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.
academic workingpaper on Drupal business ecosystem
I'm pleased to announce you my latest working paper "The genesis and pursuit of breakthrough innovation with the Drupal ecosystem as a living-lab for R&D management". It is based on my R&D conference paper and contains the Drupalcon interview from Copenhagen. You can see the abstract and get the full paper here.
I've posted it to Curriculum and Training as it relates to my earlier discussion on training versus educating, it contains some data and an example of my course.
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Boston Drupal Dojo - Nov 30, 2010
Boston Drupal Dojo has a new home to meet twice a month! Our next meetup is Dec 28th
As we know, despite the overall job situation nowadays, for a Drupal developer/designer, things look pretty good. There are way more Drupal jobs and contracts than the local talent can fill. Way more.
While there are a tremendous amount of resources for those wanting to learn Drupal, it's important to connect and share experiences with other drupalfolk.
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Horizontally Scaling Drupal Workshop - Sydney - 17 Nov 2010
Made by Morgan is partnering with Dave Hall Consulting to offer a full day workshop on Horizontally Scaling Drupal. The workshop will cover:
- Aegir
- Drush
- Drush Make
- Installation Profiles
- Features
- Strong Arm
Places are limited to ensure everyone gets the attention they need. Tickets are $249+GST.
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Training: Drupal Modules Jan 12-14
Drupal Module Development
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
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Read moreTraining: Drupal Themes Jan 17-18
Drupal Theme Development
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Class Description:
This class starts by discussing the anatomy of a Drupal theme, and explaining the PHPtemplate system Drupal uses to render HTML. We'll guide you through creating a custom theme from scratch by overriding the template files provided by Drupal core, adding new style sheets, and defining your own theme and preprocess functions with a little PHP code.
Training: Panels, Jan 7th
Drupal Panels for site builders
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
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Read moreTraining: Views & CCK, Jan 5-6
Drupal for site builders
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
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Read moreTraining: Drupal in a Day, Jan 4th
Drupal in a day
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
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Are you the webmaster of a new Drupal site?
Drupal's popularity is growing. More and more people are being handed Drupal sites without any understanding of how the site was created or how to maintain it. Do you know someone like that? Are you in that boat?
If you learn how Drupal works, how to perform basic "build" tasks, managing an existing site becomes a lot less challenging. Please consider signing up for:
Drupal Hands-On Intro for Builders: 11/8-11/9 - http://planningdrupalsites.com/products/drupal-hands-intro-builders-118-119
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Read moreOverview of Drupal Content Layout Modules
When you build pages in Drupal, you typically plan your layout and assemble your pages within the structure defined by your theme. This concept is discussed in the Planner's Guide chapter Create a Design Plan.
In this short tutorial (http://planningdrupalsites.com/training/overview-drupal-content-layout-m...), we will expand on these concepts and explore how you, as a builder, can change your structures and layouts without editing your theme.
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New workshop: Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 5
Hi guys
Just a heads-up about the next workshop that I'm running. The topic is "Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 5" and will cover the following topics (at least, this is what we will try to cover in the allotted time).
* What is Object-Oriented Programming?
* Core Principles of Object-Oriented Programming (Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance and Polymorphism)
* Creating Classes and Objects
* Properties and Methods
* Visibility Modifiers
* Constructors and Destructors
* Getters and Setters
* Static Properties and Methods
Drupal cxo on training versus educating
During Drupal cxo in Brussels we had several interesting session on training. In a personal reflection about the discussions I would like to give my understanding how we could get more young people (students) into Drupal via education.
I'm looking forward to your opinion about this reflection.
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Drupaltherapy Training: Boston, Dec 6, 2010
Announcing the next workshop in our popular Drupaltherapy training program, again in downtown Boston on December 6, 2010, from 9AM-5PM. This workshop will cover the core concepts of the Drupal project, and will teach from Drupal 7 or whatever beta or release candidate is available for Drupal 7 at that time. We saw the first Drupal 7 beta release just a few hours ago, and that's going to be very exciting for everyone.
Details about registration, curriculum and awesomeness can be found right here.
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Hi folks
Just a reminder, and apologies for the late notice. This Saturday I'm running a workshop on Drupal 6 Module Development - here are the details:
http://webdevwarehouse.com/course/drupal-6-module-development-workshop
If you know PHP and interested in Drupal module development, this workshop will teach you everything you need to know to create most of the modules you'll ever be asked to build. There's plenty of Drupal development work around, so this knowledge this means money in your pocket!
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Learning Drupal Chat -- Mentoring & Drupal Project Based Learning
Join us for a discussion about mentoring in the Dojo and Kata.
There are a large number of issues to explore including Kata roles and incentives for Mentors and Apprentices.
Chat will be in #drupal-dojo IRC, starting 12 noon ET, 9am PT and 5pm GMT.
Points of reference include:
Call for Drupal Mentors! - http://drupalkata.com/program/node/1201
Define participant roles, responsibilities, and incentives - http://drupalkata.com/program/node/103
Drupal Dojo Calls for Mentors!
The Drupal Dojo and Drupal Kata are in search of Mentors!
Current Mentoring Opportunities:
Read moreScheduling Support Hours in #DrupalDojo IRC
Until such time as we have a better solution for managing support hours in the #drupal-dojo IRC, we thought we would simply start a wiki page where Volunteers could post 'Office Hours' for specific types of Drupal support.
If you are willing to try your hand a mentoring or supporting others having difficulties in particular areas please sign up here. We'll do our best to create events and to promote that you are available during those hours in the Drupal-Dojo IRC.
Ideally we would eventually work toward having a regular support schedule, but we will work up to that.
Read moreTraining: Drupal Module Development Oct 27-29
Drupal Module Development
MicroTek, New York City
90 Broad St, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Free Ticket:
Congratulations to Charles Novick, winner of our FREE TICKET give-away!
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Read moreTraining: Drupal Theming Oct 25-26
Drupal Theming
MicroTek, New York City
90 Broad St, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Free Ticket:
Congratulations to Lynnette Lorenzo, our free ticket winner for this class!
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Read moreManaging blended learning and curriculum libraries across multiple languages
Is anyone already doing this in Drupal?
What services, tool, modules, other resources are you using?
Might you be interested in a Drupal Learning Project?
I had an amazing trip to Cambodia in January of 2010 working with Teachers Across Borders (http://teachersacrossborders.org.au) and considering solutions for professional development for in-service teachers.
We hope to eventually find a way to build a Drupal installation profile to support blended learning and cataloging of learning materials, particularly focusing on lesson plans and classroom materials across multiple languages.
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