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Updating the Ten of the Best University websites build on SharePoint
I had to update the Top Ten University websites build on SharePoint over the weekend, as one of the websites I’d listed wasn’t actually built on SharePoint (Whoops - turned out their internal sites run...
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How do you approach Cloud security?
Jean-Phillippe Courtois, the President of Microsoft International, has written a guest post about Cloud security on the Viewpoints blog. You should read it if you’re at all interested in the framework...
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Ten of the best - Australian education websites built on SharePoint
Following on from my previous blog posts, ‘Ten of the best SharePoint School websites’ and ‘Ten of the best SharePoint University websites’, then it’s time to get closer to home with Ten of the best...
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What does the word ‘Learn’ mean to you?
In your head imagine a one minute video on the word ‘Teach’. Hmm, interesting…So how about changing to another angle. How about a one minute video on the word ‘Learn’? That’s exactly what STA Travel...
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How safe is my cloud data? And what’s the USA Patriot Act?
Earlier in the year, I wrote a blog post titled “Is my data safe in the Cloud?”, where I explained that actually my personal data was safer in the cloud than it was on my own laptop - because there’s...
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Future Works Skills - The challenge for the assessment system
There are a lot of projects underway around the world looking at the skills that students will need for the future workplace. I’ve just read the “Future Works Skills 2020” report, which was completed...
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The debate between employers and the education system
I’ve been in Australia for 9 months today, and one of the things that I’ve noticed is that the Australia media only focuses on a few issues in relation to schools - and a lot of it is about political,...
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21 things that will become obsolete in education by 2020
It’s nearly two years since Shelly Blake-Plock wrote “21 things that will become obsolete in education by 2020” on his TeachPaperless blog. I’d highly recommend it for a mid-week read - and perhaps use...
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Reasons to blog - I blog to learn
I’ve had such a hectic week that I’ve not really had the time to sit down and write a detailed blog post about an education initiative today.So I thought I would share a little bit about what’s going...
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Snippet - Retiring academics create a problem in Higher Education
I’ve been collecting interesting snippets (not quite full blog posts) on my Posterous space for a few months. But I thought I’d change the habit and share them on the blog instead. Mainly they comprise...
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How to win Microsoft Education Partner of the Year 2012
Every year thousands of worldwide partners get together with Microsoft at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. In 2012 it’s being held in Canada, in the leafy green city of Toronto (hint: great...
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Buying business systems for education
I’ve been involved in a few conversations recently about business systems with a number of education customers. And there’s a recurring question through these conversations, which is:Should a...
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Lessons learned from DER Student Devices
A few weeks ago, the Inter-American Development Bank released a report on the roll out of the One Laptop Per Child programme in Peru, where the government has put 850,000 laptops into the hands of...
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How the carbon tax will affect education
I know there’s a political debate about the carbon tax, and I don’t want to go near that. But I did see the stories earlier this week (eg this one on Sky News) that the carbon tax is going to increase...
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Entry tips for Australia Education Partner of the Year 2012
Last year, Janison from NSW, were winner for Australian Education Partner of the Year 2011. And I’d like all of our education partners to get the chance to do well in this year’s competition – in...
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If I can track my pizza order on my phone, how about my children’s learning?
I can track my pizza order in real time…Pizza Hut have announced the availability of a new app in Australia to allow you to order your custom-made pizza from your Windows Phone, and in some countries,...
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TAFE funding cuts in Australia–what do you do next?
The latest state and national budgets are heaping the pressure on TAFE funding. And the media coverage that inevitably follows, like The Australian’s “TAFEs spell out job losses in meetings with...
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Top 5 education apps that will be developed in the Cloud with Windows Azure
Walking down the corridor after I wrote about the Windows Azure DevCamps this morning, a colleague who’d read the post asked me what kind of apps would be developed next in the Windows Azure Cloud for...
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What would your crystal ball show for education's future?
I have just read a deeply profound, and shocking, blog post, written by the leader of a significant Australian business.Written after the news that major Australian media organisations Fairfax and News...
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Headline writers versus reality
The media sometimes seem to use education as a point-scoring football eg in my first 9 months in Australia, I noticed that much of the media focus on education focused on a narrow debate about school...
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