Vote for DrupalCon Copenhagen sessions for teaching & learning Drupal

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heather's picture

Of course we all expect to learn a lot at a DrupalCon, but these sessions are specifically about training for Drupal, or about learning Drupal. These might be of particular interest to those who are trainers or developing Drupal learning materials; or provide training services and documentation for clients.

If you're attending, and you're interested- please vote for these sessions. If you can't attend, but would like to see the outcomes from these sessions (videos etc), please promote and blog about the sessions you think would be useful, or login and leave feedback on the submissions. Hopefully it will help session organisers see the potential benefit for Drupal adoption in these sessions.

Thanks!

Building a Drupal community of practice by Barry Madore
Drupal thrives when it is supported by robust communities of both Drupal users and developers. To ignite these communities we need to provide opportunities for people to learn about Drupal and how it can help them. To sustain these communities we need to provide support and opportunities for growth.

Communicating Drupal visually by Heather James- that's me!
We'll review guidelines for designing visuals for learning. Then we'll create visual representations of fundamental concepts of Drupal. Session goal: The goal of this session is to create informative visuals to assist in Drupal adoption. Introduction: There is a presentation renaissance happening, and people are leaving the old tired bullet points behind. But there is a lack of useful visuals for Drupal. If you write documentation for your modules; if you present proposals to potential clients; if you deliver training, you find you need compelling visuals for your ideas.

Creating End-User Training Programs that Stick by Steve Kessler
In this session we will explore what goes into creating end-user documentation that will increase ROI and lower total cost of ownership.

Designing an Open-Source Internet Curriculum with Drupal Gardens: Sharing our Dominican Republic Pilot Program experience by Claudina Sarahe
une 2010 we took a bold leap as a new company and decided to spend part our summer developing an Open-Source Internet Curriculum. We partnered with COSOLA-MACILE, a non-profit organization focused on K-12 education in less advantaged communities... In this session, we'll talk about the entire process of planning, fundraising, developing and executing the Pilot Program; the challenges and successes we faced and our plans for future of the curriculum.

Learn from the Worst by Jody Lynn
Drupal's flexibility allows endless possibilities to mangle sites. The Drupal "Clean Up and Rescue" job has become all too common. This unforeseen "additional phase" occurs when a client has to hire a new team to fix what a less experienced team built. By fixing all the worst practices in site architecture and coding that destroy the performance, security, maintainability, stability, and functionality of botched Drupal sites, valuable best practices and "what not to dos" emerge.

Learning Drupal the fun way: Drupal games! by Kristof Van Tomme
“The Drupal way”: a set of behaviours that make you a good community player and that lets you maximize your sites built/kittens killed ratio is one of those things that a lot of people only learn to appreciate the hard way. In this session you’ll play a game that teaches you some of these values, cause some messages will only stick if you've experienced them.

Teaching Drupal by Diana Montalion Dupuis
You know how to use Drupal. You know how to write code, build a theme, and SEO a site. But do you know how to teach others to use Drupal? For every site we create there are clients who must use it, many don't know a node from a block. After this session, you will be able to introduce clients to Drupal without freaking them out.

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Barry Madore's picture

2 of these sessions made the cut -- congratulations Heather and Diana! I'm really looking forward to both of these sessions. But, I still think there's a paucity of training/learning/community development related sessions. The Drupal Learning group that has organized since Drupalcon San Francisco has been doing great work via this group, in IRC and on DrupalDojo. I'm hoping that this work -- qualifying and specifying a framework for Drupal training initiatives -- and the broader concept of training and learning via communities of practice will be explored at Drupalcon Copenhagen. We get together so infrequently it would be a missed opportunity to not delve deeper and open up the conversation.

What am I saying? Just shouting out to see who is interested in organizing some BoF sessions -- maybe a full BoF track -- to augment the official sessions that deal with teaching, learning, training and community.

I know I'll need to do better outreach than this comment, but I thought I'd start here. Who's with me?

Barry Madore
Advantage Labs

Barry Madore
Triplo
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

Heya Barry! Yeah, I do agree!

heather's picture

Heya Barry!

Yeah, I do agree! We should plan & promote a few BoFs ahead of time and get people excited about them, and try to attract those who organize meet ups or deliver training.

Goood idea!

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