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March 19, 2009

Education Discussion Panel at SharePoint Best Practice Conference

Yesterday the lunchtime sessions were announced for the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London starting on the 6th April. Andrew Woodward (Blog, Twitter) and myself will be having a panel discussion on SharePoint in Education. Come and join the conversation and get involved as we talk all things SharePoint and Eductation. If your not … Continue reading Education Discussion Panel at SharePoint Best Practice Conference

March 11, 2009

What to spend your end of year budget on…

For many schools its that time of year where you find a bit of money in a budget and you have to spend it. Instead of buying a few computers why not to try and get some professional development for yourself. If you have or looking at getting SharePoint in the coming months there are … Continue reading What to spend your end of year budget on…

February 21, 2009

Content Editor WebPart: Twitter

I don't know about anywhere else in the world but Twitter seems to be going through the roof here in the UK. You go on the radio and someone is talking about twitter or they are getting comments from it, TV shows are talking about, newspapers etc. I've been using twitter since about July 08 … Continue reading Content Editor WebPart: Twitter

February 18, 2009

SharePoint User Group UK: B'ham – Future Topics

Thanks to everyone who attended last night. It was my first involvement standing at the front of a SUGUK event and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Steve for inviting me to join him at the front. Thanks also to Andrew Woodward for jumping in at the end to help answer some of the question. … Continue reading SharePoint User Group UK: B'ham – Future Topics

February 10, 2009

Add a Banner to your SharePoint Site

There are several ways to add a banner to the top of your SharePoint site like below. The banner sits in your global breadcrumb so you need to think about your design of your image. I create my images in Adobe Photoshop and this is the only additional tool used in this how to. … Continue reading Add a Banner to your SharePoint Site

January 21, 2009

SharePoint in Education – Case Study Site – Blatchington Mill School, UK

I've logged in this morning and been reading through my RSS feeds and found a post about Blatchington Mill School's SharePoint and SIMs Learning Gateway Install. Take a loot at what they have been doing with their SharePoint 2007 environment and SIM.net webparts http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2009/01/19/3178564.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335971.aspx). Technorati Tags: MOSS,Education Continue reading SharePoint in Education – Case Study Site – Blatchington Mill School, UK

January 19, 2009

BETT09 – Loads of SharePoint and Windows 7 demos

So I’m here at BETT (British Education Teachers and Technology Show – Largest Education Technology show in the World) at Olympia, London and it’s another great event. This year its a lot busier than last year with lots being shown around the event and on the Microsoft Stand. This year I’m in a blue Microsoft … Continue reading BETT09 – Loads of SharePoint and Windows 7 demos

January 3, 2009

Content Editor WebPart: Popfly/Mashup

Microsoft Popfly is a great way to create a mashup – taking a source of information and publishing it in a great graphical view. http://www.popfly.ms As an example here I have taken my favourite football team(soccer for you Americans ;-), Aston Villa, searched Live Images and published all the images it finds into a page … Continue reading Content Editor WebPart: Popfly/Mashup

December 1, 2008

SharePoint and Moodle

I've been playing with Moodle the last few weeks. A open source, web based E-Learning tool coded in PHP written for Apache, mySQL on Linux. We are looking at several E-Learning tools includes SLK but Moodle at the moment Moodle has become the leader in the delivery of E-Learning for our school. Many schools look … Continue reading SharePoint and Moodle

October 16, 2008

Content Editor Web Part: Slideshare.net

I got introduced to slideshare.net this week which is a great way of sharing your presentation with the world. You can upload your presentation and make the available only to yourself through your login or through the public domain. When you’ve uploaded your presentation you can view your slides in the same size as a … Continue reading Content Editor Web Part: Slideshare.net