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Location - The Cobham Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Wallisdown Road, Poole
Twynham School is an Outstanding School in Christchurch, Dorset. Over the last three years they have developed a sophisticated Online Learning system based on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. In 2008 they won the prestigious BECTA ICT Excellence Award for Learning Beyond the Classroom. This talk will focus on the extensive development of a Learning Platform to encourage collaboration and engage students, staff and parents. Projects focused on will include Online Reporting to Parents, Academic Mentoring, Online Options and Revision Gateway.
In 2008 Twynham was the sole winner of the Beyond the Classroom BECTA ICT Excellance Award 2008 for their SharePoint work on Parental engagement. Many articles have been written about their SharePoint deployment with case studies and architecture models appearing on the Microsoft websites worldwide. Dave and Mike are also regular speakers on their SharePoint achievements including on the Microsoft stand at BETT, and most recently presenting to the Microsoft SharePoint product group and education team at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.
Speakers: Mike Herrity & Dave Coleman
Mike Herrity is an Assistant Headteacher at Twynham School in Christchurch Dorset. He is responsible for the development of the Twynham School Learning Gateways along with Dave Coleman. Mike has been using SharePoint since 2006 and together with Dave has been responsible for creating one of the most developed SharePoint systems in education, which Microsoft has featured as a best practise on Technet. This has led Mike to become a regular speaker at conferences and events within the UK and internationally. Outside his evangelism role, Mike's primary focus is on the development of Online Learning with a focus on teaching and learning over technology and driving user adoption.
Mike is also the author of the blog SharePoint in Education.
Dave Coleman is the Network Manager at Twynham School.
He has 18 years working in the IT industry with 11 of those working in the education sector and has worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server. Over the last few years he has been specializing in SharePoint starting with SharePoint team services back in 2001 through SharePoint portal server 2003 with Class Server and on to SharePoint 2007 after introducing SharePoint into Twynham and making it a key component of their IT strategy.
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