{"id":582,"date":"2007-04-26T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T23:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/04\/26\/drupaled-is-released\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T23:39:28","slug":"drupaled-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/26\/drupaled-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"DrupalEd is released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we taught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociallibraries.com\/course\/\">Five Weeks to a Social Library<\/a>, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad <a href=\"http:\/\/drupaled.org\/\">DrupalEd<\/a> wasn&#8217;t out yet. But it is now!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment depending on the needs of the learners within the site. With this current framework, both approaches are supported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So cool! But you may get even more excited when you check out some of these features:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># a personal workspace;<br \/>\n# a group workspace;<br \/>\n# the ability for site members to create informal working groups;<br \/>\n# the ability to create formal class spaces;<br \/>\n# a podcasting platform;<br \/>\n# a WYSIWYG text editor;<br \/>\n# wiki functionality;<br \/>\n# personal and class blogs;<br \/>\n# rss feeds for the entire site, individual courses, individual terms, and individual users;<br \/>\n# personal image galleries;<br \/>\n# personal file repositories;<br \/>\n# the ability to create private, invitation-only groups;<br \/>\n# social bookmarking, with searching within bookmark descriptions;<br \/>\n# spam protection;<br \/>\n# assignment calendars by course;<br \/>\n# event calendars for site-wide events;<br \/>\n# configurable user profiles with searchable text descriptions;<br \/>\n# the ability to create lists of &#8220;friends&#8221; among site members<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what open source is all about, isn&#8217;t it? I&#8217;m thrilled to see tools like Drupal, WordPress and more being adapted for educational use. We can&#8217;t all afford things like WebCT and Angel, and frankly, most of us don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to use them. Drupal sure was a lot easier to manage than WebCT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we taught Five Weeks to a Social Library, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-education","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}