This event is going to be an all day, free training event on January 16th, 2014 in one of UMN's excellent active learning classrooms. We're going to introduce the core building blocks in Drupal, provide information about local Drupal service providers, and introduce the local Twin Cities DUG and other ways to get involved with Drupal.
Learn how to build your first Drupal website from the ground up through interactive, lecture-based instruction and practical real-world examples. A full day training consisting of progressive beginner topics in the morning (content creation, content types, fields & views) followed by mentored advanced topics and feature building in the afternoon.
This event is geared towards those who are unfamiliar with Drupal and would like to learn how to build their first website from the ground up; however all are welcome to attend and learn best practices or refamiliarize themselves.
Agenda:
- Introductions and getting to know the people who are attending.
Discuss what Drupal is and what it can be used for by showing case studies, real world examples, and polling the audience.
- Lectures and mentored exercises to go through the steps of creating your first website in Drupal.
- Introduce the audience to some leaders in the community and discuss the various opportunities to get connected with the local and online Drupal community at large.
Sign up for free at http://enjoy-drupal.eventbrite.com
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Sold out, but needing volunteers and sponsors!
This event is currently sold out at 81 students, but I hope to increase that number soon pending the addition of volunteers and sponsors.
We need at least 3 more volunteers who can walk around and help out when people get stuck (or encounter those unusual errors that always seem to pop up when you put 100 people in a room). It's low pressure, plus you'll have some fun and learn something as you do. Sign up as a Volunteer Mentor at http://enjoy-drupal.eventbrite.com.
Does your company or organization offer Drupal services in the Twin Cities? Sign up for free to be added to our list of service providers: http://enjoycreativity.com/drupal-service-providers-twin-cities. Each student will receive a copy of this list with their printed workbooks.
Can't make it, but still want to show your support? Consider donating to help keep this event free for everyone: http://bit.ly/19MJZU2.
We could really use at least one more sponsor. Sponsors at the $250 level will receive emphasis in the presentation and their logo in the printed list of service providers. Interested? Let us know by filling out the webform: http://enjoycreativity.com/drupal-service-providers-twin-cities.
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David Needham
Team Lead of Training at Datadog
Thank you!
Thank you everyone who took part in the training yesterday! I've never had a training go so smoothly, and it was all thanks to our sponsors, UMN, volunteers, and in the end our incredible students.
Thanks to Advantage Labs, Gorton Studios, TEN7 and Electric Citizen, who sponsored the workshop and made it possible to provide a day of Drupal training for 79 students free of charge.
Thanks to UMN we had amazing space to teach, work, and collaborate in. Those active learning classrooms provided exactly the infrastructure we needed; with the arrangement and technology in the room, it easily made talking to 79 students feel more like 20.
Thanks to our 7 volunteers who showed up, each student was able to get assistance quickly without delaying the whole class. I had several people compliment the volunteers on their knowledge and professionalism, and I must agree wholeheartedly. We simply would not have been able to do that without you!
In the end, our students made the class what it was. I asked the students to complete an exercise before class and I didn't find a single person who failed to follow through. They were extremely understanding as I spun around in circles all day (the podium was in the middle of the room) and shared very kind words after class. Students like we had yesterday are the reason I love teaching these classes.
Thank you everyone!
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David Needham
Team Lead of Training at Datadog