The umbrella group, Drupal in Education, is too broad for the various interests and divisions. Drupal Education BOF groups at DrupalCon SF were stymied by the range of interests and needs, particularly across the basic division of university level and K-12 level. Other divisions included coder vs. user, and learning management vs. organization management. The newly formed LMS (learning management system), was one outcome of these discussions.
The needs for public-facing K-12 school sites, as well as strategies for supporting educational activities, are very different from university contexts, and it is difficult to participate in undifferentiated discussions when "student" and "course" and "teacher" and "grade" have such different deep meanings. Let this group be a place where we can:
- Discuss and develop modules of particular interest to K-12 education, like curriculum mapping and Section 508 compliance checklists
- Post and discuss case studies of new K-12 school websites, and build a directory of school sites
- Provide a space for "Young Drupalers" who are still in school to support each other as they develop their school websites.
Drupal Camp NJ Education BoF
http://www.drupalcampnj.org/ is a Drupal Camp held at an educational institution. In my mind, there had better be a lot of Drupal in education fans there! Planting this flag in the ground to let others know I'm going but mostly to provide an initial discussion thread as to what topics people would like to cover in BoFs at the event.
Read moreState of Drupal in education update
Just a quick community note about some momentum in projects that often times directly benefit the drupal edtech community.
LTI is moving along in the community it seems -- http://drupal.org/sandbox/jzornig/1809350
Epub would be an excellent format to support exports to which funnymonkey has some work into that I need to test -- http://drupal.org/project/epub_export
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San Francisco Bay Area CiviCRM Meetup
Meetup Agenda
- Civi "Help Desk" (5:00 - 6:00pm) - bring in your pressing CiviCRM questions and issues and we'll try to help.
- Report back from CiviCon London and sprints.
- Preview of cool stuff coming in the 4.3 release.
Please register here: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=239
Read moreELMS Beta and more!
Just wanted to leave a note about ELMS since I haven't jumped on here in awhile.
ELMS is now beta and fully packaged on drupal.org
ELMS Media (asset management solution we use to power our ELMS) has also been released
San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - June 12th, 2012
Join us on June 12 to learn how CiviCRM can help your organization fundraise. We'll be discussing best practices for raising money and maintaining donor relations with CiviCRM. Whether you're starting a new organization or consider yourself an experienced fundraiser, we'd love get your input. Stick around for a brainstorm about how CiviCRM can be improved to make fundraising easier for you.
Meetup Agenda
* Meet and Greet (5:30 - 6:00pm)
Bad internet connection error
I got (Bad internet connection, server error, browser problem, Please try again shortly.)" error in drupal6?
Read moreHelp with building a forum
Hello there,
I am building a website where I need a Forum for a community and I wanted to extend the Drupal Core Forum's functionality but as I am new to drupal i am getting very confused and so Could anyone help me??? please...
Well I don't know if it is necessary as I have never used Core Forum before so I don't really now what it looks like, but I suppose it comes with the installation.
The forum would need to let people who wants to post content or reply to a thread to have a registered account ie they'd need to log in. However the content will have to be visible to the public.
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Drupal in Education Unconference - Event Information
On Monday, March 19th, we are organizing a Drupal in Education unconference in Denver; the event will be held at Del Pueblo School. This meetup will follow an unconference format, so if there is something you want to talk about, propose a topic, find some like-minded individuals, and let the conversation start.
Read moreSession Proposals/Ideas for the Denver Education Unconference
These session proposals are for the Drupal in Education Unconference.
Put session proposals below. Please include a description of what you would like to discuss.
Session Idea: Supporting Teacher Professional Development
What are some of the components of a successful professional development program? How can Drupal be set up to support teachers as they continue to grow professionally, and teacher supervisors as they help teachers develop through their careers?
Session Coordinator: Bill Fitzgerald
ELMS
Read moreNew version of elms out
http://drupal.org/project/elms -- Try it out now! The abstraction of ELMS is nearly complete. If you care about ELMS implications for application development, check out drupal.psu.edu and read through my posts about abstraction (or http://btopro.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/what-im-really-excited-about/ or http://elearning.psu.edu/elearning/elms-drupal-drupal-elms )
Just some highlights:
--improved installer
--major focus on ensuring accessibility is met
--style guide that accompanies 15 newly released themes
--22 features, many of which are kit compliant
School Website
Hi,
I am a Web Design student and am designing a website for a school as for my thesis project ( I haven't started yet). I am very new to Drupal as to webdesign and I wondered if anyone can help me choose the right modules as this is my first time.
So, the website will serve as a tool to rise funding as it is a charity School so it will take Donations
on top of being a standard school website.
The website will have these functionalities:
Donation
Forum
Blog
A portal - (Learning Management System or whatever to Track students, deliver
CiviCon 2012 in San Francisco - April 2nd 2012
The CiviCRM team invites you to CiviCon 2012
CiviCon – the annual conference for CiviCRM developers, implementers, administrators and users – is happening in the San Francisco Bay Area on April 2nd. Early bird registration is just $75 and ends less than a month away on January 30th, so reserve your spot now.
CiviCon is the annual CiviCRM event bringing together the people who develop, design, implement, administer, and use CiviCRM. We'll have great speakers, breakout sessions and panels highlighting real-world examples of nonprofits growing and sustaining relationships using CiviCRM. Find out about the future of the platform through discussions with the core team. You'll have ample opportunity to ask questions, meet other users and developers, make valuable connections, and get involved in the community.
Read moreDraft schedule/program
This relates to the unconference that is being planned as a result of http://groups.drupal.org/node/191733
Event to be held on Monday, March 19th, 2011
Schedule
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DrupalCon Denver: Education Unconference
Update
The registration for this event is now open!
- Info/Announcement: http://groups.drupal.org/node/211118
- Register: https://denverdrupaled.eventbrite.com
- Propose a discussion topic: http://groups.drupal.org/node/211108
End update
Hello, all,
With DrupalCon Denver coming up in approximately 4 months, I wanted to see if there was interest in an Education-specific unconference on Monday, the 19th, the day before DrupalCon begins.
Read moreNew Version of ELMS released
ELMS Alpha 5 came out today! https://drupal.psu.edu/project/elms
ELMS is now entirely features based and following the best practices established by Open Atrium / Eduglu / Drupal Commons. You can download the distro at the link above or check out any of the 24 other modules/features contributed as part of this release at https://drupal.psu.edu/fserver
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Startup Weekend Education in DC this weekend (Oct 21-23) - free developer registration
A movement is building to create the next generation of technology to power the future of learning. Startup Weekend Education is hosting a series of events bringing together software developers, teachers, designers and business people to rapidly develop new concepts in 54 hours. Top leaders and investors in ed tech are available all weekend to help mentor and shape ideas into commercially viable products.
Do you have an idea that could change education? Would you like be on the team building the next classroom innovation?
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Embedded EtherPad for Drupal 6
Yesterday and tonight I threw together a module and feature for embedding etherpads from PiratePad.net into Drupal 6 sites: https://github.com/markwk/piratepad and https://github.com/markwk/atriumed_piratepad
Read moreStartup Weekend Education - 3 events, Seattle, San Francisco and Washington DC
Hello all,
The Startup Weekend franchise has branched out into the education technology space and created "Startup Weekend Education". These are rapid 54-hour events - concept on Friday night and pitch the demo on Sunday night. There is a good mix of enthusiastic folks to team up with - teachers, biz devs, marketing and designers (plus loads of fellow techs).
Read moreSuper Simple WordReference.com Embedded Dictionary for Drupal 6
This afternoon I threw together a super simple embedded dictionary using WordReference.com. Nothing fancy just two options to set and a block you can put wherever you need that toggles to open an iframe to search definitions. Here's the code: https://github.com/markwk/embed_wr_dictionary
I thought it might be useful for some edu folks out there.
Read moreGetting Feedback?
I'm finishing up work on a network of sites that will likely be getting a huge amount of incoming users in the coming weeks. One thing I haven't included yet it is a way to provide feedback about issues and problems (I know there must be some :). I could use a simple contact form but I'm wondering some of the best approaches for getting user feedback and handling issues within Drupal. Thoughts?
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