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.
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Read moreLearning Drupal working group: competency brainstorm
This week's meeting will be held on-screen and in #drupal-dojo IRC
Please login to Go to meeting: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/927094632
Eric will be managing the session. Gus set up the room, thanks!
1) We're continuing the brainstorm of the competency list.
2) Look again at survey, maybe turn into analysis tasks, people can pick a part to analyse.
3) How are we going to communicate these outcomes to the community?
Drupal Site Builder training in DC in June
At Acquia we've been working with our partners, Chapter 3 LLC and Carahsoft to provide a public training event in Washington. Recently, Keiran Lal wrote about President Obama's Open Government Directive, and Drupal training is much in demand. Learners will get an experience with best practices in Drupal, with Jacob Reddin and Jen Lampton of Chapter Three. You can read more details about the events here: http://acquia.com/blog/drupal-training-comes-dc The two events over three days could be combined or taken stand-alone.
- Drupal in a Day, Monday, June 28, 2010 book now Cost: $410* per person includes lunch and materials *Note: Government discount available
- Drupal for Site Builders, Tuesday, June 29, 2010 and Wednesday, June 30, 2010 book now Cost: $820* per person for two days includes lunch and materials *Note: Government discount available
If you have any questions about the training feel free to contact me.
Read moreLearning Drupal - group goals (week 4)
Background:
* Learning Drupal BoF at SanFrancisco DrupalCon
* Week 1: Drupal Training and Curriculum Chat
* Week 2: Drupal Learning Objectives Chat
* Week 3: http://groups.drupal.org/node/69358 - we set up the survey
This week let's hammer out the group goals. See the wiki page:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/69413
Survey: What do Drupalistas do?
We worked on this survey collaboratively to gain an understanding of what people really do in Drupal. We formed a hypothesis that 'roles' exist conceptually, but maybe not in the wild. Read some background to the working group.
Take the survey http://gs-survey.com/s.asp?s=12001
About it: This survey is a first step in understanding what Drupalistas do.
Who should take it? People who develop, design and maintain Drupal websites.
The survey takes approximately 8 minutes to complete.
Please help spread the word, thank you!
Read moreDrupal training for PHP developers
If you're an unemployed (or underemployed) PHP developer and would like to learn and work with Drupal, please drop me a line via my contact page.
Cheers,
Jim
Read moreUniversity business students learning Drupal
I run an intensive IT program for university business students (in accounting, marketing. management, etc.). The program has special IT courses, plus project work for companies.
I plan to move the program towards Drupal (currently pure MS tech). I'm looking for suggestions. There's a longer post at http://drupal.org/node/812754.
Kieran
Read moreDrupal Focus On Enterprise
MySQL and the UK Drupal community are pleased to invite you to a half day event in London focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in your business.
Read moreLearning Drupal working group
The conversation started in a BoF at San Francisco on "Learning Drupal". One of the most active discussions was around the idea of an open curriculum. We decided to meet online and continue the conversation and open it to the wider community.
Next Steps from Week Four
- Analysis of the survey results,
- development of the "starter taxonomy", and
- filling out of the learning areas indicated by that vocabulary
These are the beginnings of competencies and objectives in Drupal learning.
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Learning Drupal - roles discussion (week 3)
A working group is forming, we're looking at how we can mediate a discussion in the community on curriculum. The group is open to all who are interested in delivering learning services and opportunities; materials and training events.
Background:
* Learning Drupal BoF at SanFrancisco DrupalCon
* Week 1: Drupal Training and Curriculum Chat
* Week 2: Drupal Learning Objectives Chat
Roles in Drupal development
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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Some possible characteristics of a successful/useful open curriculum
I'm reposting this here from http://drupalkata.com/curriculum/node/466 at Gus Austin's request.
Inspired by the IRC discussion on 3 May, here are some notes on criteria by which we could judge the success of a curriculum design project. Sorry, it's all very sketchy and provisional but perhaps can serve as some sort of contribution to the discussion.
A useful/good curriculum will have the following properties (sort of a unit test for the curriculum):
Read moreDrupal Learning Objectives Chat
Last week's Training and Curriculum Chat ( read transcript ) on #drupal-dojo led us to a few actionable items:
- Our next meeting will be Monday, May 10th, 3PM Eastern time (US)
- Come up with an agenda for next week's meeting. Also, Ryan needs more experience moderating meetings on IRC.
- Interested parties should use a wiki page to collaborate on a list of possible Jobs or Roles. See below.
Examples of community mediated curriculum in open source software
Have an example of a community mediated open curriculum?
In the most recent #drupal-dojo chat we had last night (or yesterday afternoon) we laid out some plans to start stirring a discussion around a community-mediated curriculum. We're first talking about developing a common language and working on our goals for the group.
To this end, it's good to look at how other open source communities have traversed the same ground.
The WaSP Interact project is a great example. http://interact.webstandards.org/
Read moreThemer Workshops Starting in May
It's time for the next round of Design to Theme workshops. The topics covered in these workshops solve the hotspots of frustration for designers and novice themers:
- Design to Theme -- learn how to convert a "Photoshop" file to a Drupal theme. Photoshop not required. Sample screenshots will use the free software tool GiMP. Starts May 11.
- Advanced Layout Techniques -- if you've never want to write another line of PHP and you want to deploy advanced layouts for your themes this course is designed for you. Starts May 12.
Drupal Training and Curriculum Chat
Virtual Seattle DUG meetings--a virtual Seattle Dojo?
As one who would love to attend the DUG meeting each month, but inevitably has a conflict of one sort or another limiting my attendance, I'd be very interested in exploring the potential of a virtual meeting--similar to what other local drupal communities are doing see Drupal Dojos, Hack Nights, and Cafés in your community
Perhaps we could experiment with extending the live event to include virtual participation or perhaps we could pull together short virtual lunchtime or evening events. Has the Seattle DUG done anything like this in the past?
Read moreDrupal Dojos, Hack Nights, and Cafés in your community
This week over Drupalcon I had the chance to spend time with Lynn Bender who started the Austin Drupal Dojo after discussions with Josh Koenig (the Dojofather) and others in the Austin community. Here's, to paraphrase, a description of what they're doing...
Read moreDrupal Dojo sessions: Fserver demonstration
Going to demo Development Seed's Feature Server, existing features and potential new features. Come if you want to learn what can be done, why you should be doing it, how it can help you in the long run, and what the new features for tomorrow will probably be.
How to Attend?
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/822441680
Read moreDrupal 7 Fundamentals: Installing and test-driving Drupal7
Description
I will be walking through the install of Drupal7 Alpha3 and some basic configuration.
If you haven't even looked at Druapl7 yet, check this out!
- DV
- http://dougvann.com
How to Attend
Click the following link to register and attend:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/699864713