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"Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen. "

Join us each week to get practical tips and information on how to use Microsoft products and technologies in the classroom. Each Webcast is a 40 - 45 minute presentation and demo with a live Q&A session at the end.

Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications. Create games, build mashups, design webpages.

DreamSpark is simple; it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and designer tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.

Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows

Introducing Microsoft Faculty Connection, your resource for technology news, customizable curriculum, free software downloads, and newsgroups.

An offshoot of the global-awareness social networking site TakingITGlobal, where teachers can get their students involved in issues that affect the environment, and other contemporary topics. The site features an activities database, discussion boards, thematic classrooms, and other tools, and teachers control the environment. It's currently being used in more than 700 classrooms in 39 countries. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Canada are corporate sponsors, and more than 10 educational foundations also support the site.

This is an easy way for students to create animations. (My first attempt: http://www.doink.com/clips/almarow/276312).

A free online drawing and animation tool that runs right in your browser. You can treat it like Microsoft Paint and use it to do just a quick doodle, or take advantage of its layer cloning and vector-based designs to create relatively advanced animations.

Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking The study was carried out with support from Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon. The views of the study do not necessarily represent the views of the underwriters.

Once only for university students, DreamSpark is now available for high school students. With teacher/administrator registration, students have access to software downloads, i.e. Visual Studio, Expression Studio 2, Visual Basic and C++, Robotics Developer Studio, and more.

"Wondering where your favorite menu and toolbar commands are located in Office 2010? You've come to the right place."

Make help videos quickly and easily using the Community Clips Recorder.

In today's schools, teachers and leaders must have the knowledge to promote 21st-Century teaching and learning. This resource center provides flexible professional development options for schools and districts focusing on 21st-century learning, through classroom technology use and school-wide reform.

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.

Live@edu is the ultimate suite of applications - mobile, desktop and web-based - to help your students collaborate on campus, and create a community that lasts a lifetime.

Open Office Files stored on Google from within Office products.