So at DrupalCon SF we had a huge education BoF with folks interested in a ton of different subjects. I'd like to propose splitting the edu group into at least three different sections for Chi:
- Hosting & Implementation: Discussion about backend issues such as: shared vs localized hosting, integration with directory services (LDAP, AD, etc), more?
- Drupal for Pedagogy: Blackboard/LMS replacement, student information systems, course catalogs, using Drupal specifically to facilitate teaching.
- Front-facing Drupal: Using Drupal for institutional home pages, departments, faculty, student organizations
Does this make sense to people? I also had an idea that if we do split up the groups, it might be cool to have a few people from each group gather the thoughts into a presentation for a session later in the conference.
Thoughts?
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If there are any streamed out
If there are any streamed out please let us know. I'd love to jump in via ustream or some other medium.
Ed-related BoFs
I'd definitely be interested in setting up multiple BoFs for people with divergent needs/interests.
Fortunately, with the structure of BoFs being pretty fluid, we can make these happen on the spot depending on who shows up.
Game
I'm game for any and all Edu-related discussions. I would certainly benefit from any of the above mentioned breakouts.
Representing K-8
I would love to attend any/all the sections mentioned.
ResourceCommons.org
I would find each of the sections valuable. I hope to join whichever flocks form around the topics.
Related, we are working on developing http://ResourceCommons.org to allow for wide distribution and sharing of education content resources via an API. I would be very interested in discussing how this application might easily connect with education institution implementations.
I'm definitely interested. We
I'm definitely interested. We are in the middle of a campus effort to re-envision how we do web publishing and web management at the University of Illinois, and I would be interested in hearing what other institutions are doing.
Managing Abstracts, Presentations, Proposals and Manuscripts
I would like to discuss the best way in D7 for People to have full collaboration of documents, spread sheets and presentations while allowing managers to track the progress from presenting a proposal to the acceptance from a journal using workflows that can vary from one study to another. Communication is key and e-mail groups need to be created based on studies, roles, and job titles. There are currently over 25 studies. The contributed modules attempted in D6 were Organic Groups, Attachments, CCK, Content Profile, Content Access, LDAP Integration and Provisioning, Nice_Menus, Stylistics, Views, WebFM and Workflow. The themes attempted were Zen and CTI Flex with a sub-theme for each study. UNC's Institutional Review Board is standardizing many of the websites across several departments.
Steven Cory
Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
Department of Biostatistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Document Management BoF
Steven,
It sounds like you should really check out http://chicago2011.drupal.org/forum/drupal-document-management
Interested
Im interested in all of the above sessions. Especially hosting, implementation and front facing sessions.
Drupal for Pedagogy and Pedagogical Drupal?
Would the EduBoF only be about Drupal as tool for education or is their also room for how Drupal can be educative?
I've only ever thought about
I've only ever thought about it in the former view (as a tool), but the latter could be interesting. I think that might warrant it's own conversation, though.
Agreed
I agree that it would be its own conversation. Also I consider it particular an issue for higher education.
I've suggested the Academic initiative BoF and if its up to me there should be a part education in it too.
Drupal (in) Education
All great topics, count me in - I will add another:
Teaching Drupal at a university
I am currently teaching a CMS class that is 75% Drupal and would love to hear from people doing similar things
Kosta
Konstantin Tovstiadi, Ph.D.
IT Director / College of Communications and Information Studies
University of Kentucky
same
I've got also a class that is 75% Drupal (but as development framework) and 25% experimentation. It is for a Master class in Business technology.
What is your student audience?
we need to talk!
Mixel, that's awesome. We need to share ideas!
My students are from the journalism school - mostly seniors (i.e. people who will graduate very soon). It was open to Master's students but they didn't enroll.
My e-mail is tovstiadi@uky.edu
Multiple site concerns and single-sign-on with D7
We're particularly interested in hearing about people's approaches and experiences publishing multiple sites with a unified presentation but different editors (drawn from a common pool of users). At the moment multisite looks better than the alternatives but there are some drawbacks.
We're also trying to navigate the evolving authentication environment: LDAP for now, with SAML coming soon. In either case we'd prefer to avoid separate sign-ins across our various sites.
If there's interest these could be good topics for separate discussion. Otherwise we'll hope to discuss them in implementation and/or front-facing subgroups.
Interested Too!
I am interested in any and all discussions.
Christina
Cornell University
Interested
Very keen to meet other people working on using Drupal for departmental websites. It's my first DrupalCon so I hope I find the BoFs (and everything else)!
Topic organization
All,
Thanks for your interest. It sounds like we all have very similar ideas and goals for our institutions and sites. I know the "tool" for proposing BoFs isn't out yet, but I am going to try to get all of these proposed as soon as it comes up.
One thing to think about though—how should these sessions be organized? Do people think they should go on concurrently, or is there enough overlap in people's interests that they should be at separate times? I know it's going to be tough to fit in with everyone's schedules, but I was thinking maybe we could try and do these all in the same afternoon (maybe Wed) to keep the conversations going and active.
Thoughts?
Edu BoF session on Tue 5:45
It would be great to meet other people interested in the topic early in the conference.
We will be presenting Tuesday at 5:45 - Matt Cheney (Chapter Three) and I will show Open Academy project - Departmental Website in a Box.
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/forum/schools-and-drupal-how-utilize-drupa...
Tweet tag: #drupalconEDU
If you learn something relevant to EduBoFs tweet with #drupalconEDU hash tag. We'll be able to track findings!
If "hash tag" got your eyes crossed see http://bit.ly/c300dg
jolly good idea
Splendid. We've got 5 people coming from Princeton evaluating implementation. Several of us would probably be interested in hosting/architecture and front-facing development (especially academic multi-site implementation).
University of California, Davis
I'm definitely interested. I've got a bunch of Drupal sites running at UC Davis.
EduBoFs
All,
I've set up the EduBoFs for an AV-enabled room on Wed afternoon from 1-5.
Check it out:
Interested in participating
I've recently set up a site for our board and created an intranet for students, faculty and staff.