Drupal for K-12 Schools

If your Drupal firm carries liability insurance and can provide an entry-level person for level I tech support / training 7:00 am – 4:00 pm, I can train that person, be the lead on the project, and co-contract whatever pieces you have staff for.

If interested, contact ASAP: Bram Moreinis, 413-829-0355, bram@greenfielddigital.com.

The DCO’s intensive online sessions, active learning community, and hands-on projects are designed to provide those who need to get skilled up in Drupal with the best possible start. This is not a bootcamp. It is integrated instruction, with an actively-engaged expert teacher focused on student learning, and comprehensive resource materials.

This 6-week course builds on Drupal 8 fundamentals to teach developers how to successfully work on multi-environment, team-based projects by effectively leveraging the Pantheon platform. The 64-hour live, online course is taught two times per week in 3.5-hour sessions, with a weekly 4-hour, instructor-mentored co-working lab to build knowledge, skills and confidence.

DrupalEasy's long-form career technical education program provides 84 hours of intensive live, online class sessions, another 48 hours of instructor-led co-working lab sessions, instructor office hours, active learning community, extensive learning resources including screencasts and lesson guides, as well as hands-on projects. The 12 week course meets twice per week plus lab hours, and is designed to provide those who need to get skilled up in Drupal with the best possible start; focused on Drupal Best Practices. This is not a bootcamp.

Just wanted to point to a pretty killer combo right now that's emerged and works really well that would let you basically turn any drupal (7) site into an LMS.

https://www.drupal.org/project/tincanapi -- works really well, has some built in tracking stuff and plugs into...
drupal.org/project/quiz -- So you can capture the state of things in an LRS; Quiz 5.x beta is awesome btw
and also..
https://www.drupal.org/project/h5p_tincan_bridge + https://www.drupal.org/project/h5p so you can get XAPI statements emitted from H5P files to flow via Drupal to an LRS.

https://www.elmsln.org/blog/post/tool-builder video showing new functionality built into elms that allows for effectively allowing anyone that can site build to submit their idea to our innovations github repo without needing to understand code or version control. This is one of the more ridiculous goals of the project.

We have armies of faculty, instructional designers and site builders throughout the education space. We're seeking to unlock the ability for everyone, without knowledge of code or version control, to be able to contribute their creations.

Just wanted to blast it here as well that I made an accessibility toolkit module which provides a block to help provide ways of improving your site for different visual impairments; most resolving around dyslexia (like a font that makes it easier to read). We also store the setting in a cookie and in the future will do this on the serverside so it doesn't have to reload each time (as the screencast currently shows).

Support, feedback and improvement suggestions always welcome: https://drupal.psu.edu/blog/post/a11y-accessibility-toolkit-module

With 118 issues resolved, ELMS Learning Network version tipping point (0.2.0) is out with a comprehensive walkthrough of capabilities and discussion of what and why the system functions as it does. We now support CentOS 6,7, Ubuntu 14 / Deb, and Amazon AMI one-line installations. The walkthrough in this post just scratches the surface as we have 2 types of asset management systems with H5P support built in as well as support for LTI 1.2 (provider), REST (shown, and powers everything), and XAPI support it's a great preview of things to come.

Hey GDO land. Haven't gotten around to posting here in awhile but we've got a demo up of ELMS Learning Network in case anyone wants to check it out without having to spin up vagrant or install.
http://online.do1.demos.elmsln.org/

Appreciate feedback, find anything or confused? drop the team (yeah, we have one of those now it's pretty awesome) a line:

https://github.com/elmsln/elmsln/issues/
http://elmsln.org/

Mike Potter (from elmsln, not P2) showed me a pretty awesome project his coworker found and he was able to hook into elmsln. I shot a quick video but the module it's running off of is http://drupal.org/project/jmol

He's hooked it up to our interactive object repository distribution (ICOR) with a feature that makes a field formatter that lets you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUo9L-SzA8

Drupal Camp PA

When: August 1st & 2nd
Location: University of Pittsburgh
Drupal Camp PA will be held on August 1st and 2nd, 2015
Event URL: Drupal Camp PA Website - http://drupalcamppa.org/

Drupal Camp PA is focused on bridging Higher Education and Industry. We've got a lot of members of the Drupal PSU, Drupal Pittsburgh, Drupal Ohio communities, and elsewhere coming together to talk Drupal. While not exclusively for education, there will be a lot of developers from higher education institutions present including Write State, Pitt, PSU, CMU and more.

New white paper released
ELMS Learning Network: An EdTech Platform for Sustaining Innovation
https://psu.box.com/sustaining-innovation

Rick Humphries (@rickhumphries) recently did a video showing the work his group is doing with ELMS Learning Network, Learning Locker and H5P to transmit activity statements (XAPI) from ELMSLN to Learning Locker. Then it shows how ELMSLN is querying the LRS (learning locker) for what statements a user has passed and then granting badges based on matching those statements.

New to Drupal and looking to shorten your path to employability? Need to train up developers new to Drupal? Classes for the 2014 DCO start August 19, 2014 and run for 12 weeks every Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00pm to 4:30pm EDT (5:00pm - 8:30pm GMT).

Drupal Camp PA, a 2 day Drupal Camp in Western Pennsylvania, will be held on Saturday, August 2nd and Sunday, August 3rd at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. The theme of the conference "Bridging Higher Education & Industry" demonstrates the understanding of the importance of open source solutions in higher education as well as industry. The 2 day Drupal developer conference will feature topical sessions, keynote speakers, "Birds of a Feather" breakouts, and code sprints.

The deadline to submit a session is July 1st.

Let's try a little different post format with some questions...

What module are you currently lacking that you think you need authored right now?

What is contrib missing currently that you think it could benefit from the most?

What's the scope of this module and what projects could be forked / contributed to in order to meet your functionality need?

Meetup Agenda:

• Civi "Help Desk" (6:00pm - 6:30) - bring in your pressing CiviCRM questions and issues and we'll try to help.
• Case Study - Lisa Hubbert from SFArtsEd will share how she transitioned an arts summer camp from paper forms to CiviCRM + UberCart + Drupal Webforms (check out her blog for a preview)
• CiviCon 2013 Preview
• Interest group discussions

Please register here:

http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=290&reset=1

Meetup Agenda:

• Civi "Help Desk" (6:00pm - 6:30) - bring in your pressing CiviCRM questions and issues and we'll try to help.
• Case Study - Lisa Hubbert from SFArtsEd will share how she transitioned an arts summer camp from paper forms to CiviCRM + UberCart + Drupal Webforms (check out her blog for a preview)
• CiviCon 2013 Preview
• Interest group discussions

Please register here:

http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=290&reset=1

Meetup Agenda:

• Civi "Help Desk" (6:00pm - 6:30) - bring in your pressing CiviCRM questions and issues and we'll try to help.
• Case Study - Lisa Hubbert from SFArtsEd will share how she transitioned an arts summer camp from paper forms to CiviCRM + UberCart + Drupal Webforms (check out her blog for a preview)
• CiviCon 2013 Preview
• Interest group discussions

Please register here:

http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=290&reset=1

Meetup Agenda:

• Civi "Help Desk" (6:00pm - 6:30) - bring in your pressing CiviCRM questions and issues and we'll try to help.
• Case Study - Lisa Hubbert from SFArtsEd will share how she transitioned an arts summer camp from paper forms to CiviCRM + UberCart + Drupal Webforms (check out her blog for a preview)
• CiviCon 2013 Preview
• Interest group discussions

Please register here:

http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?id=290&reset=1