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.
Drupal training services list on Drupal.org - please provide your Drupal training landing page
Hello, we are reworking the Drupal /support page. We want to include a link to Drupal training services. We've researched an initial list of training providers. http://drupal.org/node/313592 We would like to add companies that have Drupal training landing pages so that visitors can find good services.
If you want to be added to the list of Drupal training providers please provide a link to your training landing page, in the issue.
Kieran
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Book Review: Learning Drupal 6 Module Development (published by Packt Publishing)
My book review pasted from Amazon.com. I reviewed the book for the publisher but that never guarantees a good review, so read on.
I must say I was asked to review this book, and I was very excited to do so. I thought it'd be good to comment on areas for people who aren't familiar with Drupal on a daily basis yet, and to give you some background, I was very excited to read this book. I needed a book that had the words "Drupal 6" and "module development" in it and luckily this book was titled exactly that and delivered. So, to newbies and non-newbies I offer the following review.
If you're impatient and don't want to read this review all the way, then just know this book must be read by each programmer who will be tinkering with Drupal, so yes, I recommend it. This book is not for people learning how to use modules, this is for people who plan to code and build their own modules. This book is not large, has great learning material, and brings tons of info down from Drupal's web site documentation into stress-free chapters. One entire chapter (Ch. 2) covers how to do an entire module from scratch and following chapters show how expand that module and build, and build, and really get to know important APIs that come with Drupal core.
In all honestly, I'm jealous that most new users get to read something as collected as this to learn from. If you read this book you'll basically catch up with content I took months, if not over a year to explore and read online. I had also held off heavy Drupal 6 development for myself until a book like this came out, so we're in the same boat.
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Summary of the Drupal Training and Certification Drupalcon Szeged 2008 session
Later is better than never, right? So here is the summary of the Drupal training and certification at the Szeged 2008 Drupalcon (you can also watch the video of the full session).
The panel gathered together (from right to left):
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Washington DC Drupaltherapy: Oct 24, 2008
This class is FULL! There is so much demand for this class that we are trying to put together a second training day on Oct 25 to meet the need. If you want to put yourself on the interested list, follow the link below and tell us.
Coming back to our nation's capital on October 24, 2008, this Drupaltherapy training session will be located at the Echoditto's downtown digs.
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Training and certifications session@ szeged2008.drupalcon
At drupalcon Szeged their was an interesting suggestion to define RDF for Drupal curriculums. Check the presentation.
Their was the suggestion to write down bullets of what need to be in the curriculum. To me however, their it is not yet enough clarity to start creating bullets. I'm looking forward to a discussion. Whatever your point, let this post be an invitation for a discussion.
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Mentors/coaches for proposals
One observation I've had from lurking in the Knight Drupal Initiative meetings is something that's haunted me before. If only I was good at writing a solid grant proposal and subsequent review and revisions, some of my pie-in the sky ideas might actually turn into something valuable for the community (and provide a self-sustainable way for me to contribute).
Read moreScalability Presentation Notes - SFDUG July 2008
I'm posting this as a wiki for others to add notes or links - based on Neil's presentation we attended. I would suggest conversation / disagreement / further discussion about the recommendations herein happen elsewhere - i.e. in the comments, etc. :-)
My notes are now up -Neil
Notes on Scalability
Neil Drumm
SF Drupal User's Group
July 14, 2008
OVERVIEW
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Basic End-User Administrator Training Manual for Drupal 5
This is the Basic End-User Training Manual I've been meaning to contribute for a while. Thanks to my former bosses at Raised Eyebrow Web Studio for giving me the go ahead to rework it and contribute it back to the community!
Read moreDIY Nonprofit Website Training
Do you need a nonprofit site? Then our Minneapolis-based nonprofit Drupal training is for you. Advantage Labs, a full-time Drupal development and hosting firm since 2005, is looking to use our experience to smooth the way for 6-8 small/mid-sized nonprofits who need a website.
By the end of the 5 week training, each nonprofit will have their own basic website, nonprofit Drupal training PLUS 6 months of Advantage Lab's Drupal Alliance program - a program dedicated to support you through the first 6 months. Check out the full details at: Nonprofit Drupal Training: Build Your Own Basic Nonprofit Website.
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ChinaOpen: Part 2 - Drupal Open-Training
Having launched ChinaOpen this saturday, we will be shifting from Adobe's Flex/AIR track into Drupal, from Tuesday July 15, 2008 on.
This is an "introduction to Drupal" type of training, detail as follows:
7月12日， ChinaOpen 第一站：adobe flex，详细请见 http://drupalchina.org/node/4782
从7月15日起, ChinaOpen 第二站： Drupal公开课程 ，
具体课程安排如下：
7月15 第一帧 Drupal 基础
将以drupal5.x版本讲述，暂定2008年7月15日上午9：30开始
主题：
- Drupal简介及基础概念
- 安装drupal（drupal5.8）
Filefield + jQuery Media Screencast
Following on the heels of a great thread, I put together a screencast using the CCK Filefield module as a container for video media files and then applying the jQuery Media module to play back those media files in the appropriate player/method. I've been looking for a replacement for the video.module for some time and I wanted to put this recipe under a microscope. Check it out the screenie, feel free to drop me a line if you loved or hated it.
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As a preparation for Drupal training and certification session in Szeged Drupalcon, I proposed few members a quick brainstorming, to try and feel each one's expectations, visions and ideas.
Please edit the node, and add your thoughts inside it. The node should not make sense when it is read. It should be a gathering of un-edited ideas, that will be used as a base for the discussion.
Read moreDrupal training and certification session in Drupalcon Szeged 2008
Join us (and vote for us ;-) ) at the Drupal training and certification session in Szeged Drupalcon!
The session will try to cover as many aspects of the issue as possible, so we can have a clear view and action items, regarding our common effort, towards a collaborative database of Drupal training curriculums and courseware.
Boston Drupaltherapy Session: July 25, 2008
I am happy to announce the next Drupal therapy session, this time in our home town of Boston. This training will take place on July 25, 2008, in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, right off the MBTA Red Line. You can learn all about it and register for the workshop here.
Tips, Tricks, Best Practices, Success Stories, Horror Stories
This page's target is to store all of the info that can't really be described in a sylibus but is crucial for every training shop to know.
What works and what doesn't, The types of projects or practicing material used, tips for addressing complex issues and how to build it up in the correct order...
I'll start this as an alphabetical list and as this broadns we can link out to seperate pages.
Course Time Frame:
We (in linnovate) started with 12 hour courses over two days 8hrs + 4hrs, Once we understood it was not enough we extended it to 16hrs over two days.
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Some ideas for the group
This group is wonderful and now that I've started to do some training myself I'd like to propose a few quick changes to the group pages.
1) The WIKI pages for course syllabuses are awesome, Can we branch these out to a new Page via the new panels functionality on G.D.O?
2) My classes as of late have focused on creating a site and a module over a period of time. Either in the section above or in a new section I'd like to upload a few "training" modules that are essentially the answers to a set of exercises that should be performed within a class.
thoughts, opinions?
Read moreImagecache + Imagefield Screencast
The blog post on Drupaltherapy
Hosted on Blip
This screencast demonstrates the recipe for Imagecache and Imagefield (for CCK) to build a system for posting images on your Drupal website. This is a robust and flexible system for handling images and has a bright future with more helper modules born every day.
This micro-lesson depends on prior understanding of the CCK module and the Views module. This example uses Drupal 5 since the Image* modules for Drupal 6 are not available (yet).
Read moreDrupal theme development
Storing some relevant resources as we outline the sylibous for this.
A nice start from raincity
Drupal Fundamentals Class - Santa Barbara California
This two day course is designed for new and intermediate users of Drupal. Overview and best practices for installation and configuration of Drupal core, contributed modules, and themes. Includes user permissions and roles, site configuration, site information and maintenance, input formats, and post settings. Content types, taxonomy, panels, media, and views will be discussed in detail.
Two Break Out Sessions: "Practice Installations and Problem Solving" and "Design and Implement a Theme"
Drupal modules development
This training is intended for developers who have already a solid knowledge of Drupal, from a user's perspective. Prior knowledge of HTML, javascript or CSS are a plus.
The goal of this training
Learn how to expand Drupal to your needs, and how to use the community power for that purpose.
Duration
At least 2 days
Logic
In order to expand Drupal, one has to know how it already works, and what are his options, when choosing how to expand.
The class begins with an introduction to the structure of Drupal and how it is very similar to an operating system. Drupal system of loadable/pluggable modules allows it be to infinitely extensible. Drupal's core set of module is explored first and compared against contributed modules especially highlighting the importance of "core".
Before any development begins there is an overview of the folder and file structure of a module so that all the key pieces of modules are known as well as having a visualization of what is going to be created.
The Tools and Rules is located in the beginning of the syllabus but it can be moved to a later section in the course. It is important to cover this in class.
After the structure of Drupal has been explained, an outline of a Drupal module, and, possibly, coding standards/secure-code the class dives straight into development. Development begins slowly by exploring the hook system, steps up to creating custom DB tables, and finally moves into the Forms API (FAPI).
The syllabus
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