Chris and Daves SharePoint and Tech Blog

  Last week myself and Chris where showing what we do with SharePoint at Twynham on the Microsoft stand at the BETT show it seemed to be a massive success and was really good to meet all the people that dropped by our pod, we have received quite a lot of feedback via email and twitter so I thought I would write some posts on what we presented so hopefully we can show a wider audience. We tried to show as much as we could but we had limited time when we give full presentations it generally takes in excess of an hour so I thought I would try to break it down into bite sized chunks.  

Revision Gateway Frontpage

The GCSE revision gateway was an inspired idea easy to achieve and as we found very student driven, we created subsites for each subject area and laid out the sites in roughly the same order this eased navigation for students and giving a common layout helped student concentration we structured the sites in the following way

 Notices

What you need to revise

Exam Technique Guide

Revision PowerPoints

Revision resources

Past Papers and Model Answers

Links

History Revision Gateway

On some of the sites we also put on Audio and Video resources where we streamed video and audio files to the students. The student uptake for the revision gateways was great and as I said previously very student driven we found that students started to encourage the more reluctant departments to upload resources for them. This year we will be launching an A level revision gateway and hope it has the same impact the GCSE gateways have had.

 As Charles Caleb Colton said “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” so why not give your students a great revision resource and copy what we have done an easy win with SharePoint in schools any questions please feel free to contact us.

Dave