All Blog Posts Tagged 'microsoft' (9)

TEDxRedmond: High School Junior Olivia Interviews Adora Svitak, 12

Amazing-Kids News Reporter Olivia sits down with Adora Svitak, host of TEDxRedmond 2010, in the Microsoft Convention Center during the dinner that was provided by BING for all the attendees and speakers.

A link to all the TEDxRedmond video presentations will be posted here… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on September 19, 2010 at 2:58pm — No Comments

TEDxRedmond Conference Brings Some of the World’s Youngest Artists, Writers and Musicians to Speak on Microsoft Campus

Organizer Adora Svitak says she hopes to empower and inspire attendees with a conference organized by kids, for kids. Read Story

Adora Svitak, 12, is the host of TEDxRedmond, a local TED program that is being organized "by kids, for kids" that will be held Saturday September 18 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond,…

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Added by Jack Olmsted on September 16, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Adora Svitak TEDxRedmond Host Interview

Adora Svitak, 12, is the host of TEDxRedmond, a local TED program that is being organized "by kids, for kids" that will be held Saturday September 18 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Follow on Twitter.

In her interview, Adora explains what TEDx is, how she got inspired to set-up her own TEDx event and some of the issues she has run into… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on June 8, 2010 at 3:11am — No Comments

4th Grader Brennan LaBrie Interviews Siegfried Behrens Microsoft General Manager, U.S. Education in D.C.

At the 2010 U.S. Imagine Cup Finals in Washington D.C., 10-year-old Brennan LaBrie, TIME For Kids, interviewed Siegfried Behrens, Microsoft General Manager, U.S. Education, about the role technology will play in the classroom of the… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on May 7, 2010 at 8:07pm — No Comments

Microsoft Courier "digital journal" and iPad pre-order links- will these tools be useful in education?

More multi-touch news: Microsoft's Courier "digital journal"; pre-order iPad & download SDK http://bit.ly/c0deKh

I'll be posting my thoughts on future posts on my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.

Added by Lynn Marentette on March 13, 2010 at 7:43am — No Comments

Flight Simulator on a Microsoft Surface Table, set to 80's music

The above is a link to a recent post on my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog. The application looks fun!

Added by Lynn Marentette on August 9, 2009 at 8:40am — No Comments

Ed Tech Company PN Develops Educational Game for Microsoft Surface

UK educational software company RM has released a demo of their game Finguistics. What makes this so interesting is that this educational game is being designed to work on the Microsoft Surface platform.

As you can see in the video, these kids are…

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Added by Derek Baird on March 23, 2009 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Laptop Institute, Tablets, and Servers

Our student workers got the rest of the tablets imaged yesterday, so at least that is done! One month from today we have the opening faculty in-service. It's going to be a crazy month.

Went to the Laptop Institute in Memphis from Sunday thru Wednesday. It was a fantastic conference. I highly recommend it to anyone if there school is even remotely considering a one-to-one program. My biggest takeaway of the conference is the realization that putting a tablet in the hands of every… Continue

Added by Kevin Stachowski on July 18, 2008 at 8:15pm — 1 Comment