Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Looking down the road
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 6, 2009
One of the tasks I gave my teacher trainees this coming e-learning week is to watch the iN2015 video.
Someone else made this video available on YouTube, but I don’t know if this has been officially sanctioned, so go to the source above if the YouTube version disappears.
But along comes Microsoft and they too have a [...]
Microsoft examines ed-gaming
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 27, 2009
This week I conduct last of my educational gaming sessions for the semester. And just as I bring these sessions to a “close”, one of my RSS feeds send me an article about Microsoft investigating the educational benefits of gaming.
Here’s a snippet from
“We want to figure out what’s compelling about the games,” said John Nordlinger, [...]
Aww-inspiring?
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 13, 2009
Soon my classes will explore 21st century learning environments and learn more about the residents of such places, the digital natives.
Rather than show a hard-hitting, thought-provoking YouTube video, I thought I’d feature something a bit more aww-inspiring.
Forget that this is a commercial for Microsoft and that is has been edited or [...]
Low cost MS Surface?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 16, 2008
I have blogged about multitouch technology and how we at the MxL have a low cost prototype.
Now I hear that Microsoft might offer its own low cost model!
