NZ Education Blog
Updates from Microsoft Education NZ about events, advice and information for educators.
Take Your Files (&email!) With You Using OneDrive Graduation
This post shares another answer to commonly asked questions from schools I engage with: How do...
Date: 05/22/2019
Best Practice For Schools When Creating Microsoft Teams For Education
Almost a year ago I posted some thoughts on SharePoint Design and Office365 layout and I mentioned...
Date: 05/17/2019
Minecraft:Education Edition Arrives In The Cloud - AzureVM Available Now
I've been blogging here about Minecraft:Education Edition for a while now, and one of the most...
Date: 05/10/2019
Federated Authentication Links Apple School Manager With AzureAD
As I have blogged about many times before, identity is key to setting up a school successfully to...
Date: 03/25/2019
Flipped Learning Hacks With Microsoft Teams & Meet Now
[caption id="attachment_10935" align="alignleft" width="300"] Using Microsoft Whiteboard to outline...
Date: 02/24/2019
Activate 'Rewa - Joining the Manurewa Community of Learning For A Day
https://youtu.be/7oKFREkmjRo Last week, the Microsoft New Zealand Education team had a chance to...
Date: 02/08/2019
Top Five Education Blog Posts Of 2018
Around this time last year, I published the top five education blog posts I made on this site which...
Date: 12/18/2018
Podcast: #EduTechTalks #1 - Managing Your School's Devices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsAiEljj9mI For a while now, my good friend and colleague Amit Pawar...
Date: 12/17/2018
Coding Competition Coming To Minecraft: Education Edition
Computer Science Education Week is less than a month away and this year Microsoft will be getting in...
Date: 11/14/2018
Cloud Attachments In OneNote - Game Changer For Educators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXUJPHJ2jfE Recording courtesy of Crispin Lockwood - Learning...
Date: 11/13/2018
Explore Microsoft's Redmond Campus In Minecraft:Education Edition
[caption id="attachment_10655" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Have fun exploring the massive...
Date: 10/19/2018
Cultivating a stable learning environment on a resilient cloud
Giving students a firm foundation across key disciplines ranging from the arts to science and...
Date: 10/08/2018
Trial In A Box Is BACK!
Back by popular demand.... In May/June 2018 Microsoft's NZ Education Team ran the "Trial in a Box" -...
Date: 10/03/2018
Minecraft:Education Edition Training
The Minecraft: Education Edition team will be hosting an exclusive, private training for teachers....
Date: 09/30/2018
10 Ways To Enroll Windows 10 Into Intune
Sometimes, a picture tells a thousand words. In this case, the above graphic illustrates ten...
Date: 09/04/2018
New Zealand Schools Receive Digital Boost From New Agreement
The renewed Ministry of Education Schools Agreement with Microsoft supports digital learning in Kiwi...
Date: 08/16/2018
iOS Support Lands In Intune For Education
Intune for Education is a school focused MDM (Mobile Device Management) tool that makes the set up,...
Date: 08/16/2018
Teaching Maths With Microsoft HoloLens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FdmvOmOM4A I've blogged previously about Subash Chandar K exploring...
Date: 08/13/2018
Why Did The Titanic Sink? Explaining With OneNote & Digital Ink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfjT5OL8O7w I do a lot of demonstrations to schools and educational...
Date: 08/05/2018
How To: Quickly Edit Videos On Windows 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlHajAyavg Teachers often want a quick and simple way to capture,...
Date: 07/30/2018
You're Not In 2006 Anymore, Toto: The Future Of Education
Content only gets you so far, but learning skills gets your further. We’ve traditionally viewed...
Date: 07/11/2018
All Teachers Are Welcome: Immersion Session 14th July
In July, the NZ MIE Experts will hold their inaugural hui. This event will bring experts from across...
Date: 06/29/2018
Protect Critical Data With OneDrive & Known Folder Move (KFM)
Despite best intentions, people don't always follow instructions. When it comes to saving files, we...
Date: 06/29/2018
Updated Documentation For M365 Education
I have done a lot of live demos over the last couple of months to customers, partners, school...
Date: 05/30/2018
Get Trained & Certified In Microsoft Teams
I have completed a number of courses via edX, an online training platform originally founded by...
Date: 05/25/2018
Microsoft Surface - Teacher Feedback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZQXGjKsbE Technology is changing the way education professionals...
Date: 05/14/2018
Microsoft Trial in a Box
Thinking about the future of your school device platform? Let us show you how easy it is with...
Date: 05/04/2018
Office365 Groups Going Private By Default
For some readers, this will be an obscure 'technical post' on something that they never have to...
Date: 04/30/2018
Cloud Mobile Device Management Delivers For Schools & Partners
Through the use of cloud-first technologies and modern deployment methodologies Cyclone have...
Date: 04/23/2018
OneNote On Windows 10 - The One App For The Future
In December last year I wrote a blog entitled "The Future of OneNote in Education" where Mike...
Date: 04/20/2018
Friday Fun: Project Zanzibar Blurs Boundaries of Physical & Digital Worlds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gl6iaVXZu0 My colleague shared this article with me yesterday from...
Date: 04/13/2018
Research: The Importance Of Digital Inking
I am excited to see that increasing numbers of schools are conducting research on the teaching and...
Date: 03/26/2018
Free Training On Microsoft Teams
Last November I linked to the free OneNote Online training that was being co-ordinated by Jared...
Date: 03/20/2018
Minecraft:Education Edition Webinar
Last month I recorded a 35minute webinar about Minecraft:Education Edition with my colleagues Anne...
Date: 03/15/2018
Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom
This article first appeared in the Interface Magazine March 2018 edition and has been republished...
Date: 03/02/2018
True Guest Access Comes To Microsoft Teams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g21Hcqdl5tI Ever since Microsoft Teams For Education was first...
Date: 03/01/2018
MakeCode.com - Fun With Minecraft:Education Edition
I've been doing a fair amount of different things in Minecraft:Education Edition recently, including...
Date: 02/23/2018
Levelling the Playing Field at Manurewa High School with Innovative BYOD Programme
This blog post first appeared on the Microsoft Case Studies website here. Today digital technology...
Date: 02/15/2018
When To Use Intune For Education vs Full Intune Standalone
I get asked regularly by schools about which version of Intune they should be using when managing...
Date: 02/08/2018
Hybrid Cloud Printing Via AzureAD Is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt1L--lqE4 I've talked to a lot of schools and system integrators...
Date: 02/07/2018