In this week’s EUSP Newsletter, going out Tuesday afternoon, we will include a copy of Mike Herrity’s e-book, An illustrated guide to our work with SharePoint as a Learning Platform. If you don’t want to wait for the newsletter, you can download it directly from Mike’s site, SharePointInEducation.com.

Twynham School has increasingly developed a reputation for our use of SharePoint in an educational context. We have been using SharePoint since 2007 and in early 2008 the systems team at Twynham School wrote a guide to the work we were doing with our Learning Platform which simply became known as ‘the pdf’. This showed all our early work in the first year and along with speaking at dozens of conferences has led to over 800 schools contacting us in the last two years. The only problem with ‘the pdf’ is it is now very out of date!

As well as this, March 22nd 2010 is our three year anniversary of working with SharePoint as a Learning Platform and to mark the event I have written up everything we have done in the last three years to produce an e-book. With the launch of SharePoint 2010 being just two months away it makes sense to record everything we managed to do with SharePoint 2007.

What the e-book is and is not
The main aim of the book is to give an overview of the development of our Learning Gateway over the last three years. It is not intended to give a detailed account of how and why we did everything. A version with all this detail would be over 100 pages and is perhaps a proposition for another time. The e-book is also not very text heavy but contains over 60 screenshots and is only 6,000 words so it hopefully isn’t too heavy a read. It hopefully shows what is possible for schools who are starting on their journey to SharePoint.

How to find out more?
For more detail on anything in the e-book you can read my blog www.SharepointInEducation.com which contains all the detail on our work. You can also contact me by email at [email protected] or call (44) 1202 495724. If you are so inclined and use twitter please feel free to link up with me @mikeherrity. I hope you find the ideas and examples in the e-book useful and look out for the free web part on page 43.