education

Someone posted this to the top level of the Getting Started handbook - good stuff but wrong place!

Here are some links I found useful for teachers dealing with Classroom Management issues. The links are correct at times of posting.

Classroom Management Internet Resources
General Education Classroom

Teaching Today
Provides teaching tips, lesson plans, and more.
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/downloads/topic/classroom-management

Classroom Management
http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/teacher/teac3summary.html

Hello, all,

At the risk of indulging in shameless promotion, I wanted to announce that I wrote a book on using Drupal in Education -- I have an announcement on d.o about it, but I also wanted to post here to get the word out.

The book is titled Drupal for Education and E-learning, and it's due out from Packt Publishing in late October. The book targets Drupal 6, and it's geared toward non-developers and site admins.

I finished our year-long project of a brand new website using Drupal. My case study is here, here and here if anyone is interested (the last one being the complete version that was posted on Drupal.org).

And here's a link to the site: http://www.datc.edu

Feedback is welcome! (design, usability, content, etc.)

amariotti

So I've been starting down the path of building a stronger community at Penn State that's interested in Drupal. I know of about 60+ interested parties who at least want some more information about how Drupal could be used at my university. I'm also mentoring 4 or so students / staff in Drupal and as part of that effort, began to write an online book in Drupal to go over the basics or at least provide links out to other locations so they could get up to speed quickly. This began my thinking of a drupal@psu resource until I began to think a bit more about the resource.

Hi Everyone,

I'll be teaching a 17-week Drupal class at MATC this Fall, first time through, the main theme being module development with PHP. The prereqs are some background with html and css and a little php (or willingness to learn it quickly).

What:   Drupal class
Where:  Madison Area Technical College, Truax campus
When:   Mon-Wed, 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm
Starts: August 25, 2008
Ends:   December 17, 2008
Cost:   $310.05

More info about this and our other programming classes here (PHP, Ajax, Java, etc.).

I am currently using drupal and I am in the planning stages of creating a "online school" per se. With all the modules out there, I am not sure which ones to use and if they would work as intended. My outline/workflow would be as follows:

1. Create a teacher role
2. Allow teacher to create a "class"
3. Allow users to enroll in class with and without payment (Ubercart, Userpoints, something)
4. Grant access rights to class once payment recieved

I just submitted a session/BoF/panel proposal for DrupalCon in Szeged suggesting ways of helping Drupal make greater inroads in the education sector (including research): http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/sessions/what-does-education-sector-need.... Any feedback is appreciated.

I thought I'd start a thread where we could discuss what else the Drupal in Education/Drupal in Academia and Research crowd can do in Szeged. Please post comments with suggestions/ideas for other sessions, BoFs, or just let each other know who's coming.

I'm redo'ing our infrastructure and currently looking into Organic Groups as the major solution to our multi-site, distributed / replicated user accounts, EVIL monster that I have going at the moment :). So, that in mind, I'd like to move from 1 install base, 1 database per course to 1 central database for all of our course infrastructure.

Greetings and Salutations,

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is very pleased to announce our newly-redesigned, SQL Server-powered Drupal Web site! Our site exemplifies the power and flexibility of Drupal. It is also speaks to the quality of community that helps develop, instruct, and support the Drupal project. Without this exceptional and active community, our site would not have been possible. We're continually working to improve our site and welcome your feedback. (Sorry for the delay, I had promised this write up a while ago but have just now had the time to put it together).