NZ Education Blog
Updates from Microsoft Education NZ about events, advice and information for educators.
Microsoft's May Education Event - Overview
As many readers will have caught up on, Microsoft had a major education event yesterday with the key...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 05/04/2017
Device Based Activation for Office365 ProPlus – Great For Education
UPDATE 2: I’ ve had a few queries about this blog post from non-US customers and so I wanted to...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 05/03/2017
Major OneNote Class NoteBook Announcement: Sharing With Parents
One of the things that has really impressed me over the last couple of years has been the...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 04/20/2017
Azure Media Analytics – Search EVERYTHING In Your Videos
Last week I was in Singapore at the Microsoft APAC Education Partner Summit where over 140 partners...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 03/28/2017
Supporting The Literacy of ALL Learners With Learning Tools
One of the most popular features of OneNote Class Notebooks was the "Learning Tools" which have...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 03/08/2017
Are You Migrating To OneDrive For Business Or Not?
I read an interesting blog post this morning entitled “No You Should Not Be Migrating to OneDrive...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 03/03/2017
Digital Citizenship Toolkit For Educators
https://youtu.be/SAQLjT4jwzQ For schools and educators that are struggling to figure out where to...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 02/27/2017
Guest Post: Surprises when using Office 365 in class
Today's post comes from Mr Ben Hilliam, Head of Junior Maths at St Andrew's College in Christchurch,...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 02/24/2017
Easier Office365 License Management Coming to Azure AD
One of the challenges that schools can sometimes face is bulk assigning / revoking licenses in...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 02/23/2017
Editing With Natural Hand Gestures & Digital Inking
Over the last couple of years I have had innumerable conversations with teachers who love the power...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 02/22/2017
Professional Learning Communities Groups in Office365
Back in mid-2016 Microsoft released PLC Groups for Office365 and I have to admit, I completely...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 02/20/2017
Tools To Support Deployment of Windows 10 and Secure Assessment
From my experience working in schools over the last decade, there are two common challenges faced by...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 02/01/2017
Intune For Education Announced at BETT
This week Microsoft has released some major announcements at the annual BETT Show in London. You can...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/27/2017
Surface in Classrooms: A Distinction in Enabling Transformative Education
This article first appeared in the Microsoft Asia News Center. You can read the original publishing...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/24/2017
Updates for OneNote Class Notebook, Learning Tools and Office Lens—plus stickers!
Another major release from the Microsoft Education team this morning, focusing on more updates for...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/19/2017
How To Keep Your Data Fresh With PowerBI Gateways
PowerBI.com from Microsoft is a great tool for manipulating and visualizing data in powerful ways....
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/18/2017
Recording Self-Paced Lessons in OneNote
OneNote is one of the most popular tools being used in education today and a major reason for this...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/17/2017
Upgrading BYOD Devices To Win10 Education
UPDATE: I have had a number of schools asking me whether this upgrade path below allows students in...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/16/2017
Driving Transformation In Education
On the back of the BETT Asia 2016 conference, Microsoft released the results from over 1000...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 01/10/2017
Helping Students Become Global Citizens With Skype
Technology is disrupting education in ways that students and educators could not have conceived, as...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 12/21/2016
Youth, Technology & Disruption
This week, Microsoft New Zealand released a whitepaper entitled Youth, Technology & Disruption...
Author: Sam McNeill Date: 12/20/2016
COMMENT: It takes a tech sector to raise a digital child
This post has been taken from: Microsoft NZ News Centre. The government’s decision to embed digital...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 07/12/2016
MIE Expert Applications Now Open
Attention educators from around New Zealand! The Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert applications...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 06/15/2016
Auckland Teacher Ambassador Sessions
Already sick of your holidays and want to go back to school? Or you just like to further your...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 04/20/2016
Teacher Ambassadors in Dunedin April 20th
Listen up educators from around Dunedin! Microsoft is coming your way! Our Teacher Ambassadors will...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 04/13/2016
Imagine Cup Junior Competition
Do you know any students who are interested in a career in the ICT industry? Here is their chance to...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 02/17/2016
Collaborate in Office—Office tools to collaborate in and out of the classroom
This post was taken from Office BlogsWelcome to 2016! You may remember the release of Office 2016...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 02/03/2016
Hack The Classroom 2016
Disrupt. Empower. Transform. In just 8 days' time, on the 30th Jan at 5am (EST) Microsoft in...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 01/21/2016
Surface at St Andrew's College in Christchurch, New Zealand
We are excited to share with you some of the incredible teaching and learning that is happening at...
Author: Jenny Gilbert Date: 12/21/2015
Welcome to our Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts!
We would like to extend a special welcome to our new Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Experts!...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 12/03/2015
After School Innovation in New Zealand – Matt Richards, New Zealand
This post has been adapted from Anthony Salcito's "Daily Edventures" blog post....
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 11/30/2015
Latest OneNote updates —Embed video, record audio, insert files and more
This post has been taken from Office Blogs. We’re excited to announce that we added a lot of...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 11/25/2015
You're invited to participate in the Global Skype-a-Thon!
Microsoft Global Education Skype-a-ThonJoin the global movement December 3rd and 4th to celebrate...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 11/18/2015
Bud-e Reading joins the Windows education app family!
To welcome Bud-e Reading to the line-up of Windows apps for education, Microsoft and Bud-e are...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 11/11/2015
New Zealand teacher featured on a Quick Tip video using Office Mix
We love seeing the fantastic things New Zealand teachers are doing with Microsoft technologies to...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 11/10/2015
OneNote Class Notebook and Office Mix announce new LMS integration features
The recent announcement on blogs.office.com discusses how the OneNote and Office Mix teams are been...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 10/28/2015
OneNote partners with FiftyThree to support Pencil and Paper, plus Shape Recognition coming soon
Digital handwriting—or inking as we like to call it—is now better than ever in OneNote,...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 10/20/2015
A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft made an exciting announcement regarding a range of innovative new Windows 10...
Author: Claire Tutill Date: 10/14/2015