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Baby Smash!

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jul 4th @ 1:02 AM
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Who says computers are for grown ups? Scott Hanselman is about to show you that not only can babies learn from and enjoy a laptop...but developing for them is just as rewarding. Check out THIS
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Silverlight 2 June Webcast Series

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jun 3rd @ 4:36 AM
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Lindsay Rutter is going to be doing a series of webcasts on Silverlight 2 in June, starting on June 16th. The topics will include learning about deep zoom, learning the WPF UI framework, learning about adaptive streaming, and more. In total, there will be 6 webcasts in all. To register for any of these free webcasts, just click on its title in the list below below...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: developers, education, learning, silverlight, Training, webcasts

WorldWide Telescope Launched

Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 12th @ 9:53 PM
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Today, the WorldWide Telescope has been made available to the general public. You may remember the WorldWide Telescope as the technology that made Scoble cry, but even without that hype, the project stands on its own as an amazing platform for scientific exploration and discovery. This virtual telescope is actually comprised of terabytes of imagery, collected and combined from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Using Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine, you can use the telescope to pan and zoom through the night sky, moving in and around planets, stars, and even galaxies. Of course you can view the moon and the planets with WWT, but the imagery from this telescope also lets you do things you've never been able to before from your computer - like watching stars being born or galaxies collide...
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Tags: astronomy, education, galaxies, microsoft research, night sky, sky, stars, telescope, universe, worldwide telescope, WWT

Cluster computing for the classroom

Posted By: Jon Udell | Mar 27th @ 7:35 AM
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Kyril Faenov and Rich Ciapala discuss a new HPC++ Labs project that enables students to run computation-intensive experiments involving large amounts of financial data.

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A demonstration of cluster computing for the classroom

Posted By: Jon Udell | Mar 27th @ 7:33 AM
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In this screencast, Rich Ciapala demonstrates Microsoft HPC++ CompFin Lab, which integrates Microsoft HPC Server, a central market data database, and Microsoft productivity products to provide university courses with an online service to publish, execute and manage computational finance models.

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Be a Certified HTPC Pro

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Jan 17th @ 12:22 PM
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Sure you know your component from your composite and your CardSpace from your CableCard, who doesn't, right? But if your day gig is setting up A/V equipment, how does a potential employer or customer know that? And you probably thought that Microsoft Certified Professional exams were for those monad scripters on Channel 9, well - not so. Microsoft has MCP exams for technologists too.

Right now you can register to take the beta of the Windows Vista Connected Experience: Home Theater for Technologists exam and get a professional accredidation that shows you know how to design and build a solution for home theater systems based on the Windows Vista platform. The cost for these exams is normally $125 and can be taken at any Prometric testing center like other certifications, but since this is a beta you can take it for free. Yes, you will get a certificate if you pass, but because this is a beta you won't know right away if you passed or not. It's a great deal and you have nothing to lose so give it a try.

To take the test, just use this code: PAGHT.[Click to read the full post ]
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Jon Udell and Matt MacLaurin on Boku

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Dec 10th, 2007 @ 4:52 PM
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Boku is a programming development "game" for children that comes out of Microsoft Research (we took a look at Boku at TechFest '07.) It allows children, ages 5 and up, to apply programming elements and rudimentary scripts to characters in the Boku world.

Jon Udell spoke with Matt MacLaurin from Microsoft's Creative Systems Group and discusses more about Boku, the challenges of the project, how it works, and the importance of providing children with an expression tool for the critical thought required for programming. Read more about this interview on JonUdell.com or jump over to IT Conversations to listen to the full podcast (37 min, 17MB).
Tags: Boku, education, programming

Teaching to Learn

Posted By: Alfred Thompson | Sep 12th, 2007 @ 10:11 AM
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I read a very interesting take on the Teach For America program today. (Article here) Briefly Teach for America recruits some of the top US university graduates and gets them to make a 2 year commitment to teaching in resource poor schools. Most of them do rather well but leave teaching after two years. While some see this as a failure others see the two years not as an attempt to recruit career teachers but to allow these "best and brightest" to learn about education from the inside so that they can and will better support it as they go on to other careers. I see some real merit to this idea.
As someone who have been in industry and been in the classroom one thing I have noticed is that a lot of people in industry have no real idea of how education works. Oh they value it a great deal and they are well aware of the problems with the education's systems output. But they have little understanding of the process itself. That does not stop them for making suggestions of course. This goes in spades for elected officials, most of whom have legal not education backgrounds.
Business people tend to think that all organizations are the same. If one can manage a soft drink company one can manage a computer company. If one can manage a company or a military organization one can manage a school system. Well that isn't as true as people would like to think. It is less true, much less, that one can transfer business knowledge to running a school as a business.
Having more people in business and government who have actually spent time in the front lines of education can only help in the long run. As more and more Teach For America "corp members" move up through government and industry we may well see changes in how they interact with education. This seems like a good thing to me.
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Department of Learning Prevention

Posted By: Alfred Thompson | Sep 10th, 2007 @ 8:05 PM
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Earlier today (on my Computer Science Education blog) I reported on a teacher who was seeing some interesting and positive results by letting students use tools (computer software tools) that are often blocked or banned in schools. As the day wore on though I heard about the other side of this coin.

Ben Chun reports in his blog how his attempt to demonstrate how DNS works to translate domain names to IP addresses was foiled by the fact that his students are locked out of the command prompt. This is a pretty typical lock down I have found. Anyone know "a DNS/reverse-DNS lookup utility that is free, doesn’t require administrative privileges to install (and preferably doesn’t need to be installed), and can do both forward and reverse DNS lookups." If so drop by his blog and leave him a comment.

On a related note a friend of mine told me about a school local to him where they are using very old software to teach C++ programming. The tech people are afraid that if they allow students to learn how to program on the modern computers that are attached to the network students will "hack into the OS core and do evil things." Yeah, sure, ok. Can I get their resumes? Thanks!

What has happened that we are so afraid to teach students things that are useful and powerful? Are schools dropping machine shop out of fear that students will make knives and zip guns? Are we dropping baseball out of fear that students will use the bats to beat each other senseless? Are we dropping chemistry for fear that kids will open their own Meth labs?

And yet somehow schools feel the need to place a governor on the learning of technology. I have to wonder - who is the problem? Is it the students who want to learn or is it adults who don't want to learn?
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