Sharepoint

Building Teacher Webpages with Microsoft SharePoint (V) Looking for ways to make life easier in the classroom? Join us to discover how using Microsoft SharePoint for Teacher Webpages makes it easy to create the documents you use everyday at school such as calendars, announcements, and homework assignments. Additionally, see how to incorporate wikis, blogs, podcasts, and video to leverage E-portfolios in your classroom. Colleen Beale, Data Networks-- Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Administration

Works with anything in Office 2000 or above Web parts: functionality that you can drag and drop into the interface. Features: Calendars, picture gallaries—automatically can do slide shows, Blogs and wiki’s—web 2.0 features Video streaming

Rss feeds, subscribe to news sites and all info comes to one page Can set up feed for 15 teachers when they add Sharepoint websites can transmit to Mobile phones Student gateway feature: entire system around classroom grading. Teacher site for the public: Their version of open source—all the functinality of a previous feature that MS used… Start off easy with teachers; then add on additional features: Logged into Sharepoint; sign in button, e-mail and pw: Edit page: Open web address: it’s a webbased platform Drag parts in: edit content, gives you a wysiwyg editor comes up—typical ms office menus—“word light” tables: color coded columns Approval buttons: “check into share draft”— allows you to save and public will not see until you want them to.. “submitt for approval”—save when you are ready to go live “publish”—if you have the rights for total content approval… Add image—now just browse to image library or upload right from the browse button. Built in resizing feature now—tell it right from the browse screen…can add border around the picture Add annoucements, and upcoming events Does have spell check!! Can set an expiration date for an announcement to disappear after a certain date. Upcoming events: links automatically to the calendar—regular outlook calendar—can synch to **outlook** calendar… Can edit an attached document and you can save right back to the library that you got it from Document library: Upload individual files: Can create a template to populate to all of the teachers:

Pictures: slide shows are automatically available… Contact: Contact form to keep SPAM people from getting all the addresses. Kids projects: for example: senior projects, reflective essays, documents, rss feeds, links,, documents (movies, pictures, essays—all saved in a document folder) Rss feeds constantly updating the data. Blog: can have comments, they can be archived and do separate ones and don’t clutter up. Wiki: group of people edit one document on-line. From a district point of view: rights can be assigned to particular areas of webpages: Extended functionality: Info path, paper forms can be converted to info path,
 * Electronic portfolios:**

Can pull data, attendance data, testing data that can be converted to viewing charts, etc. Does need it’s own server. Individual user: just needs browser, don’t need office, unless they want to synch their calendars…to outlook for example Anonymous verses open to public versions…technical end…