Free Software from Microsoft (for students and teachers)
Yes, that’s right. Microsoft is giving away free software to students and teachers. Microsoft wants to encourage students to learn new skills in Web Design, Engineering, Math and Science using their developer tools. Some of the software they are giving away is Visual Studio Pro, Expression Studio(including expression web, expression design, expression blend, expression media), Visual Web Developer, Game Studio 3.0 and much more. They even have software for Robotics!
With the software that Microsoft is giving away, your students can learn to design web pages, build video games for the PC, XBOX, and Mobile Windows as well as write programs to kick off their futures. What student wouldn’t want to learn that?! Who knows, maybe they’ll end up on Dancing With the Stars tv show like Steve Wozniak the co founder of Apple Computers. (The man is genius but he sure can’t dance. lol)
Stop by www.DreamSpark.com to check out the details. Students and Teachers will need to provide proof of academic status before you are allowed to download. If your district or school is not listed you will need to have an account with www.JourneyEd.com. It may take a few days to get your confirmation back from them once you provide your academic status proof, but it is well worth it to get several hundreds of dollars in free software. That’s less time than it would take if you ordered it and paid for it. It only took a picture of my school ID and two days to get my approval.
Here is an article and video by Chris Pirillo with more details. http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-get-free-microsoft-software/
What are you waiting for get on over to www.dreamspark.com and read the details to get started with your free software. Your students will love you for giving them something for free!
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