Next week I’m off to Sierra Leone in Africa to visit a school. The school is called Waterloo School which is about 2 hour drive from the capital, Freetown. http://www.waterloo-schools.org/ The school I work for are going to create a partnership between the schools and we are looking at how we can send our old … Continue reading Project in Sierra Leone – including SharePoint
This last week I’ve done a bit of travelling to London. I love London with its underground, fast pace, culture and buzz and I feel like I’m at home there when I get off the train from Birmingham. On Monday night I was invited down to the Handheld Learning Awards where many education organisations won … Continue reading Handheld Learning Awards and SUGUK
I was at the Microsoft Headquarters in the UK at the beginning of the month and they had just taken delivery of a demo Microsoft Surface. Microsoft Surface is a new interactive screen that is the same height as a coffee table and allows the users to move objects around on the screen. You can … Continue reading Microsoft Surface: In the UK at last
It’s been a while since I last properly blogged so it’s time to get back on track. In the last few months I’ve changed jobs, been to the USA and now planning my next trip away which includes visiting a school in Serria Leone and TechEd in Barcelona. While I was in the New … Continue reading Back Blogging
As part of my community work online I do a lot of posting on edugeek – www.edugeek.net Edugeek is full of technical staff from the education field but there are many other who don’t work in the education who post. There are many discussion boards in the site including Windows, Open Source, Learning Gateways and … Continue reading EduGeek gets 8000 Users
I’ve been playing around a lot with Silverlight 2 recently, I’m find it a lot easier to code than version 1. In many of the schools I have been to, they have had a proxy server for all their internet traffic. I created a bat script that wrote to the registry and asked the user … Continue reading Silverlight 2 Application to enable/disable your proxy server in IE
This week wasn’t just the SharePoint conference in Seattle but it was also CEBIT in Hannover, Germany. This show was massive, I mean massive. Over 5000 companies over 26 halls. I live in Birmingham near the NEC which is next to the airport and I thought this exhibition hall was big but Hannover … Continue reading My trip to CEBIT 2008
I’ve just been reading an article that Computing wrote after an interview with Bill Gates entitled ‘The revolution is only just beginning’. http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2209036/gates-outlines-vision-future-3801135 Bill Gates talks about how he believes IT is only in its early days with multi-core processors, cheaper hardware, more portable devices and online services to come. He also covers the topic … Continue reading The IT Revolution
I’ve decided to change the name of my blog. Here at SharePointBlogs was my first blogging site but have decided to create another blog station at http://ajp-blog.spaces.live.com/. Why?!! Well I don’t just work on SharePoint! As an IT Pro I work with several products mainly all the products in the Microsoft Learning Gateway and feel … Continue reading Changing the name of my blog!!
I was asked by Viral T (Microsoft SharePoint Evangelist) to write a few articles for the Technet Industry Insiders Blog. My first one is on SharePoint Learning Kit and SCORM. Hope the next one will be on the Microsoft Learning Gateway. Please read and leave any comments http://blogs.technet.com/industry_insiders/archive/2008/01/29/introduction-to-scorm-and-sharepoint-learning-kit.aspx Continue reading Industry Insiders Blog Post