Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
You don't need to be a techie to build a community-based website for your school. With this guide to Drupal you'll be able to create an online learning and sharing space for your students and colleagues, quickly and easily.
2nd Edition
Published on 13. January 2025
390 pages
978-1-78216-277-3 (ISBN)
Description
You don't need to be a techie to build a community-based website for your school. With this guide to Drupal you'll be able to create an online learning and sharing space for your students and colleagues, quickly and easily.
Key Features
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
Book DescriptionAs 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
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
Who this book is forIf 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 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.
Key Features
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
Book DescriptionAs 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
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
Who this book is forIf 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 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.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Revised edition
File size
14,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-277-3 (9781782162773)
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Additional editions
James Gordon Robertson
Drupal for Education and Elearning (2nd Edition)
Book
04/2013
Packt Publishing
€69.80
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Persons
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. 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. Bill 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, Bill began developing strategies to support technology integration in 1:1 laptop systems, and in desktop computing environments. In 2003, Bill and Marc Poris founded FunnyMonkey, a Drupal development shop working primarily within education. Bill started and manages the Drupal in Education group on http://groups.drupal.org, and is active in various educational and open-source communities. Bill 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.
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