Microsoft Dreamspark

[EduTech]

How many of you out there have your school/college/uni signed up to this?

https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

and if you have never heard of it... you do now

its great if you can become apart of the scheme, it helped me out when i needed the software

James.

[ninjabeaver]

Wow, good ol' microsoft. Will wonders never cease.

[john]

Looks good, and i've just signed my place up may as well have a go for it

[Gatt]

Just signed up so will see what happens

[Sylv3r]

I signed up at the start of the week.

I now have a confirmation e-mail to fax my details to them on letter headed paper - i'll let you know how I get on.

[muppet]

Thanks EduTech, like the other posters I've just signed up...I'll have to see how it goes.

[actech]

Sounds good especially for those students doing senior computing that can't afford to buy the same versions we are using at school!

[srochford]

Wow, good ol' microsoft. Will wonders never cease.

They've been doing it for a while; this thread is the 5th on Edugeek in the past year to refer to it.

If you don't already get them then sign up to the MS newsletters - there are a variety available - and you'll get notified when new programmes start or packages like this are made available.

[EduTech]

They've been doing it for a while; this thread is the 5th on Edugeek in the past year to refer to it.

If you don't already get them then sign up to the MS newsletters - there are a variety available - and you'll get notified when new programmes start or packages like this are made available.

Sorry, didn't realise it had already been posted on edugeek.

i assumed allot of people knew about it, which is why i started the thread of like i did.

I will be adding this to the wiki also.

James.

[irsprint84]

I sent off my fax, awaiting confirmation because I m teaching asp.net with the kids.

[AngryTechnician]

I looked at doing this but the process for setting us up as an IDP didn't seem very straightforward. How easy is it in real terms?

[contink]

Hmm... not much point for Primaries sadly but useful to know about though.

[apoth0r]

Will have more teaching responsibilities (again) as of April so I've signed up, see if I can get the co-ordinator on board for some fun :-)

[dhicks]

This software is the complete and professional grade versions of the tools, but you must use them in pursuit of increasing your education, skills, and knowledge in either science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or design.

This sounds rather like the Macromedia license for the educational version of Flash - full version, but you weren't allowed to sell anything you made. They're only development tools, anyway - if you wanted a C compiler couldn't you just go and download one?

--
David Hicks

[ahuxham]

I signed up to this scheme last year, its been around for a while, initially offering XNA, Server 2003 Standard, C# and Visual Studio.

I was interested in using Microsoft's XNA game studio for a framework build for a project, and couldn't justify the cost, till I found the dreamspark resource.

Alot of students have found Expression Studio a valuable resource, and the other applications a valuable resource as well.