Drupal Education

Read the meeting notes from ultimike below. We are going to try to grow this group!!! Please help us -- even if you can't make a meeting help us by doing some PR for the group.... and just to show our smiling faces ... I caught most of the group in this picture.

We are looking for an experienced PHP/MySQL Developer with a solid understanding of Drupal to build a database-driven web application providing an online video assessment tool with multiple user roles.

BPO Canada is looking for faculties for providing open source training to Fresh IT graduates. You'll be working under our new training division OpenKick Technologies.

Please read more about the courses we plan to offer :
http://bpocanada.com/news/2007-dec-15/bpo-canada-announces-open-source-t...

Please send resume to drupaltech@gmail.com with subject line - "Open Source Faculty" or call 91-9979853010 to fix up an interview.

BPO Canada is looking for faculties for providing open source training to Fresh IT graduates. You'll be working under our new training division OpenKick Technologies.

Please read more about the courses we plan to offer :
http://bpocanada.com/news/2007-dec-15/bpo-canada-announces-open-source-t...

Please send resume to drupaltech@gmail.com with subject line - "Open Source Faculty" or call 91-9979853010 to fix up an interview.

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.

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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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:

1. The public facing school web site
2. Classes; ie, the classes of an entire school in a single install
3. 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.

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?

I'm starting up a Website Construction Class in New York City that will encompass drupal as the CMS that is taught. The goal of the class isn't to teach all things inter-web, rather to teach one way that works for small business & where to find more information about other ways. More details at http://www.treslerdesigns.com/class

A few questions to the list/group here:

1) Do you feel the prices are fair for what is being offered? This is the first time doing this, and I know value is relative, I'm just looking for opinions on this. I'm basing the class price off my normal site development hourly (each student will take away a functional, live website from the class), and others in the drupal/website education field.

Hi,
I'm writing to guage interest in a New York City Drupal Beginners2Admins Class. Also, if interest exists, what people would like for it to cover. Basically, I have a small core of clients that want to pay me to take them from basic HTML to deploying and managing an online store with Drupal.
I've been tossing around class structure in my head, and I'm thinking about one class a week for three hours - probably on the weekends. Everyone in the class will be developing a site real-time as the class progresses. The final class will (hopefully) be launch for everyone participating, and a new group of drupal admins.