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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. "Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition" teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums. The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using bookmarks in the classroom


The most traditional use of bookmarks in the classroom involves storing a link to a useful resource and categorizing that link with descriptive keywords.

While bookmarks are a useful tool on their own merit, they can also be used to support other methods of teaching and learning. The bookmarks can be used to focus online and face-to-face conversations, as an extended tool to support note taking and as a tool for teaching media literacy.

Depending on the context, a bookmark can range from an online Post-it® to a more formal resource used as a central point in structured lessons. In this chapter, we will examine some methods of using bookmarks within a class setting. In future chapters, we will discuss how bookmarks can provide a useful starting point for research as a part of larger projects.