Category Archives: SharePoint

Ninja/Wizard Text

Would text like that above engage your students, you can type in up to 22 characters and either have a wizard or a ninja draw them.  The website generates html code that you could then drop in to a content … Continue reading

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Adding video to Sharepoint

Michelle D’arcy Jewell and myself ran a successful Sharepoint course on Monday that covered a range of topics including CSS, embedding Flash Movies and Webplayers. There was a lot of interest in the webplayer (see image below) which lets users … Continue reading

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Blogging on the Gateway

Sharepoint allows schools to create and moderate their own blogs and it’s good to see some schools already doing so on the Shropshire Learning Gateway. To support teachers in setting up blogs in Sharepoint I have written a brief guide. … Continue reading

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Shropshire’s Virtual Secondary School

Many Learning Gateway users in Shropshire have asked to see a working model of a school’s site that they can use for guidance or inspiration. I have played around with the Virtual Secondary School and made it visible to all … Continue reading

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Let it Snow….

If you wish to put some falling snow on your webpage, all you need to do is go to this site:http://www.hscripts.com/scripts/JavaScript/image-fall.php The falling image they use is a leaf, you just need to create your own snowflake image and replace … Continue reading

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