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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 videos in the classroom


The subject matter will play a role in determining how to use video and how much detail (if any) to pay to production values.

Using video effectively requires good planning and some specific ideas about the goals you would like to achieve. In addition to the actual video, students should be expected to learn from the process of making the video. During video-based projects, students should be blogging about their process and their progress, sharing bookmarks on their research, and even constructing short audio podcasts about the project. These points of reflection will provide a more complete picture of the student's work over the course of the project, and will also help to reinforce one of the most important lessons of video production; people get better at something by thinking about how they want to achieve their goals, and the means that they are using to achieve them.

Student projects

If we look at the video from a storytelling or a documentary perspective...