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From KWGN in Denver, CO: "New Microsoft Software is Helping Kids Learn"

Nina Sparano, Technology Reporter for KWGN in Denver, did a wonderful back to school piece on Mouse...

Date: 08/18/2010

New to Mouse Mischief?

Mouse Mischief is an exciting new classroom tool that is available as a free download to Office 2010...

Date: 08/10/2010

Share your multiple-mouse lessons!

Why upload your Mouse Mischief lessons to the Office online site? It takes time, energy, and...

Date: 07/16/2010

Mouse Mischief @ ISTE 2010

It was a true privilege to share the floor with more than 15,000 K-12 teachers, school IT...

Date: 07/07/2010

Homeschooling blahs? Energize your routine with Mouse Mischief lessons.

One of the greatest challenges in homeschooling is keeping things fresh and interesting, day by day,...

Date: 06/30/2010

Give Every Child a Mouse Today!

Editor's Note: Today we welcome Alvin Tan, a physics teacher in Singapore, as our guest blogger. If...

Date: 06/25/2010

Go green with Mischief!

In 2003 the School of the Future became the first paperless school. A joint project of the School...

Date: 06/22/2010

Lesson Plans and Summer 2010

I recently polled our Facebook followers about how they spend their summer: “What do most...

Date: 06/18/2010

Drawing slides help students grasp and integrate information

Fortunately, we now recognize that students learn in different ways and that to teach effectively we...

Date: 06/11/2010

Free Lesson Plans - Mouse Mischief Templates

As you may already know, our team has created approximately 25 PowerPoint templates for you to use...

Date: 06/08/2010

Protecting students’ anonymity and avoiding copycat behavior

No doubt about it—multiple mouse lessons are fun. It’s great to have your whole class...

Date: 06/02/2010

Steve Ballmer makes Mischief in Singapore

Yesterday students at Ngee Ann Secondary got a treat when Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer visited...

Date: 05/27/2010

Learn how to master the presentation controls by viewing this Mouse Mischief video

If you have explored Mouse Mischief and you’re wondering how to use all the features on the...

Date: 05/26/2010

Another way to preview a multiple-mouse presentation before you play it in the classroom

In our last blog entry (“Practice Mouse Mischief lessons so you can light up your class the...

Date: 05/26/2010

Practice Mouse Mischief lessons so you can light up your class the next day!

You know the payoff of careful lesson preparation—a successful and satisfying learning...

Date: 05/26/2010

5 Tips for classroom management during multiple-mouse lessons

As a follow up to our "Teachers are in control with Mouse Mischief" post, we've decided to showcase...

Date: 05/13/2010

Classroom Response Systems and 1:1 Classroom Computing

The term “Classroom Response System” refers to any software and/or hardware system that...

Date: 05/12/2010

5 Questions with our first Twitter Re-tweet winner!

Congratulations to the first winner of our Twitter Re-tweet contest, Jessica Egolf! As you know,...

Date: 05/08/2010

Teachers are in control with Mouse Mischief

We’re less than a week into the official launch of Mouse Mischief and the response from teachers and...

Date: 05/04/2010

Mouse Mischief: Increasing Student Engagement in the Classroom

For some time now, Microsoft has been involved in an ongoing dialogue with teachers, school...

Date: 04/29/2010

Mouse Mischief - Creating Mischief in the Classroom

Mouse Mischief is a tool that Microsoft makes available free of charge, and that allows teachers to...

Date: 04/01/2010