NZ Education Blog
Updates from Microsoft Education NZ about events, advice and information for educators.
Another Weekly Office365 for Education Tip!
Another Office365 for Education tip for you all! This week we are looking into mobile access of...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/29/2012
Innovative Schools Workshop Receives Overwhelming Interest
We have received an incredible amount of interest in our Innovative Schools Workshop held this week...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/27/2012
Weeky Office365 for Education Tip
Another weeky Office365 for Education Tip! This week we have a video on Outlook and Lync. These two...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/22/2012
Bring Your Own Device To School Whitepaper
Bruce Dixon, from the Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation and Sean Tierney, from the worldwide...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/20/2012
Weekly Office365 for Education Tip
Here is your first weekly Office365 for Education Tip! With Office 365 for education, you can...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/15/2012
Introducing the New Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker
We are happy to announce new versions of Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows 7 and Windows 8....
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/14/2012
The New Zealand Catholic Education Convention is Underway!
The Catholic Education Convention kicked off yesterday at the Wellington Convention Centre where...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/08/2012
Celebrating innovative teaching
At the U.S. Partners in Learning Forum this week, over 100 innovative teachers came to together to...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 08/01/2012
Spaces still available for this years TechEd!
For 17 years, industry professionals in New Zealand have found TechEd to be the best opportunity to...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 07/31/2012
Register for this years NZ Catholic Education Convention
Microsoft is a prime sponser at this years New Zealand Catholic Education Covention. This event...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 07/24/2012
BYOD in education–TechNet Jump Start training to help your planning
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in education is a recurring topic that is coming up in conversations,...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 07/18/2012
Microsoft unveils the new Office
Yesterday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office,...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 07/17/2012
Do I.T. Days!
We all have days when it is hard to remember what it was about teaching, education and ICT that got...
Author: RVanveen Date: 07/09/2012
The new Microsoft Surface perfect for school BYOD strategies!
In case you missed it, Microsoft has announced the new Microsoft Surface device. For schools wishing...
Author: RVanveen Date: 07/02/2012
A day in the life of a teacher with Office 365 for education
A desire that many school IT administrators, senior leadership, teachers and students have when...
Author: Karl de Borst - MSFT Date: 06/13/2012
Photosynth Even Easier For The Classroom
We're pleased to announce that the popular Learning Suite tool Photosynth is now available on...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 06/05/2012
Windows 8 Release Preview Available Now
Windows has been reimagined to be more than a PC operating system. Currently available as a Release...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 06/04/2012
More than 4.5 million Catholic School Students to Receive Microsoft Office 365 for Education
Today, the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC) took an exciting step toward delivering a...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 05/28/2012
Why Microsoft: Office and Office Web Apps, high fidelity documents across desktop and cloud.
We've been having a lot of discussions with schools regarding their options when wanting to access...
Author: Karl de Borst - MSFT Date: 05/23/2012
Microsoft Learning Suite - free download now available!
Over 20 of our most popular tools and teacher resources, all in one place. Learning Suite by...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 05/16/2012
The INTERFACExpo has begun!
The INTERFACEXpo is back for 2012 and its free! Microsoft New Zealand is a Gold Sponsor at the...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 05/14/2012
Microsoft Solutions for Research Management
If you are tasked with helping make your institution’s research activity more productive, we...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 05/09/2012
SkyDrive - Personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere
Continuing on with the wave of improvements of the popular SkyDrive cloud storage solution, we are...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 05/07/2012
NZ Educator Hailed For Innovation
Julia Breen, who won an Innovative Educator Award at the 2011 New Zealand Partners in Learning...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 04/30/2012
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for Schools
Microsoft Lync is a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 04/23/2012
Microsoft orchestrates applications across a variety of PC's
Today’s education leaders and staff are highly mobile and use a variety of means for accessing...
Author: RVanveen Date: 04/16/2012
Greater access and reduced costs to computers in schools with Windows MultiPoint Server 2011
We've previously posted on Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 regarding the new features available to...
Author: Karl de Borst - MSFT Date: 04/10/2012
Education Webinars
Microsoft NZ is running a series of webinars aimed at IT teams at NZ schools, universities and...
Author: Kelsi Benge Date: 04/04/2012
NZ schools to receive ‘all you can eat’ Microsoft software solutions
Microsoft New Zealand signs new licensing model with the Ministry of Education Schools can...
Author: RVanveen Date: 04/02/2012
Kinect for Windows SDK beta available for download
It is finally here! Great for students working on human interface technology
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 06/16/2011
SharePoint for Internet Sites Adoption by Industry–Education on top
This data is taken from my list of SharePoint Internet sites on https://www.wssdemo.com/livepivot...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 06/02/2011
Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint
From Tech-ED North America 2011. This is a nice demonstration of what can be achieved with Office...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 05/21/2011
Whitireia Community Polytechnic significantly reduces costs with Hyper-V
Whitireia Community Polytechnic (Whitireia New Zealand) is a government owned and funded tertiary...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 05/19/2011
2011 Microsoft New Zealand Imagine Cup Festival
Join us at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup Festival and be inspired by our next generation of IT...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 03/31/2011
Webcast on SharePoint LMS
Things are hotting up in the e-Learning space with LMS, collaboration and lecture recording merging...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 03/24/2011
Word Processing in the Cloud
In my job I come across a lot of people who blindly follow the advice of “anything but Microsoft”...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 03/21/2011
New version of Kodu released with Community game sharing
Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be...
Author: Ian Morrish - ILDS Date: 03/02/2011