drupal

As part of summer housekeeping, I updated Drupal and the modules / themes I have installed. I also did a quick search of the latest and greatest WYSIWYG editors for Drupal. Here is a nice roundup, but most still suggest pointing folks to browser text-box editor plug-ins to get the job done, such as Write Area or Xinha. I tried using Write Area to make this post, but it looked awful when done. [Update: sorry ... user error ... Write Area actually worked quite well when I submitted the post.]

Attached is the presentation material from the Drupal workshop I hosted today during the 2007 Indiana University IST Conference. Please leave any comments below or use the contact form (on the menu bar above) if you have any questions ... or ... better, yet ... join us on Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET for live web casts at the Drupal CMS Academy!

The months of talking are over! Drupal lovers ... start your engines!

Welcome to the Drupal CMS Academy! Like our fellow Academics at The Webcast Academy, we provide a collaborative learning environment for those interested in learning how to use the Drupal content management system. The Drupal CMS Academy supports learners as they maximize their performance in the installation, administration and customization of a Drupal web installation.

Check out the Academy Intern Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to learn more about the Academy and what it means to be an Intern. If you are interested in becoming an Intern in the inaugural session at the Drupal CMS Academy, please register as an Academy Intern. See you at the Academy!

 

Drupal CMS Academy - Live Web Cast #8

Join us on Monday November 6th at 9:00 p.m. ET (North America)
Click here for Global Times

Please join us at the Drupal CMS Academy for our weekly live web cast as we share our latest and greatest Drupal tips and tricks!

Drupal CMS Academy Community Session #7

Join us later today - Tuesday October 31th at 9:00 p.m. ET (North America)
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Join us for more Drupal "tricks and treats" at the Drupal CMS Academy! We plan to gather around the new Drupal chat room and WebHuddle and tell spooky stories about system glitches and goblins! We hope you can join us!

Be sure to catch the recording of today's 21st Century Learning podcast with Alex Ragone and Arvind Grover. Bill Fitzgerald (of funnymonkey.com and OpenAcademic fame) covered some interesting Drupal territory, including the following:

• Leech Module: Used for dumping content to Drupal Site via RSS feeds
• NYCIST: New York City Independent School Technologists (Drupal install for conference site)
• Tagadelic Module: Tag Cloud - Generates a page with weighted tags.
• OrganicGroups Module: Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'
• OGVocab: Organic group with its own vocabularies
• Grade Book Module: Drupal grade book from Google summer of code
• Note Access Arbitrator: Will be in 5.0, but useful for 4.7 installs

Join us on Tuesday October 17th at 9:00 p.m. ET
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By popular demand, we are adding a midweek Drupal CMS Academy web cast session to the agenda! Please join us at the Drupal CMS Academy during the live web cast to continue our discussion about all things Drupal. We are moving forward toward our goal of kicking off the Drupal online collaborative learning environment and we would love to hear your ideas during this live planning session!

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Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming Session #4

Join us on Sunday - October 15, 2006
5:30 p.m. GMT global times

Do you have a Drupal site up and running? Are you thinking about jumping in to the world of Drupal? Please join us in our next* Drupal CMS Academy community brainstorming session. As part of ongoing CMS Academy planning, we will discuss the nuts and bolts of how to install and administer a Drupal site. We look forward to hearing your questions, suggestions and hot tips about setting up and running Drupal.

Just pointing to a community notice I sent out yesterday for the Drupal CMS Academy, part of the Worldbridges network. For those interested in learning how to use Drupal, check out the collaborative learning environment that is under development and join us for some live Drupal community brainstorming on Sunday!

Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming Session #3: Join us this Sunday - October 1, 2006

5:30 p.m. GMT global times

Please join us this Sunday (October 1st) for our weekly live Drupal CMS Academy community brainstorming session. This week, we will kick around ideas for the Academy's web site interface. The Academy (as well as much of Worldbridges) runs on a Drupal installation, so we have a lot of options to create, layout and present content on the site. Whether you know a little or a lot about Drupal, we look forward to hearing your ideas about ways to enhance the Drupal CMS Academy's navigation, content creation options and more!

p.s. If you can't make the live session, please check back to listen to the recording at http://www.cmsacademy.net/drupal/ or subscribe to the feed at http://www.cmsacademy.net/drupal.xml

Introducing the offical seal for this site.  As I've stated before, this Drupal enabled site has become my Personal Learning Environment. This just makes it "official".

p.s. If you would like to make your own official seal, check it out.

Ok. How about we pretend for the moment that there is no threat to open Internet access or to social networking learning opportunities in public schools . . . why? Because there is a really cool social networking initiative that deserves our attention over at OpenAcademic.org. The OpenAcademic project launch was announced today with the goal of integrating Elgg, Drupal, Moodle and Mediawiki into a new open source online learning environment. The goal is to provide a broad offering of tools to support both informal learning options (e-portfolios and personal workspaces), as well as formal online course sites. As the project is just in the early development stage, we will have to wait to see a demo. However, the project's goal is to offer OpenAcademic for download and installation free of charge as an open source project.

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I forgot to mention in yesterday's post . . . lullabot.com is a great source for Drupal information. They have an awesome list of podcasts and videocasts to push you along the Drupal learning curve! One of their videocasts got me through a recent Drupal upgrade. In the often disjointed world of open source, it is nice to follow their lead!

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