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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In my first post of the series I want to looking at getting YouTube videos embedded into a site. Many schools look at YouTube and see a website that is full of violence and inappropriate videos but when you search for some of these key words nothing comes up. We look at YouTube and see … Continue reading Content Editor WebPart: YouTube
I've covered Twynham school a few times in my blog and I think there are doing a great job down in the south of England. I've been warned several times by the management team there that I am not allowed to nick their developers 😉 keep your eyes open Dave. Twynham have been contacted by … Continue reading Twynham School: Technet Example Solution Architecture