I have been a teacher in one form or another for 30 years. The subject of how people learn has been a personal fascination since the beginning. I found two articles this week that brought back my enthusiasm for discovering ways to learn.
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The first is an article in this month’s Wired magazine about Piotr Wozniak, the [...]

The question of the day comes from Suzanne:
I’m experiementing with an Outlook 2007 resource that we use for the entire company by creating a SharePoint calendar and synching the 2 together so all users can “view” the calendar. They will still send appointments to the Outlook resource.
I can view appointments on the SharePoint calendar through [...]

Bob Mixon has posted a thought provoking article on when you might consider creating a new site collection vs when to create a new site. His theory is that there is a “controlled area” for enterprise managed content and a “wild, wild, west” area where the gun slingers can pull out all their magic tricks. [...]

I’m in Boston for the weekend, getting ready to watch my father-in-law run the Boston Marathon. He’s 71 years old and this is about his 70th marathon… go Tony! That said, I’m taking the rest of the week off, showing the family around Boston and lower New Hampshire. I’m falling behind on my email responses to [...]

This week’s newsletter, Site Collection Project Management, describes how to setup a management area for a site collection. It includes multiple downloads, screenshots and pointers to free software. For those who received the newsletter, please leave your comments, rants and raves in the comments section. To read the article and get the downloads, you can subscribe [...]

The question of the day comes from Todd:
One of our specific needs is to have a centrally managed Delivery Schedule, which contains info on the programs we are teaching, and who will be teaching them. We want to have a centrally managed calendar, so that we can see at a glance all of our program [...]

The question of the day comes from Denise:
How do I get a specific file to always be on top of the library list?
Denise – This is a very common request. The problem here is that by default the library will display first in – first out. Here is a simple 4 step hack to get you [...]

The question of the day comes from Gwen:
I would like to get my employee introduction slide deck on the [Quote of the Day] webpart that would say, “Meet the Team”.  Each slide has a few pics of people and some introductory text. . then a link saying, “Click here for more” would take people to [...]

Susanne from Germany sent me a request that I thought was interesting:
I really enjoy reading your blog and I think you’re doing a great job for all the end users out there. Even Microsoft appears to forget them sometimes, I think (witness the number of publications directed towards administrators and programmers as opposed to end [...]

The question of the day comes from Andrea:
On web part pages, do you know if there is a limitation on the number of web parts a single webpart can be connected to? Is it different in a MOSS environment than in a WSS environment? I’m asking because I’m running into a 7 webpart connection limitation [...]