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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

Sharing a bookmark


To share a bookmark, we really just need to create a bookmark node by following these steps:

  1. To add a bookmark to the site, click on Add content | Bookmark or navigate to node/add/bookmark. For this example, we will add a link to a wiki article on Moby Dick, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Once you have entered the appropriate title, link, keywords, and body description, click on the Save button. The following screenshot shows the saved link:

Bookmark to blog

Bookmarks can also be used as a starting point for student conversations via the student blog. By providing students a link to a common resource, you can use bookmarks as tools to structure preteaching or to support student-directed inquiry through content.

To get started, log in as a user in the teacher role. Create a bookmark, as described earlier, pointing to http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/18405. This site gives very general instructions to readers starting Moby Dick.

Use these keywords to describe the post...