Microsoft brings Office 365 education benefit to teachers

Microsoft has extended its program for educational institutions that offer Office 365 ProPlus subscription to their students. Now, even the educators will gain access to Office 365 ProPlus on the cloud. Each user (or teacher in this case) can download Office for up to five PCs and Macs as well as Office apps on other mobile devices such as Windows tablets and iPads. They also gain access to apps and add-ins like Office Mix, Lync, OneNote, and more.

Source: Microsoft in Education

National Girls Learning Code Day

By Sonya Davidson

According to a new study, out of the Canadians that considered a career in technology, only 18 per cent were women.  A third admitted that the lack of encouragement to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) degrees put them off entering the sector. 

To address this trend, MasterCard has partnered with Ladies Learning Code  and the University of Waterloo to empower more girls and women to pursue careers in technology. This exciting new program, entitled ‘National Girls Learning Code Day’, will see more than 700 girls (ages 8 – 13) and their parents take a FREE, 6-hour introductory coding class held simultaneously across the country on November 8th.

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Adobe is bringing Photoshop to Chromebooks for education

Looks like Adobe is open to throwing Google's Chromebooks a bone. Reports that Photoshop will be made available for Chromebooks geared towards education.

As part of Adobe's Creative Cloud software, which will soon be available for Chromebooks for education users who have a paid creative cloud membership.

The initial version of Photoshop will be a "streaming" version of Photoshop. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether it will entice more users to consider Chromebooks as a substitute personal computing platform.

Source: The Verge

PBS KIDS debuts new web-original property and free app: PLUM LANDING

PBS KIDS has announced the launch of an all-new web-original property, PLUM LANDING, a cross-platform, digital adventure designed to engage 6- to 9-year olds in environmental science by using animated and live-action videos, hands-on activities, web games and an interactive mobile app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch: Plum’s Photo Hunt. All of the PLUM LANDING resources, including standards-based tools for educators, are offered for free.

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