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Create web-based, content-rich tools for teaching and learning
Overview
- Create a powerful tool for communication among teachers, students, and the community with minimal programming knowledge
- Produce blogs, online discussions, groups and a media hosting platform using Drupal
- Step-by-step instructions in a teacher-friendly approach; creating your classroom website will be an enjoyable task
In Detail
As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities.
Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.
In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums.
The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community.
What you will learn from this book
- Build an intuitive structure to allow students and teachers to find relevant content by creating blogs for both teachers and students
- Create roles and permissions for controlling access to different parts of the site
- Share and manage bookmarks, podcasts, images, and video to support teaching and learning
- Foster discussion and communication among teachers, students, and also the larger school community to collaborate on projects
- Support multiple classes within the same site
- Publish assignments for students in your courses, and track student responses to those assignments
- Learn to exchange help with the Drupal community
- Discover how to backup and maintain your site once it is built
Approach
With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to create your classroom website. Step-by-step tutorials show you how to use Drupal in the most efficient and effective ways possible. People new to Drupal will find a good introduction of the basics; while more experienced users will learn useful tips and tricks for using Drupal in a classroom context.
Who this book is written for
If you are an teacher, tutor or an educator who wants to build a website for your classroom, be it elementary or any higher education, Drupal 7 for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition will guide you in achieving your goal at every step. No experience with programming languages, HTML, or CSS is needed to understand the examples in this book.
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First published: November 2008
Second Edition: June 2013
Production Reference: 1040613
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James G. Robertson
Bill Fitzgerald
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James G. Robertson hasn't always been a developer. He started his long road to Drupal with a degree in history from Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. After not being able to find a job that could use a history degree, he went to get his master's degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington, DC. While working on his degree at AU, he worked as a teacher's assistant, taught himself Drupal, and developed his first website for The American Observer, American University's graduate journalism school publication. After internships at J-Lab and the Newseum, he worked for the National Geographic Society producing content and occasionally blogging for sections of nationalgeographic.com. After a year at National Geographic, he made the move to developing websites with Drupal full-time for Bravery Corporation, a public relations and marketing firm in Washington, DC. He now works at REI Systems, an IT services company in Sterling, VA.
There are many people I would like to thank for getting me here today. First, I would like to thank Bill Fitzgerald for writing this book, and for his clear and, often, humorous original text that I was lucky enough to inherit. Second, I would like to thank my grandparents, Gordon and Jacqueline Lewis, for letting me play on the IBM PS/2 in their basement as a kid and helping develop my love for computers. I would like to thank my parents, Jim and Michele Robertson, for always believing in and supporting me. I'd like to thank David Johnson at American University, who introduced me to Drupal by handing me a book and telling me to build him a website. David also introduced me to Max Brown at Bravery, who took a chance and let me get my career off the ground; for that, I am eternally grateful. I'd like to thank my team at REI Systems, who have been supportive and understanding through this process. And, last but not least, I'd like to thank my loving and eternally patient wife, Jessica, for everything.
Bill Fitzgerald was born in 1968, and worked as a teacher for 16 years. During that time, he taught English and history, and worked as a Technology Director at the K12 level. He began using technology in his own teaching in the early 90s; from there, he moved on to database design and systems administration. During that time, he began developing strategies to support technology integration in 1:1 laptop systems and in desktop computing environments.
In 2003, Bill founded FunnyMonkey, an open source development shop working primarily within education. He is active in various educational and open source communities. He blogs about education and technology at http://funnymonkey.com/blog.
When Bill is not staring deeply into computer screens, he can be found riding his fixed-gear bicycle through Portland, OR, or spending far too much time drinking coffee.
Jnos Fehr , since 1996, has been involved in a wide variety of projects, including technical support for NATO operations, development for a high-performance computing grid, national TV and radio websites, Learning Management Systems (LMS) for university, and adult learning, news, and government websites. He has been heavily involved with Drupal for more than 8 years and is the lead of the Hungarian localization team, contributor of quite a few modules and the Drupal Core. He is currently a Senior Software Developer at Capgemini UK.
I will always be thankful to the person who has been standing by me since our first meeting 10 years ago. To my love, Szilvi.
Ron Simon started working with computers in the early 1970s while working toward his degree in Computer Sciences and Business Administration. Much has changed from that point of punch cards and Cobol program languages. Presently, he is working on building a large interactive Historical Database Website using Drupal to let the community contribute to the History of a place called "Beckmaze", which has a fascinating interaction of history, maps, and stories.
He has been an editor of many technical and historical books, including three books on Drupal and two on historical documentation.
He finds that our past does define the direction we are moving toward and that, if we study history, we can learn from the advice and mistakes our ancestors have left us for guidance toward our future.
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