Curated OER
Geography and Culture in South Carolina
Students explore South Carolina. In this cultural heritage lesson, students investigate the topography of South Carolina using maps. Students are engaged in identifying the different regions of the state and examine the cultural heritage...
Curated OER
Being Too Hard on Microsoft?
Learners compare the antitrust case against Microsoft with other historic antitrust cases. After exploring the notions of capitalism, monopolies and trusts, students examine the current case against Microsoft.
Curated OER
Designing in Microsoft
Students review the basic formatting in Microsoft Word. Individually, they use the program to design a flyer for a baseball game. To end the lesson, they print them out, present them to the class and given a grade based on a rubric.
Curated OER
Microsoft 98
Students practice using different Microsoft Office applications. They complete an assignment with less than three errors. They also finish an assignment from another class using the applications.
Other
Vantage Laboratories
Vantage Laboratories lets you solve computer-related problems simply by asking questions in plain, everyday language to access knowledge bases from leading vendors.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Policy Debate: Is Microsoft a Monopoly?
This essay provides a debate-style format on whether or not Microsoft is a monopoly. Previous anti-trust cases are cited, both for and against Microsoft's position. Could be used for a classroom debate or opinion essay.
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Albion: Usa v. Microsoft Corporation
This site offers Judge Thomas P. Jackson's findings and reasonings on why Microsoft was considered to be a monopoly. (Nov. 5, 1999)
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Microsoft Research: Fuse Labs: Kodu Game Lab
Using an artistic visual language, Kodu helps students create a world and an actual video game within that world. Learn basic coding and programming principles. Download the game lab or teacher lesson plans for free.
Microsoft
Microsoft.com
The official Microsoft Web site. Find information about the company, press releases, product lines, events, training opportunities, and more. Download software updates and purchase software. A wealth of information and tools for users of...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: David Boies
Informative biography on counselor and human rights advocate, David Boles, provides an overview of his life and career as a formidable litigator. Students can listen to interviews with Boies, read his profile and look at pictures in the...
Other
Microsoft Word Tutorial
This Microsoft Word tutorial covers text entry, formatting, spell check, bulleting, numbering, tables, and the like. Includes activities over each section that is covered.
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Browser Archives
A comprehensive archive of links to versions of many different browsers. Current to 2005. This site is maintained by an international volunteer group primarily for professional web developers.
Microsoft
Microsoft: Making Good Technology Decisions: Establishing Decision Criteria
Discusses the important criteria to consider when deciding what technology to implement in an organization. It talks about technical fit, technology maturity, skills needed, time to market when building a technology, solution scope,...
Microsoft
Microsoft: Bill Gates
This site provides a good biography of Chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America? Gary Kildall
A technology industry urban legend claims that Kildall went flying rather than meet with IBM, thus causing IBM to market Microsoft's inferior operating system, changing the course of computer history. The story is untrue.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Bill Gates
A hedcut of Bill Gates from the Wall Street Journal along with a brief account of his development of Microsoft Corporation.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Paul Allen
From an exhibit of hedcuts from the Wall Street Journal. Two dot-drawings of Paul Allen accompany a biography of this computer entrepreneur.
Other
The Register: Microsoft Gives Monopoly Robotic Legs
This article argued that Microsoft was becoming a monopoly in the robotics industry by supplying software as a general platform that all forms of robotics could use. (June 20, 2006)
Microsoft
Microsoft: Loop Structures in Visual Basic
A brief description of the loop control structure and how it is implemented in Visual Basic.
Microsoft
Microsoft: Software Piracy Protection
This is Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Website. You will "find information on piracy, how piracy affects your business, and what Microsoft is doing to stop piracy."
Other
Websites Online: Access Control
An article about using user-ids and passwords to control access to various web pages.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Internet Explorer
In this tutorial, learn how to use Internet Explorer as your web browser.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Edge
In this tutorial, learn all about using and customizing Edge for a better browser experience.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Word 2010
A website with 25 links to information plus a quiz on how to use Microsoft Word 2010. Links are on such topics as: Word Basics, Common Tasks in Word, Doing More with Word, and Extras.