Learning Gateway Conference, 15th July, The Belfry

[apearce]

Some of you may have seen a conversation about this already but here is something a bit more official.

 

@rpwillis and I have been working hard to put a conference together which is designed for you and for staff who are in charge of getting your users onto your Learning Gateway, whether this is the RM Kalidos, SIMs Learning Gateway or another other SharePoint hosted solution.

 

http://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/learninggatewayconference/images/logo.jpg

 

We have setup two path ways which are Building the Learning Gateway and User Adoption.

 

We've got some other SharePoint MVPs to come and talk and they are going to talk about best practice for your SharePoint and SQL servers, branding, site structures while on the user adoption side we have schools talking about their usage and how to get users onto you site.

 

We also have a keynote speaker - Steve Beswick who is the Director of Education at Microsoft.

 

I'm afriad the event isn't free as we have to cover the costs and the cheapest we can do it is for £150. Which if you are arguing with your finance person is cheaper than a cover member of staff for the day.

 

We also have a session on data security from BECTA which in case you didn't know if your school get it wrong you will end up putting your headteacher in jail. So come and find out how to do it right, so you can get it wrong and get them in jail ;-)

 

Please visit the website and register. It would be great to have a lot of people there from EduGeek there.

 

http://www.learninggatewayconference.co.uk

 

Alex and Richard

Edited June 8, 2009 by apearce

[CHR1S]

 

I'm afriad the event isn't free as we have to cover the costs and the cheapest we can do it is for £150.

 

Does that include 18 holes?

[apearce]

Nope :-) but I might buy everyone a drink if they stay in the bar afterwards!!!

[arichards]

I have signed up to go to this. Its rare you find a conference aimed at Education and run by educationalists.

 

I look forward t seeing some of you there.

[alan-d]

Nope :-) but I might buy everyone a drink if they stay in the bar afterwards!!!

 

Mine's a lemonade - Dammed driving laws!

[Hollie1985]

I'll be there :-)

[russdev]

I'll be there :-)

 

@Hollie

 

I bet Alex is still making you pay as well

 

Russ

[EduTech]

I'm coming :-) just got to clear it with work but shouldn't be a problem.

 

@ Hollie - nice to see you can get the time out of work to make this conference guessing you've caught up now eh? hehe

 

James.

[GrumbleDook]

Yep, I'll be there too.

[Hollie1985]

@ Russ -ha ha I don't pay myself, the powers that be pay for me ;-)

@ James -Yeah managed to get to go to this one, it's on my doorstep where i live as well :-S

[INeedAUsername]

Hey Alex,

 

Will be going too

 

See you there

 

PS mines a J20 Apple and Mango

[Guest monkeyx]

Is there no moodle demonstrations ?

[apearce]

I was thinking of a lunch time session - 30 minutes on how to install Moodle on a Windows environment and link in your sharepoint.

 

Would this interest anyone?

 

Dont forget to register

 

http://www.learninggatewayconference.co.uk

[alan-d]

I was thinking of a lunch time session - 30 minutes on how to install Moodle on a Windows environment and link in your sharepoint.

 

Would this interest anyone?

 

Dont forget to register

 

http://www.learninggatewayconference.co.uk

 

We already have Moodle running on a windows server but the linking to sharepoint would be of interest

[apearce]

There are still places left if you wish to attend.

 

http://www.learninggatewayconference.co.uk

[EduTech]

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I seem to get an error when i register. am i doing something wrong.. or is it our proxy

[apearce]

Thanks - we're just looking into it now - will let you know when its sorted

 

A.

[vikpaw]

can somebody film it, podcast it or something......?

please

[rpwillis]

That should be fixed now, thanks for letting us know.

 

It was an issue with my hosting company when servers in the cluster are switched in between page requests. Shouldn't happen again now.

 

Richard

[EduTech]

can somebody film it, podcast it or something......?

please

 

I did send Alex an email about this, but it is stuck on our email queue's at the moment.

 

I was thinking of something similar to what we did at the Edugeek Conference, Hopefully they might have a nicer Firewall here lol

 

@Richard Just to let you know i registered fine this time, all seems to be fine now Ta Very much

 

James.

Edited June 22, 2009 by EduTech

[apearce]

I'm afraid that we will not be doing any free streaming on the sessions. The event is being filmed for attendees to receive a DVD of the 10 sessions and this will be posted out after the conference which is part of the cost of attending.

 

However...we have decided to use the twitter tag #LGC so you could always follow that.

 

http://www.learninggatewayconference.co.uk

 

A.

[Hollie1985]

anyone here actually been to the Belfry before? What is it like there out of curiosity? - looking forward to my malibu and coke afterwards as i'm not driving ;-)

[EduTech]

anyone here actually been to the Belfry before? What is it like there out of curiosity? - looking forward to my malibu and coke afterwards as i'm not driving ;-)

 

So i can actually buy you that drink then

[Hollie1985]

Nope :-) but I might buy everyone a drink if they stay in the bar afterwards!!!

 

you have my order, see you at the bar :-)

[apearce]

Dont forget to register!!!

 

http://www.learninggatewayconference.co.uk