Thursday, January 16th
Room 412
Science Teaching and Student Services Building
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
222 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Drupal is coming to the University of Minnesota! The University Drupal community is partnering with Enjoy Creative to bring their Site Building Basics to the Twin Cities campus on January 16th.
Learn how to build your first Drupal website from the ground up through interactive, lecture-based instruction and practical real-world examples. This 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.
Find out more and sign up at http://enjoycreativity.com/events
Agenda:
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Introductions and getting to know the people who are attending.
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Discuss what Drupal is and what it can be used for by showing case studies, real world examples, and polling the audience.
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Lectures and mentored exercises to go through the steps of creating your first website in Drupal.
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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.
Context:
This general introduction to Drupal is open to the public and to University staff who are curious about Drupal and want to get a head start learning about it before the University offering comes fully online. Training specifically for the University's Drupal service is still being developed and will be available when the service goes live in early 2014.
University of Minnesota staff who are interested in more University-specific training and materials can find information at http://www.oit.umn.edu/training/courses/drupal/