Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Couverture souple

Robertson, James G.; Fitzgerald, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782162763 ISBN 13 : 9781782162766

Editeur : Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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. 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 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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

James G. Robertson

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Pub Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782162763
• ISBN 13: 9781782162766
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible