April 2009 - Posts

Imagine Cup US Finals - People’s Choice (that means YOU!)
27 April 09 06:33 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Next week some of the brightest – and youngest – minds in America will compete in the US Finals of the Imagine Cup , Microsoft’s worldwide student technology competition. Fifteen student teams were chosen out of thousands to showcase the technology applications Read More...

Filed under: Education, Imagine Cup

Affordable Computing Alternatives to Transform Classroom Education
22 April 09 01:46 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Ten years ago, the idea of giving each student a laptop was viewed by many as “the” thing that would transform education in developed markets. Today, that idea has become the dream of many developing nations as well: give students devices and amazing Read More...

Illinois’ Best and Brightest Tackle e-Waste (Part 2)
20 April 09 01:59 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Now I’ll move on to the most exciting part of judging the University of Illinois’ first annual Sustainable e-Waste Design Competition —the extremely talented student teams and their winning project entries. The competitors were comprised of over 20 interdisciplinary Read More...

Illinois’ Best and the Brightest Tackle e-Waste
17 April 09 03:48 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

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Will Low Cost PCs kill the refurbished PC market?
06 April 09 09:20 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 2 Comments   

With new low cost PCs like entry netbooks costing US$200 people keep asking me if the refurbished PC market will disappear. I guess the same question applies with the launch of the new Tata $2000 car, do people expect the used car market to disappear? Read More...

The best laid schemes of mice and men, By Camille Mazo, business development manager, Unlimited Potential Group APAC
02 April 09 07:44 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

At first glance a line penned in 1785 by Scotland’s famous poet Robbie Burns and the modern Thai education system have very little in common, but it was this line that kept popping into my head as I watched a Windows MultiPoint demonstration in Bangkok Read More...

Filed under: Education, Asia, MultiPoint, Microsoft, technology, software, Thailand

European Innovative Teachers Forum and a study on laptops in the classroom
02 April 09 11:19 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

I spent last week in Vienna at Microsoft’s European Innovative Teachers Forum with representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Educational Development (NIRO). NIRO just completed a study examining 252 students out of over 42,000 students who have Read More...

Filed under: Education, Europe, Partners in Learning, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe