C&W 2005 pre-conference workshop: Using Drupal to Create Virtual Classroom Communities
As part of this the Computers and Writing Writing 2005 Conference, we'll be conducting a pre-conference workshop, Using Drupal to Create Virtual Classroom Communities. Following is a message I just sent out to the computers and writing community advertising the workshop:
Interested in using a Drupal site for your class, personal weblog, department, or professional organization? Just curious about what Drupal is and how it might be useful to you? Perhaps you'd like a site like:
Experienced Drupal site users Jim Kalmbach, Tim Lindgren, Samantha Blackmon, Bradley Bleck, Jeff White & I will be running a pre-conference workshop on Drupal at C&W 2005. We'll talk about pedagogical uses, go over different site architectures for various website uses, and explain many Drupal features. We'll also setup a base Drupal site for each workshop participant and provide lots of personal assistance in configuring the site for your needs. At the end of the workshop, you'll be comfortable with administering your site. You'll be able to take the site you have created home, install it on your institutional server or commercial hosting service, add your content, and put it to use.
For those that aren't quite sure of the benefits of teaching with Drupal, take a look at student responses to an anonymous survey I gave at the end of the semester where they compared their experiences with Drupal to WebCT. The response was overwhelmingly in the positive.
http://joe.english.purdue.edu/sp05/lowe1/node/625
http://joe.english.purdue.edu/sp05/lowe2/node/912
Students like it!
