Drupal Education

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2110

Here's the write up for it. Please help vote us in so that education can be represented in the presentations at Drupalcon DC! If you're going make sure to do a write up and submit it too as the deadline is coming up soon! Education makes up a good part of the community and the more visibility the better it is for everyone!!

Abstract:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/facdev/drupal_tips

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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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?

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.