Microsoft have not just release Microsoft Live Pivot as a downloadable application but also the ability view the data in your web browser. Using Microsoft Silverlight, Pivot will open the data stored in an XML format in your browser the same way it would load it in the full version. Here are a few examples … Continue reading Microsoft Live Pivot in the browser
In the last week I have been on the Framework for IT Support (known as FITS) training course to become a FITS Practitioner. What is FITS? FITS is a educational version of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL – more here) with elements taken out or enhanced to help with implementation into a school. FITS … Continue reading Framework for IT Support (FITS)
In the next set of blog posts I’m going to demonstrate what Microsoft Live Pivot is, what it can do and how we can create a great looking Excel tracking sheet that we can use to evaluate how students are doing in a course through out the year. What is Microsoft Live Pivot? I first … Continue reading What is Microsoft Live Pivot?
I was delighted to see that the first UK SharePoint Saturday is in my home town of Birmingham. I can’t wait for the day and look forward to seeing so many people there. I’m actually really looking forward to speaking at the event. I’ll keep quiet about what I’m speaking about for now but I’ve … Continue reading SharePoint Saturday UK, Birmingham. I’m Attending/Sponsoring Badges
In the past few days the new version of SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) has been released for SharePoint 2010. In the past few years I have not been able to decide whether SLK is the right tool for education transformation and giving students the engagement they need for lesson and online learning. Even though I … Continue reading SharePoint Learning Kit: SLK for SharePoint 2010
This year it was great to have Simon Shaw from BECTA who came and gave a great keynote speech on how BECTA see Learning Gateways and Learning Platforms moving in the future. These slides are now available for download. Learning Gateway Conference: KeyNote View more presentations from pearce.alex. Continue reading Learning Gateway Conference Slide Deck–Keynote Simon Shaw from BECTA
In this small series of blog posts we are connecting SharePoint 2010 Service Applications to different farms. In the first post (click here), we created a trust between the two SharePoint Farms which is a dependence of publishing and connecting service applications. In this post we are going to connect the Metadata Service from a … Continue reading Connecting SharePoint 2010 Farms with Service Applications: Part 2
During the Learning Gateway Conference I presented on how SharePoint 2010 can be used in Education and also on how SharePoint 2010 MySites can be used for students and teachers, increasing their collaboration. The slides are now available to be viewed and also downloaded on slideshare. Learning Gateway Conference: SharePoint 2010 for Education View more … Continue reading Learning Gateway Conference Slide Desk–SharePoint 2010 and Social/MySites
The slides for the Learning Gateway Conference are starting to come in and here is the first one ‘What is live@edu?’ Learning Gateway Conference: A look at live@edu View more presentations from pearce.alex. Thanks to Chris Rothwell for taking the time out to come and present at the conference. Continue reading Learning Gateway Conference Slide Deck – What is live@edu?
With SharePoint 2010 we can now connect the service applications we have in one SharePoint 2010 farm to another and have a central metadata or user profile service application. We can connect more than just these two service applications. In this example below we will be doing this with the metadata service application. There are … Continue reading Connecting SharePoint 2010 Farms with Service Applications: Part 1