Teaching and Learning with Drupal Meredith Farkas Head of Instructional Initiatives Kreitzberg Library
Written lecture notes Discussion forums Assignments Quizes
Lost in translation?
Drupal in the Online Classroom
drupal.org
Drupal Open source content management system Must be installed on a server or use company that provides hosted solution Can create many different types of content (see next slide) – static, community-oriented, dynamic, etc. Great for online communities, discussion boards, websites, intranets, online classrooms
Drupal: Modules Allows you to extend Drupal’s functionality Blogs and Wikis Polls, forums and chatrooms WYSIWYG editors E-commerce Gradebook Podcasts and photo galleries Custom content types (for research guides, forms, etc. )
Why blogs?
Familiar medium 133 million blogs indexed by Technorati 42% of bloggers million unique visitors to blogs vs. 41 million to Facebook (in May 2008) New types of blogging: in MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Source: Technorati State of the Blogosphere / /
Faculty communication with students
Builds student sense of ownership over the medium
Community-building
Reflective Learning
Discussion and debate
Writing in public
Everyone is teacher and learner
Questions?