One of my many highlights of 2008 was to present on the Microsoft stand at BETT. I enjoyed the 4 days their presenting 8 times in total and making a lot of friends at the same time. It was a great way to start the year. I’m hoping 2009 will be just as good as … Continue reading Im at BETT 2009: Jan 14 – 17
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
Well actually I’ve been back a few weeks but its been so busy since I got back. All positive though. We have had a lot of press coverage in Birmingham about Sierra Leone which is helping to raise more money. The trip was amazing – Sierra Leone is such a beautiful country with such bad … Continue reading Back from Sierra Leone and the rest of my travels.
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
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
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
As you may have seen I’ve done a fair bit of blogging about the SharePoint work going on at Twynham school in Dorset, England. I’m really pleased to see the school name a lot in articles on the Internet showing how a school system should be setup and discussing their work with their webparts. Well … Continue reading Twynham School: Try our Webparts
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
I’m off to Barcelona for this years TechEd IT Pro in Barcelona starting on the 3rd November. I’m not getting there until the Tuesday due to another trip but more details on that later. I’m really excited as this will be my first proper Microsoft conference that I have been to, my first conference aboard … Continue reading I'm attending TechEd – IT Pro EMEA
In part 2 of Using the Content Editor WebPart I want to talk about how you can integrate a Flash file into your site. We’ve all seen flash before and we all know that you can create some great animations. If you look around the internet many websites use flash for animations. Some companies such … Continue reading Content Editor WebPart: Flash