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Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. But Do Schools Need—or Want—Them?

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But losing a different kind of “pencil” that technology companies are aiming to push into schools may likely cause a bigger heartache and headache for the purchasing department. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. What’s in a Pen?

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Insight works with education leaders on Microsoft Server security

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Public Sector team will speak to the risks of failing to address the pending end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Microsoft research in 2014 reported that 23.8 million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9

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Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010 and related products

Educational Technology Guy

I just found another great resource on Microsoft Office. We are transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2010 and, as many of you know, there are major menu changes in terms of where commands are located. Microsoft has a great site that has tutorials and interactive guides to find where the commands are in Office 2010 products.

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Google Docs can import old Office Formats, but exports them as new format

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Google Docs will no longer export files into the old Microsoft Office Formats (.doc,xls,ppt). This may cause a little bit of an issue with some users, including schools still stuck in Windows XP and Office 2003 or earlier. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. doc,xls,ppt).

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Technology Training.In Pictures

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The site contains tutorials for all major Microsoft Office Products like Word, Excel, Publisher, Power Point and Access, both the 2003 version and the 2007 version. Department of Education, with the ultimate goal of providing easy to use computer tutorials to students and adults with learning disabilities.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. The Fulton, Md.-based based firm plans to raise up to $75 million, of which $30 million has been secured.

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