1. Teaching and Learning with Drupal Meredith Farkas Head of Instructional Initiatives Kreitzberg Library

2. Written lecture notes Discussion forums Assignments Quizes

3. Lost in translation?

5. Drupal in the Online Classroom

6. drupal.org

7. 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

8. 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. )

16. Why blogs?

17. 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/

18. Faculty communication with students

19. Builds student sense of ownership over the medium

20. Community-building

22. Reflective Learning

25. Discussion and debate

28. Writing in public

30. Everyone is teacher and learner

31. Questions?