Drupal in Education

Hello all,

The deadline is this Saturday (11/26), and we need your help to get our VoIP Drupal sessions selected for Drupal Camp NYC!

This year, we are proposing the following session:

"Hello, Drupal? Building Drupal sites that make and receive phone calls" (http://bit.ly/s1QUo1)

As part of this session, we will:

• Introduce VoIP Drupal, its goals, background and basic components
• Highlight real life examples of VoIP Drupal in use
• Demonstrate simple ways to get started with the technology
• Present the VoIP Drupal roadmap and how to get involved

OpenAcadept is a Drupal distribution for building academic websites. It can help academic departments to have own site. The functionality of OpenAcaDept is based on what we need in Donetsk National Technical University and will be extended due to user requests. OpenAcaDept is in active development now, but you can start to build your own project based on it, while helping us to fix issues. It is very important to have a feedback from you re this project, because it will help improve it.

OpenAcaDept features:

• Basic content types such as Project, Event, Publication, Resource, Blog post, Page.
• Configurable user profiles for different roles: Faculty/staff, Student, Alumnus.
• Views for pages and contextual blocks.
• Smart node access workflow and role application on registration.
• Installed menu items, taxonomy terms and pages.
• Custom theme.

ELMS Alpha 5 came out today! https://drupal.psu.edu/project/elms

ELMS is now entirely features based and following the best practices established by Open Atrium / Eduglu / Drupal Commons. You can download the distro at the link above or check out any of the 24 other modules/features contributed as part of this release at https://drupal.psu.edu/fserver

Hi all, I'm new here..just thought I'd get some opinions on what Drupal can offer to a k-12 school district (10k students). We are currently evaluating CMSs and we're down to Joomla or Drupal. I've done my own experimenting and searching online but I thought I could get some insight from users who already are using Drupal.

We will be hiring someone to initially create our theme and design our site (bc of time). We have a great deal of knowledge in web design and programming from myself and my coworker, so customizing in the future and integrating with other systems is crucial.

A movement is building to create the next generation of technology to power the future of learning. Startup Weekend Education is hosting a series of events bringing together software developers, teachers, designers and business people to rapidly develop new concepts in 54 hours. Top leaders and investors in ed tech are available all weekend to help mentor and shape ideas into commercially viable products.

Do you have an idea that could change education? Would you like be on the team building the next classroom innovation?

Session submissions are open for DrupalCon Denver and we’re excited to have an entire track devoted to the Nonprofit, Government & Education sectors. We have some great featured speakers confirmed. We’re also seeing a growing number of sessions being proposed -- but we need a lot more!

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the release of the VoIP Phone module!

The VoIP Phone module (http://drupal.org/project/voipphone) enables users to make phone calls directly from the browser. It provides a basic API and support for common web-based VoIP phones such as Phono (http://phono.com) and Twilio Client (http://www.twilio.com/api/client).

Yesterday and tonight I threw together a module and feature for embedding etherpads from PiratePad.net into Drupal 6 sites: https://github.com/markwk/piratepad and https://github.com/markwk/atriumed_piratepad