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Capturing the Interest of Students and Motivating Them to Succeed
03 July 09 03:40 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
For many years before I joined Microsoft I taught in secondary schools in the UK. One of the most important initiatives I became involved in was to increase the relevance of education to capture the interest of our students and ultimately motivate them Read More...
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...
On the midnight train to Nizhniy Novgorod
12 November 08 11:25 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
After an exciting trip on an overnight night train we’ve landed in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. We spent most of today in the community around the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) where Microsoft is working with NGO Free Deed to provide students with PCs loaded Read More...
A visit to Cafemax
10 November 08 10:56 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
The highlight of our first day on tour in Central and Eastern Europe was a visit to Cafemax iCafes in Moscow. I’ve seen many iCafes but this one struck me as leading edge. Why? Variety. The Cafemax chain understands what their customers want and they Read More...

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