013 on the SQL Lunch. Lunch Details #75-GeoFlow: 3D Geospatial Visualization Speaker: Julie Koesmarno Add To Outlook: Add To Calendar Date and Time: 5/10...
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Windows 8 Wednesdays: A Q&A with a Technical School that Simplifies the IT Environment with Windows 8 Deployment

Posted 26 days ago

by Microsoft Education Team
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Students report that the operating system makes it easy to view information without opening applications. In this week’s Windows 8 Wednesday post the Microsoft in Education blog talks with Heiki Tähis, Head of IT and CIO of the Tallinn Polytechnic...
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Webcast: Build Awesome Windows 8 Apps using Azure Cloud Services

Posted 28 days ago

by Microsoft Tech Student

You may have heard about cloud-computing and all the cool ways you can use it to boost your projects, but did you know it could also land you more job opportunities as a mobile app developer? Take Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform Windows Azure for example. A rising number of businesses and companies out there are looking to hire developers who have experience creating apps on the cloud platform. In fact, according to Elance.com, job listings looking for Windows 8 and Windows Azure developers have more than doubled since January 2012 and over 250 listings are added every month. There has...
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Microsoft Announces the Imagine Cup 2013 U.S. Finalists!

Posted 29 days ago

by Microsoft Tech Student

REDMOND, Wash. – April 16, 2013 - Microsoft today announced the 10 teams who are advancing to the 11 th annual U.S. Imagine Cup Finals Demo Day. Demo Day will take place on May 13 in Silicon Valley and will be streamed live on the U.S. Imagine Cup Facebook page. The list of finalists include: Lost Spectrum, University of Houston/ University of Texas Chroma Tales: The team developed a fast-paced 2D action game on Windows Phone 8 where each level lasts approximately five seconds. Each player’s mission is to restore color to the world. Kinect PT, University of Virginia Vitrunetics...
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Windows 8 Wednesday: Giving Students a Voice with Windows 8

Posted 1 month ago

by Anthony Salcito
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Today marks the first in a series of Windows 8 Wednesday posts, weekly updates focused on how Windows 8 is making a difference in education – for both educators and students. I hope you will check back often and follow me on this journey. Just...
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Partner Offering: Live@edu Upgrade Training

Posted 1 month ago

by Education in the Cloud

Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner, are running a series of one day training events that cover how to complete your upgrade from Live@edu to Office 365 for education. In their own words: “This course provides an introduction to the process...

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