This is a group to organize and discuss the development of Drupal learning experience for helping people master Drupal.
See an inventory of all education related groups: http://groups.drupal.org/node/172069
Please post here:
- Discussion about Drupal training programs and training opportunities
- Links or information about courseware & learning materials for training (tag as "materials")
- Post Training events - News about upcoming and past training events or if you offer Drupal training services (tag as "training" or "training, events" or "training, services")
- Discussions related to an open curriculum (tag as "open curriculum")
- Review the current Open Curriculum proposal:
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Join the discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
If you're interested in setting up local learning sessions - please visit the Drupal Dojo too.
Draw your favourite skill set
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Follow discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
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IRC meeting: Skill sets and open curriculum
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Join the upcoming IRC meeting! Follow discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
The skill set map is coming together pretty nicely, and it is time to widen our perspective. Where do we want to go now?
At this meeting we will discuss the following:
- How do we need to improve the existing skill set map?
- We need more descriptions of skill sets!
- The mobile/web services skill set needs more love.
- Fewer top-level skill sets are probably useful. - How can we make the skill sets practiaclly useful?
- A tagging system + web-wide search system would be awesome. - Any other questions/tasks we think should have priority?
- Describing roles?
Feel free to add any more topics or thoughts as comments here!
Time: Monday November 7th, 2 PM London time (see this page for time conversion) (voting was done at this Doodle voting)
Place: The IRC room #drupal-skillmap
Description of skill set "Advanced site building"
This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.
Advanced site building is a very large skill set and will probably need several pages to describe it properly. Here is some kind of start. //Itangalo
Someone with advanced site building skills is able to
- Use advanced configuration in Views (see separate list)
Description of skill set "Basic site building"
This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.
- Server/code related
- Installing Drupal
- Downloading and installing modules
- Disabling, uninstalling and removing modules
- Downloading and installing themes
- Fields and entities
- Adding/editing fields on content types
- Knowing fieldable entities
- Adding/editing fields on non-content entities
- Using reference fields
- Research/Learning
Description of skill set "Content creation and management"
This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.
(Ok, I don't know how to approach describing a skill set in detail, so I just jot something down here. //Itangalo)
Someone with content creation and management skills is able to:
- Create and update content (nodes)
- Use relevant interfaces to upload images and files, use text editors, and so on
New type of drupal one-day camp: DrupalConTribute
Our mission is to lower the barrier to and increase contributions to Drupal.org Core and Contrib modules, themes and documentation by taking participants through the process step-by-step, in the presence of (and with direct guidance from) experienced contributors.
Read moreSome thoughts about where to go with skill sets and open curriculum
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Join the upcoming IRC meeting! Follow discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
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Drupal Training in Pune (India)
CS RAS Technology is the leading provider of Drupal Training Classes.
We hold regular Drupal Beginner and Intermediate classes in Pune (India).
CS RAS Technology offer Drupal Training from our Pune offices - or are more than happy to deliver courses on-site at your premises.
We also provide Drupal Based Corporate Training.
For more details, please send us email at mktg@csras.in
Read moreUser persona for advanced content creator
Last updated by jasonsavino on Sun, 2012-04-08 22:56
As the Curriculum and training group has identified while outlining the various skill sets involved in site creation & use, there's an under-represented skillset in the site creation process: that of the "Advanced content creator". This person has unique requirements, and to describe the requirements, it's first helpful to describe the person / persona. I hope this will be useful not only to the Curriculum & training group, but to other Drupal initiatives related to the Drupal needs of this type of user that is (already, if not increasingly) frequently present at sites deploying Drupal. (Thus the cross-posting to multiple groups.)
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Using WebEnabled.com for Classroom Training
Seattle Drupal User Group (SeaDUG) has organized beginner workshops for the past 3 years to prepare attendees for the annual PNW Drupal Summits, which don't offer beginner sessions. (British Columbia and Oregon Drupal groups provide their own local beginner workshops.)
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Authoring Strategy
Recently worked on a project where the everyone kept saying, "the client will write the content" or "we'll get to content when the site is done". I suspected this was a recipe for disaster and it was. If you depend on the client to write content to essentially "finish" the site it will never be completed.
Read moreDrupal skill sets: Give your feedback!
Last updated by Itangalo on Tue, 2011-10-18 11:51
Open Curriculum: Definitions – Scenarios – Roadmap – Skill sets – Open certification – References - Roles
Join the discussions here on g.d.o, on IRC at #drupal-skillmap, or on Twitter with the tag #drupalskillmap!
Below is a chart of Drupal "skill sets", and a table describing them. If you could take a moment to answer one or more of these questions, a lot of people would be grateful.
Questions
Copy and paste these questions into a fresh comment, and fill in your comments/answers!
- Do you think your Drupal related skills/competence can be described by the skill sets?
- Are you hiring Drupal talent? Do these skill sets capture what you're looking for?
- Are you developing your Drupal skills? Do you think these skill sets would help you find skills to focus on?
- Do you feel that any skill or competence is missing?
- Are the titles or descriptions of any particular skill sets below confusing?
- Do you think trying to describe Drupal skills and competence like this would be useful for yourself or Drupal people you know?
We're closed!
Thanks everyone for great feedback! It is being incorporated in the continued work – see the "roadmap" and "skill sets" links in the header for more information. Please post any further feedback there!
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Introducing Myself and my somewhat naive ideas about education.
Hello,
First and for all, I am completely new to Drupal, so forgive me if this post is not where it should be.
Let me introduce myself, I'm Jo, a engineering student beginning my final year at the university college.
Let me tell you how I've got here:
This year I have to write my thesis. And unlike the other students I wanted to try on something unusual. Not the imposed corporate thesis proposals but something that could maybe, in some minute way, benefit society more. Read the title, I like to be naive!
IRC discussion about "subject areas"
The work on open curriculum is moving forward, and we're hoping to get some wider attention to verify (and improve) the things we have so far.
Time for the meeting was Wednesday, September 28th, 15:00 Swedish time == 2 PM London time == 8 AM US/Central time. (Sorry for the early US time. And for writing the times in an unclear way.) Place was IRC, on channel #drupal-skillmap.
Notes from the meeting
- "Subject areas" are now renamed "skill sets", mostly due to Itangalo's firm hand on this matter.
Free training at Acquia offices Sep 26 - Sep 30th
Acquia is pleased to announce three weeks of FREE Drupal training at our Burlington, MA headquarters. These weeks are September 26, November 14, and December 12 - with specific dates and times for courses below. The links for each course include basic information about what will be covered, prerequisites, and registration links.
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Drupal Fundamentals training in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011
This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from the experts at Exaltation of Larks how to create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
Drupal Scalability and Performance training in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Read moreDeveloping RESTful Web Services and APIs training in Los Angeles on November 3, 4 & 5, 2011
Developing RESTful Web Services and APIs is a 2-day training on November 3 & 4, 2011, with an optional third day of additional hands-on support for those developers seeking accelerated understanding of exploiting Services 3.0 to its fullest.
During this training, the experts at Exaltation of Larks cover the fundamentals of using the Drupal Services module to create, test and support use of your own web API. This training covers Services 3.0 for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
This is the training you need if you're using Drupal to create a backend for iPad, iPhone or Android applications. Developing your own web API is essential to entering the SaaS (Software as a Service) business model and this training gets you there.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
Drupal Architecture (Custom Content, Fields and Lists) training in Los Angeles on November 1 & 2, 2011
Drupal Architecture (Custom Content, Fields and Lists) is a two-day workshop that explores modules and configurations you can combine to build more customized systems using Drupal. You’ll create many examples of more advanced configurations and content displays using the popular Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views modules.
We’ll guide you through the complex User Interfaces that Drupal provides for controlling and customizing the many different ways to present lists and tables of your site’s content.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
What you will learn
- Creating custom content types
- Building RSS feeds
- Allowing viewers to filter results
- Building interactive tables
- Displaying content in a grid
- Adding a date field to your content, and sorting by date
- Creating iCAL feeds and other date displays
- Using views arguments to dynamically filter your results based on the URL
- How other modules integrate with Views
Site you will build: http://dsb.training.chapterthree.com
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Screenshot sprint!
Would you like to improve Drupal.org? Let's do a screenshot sprint!
This is a quick and easy way you can make a direct improvement to Drupal.org, and help out the busy project maintainers, get some good karma, all without a single line of code. The sprint ends on Sept 30th, let's see what kind of impact we can make.
Why a screenshot sprint?
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