Drupal Training and Curriculum Chat

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liberatr's picture
Start: 
2010-05-03 15:00 - 16:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

In order to follow up on some of the discussions that were taking place at DrupalCon SF around developing standards, rubrics, and common ground in general for Drupal Training.

I decided a good next step would be to get some sort of a real-time dialog going. Let's use the #drupal-dojo channel for us to hold a discussion in the future. I'm proposing we start this week on Monday. 3PM Eastern time - it's evening for Europe, and lunch time for the West coast of the US. If another date and time presents itself in the future, we'll go with that.

EmmaJane pointed to an incredibly useful book, which I have just ordered:
http://tinyurl.com/thegreenbook

During our BoF sessions, the use of EtherPad was invaluable.

An EtherPad was built on Wednesday afternoon:
http://ietherpad.com/dcsf2010trainingbof
(yes, this has all the info pasted into it from the duplicate pad)

The discussion was held Open-Space-style - lots of different topics were covered, and resources pointed to. Give that EtherPad a good read.

My particular area of interest is developing a set of Learning Outcomes that we can open up, and give anyone developing a training program or tutorial a common base to start developing Drupal learning materials. Then each trainer, writer, or agency can build courses on top of that. If the community can adopt the outcomes and some structure, other stuff can follow.

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Open source curriculum for Drupal

gusaus's picture

I think the unifying goal is to create an source curriculum that would be available to all. While there are several efforts and flavors of curriculum, it's been difficult to create something cohesive, easy to find, let alone bring people together to collaborate.

My hope is we can leverage the existing resources/groups/platforms we have and see what other individuals and elephants can bring to the table.

This wiki, after a good dusting off, may provide some good points of reference -
http://groups.drupal.org/node/15975/

Looking forward to being part of this!

Gus Austin

excellent!

heather's picture

I'm so excited to take part in this. I have some interesting pre-meeting reading.

Check out:
"Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community"
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/O...
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (January/February 2009): 70–71.

I think some edu-tech open source geeks like us might like to talk about the ideas in that article.

Anyone else have links to share?

I'll send out a quick email to the folks who attended the openspace Learning Drupal BoF.

@Ryan can you send an email to the folks who went to your training BoF?

Links and resources

gusaus's picture

This Education and Training wiki already has a good amount of links and resources - http://groups.drupal.org/node/15975 ; Possibly we can keep organizing and compiling info there?

Gus Austin

I've been talking with

vmiliano's picture

I've been talking with linearb about this, too, and after DrupalCon SF I wrote up a training curriculum, based on some Drupal 5/6 training I did a couple of years ago, but greatly expanded and updated for 6/7:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgkkvknj_53fn4xq9fb

Be sure to read past the table of contents to the actual "courses," which are broken down as:

Courses for everyone: Drupal 101 (as a prerequisite for everything), Modules 101 and Themes 101. These discuss what Drupal is, how to pick a version/distribution of Drupal, how to install Drupal (installing Drupal is important for even non-technical designers because putting files in the right places and modifying some random module's CSS requires knowing where all of that lives), finding and evaluating modules and themes, and installing modules and themes.

Courses for developers (prerequisites of Drupal 101 and Modules 101): Modules 201 and 202 get into code, when to write something new versus when to work on an existing one, porting modules from 6 to 7, module hooks and contributing back.

Courses for themers (prerequisites of Drupal 101 and Themes 101): Themes 102 talks about CSS-only themes for non-technical designers. Themes 201 talks about creating a new theme.

Advanced courses: Drupal 201 is about contributing to Drupal itself in various capacities. Drupal 301 is about miscellaneous topics like testing, SEO, performance, etc.

Discussion is welcomed; I'll be in the chat room on Monday.

I also have early drafts of slides and presenters notes for several of the fulls sections already, but I didn't want to build them out until other people thought the general idea had merit. (My intention is to license this under something like CC-BY.)

Great start!

gusaus's picture

That's a great start - looks like there's some similarity/compliment to some other open source efforts -
http://groups.drupal.org/node/49778
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dmjbnhb_4pnh27kc9

A good deal to build off already!

Gus Austin

Where's DougVann?

dougvann's picture

I just realized that with the time zone shift. I will be in the middle of delivering my Drupal Top Modules session during the training chat.
So.....
I was really looking forward to talking about training BUT I'll be too busy delivering training at the www.CMSExpo.net.

I'll pop in at 4pm EDT to see if there are any signs of life!

  • DV
  • Doug Vann [Drupal Trainer, Consultant, Developer]
  • Synaptic Blue Inc. [President]
  • http://dougvann.com

Looking forward to joining in

PaulaH's picture

Enjoyed chatting with Heather about curriculum and certification last week. I've found all the above links really interesting. Role specific learning outcomes will help to pinpoint the curriculum content.

Looking forward to chatting today/tonight.

Meeting transcript

gusaus's picture

Just a quick note that all transcripts in #drupal-dojo are logged here -
http://www.disobey.com/bot/log/drupal-dojo

Permalink for this particular meeting is here:
http://www.disobey.com/bot/log/drupal-dojo/2010-05-03

Gus Austin

Next week's session is

liberatr's picture

Next week's session is posted, along with some to-do items: http://groups.drupal.org/node/66338 Back in IRC on Monday, May 10th, 3PM Eastern Time (US).

I have copied over the couple of roles from Drupal Kata's site to a wiki page on g.d.o in order to try and get the people in this group to edit stuff.

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