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:
- as a social learning space where people can blog, store files, and share info with other educators;
- as a place where people can start to document best practices/lessons learned;
- a place where pedagogical approaches to using technology (as opposed to just technology) can be shared.
Basically, DrupalEd could become the place where educators/administrators using Drupal go to discuss school issues, as opposed to just discussing the technical issues of using Drupal. As I see it, both the DrupalEd group here on g.d.o and drupal.org itself are good resources for the more technical issues, but there really isn't a place for educators to talk about educating/school use.
As the rebuild gets underway, there will be a strong need for community involvement -- we'll be building the site out (and I'll be posting a link to a social learning site we can use as a test site/point of reference in building DrupalEd.org) -- I'd love to see some documentation describing how DrupalEd was built -- Depending on what people here think, we could develop a distinctive theme, with some sharp looking user profile pages -- and, ideally, the config for DrupalEd could become the template for the eventual DrupalEd install profile. If you would like to get involved, post here so we can keep this conversation public.
What are the needs of this site? What goals should DrupalEd.org strive to meet?
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Congrats!
I have no real input yet - especially since words like pedagocical scare me. But being involved in schools (and Drupal-based student assessment work - nudge nudge) definitely means I'll be following this.
G
The Smoking Goat aka Greg Beuthin
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Wonderful
Hi Bill,
I'm glad you found the time and effort to bring drupaled.org back to life. I think it would be best to start small and add features as the people using drupaled.org request them. I would not start out giving each user a blog, but concentrate on a well-build forum. Here people can share experiences, issues, drupal set-ups, module configurations et al. I would use this forum, as opposed to individual blogs, to concentrate the community and bring people together instead of spreading input over the different blogs.
I would certainly add a best practice corner, think Drupal site recipes, as well as some showcases and how these sites were built, starting with drupaled.org itself. Perhaps some of these examples could be released as semi-destributions?
Wim
DrupalEd.org offline
Hi Bill,
www.DrupalEd.org is offline at the moment. I would suggest at least a redirect to http://www.funnymonkey.com/drupaled-latest so the site doesn't look deserted.
Regards
Frank
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