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Drupal in Education -- Lullabot Podcast
Posted 11/04/2008 - 8:49am by bill
Last week, I had the chance to talk with Jeff Robbins at Lullabot about using Drupal in Education. This conversation has been unleashed upon an unsuspecting world in the form of Drupal Podcast 66: Bill Fitzgerald & Drupal For Education. It's a pretty free ranging, mildly technical discussion of some of the different ways that Drupal can be used within different educational contexts.
Drupal, VoiceThread. VoiceThread, Drupal.
Posted 10/29/2008 - 5:57am by bill
Over the last few months, we have had the pleasure of working with Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and the rest of the team behind YouthVoices. The site supports youth working in a variety of creative endeavors, from blogging to video production and discussions of video to digital photography.
Using Drupal in Education, Training, and (Some) Next Steps
Posted 10/26/2008 - 1:59pm by bill
For a good portion of 2008, I have been writing a book on using Drupal in Education. It has been a pretty incredible process, filled with rewards and challenges I didn’t envision at the outset.
Knight Drupal Initiative Application -- Submitted
Posted 09/22/2008 - 4:17pm by bill
We formally submitted our Knight Drupal Initiative application last week. We're now officially in the pipeline; when we hear anything from the Knight Foundation we'll post details here.
Until then, this paragraph from our application sums up what we're trying to do:
Change in License Terms
Posted 09/10/2008 - 8:16am by bill
Since this site went live, we have released our blog posts under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
Recently, however, we have seen several spam sites using our content to support click-through ad sales. As part of our efforts to combat this misuse of our content, we are changing to the Non-Commercial license.
Our Knight Drupal Initiative Application, Wordle-ized
Posted 08/20/2008 - 11:00pm by bill
We're getting very close to completing the application for the Knight Foundation on our Knight Drupal Initiative proposal.
Out of curiosity, I figured I'd run it through Wordle and see what turned up.
Internet Security, Test Prep Division
Posted 08/19/2008 - 2:51pm by bill
From an article in the New York Times, it appears that the Princeton Review "published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks."
According to the article, the breach -- likely caused by human error -- exposed some very sensitive data:
Why Open Content Works
Posted 08/18/2008 - 10:07pm by bill
This post is adapted from my post over at Sylvia Martinez's Generation YES blog. Her post is titled Why open curriculum wikis won’t work. As my title suggests, I have a different viewpoint.
From my comment:
Knight Drupal Initiative Update
Posted 08/12/2008 - 11:10am by bill
The Knight Drupal Initiative proceeds apace. Last week, two additional projects were approved to be forwarded along to the Knight Foundation, and there is a third strong proposal under consideration. If you are a Drupal developer, and/or have an idea about how to combine your love of open source software with your desire to change how we communicate, get a proposal in.
Would John McCain's Speechwriter Get Kicked Off Semester at Sea?
Posted 08/12/2008 - 8:58am by bill
Two articles with an interesting contrast going on right now -- one on John McCain and a recent speech he gave on Georgia, and the other about a student expelled from Semester at Sea.
