After our first look at SharePoint 2010 and the uses of it for education I wanted to talk about the metadata structure that is available for schools to tag and share documents both within their school and other school as well. SharePoint 2010 has a tag structure that allows you to tag a single document … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 2
I loved Microsoft Class Server. I had version 3 and then version 4 came out which came with Web Parts for SharePoint 2003. My Favourite part of Class Server was always the Teacher Client. It was great to create quiz’s, true and false questions and create rubrics around the paragraphs that have been written by … Continue reading Blast from the Past – Microsoft Class Server
Here is a first post of a set to talk about a few of the benefits of SharePoint 2010 for the education market. Last week I had the great opportunity to present on SharePoint 2010 at BETT 2010 which is the worlds largest education technology show in the world with over 24,000 people attending. Microsoft … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Education: Part 1
There are many email products that could be used for the Learning Gateway but if you ask most people they will say they use Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft recently released their latest version of Exchange (Exchange 2010) which we will look into further in a few posts time. Cloud computer is being pushed by many different … Continue reading The Next Learning Gateway: Live@edu
As we start to look at the next version of server products I wanted to touch on Microsoft latest version of Hyper-V. So what is HyperV/Virtualisation? Released as a updated feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V provides virtualisation of your operating systems on a single box. A single physical machine can host multiple machines … Continue reading The Next Learning Gateway: Virtualisation
I’m very excited that at the end of this week I will be in Las Vegas for the SharePoint Conference 2009. Its going to be a great event with the first real look at SharePoint 2010. If you are attending and would like to chat about Learning Gateways, Learning Platforms or just SharePoint, please get … Continue reading I’m attending #SPC09 SharePoint Conference 2009
I recently spoke at an event about engaging users in your Learning Gateway with the right content in the right areas. You have content everywhere. Don’t think that content is just a Word document or SCORM files you have brought from a content supplier. Content is everywhere, it changes everyday, the school newsletter, the latest … Continue reading Content for the Learning Gateway
Thanks to every who attended the SharePoint User Group in Nottingham on Thursday. It was the first time I had done this talk so I hope you found it useful. Here are few of the points that I talked about Branding Building a custom CSS or master page is a key part of your portal. … Continue reading My Top 5 User Adoption Tips, SUGUK, 10th September
Over the last 2 blog posts we have looked at the client side of the next Microsoft Learning Gateway. Since the posts Windows 7 has hit yet another milestone and the final one before general release on the 22nd October. Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufactories) is the full version of the operating system and … Continue reading The next Learning Gateway: Client Summary
At the recent Microsoft World Partner Conference in America, Microsoft announced they had reached the Technical Preview milestone of the Office 2010 suite. So what is Technical Preview? Technical Preview is also known as beta 1, so Microsoft have now got Office 2010 suite to beta 1. Which is great but what’s different, do we … Continue reading The next Learning Gateway: Office 2010 / Semblio