Learning

Hi there,

I have heard that there are already Use Cases given for using Atrium as an LMS (Learning Management System). If so, can anyone tell me what the status of these are?

At present Atrium appears to me to be a well developed collaboration and content management system with many of the features and functionalities already installed for what I was hoping for from an LMS, but, does not appear to have the capability, yet, to perform the more specialist LMS functions, let alone a few special additional functional developments that I have in mind.

I am new in Drupal. I want to make a site using drupal, but not know how to start? Can any one help me to startup a drupal site?

(This is going out on several channels. Apologies if you get more than one copy.)

There are many Web sites and tools for authoring textbooks: iBooks Author, Flat World Knowledge, etc. Good tech, but there's a fundamental flaw in their specs. They're based on an obsolete view of learning.

Education researchers have shown how we can help students learn STEM skills (STEM: science, tech, engineering and math). Deep learning, formative feedback, other things. We need to redesign authoring software based on these research findings.

Hello,

We organize next saturday a learn sprint in belgium at the BrainDUG meeting.

I've read the ladder till the "Write tests" chapter and I have some suggestions / remarks for helping organizers .

1. Getting started in the issue queue

I think this chapter go too fast comparing on the two next ones, people have to directly submit an issue. If think regarding the name of the chapter, it could be the place to explain how is organized the Drupal issue list, what are the meaning of the different status, prios, ... Explain what is shown when we choose an issue page.

So far, I have substantial experience with HTML and basic experience with Ruby on Rails.

My questions:
1. What books, web sites, tutorials, etc. do you recommend for getting started in Drupal?
2. How quickly do Drupal books become obsolete? In the world of Ruby on Rails, books become worthless after only a year.

In the Winter Semester (begins in January of 2012 through early May) I will be teaching a 15-week course at GVSU called Advanced Writing for the World Wide Web. (WRT 380-6). It is a course designed for writing majors and minors, but it is also popular with students in advertising, computer science, journalism, business, and other areas).

The course will meet once a week on Wednesday nights from 6:00-8:50 on the Allendale campus in one of the computer labs.

Hello Everyone, my name is Robert and I have been playing with Drupal for about about three year now.I first discovered Drupal while working as a Data Center Technician. And before I became a part of the San Francisco Drupal Users Group (http://groups.drupal.org/node/47010), I felt that I was the only Drupaler in San Francisco, and my learning/motivation was limited. Years later I finally decided to start this group and build support for other locally. Thanks for reading. Feel free to introduce and contribute.

Hello Git Migration Team.
I am interested in sharing plans to teach Git.

In the beginning of July, I will be teaching a Git class to students participating in a summer Drupal learning project.

This is my plan for preparing the class:
1. Personally get more up to speed with Git. I use Git already, but want to read both Git books (the O'reilly one & also the Apress book) Both are mentioned on the Drupal Git resources handbook page.

* http://drupal.org/node/783086

* http://groups.drupal.org/node/64083 (learning Git discussion)


As a newbie to Drupal, you know what would help me? Purpose.

What I mean is that learning Drupal is cool, but learning it so that I can actually do something with it is even cooler. What I want to know is could someone come up with a few different types of sites and specifications so us new people can build those?

For instance, instead of just installing everything and figuring out what works, someone says:
"hey, build a social site with these features"
or
"build a site for a small school that needs these features"
or
you get the drift.

Hello everyone,

I am the co-founder of the Mediabird Study Notes software, which is an extension to existing LMS.

Mediabird is a collaborative online notepad that allows small study groups to collaboratively work on shared notes at any time. It is not only possible to extend notes or edit them at the same time but in particular Mediabird allows users to annotate notes and ask questions about them. With that respect, Mediabird combines the ideas of a wiki and of a forum but is not as public as a wiki and relates questions to the notes rather than separating them as done in a forum.