Drupal in Education

Hello,

Sorry if this seems like a ridiculous question but the group descrtiption never actually explaines what DrupalEd Distribution is. I'm working on an education site and am not sure where to create an Education group because i don't one that exists. Thanks,

Marc

Hello, all,

DrupalEd.org is in the process of getting rebuilt as a resource for educators using Drupal -- as I see it, the site can work in a couple ways:

1. as a social learning space where people can blog, store files, and share info with other educators;
2. as a place where people can start to document best practices/lessons learned;
3. a place where pedagogical approaches to using technology (as opposed to just technology) can be shared.

In its current state the drupaled.org site is not very representative. First of all the welcome page is an 'access denied' error. The about and glossary pages give 'a page not found' error. The link to the SVN repository (https://svn.bryght.com/drupaled) is also 'not found'. New user accounts are not accepted either.

Is there a reason the site is nu up-to-date or maintained? I am willing to help to put it all back together if this is due to lack of time or people for instance.

What: Setup teacher subsites/groups complete with calendar, stories, and classroom rules/information

Needed:

Drupal 5
CCK and all its glorious fields
FCK or tinymce
Organic Groups
Calendar View
Views & Views UI
Views Bonus Pack
IMCE (optional)

Create simplified content types for teachers:

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• Name: Teacher Calendar
• Type: teacher_calendar
• Description: Create homework or event calendar items.
• Title field label: Title
• Body field label: Body
• Default options:Published (checked)

Based in New York City, Open Educator, Inc. develops and supports open-source knowledge-sharing communities that make it possible for every motivated K-12 teacher to be highly effective.

Open Planner is Open Educator's free, easy-to-use, on-line planning community.
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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.