Are you like Mr Jones? Spending most of the day teaching all the kids about Shakespeare or about the Universe and have no time to get all the information you need to organise that school field trip or check your email. Or are you like Mrs Lloyd who has to move around from room to … Continue reading What is a Learning Platform? Short Story
If you are a school and have implemented SharePoint 2010, Microsoft want to hear from you. They are currently giving away a free ticket to the next SharePoint Conference in Los Angles in October 2011. All you have to do is tell your Journey of SharePoint 2010 and how you have implemented it into your … Continue reading Tell your SharePoint 2010 story and win – SharePoint Journeys
In this blog post we are going to brand our live@edu Outlook Live Web Access. By default you get the standard yellow theme which is a collection of 3 images and some colouring. This can all be changed within the domain management which you can access with your admin user for live@edu. Note: Any changes … Continue reading Live@edu Branding
SharePoint is being used more and more in education with schools implementing the product but one of the common things I see it that schools don’t use the full capability of the product. I’ve had many conversation about SharePoint and that there aren’t many people out there that know everything about the product. With there … Continue reading Using SharePoint Search in Education and Schools: Part 1
I was recently at a school and we had a bit of difficulty in trying to get the finance board/governors to approve the new £120,000 ($150,000) wireless network. The wireless is N standard and designed to allow over 2,000 devices to use it at the same time. The network back bone was already CAT6 so … Continue reading Selling it to the Senior Leadership at your School…..
Microsoft are making some improvements to their current live@edu services in the new year around the Outlook Web App, Exchange Management Console and spam/anti virus protection. Notification: February 2011 Service Update We are pleased to announce the upcoming deployment of the February 2011 Service Update. This service update will include the addition of several features … Continue reading Update to live@edu on its way in February
Yesterday I posted ‘Office 365 Videos from TechEd Europe’ but there is also another session on live@edu. I hope that you enjoy this session too. Microsoft Live@edu: Moving Your School Communication and Collaboration to the Cloud Continue reading live@edu Video from TechEd 2010
More information has come out from Microsoft this week around Office 365 for Education. As mentioned in a previous post we only had limited information but during the past week Microsoft had a presentation day for Higher Education establishments which included a presentation on live@edu and Office 365 for Education. The slides from the presentation … Continue reading More information on Office 365 for Education
Congratulation to Brandon Scott @brandonscott3 who has one a MSDN subscription worth over £7,000. Here’s Brandon’s story “During the summer of 2010, we heavily relied upon Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to re-image our ten IT rooms, netbooks and other computers around the school (in total 800). It was lovely to simply boot into the network and … Continue reading MSDN Subscription.. and the winner is…
In recent months I have had numerous discussions about what the differences are between a Virtual Learning Environment, a Learning Gateway and a Learning Platform. Other conversations I have had is ‘What should I name my environment?’ So what is the difference? VLE A Virtual Learning Environment is a teaching tool that can assist you … Continue reading VLE, Learning Gateway or Learning Platform?