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Monday, August 18, 2008 10:01

New Web Design Curriculum Released

Are you looking for ways to engage your students in 21 st century learning? Would you like to generate enthusiasm and excitement about using technology in your classroom on a daily basis? Are your students interested in developing skills they can employ
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 6:05

trueSpace7.6 FREE Fully-featured 3D Authoring Package

Several months ago Microsoft acquired a company called Caligari largely because of their advanced 3D toolset called trueSpace . Well now the latest version of this powerful tool is available for free . Yes, the favorite price point for educational organizations!
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:59

An Analog Computer Clock

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/28/an-analog-computer-clock.aspx'; Every so often I like to highlight some technology that is just plain cool. The clock below is one such. Michael Scherotter created this watch image using a
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 7:50

An Expression Web Video Tutorial

Randy Guthrie has posted a very nice 34 minute long video tutorial on how to create a personal web site using Expression Web. Expression Web is free for schools though the MSDN AA program . For college/university students it is also free through the Dreamspark
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:54

MIX 08 Sessions OnLine

The MIX conference is a major Microsoft conference on web development and design. It was run in Las Vegas last week. I didn't get to go. Probably you didn't go either. The good news is that most of the sessions from MIX are now online for on demand viewing.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:44

Join The Conversation - Girls On The Web and Other Topics

I'm away on a gaming in computer science conference and while I really wanted to have a lot of great blog posts for you all to enjoy and learn from it's been tough getting all the things done that I needed to get done. But I did want to make sure some
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:58 PM

Expression Web Project For Students

[Updated with new project page link .] When I was a student a lot of projects we used to do were poster projects. From what I see in my wife's classroom poster projects are still very common. They are a fun way for students to organize and present the
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 4:29

Visual Studio Learning Opportunities

I received some information about some new offerings from Microsoft learning last week and thought they would be worth sharing with others. If you are looking to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 now or in the near future these resources may help you jump
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 5:10

Getting Started With Silverlight

The Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter is a one-day event providing developers and designers information on the concept behind Silverlight as a technology, what tools are useful in development and the knowledge in order to start building their own applications.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:12

Updates on Beginning Programming Languages

I would imagine that a lot of people are looking for interesting things to do with brand new computers this week. Some people are (I hope) looking for ways to teach young people about programming. Or perhaps you are looking for your self regardless of
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:29

How Do I - Videos

I found out about a bunch of new videos that show how to do different things with different Microsoft development products. They all run between 10 and 15 minutes and focus on specific tasks. They are adding new videos every week so you may even want
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:11

Free Book On Building Great Web Sites

The Microsoft Office Live team has created a free book entitled " Build a Web site That Sells " that may be useful in web design classes. The book " includes tips, techniques, and tools to help you design an effective and engaging Web site, generate more
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments
Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:20

Heavyweight or Lightweight User Interfaces

We're all pretty used to search engine interfaces being pretty simple and lightweight these days. A simple input box, a couple of buttons, and a simple list of output for results. But what else might a search engine interface look like? Well there are
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:11

Do We Still Need To Teach HTML

Brian Scarbeau asks " Should html be taught in a web design course? " The comments at his blog are all a resounding "yes" which surprises me. While I do agree that there is a lot of value in learning the underlying HTML in a first course I expected others
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 6 Comments
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:18

Microsoft Web Experience events in LA & Denver

Looks like there are still open seats for these training events in Los Angeles and Denver. These sessions look like they might be interesting to people in charge of district websites, tech support people, teachers and or course professional web developers.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
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