During two weeks of March I was able to spend my time in Australia and New Zealand presenting at the SharePoint conferences in Melbourne and Auckland. I was able to give 2 presentations at both conferences talking about SharePoint in Education and also Office Web Applications. I would like to thank Debbie Ireland and the … Continue reading Slides from Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences
I thought that I would share my slides from speaking at CIUEN yesterday in Lyon, France. I would also like to thank Microsoft France (and Ray Fleming for his recommendation) for this great opportunity. Continue reading Slides from CIUEN: Cloud in Education
Ever since the 7th February 2012 which was Safer Internet Day I have been wondering how I could build and share some kind of Report Abuse system in SharePoint that you could build into your own SharePoint environment. Safer Internet Day was run to make kids and teenagers aware of what to share on the … Continue reading Build your own Report Abuse for students in your school: Part 1
Yes you did read that right. Microsoft have announced today that Office 365 for education will be free. Since Office 365 for education was announced at the beginning of 2011 it has been well advertised that Exchange based email will remain free like email in live@edu but there would be an additional cost for any … Continue reading Office 365 for education to be FREE!!
Over the past few weeks Microsoft have released the code to implement Moodle and Moodle 2 on Windows Azure saving you the cost of hardware, redundancy and data protection. Using Windows Azure to host the website and SQL Azure for the database you now have another reason to move to the cloud and keep saving … Continue reading Host Moodle 2 in Windows Azure
I have been spending a lot of time in Powershell over the last week and have learnt a lot about how this great tool can customise SharePoint 2010. As part of the project we have created a set of custom site templates and I had to create a new school with several custom site templates. … Continue reading Get Site Template ID for Custom Site Templates
It’s been a life time ambition of mine to travel to another country and speak at a SharePoint conference and 2012 is the year. Next month I will be travelling to Australia to talk about Office Web Applications and SharePoint in Education. Once that has finished I plan to travel to Sydney for the weekend … Continue reading Speaking at Australia and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences
There are many ways to get SharePoint 2010 in your school, whether you’re using it as part of a package from a supplier, using a hosting company to host your own SharePoint or using your EES license to host your SharePoint internally. All of the successful SharePoint implementations I have seen are those that have … Continue reading How many ways can you use SharePoint in Education?
Over the past few months BFC Networks have been working hard to change the way SharePoint looks in the education space. By default SharePoint is very bland and doesn’t love much in its role to engage users. At BETT 2012 BFC Networks were proud to have Microsoft use the design on their stand to demonstrate … Continue reading SharePoint Branding for Education
Over the past 4 years I have been very privileged to be able to attend the BETT Show at the Olympia in London. Again this year I have been invited by the Microsoft team to join them on their stand to help talk about cloud technologies to schools and colleges who are looking for the … Continue reading Attending BETT 2012