What are the initial goals? The long term goals?
Hello, all,
I'm putting down some quick ideas here to start getting feedback --
A distribution for Education will mean different things to different people: a set of tools to support classroom blogging, a set of tools to support teacher professional development, a set of tools to allow a school to track student progress (aka a SIS), a public-facing school web site, an internal teacher professional development site, a personal learning space (the PLE), to say nothing of the library sites, the LMS's, etc, etc, etc.
Drupal can do all of these things well -- some with existing modules, where others will require development. The question is, where do we want to start?
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On the basis of some of the comments in this thread, here are some thoughts about a first iteration:
All development here assumes development in 5.0 -- this means that some of the modules will need to be updated to 5.0 if they are not already there.
There are three types of functionality to consider for the initial distribution:
- The public facing school web site
- Classes; ie, the classes of an entire school in a single install
- Student and teacher work areas -- this can be considered a PLE, but it will allow the learner-controlled space to exist alongside the more structured course area.
Vaporware documentation... Hubris, anyone?
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To make a long story short, it turns out that robroy was already well ahead of me in figuring out why the old documentation wasn't helping people and will update the documentation next week. Serious props to his chops for the effort.
If you're interested in how this is shaping up, take a look here.
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Read moreA personal/community workspace, or another look at social networking
I've been thinking about some of the specifics of creating a personal workspace within Drupal -- although my main area of interest is education, these thoughts have applications outside education -- these are some rough notes, and I'm curious to see/hear reactions about what I'm missing/overlooking. These notes are not intended to be comprehensive, but a starting point in a conversation about some specific functionality
Some basic functionality--
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To accomplish this, I was thinking about some integration between BuddyList (http://drupal.org/project/buddylist) and the ACL (http://drupal.org/project/acl) or NodeAccess (http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess)module -- members of a user’s Buddylist can be used to form an access control list on a node by node basis-- I’m leaning toward the ACL module as I think a generalized API that can be used by other modules provides some advantages long term. However, was the ACL module designed to work primarily with roles, or with individual users?
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Instructions for Elementary School Admin
I implemented drupal at a public elementary school. Not sure if this would help anyone but here are some instructions I gave them:
This website was setup to help teachers & administrators communicate with parents. The site can be expanded to have teachers create and maintain homework/classroom calendar up-to-date along with class assignments and work samples. In addition, more than one administrator can create and maintain general site information to help keep information current.
In order to add and maintain information, you must use a web browser that adheres to internet standards: Firefox, Opera, or Netscape. If you are using Internet Explorer or Safari web browser, you will need to disable "Use Rich Text" and use HTML instead.
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NYC-based open-curriculum non-profit seeks advisors
Based in New York City, Open Educator, Inc. develops and supports open-source knowledge-sharing communities that make it possible for every motivated K-12 teacher to be highly effective.
Open Planner is Open Educator's free, easy-to-use, on-line planning community.
Registered members can
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Drupal Training for Educators
Hello, all,
On January 31 and February 1, I'll be running a two day training on using Drupal in the classroom. The training will be held in Philadelphia, at Science Leadership Academy.
So, if you're around Philadelphia and want to dig into using Drupal, come on down! These sessions are geared toward end users, as opposed to developers or site admins. The emphasis will be on training educators how to use Drupal in an online class or a blended learning environment.
Click here for an overview of the session.
Read moreDrupal 5 for teacher/school website
What: Setup teacher subsites/groups complete with calendar, stories, and classroom rules/information
Needed:
Drupal 5
CCK and all its glorious fields
FCK or tinymce
Organic Groups
Calendar View
Views & Views UI
Views Bonus Pack
IMCE (optional)
Create simplified content types for teachers:
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- Name: Teacher Calendar
- Type: teacher_calendar
- Description: Create homework or event calendar items.
- Title field label: Title
- Body field label: Body
- Default options:Published (checked)
stickam: Flash Video Chat with an API
Hey everyone...
Just wanted to give you guys a heads up in case you didn't know about it... but I've just been blown away by a social networking widget this weekend called "Stickam" .... Basically, anyone with a webcam can now embed streaming live video into a website...
http://www.stickam.com
http://labs.stickam.com
This site is currently dominated by the myspace / teenage crowd, but the potential applications are fairly mindboggling.
They've got free radio broadcasting in the works... I'm sure it doesn't scale like icecast, but still... for a small site... it could be fantastic.
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drupaled.org not representative
In its current state the drupaled.org site is not very representative. First of all the welcome page is an 'access denied' error. The about and glossary pages give 'a page not found' error. The link to the SVN repository (https://svn.bryght.com/drupaled) is also 'not found'. New user accounts are not accepted either.
Is there a reason the site is nu up-to-date or maintained? I am willing to help to put it all back together if this is due to lack of time or people for instance.
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