Archive for November, 2005

Sharepoint Portal Services vs. Windows Sharepoint Services

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I'd be interested to know about how secondary schools use Sharepoint for their intranets. We are currently licensed for SPS, but I'm finding it hard to see compelling reasons for using it over plain WSS in a secondary school environment. I don't particularly want to implement personal ...

Interactive Whiteboards

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Here's an interesting article about interactive whiteboards in the Grauniad that nearly passed me by. I definitely agree that there's an element of buzzwordiness/hype about the whole approach to IWBs by the British Government. As is always the case, however, there is definite educational benefit in there once the technology ...

Class Server 4 – The saga continues

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Today saw a smidgen more progress with our Class Server 4 installation. I managed to get all the classes into the database and all the teacher-class relationships too, as well as entering a few straggler teachers that didn't have accounts on the network (until today that is). Not perfect, but ...