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SharePoint Saturday comes to the UK

Just a quick note to point SharePoint lovers towards the SharePoint Saturday , being held on October 2nd in Birmingham. At a time when training budgets are shrinking, then you’ll be cheered up to know that it is free to attend, and is being run by a group...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 11:14 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, free events, training courses

What does SIMS Learning Gateway mean to parents?

I was at Capita’s SIMS Annual Conference in Nottingham in June, talking about the future of technology, and how it will impact the workplace over the next decade. I’ve been invited to give this presentation at a wide range of conferences this summer,...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 08:19 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: sharepoint, case study, SharePoint in education, learning gateway, parents

Twynham School and SharePoint 2010

Twynham School, in Christchurch in Dorset, are a school which tends to be at the leading edge of technology – they are often one of the first schools in the UK to implement a school-wide deployment of new Microsoft releases, and the ICT team in the school...

Published Mon, Jul 5 2010 12:36 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: sharepoint, learning platforms, SharePoint in education, learning gateway, Twynham School

Translating a school website? We have an app for that

In the ‘good old days’, whenever school leaders were presenting their school stories at conferences, they would always include the proportion of children on Free School Meals – if the number was high, it was shorthand for saying “We’re in a challenging...

Published Fri, Jul 2 2010 08:17 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: sharepoint, free stuff, free downloads

Translating your websites into 30 languages–with 5 minutes work

With so many international students in Higher Education today, you need to be able to make your university websites and portals as accessible as possible to students, employers and parents from outside of the UK. When I saw the new version of the Microsoft...

Published Thu, Jul 1 2010 06:50 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, free stuff

Can you describe what SharePoint does in one sentence?

Possibly the most difficult job I get asked to do is to describe SharePoint succinctly. It’s not because I don’t know what SharePoint is, and what it does – in fact, I use it extensively myself for lots of different purposes, and I see it in regular...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 08:46 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: sharepoint, SharePoint in education, learning gateway, Gerald Haigh

Learning Gateway Conference 2010–14th July

Alex Pearce has dropped me a note to remind me that it’s exactly one month until the Learning Gateway Conference 2010 , on 14th July. Last year it was at The Belfry, this time it’s moved to Church House, in Westminster. Last year’s conference was well...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 02:49 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, learning platforms, SharePoint in education, learning gateway

Have you booked for the Scotland 2010 Higher Education Briefing on 9th June?

The line up of speakers for the Microsoft Scotland 2010 Higher Education Briefing on 9th June includes some great speakers. Of course, Steven Grier, our Scottish Education Business Manager will be compere for the day, and he’ll be joined by: The...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 07:20 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, free events, Live @ Edu, Office 2010

Microsoft Scotland 2010 Higher Education Briefing

Bookings are now open for our Scotland Higher Education Briefing day, on 9th June in Edinburgh. Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10 th December 2009 at our London offices in Victoria. The agenda for the event runs from...

Published Fri, May 7 2010 06:11 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, free events, Live @ Edu, Office 2010, System Center 2007

SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 releases – and a UK school is first to deploy

Overnight the full released version of Office 2010 appeared on the Volume Licensing Service Centre , and I’ve already seen a few comments from people who’ve been busily downloading it. As well as Office 2010, we’ve also released SharePoint 2010, and I...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 02:27 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, free events, SharePoint in education, Office 2010

it’s learning moves towards the cloud with Microsoft

There’s a new press release on the it’s learning website. it’s learning are a Becta approved Learning Platform provider , and have recently signed an agreement with us to offer their customers our cloud computing services, via our Live@edu service. That...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 04:00 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: sharepoint, Live@EDU, learning platforms, Press, SharePoint in education, Announcement

18th May - SharePoint 2010 in Further Education

Parabola, one of our Gold partners, is running a free SharePoint 2010 event for colleges, here at the Microsoft Campus in Reading on Tuesday 18th May 2010. It’s an opportunity for you to further understand what SharePoint 2010 can offer to a college,...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 04:00 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, free events, partners, Office 2010

Microsoft and the Cloud – what it means for universities

There’s recently been a lot of discussion within education about different models of ICT services. Individual universities have tended to use a mix of services provided on-premise and cloud-based services . And newer models of teaching and learning have...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 12:54 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Office, Exchange, sharepoint, Cloud, Live @ Edu, SQL Server 2008, Office Web Apps, Office Communications Server

Microsoft and the Cloud – what it means for education

There’s recently been a lot of discussion within education about different models of ICT services. Individual schools tend to use a mix of services provided on-premise ( or on-site as we used to call it ) and cloud-based services ( what we’d call Internet...

Published Mon, Apr 19 2010 04:01 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Exchange, sharepoint, Cloud, Live@EDU, Windows Azure, SQL Server 2008, Office Web Applications

More Moodle advice – The Moodle on SharePoint white paper

The team over at the Microsoft Education Labs have been busy over the last few weeks. If you’re new to it, Education Labs was created by the Microsoft Education Products Group to build and release new product prototypes and useful add-ons, specifically...

Published Fri, Apr 9 2010 01:24 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: sharepoint, learning platforms, moodle, free downloads, download, Education Labs

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