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Teaching and Learning with Drupal Meredith Farkas Head of Instructional Initiatives Kreitzberg Library
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Written lecture notes Discussion forums Assignments Quizes
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Lost in translation?
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Drupal in the Online Classroom
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drupal.org
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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
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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. )
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Why blogs?
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Familiar medium 133 million blogs indexed by Technorati 42% of bloggers 18-34 77.7 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 2008 http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere- 2008/ http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere- 2008/
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Faculty communication with students
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Builds student sense of ownership over the medium
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Community-building
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Reflective Learning
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Discussion and debate
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Writing in public
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Everyone is teacher and learner
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Questions?
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