Packt's "Drupal for Education and E-Learning" by Bill Fitzgerald consists of clear step-by-step instructions, which help create blogs, online discussions, groups, and a community website using Drupal.
To learn more about creating a student blog, read an exclusive chapter here:http://www.packtpub.com/files/drupal-for-education-and-e-learning-sample-chapter-6-creating-the-student-blog.pdf
Social media in the classroom provide unique opportunities for teaching and learning. This book helps you break through the hype, and shows you how to build a site in Drupal that incorporates the Web in your class, on your terms, to achieve specific learning goals.
It provides the essential details to get the most out of your Drupal site. In clear, step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to build a site that is easy to use, easy to navigate, and supports the teaching and learning you want to emphasize.
Drupal for Education and E-Learning provides a step-by-step overview of how to work with Drupal to build a feature-rich learning environment. It will help you learn how to configure the default Drupal installation, and how to extend your site to include social bookmarking, a podcasting and video sharing platform, image sharing, and interactive discussions around rich media content. You will also learn how to organize your site so that, as learning occurs over time, you and your students will be able to track their work history.
It also focuses around creating educational activities in Drupal, with lots of examples of realistic courses and classroom ideas – and how to implement them.
This book is for anybody looking to use Drupal to support teaching and learning; more generally, the examples given in this book can also be used by anybody looking to use Drupal to publish social media. This book is not a developer's manual; you do NOT need to know code, or HTML, or CSS, to benefit from this book. People new to Drupal will find clear examples describing how to set up their site. More experienced Drupallers will find tips and tricks for extending their site, and step-by-step instructions on how to make the most out of Drupal's flexibility.
To read more, visit http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-for-education-and-e-learning/book
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