Drupal Camp Wisconsin Agenda and Possible Topics

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Agenda

UW Drupal landscape

• Audience: Anyone

• Time: Wed 6/3 1pm-2pm

• Location: Memorial Union, check "Today in the Union" (TITU) for the room
  

• Talking Points:

  • Course websites: Collaborative Sites, the Engage grant
    

  • Teacher / Instructor / Staff Sites: TLE, ComETS, LessonShare
    

  • Department / University Sites: AT, LSS, Pharmacy...

• Current challenges
• Scalability
• ....
  

Drupal at PSU

• Audience: Anyone

• Time: Wed 6/3 2pm-3:30pm (with time after for more conversation)

• Location: Memorial Union, check "Today in the Union" (TITU) for the room

• Talking Points:

  • Departments using Drupal

  • Course Design / Delivery process w/ Drupal

    • How are teachers / instructors using it?

    • How are students using it?

    • How are Instructional Designers?

    • How are IT Professionals using it?

  • Why Drupal and not Joomla, Moodle, Plone, Wordpress, Wikimedia…?

  • Support Mechanism -- Central vs distributed support

  • Integration with existing University Systems / Programs

Informal conversation

• Audience: Anyone
• Time: Dinner
• Location: TBD
  

Bryan's projects / Initiatives (e-Learning Institute)

• Audience: Anyone

• Time: Thursday 6/4 9am-10:30am

• Location: Memorial Union, check "Today in the Union" (TITU) for the room

• Talking Points

  • 1^st tier Modules: Course manager, Outline Designer, Assignment Studio

  • 2^nd tier modules: Search and Replace, Activation Codes, FLIR, HTML Export, others

  • Initiatives: Drupal in Education Handbook, Drupal in Education Consortium

Common technical needs

• Audience: Clickers, and coders

• Time: Thursday 6/4 10:30am-lunch

• Location: Memorial Union, check "Today in the Union" (TITU) for the room --the room is reserved all day
  

• Talking Points:

  • Where do we find common needs and potential points for collaboration?

  • Who else can we get involved? (ASU, MSU, VT, PIT, MIT, AMHERST, STANDFORD, anyone else?)

  • What can we learn from each other?

  • How can we help each other?

  • What formalized research can we do to improve system credibility?

• Audience: Clickers, and coders

• Duration: Thursday 6/4 afternoon
  

• Talking Points:

  • What coding projects might we work together on?

    • Course Management Infrastructure suite of modules

      • Looking to deliver CMS / University in a box

    • Outline Designer Course (or website) structure building

    • Other Projects

  • What is the best mechanism for workflow and sharing code?

    • Drupal.org projects site w/ CVS access to shared projects

  • What formalized research can we do to grants / otherwise?

Other groups

• Bryan is also interested in opportunities to converse with website designers and students. Please leave a comment here if you have ideas on how to make this happen.
• Time: Thursday 6/4 afternoon
• Location: ?
  

Possible Topics

Drupal Topic of interest

• Audience: Anyone

• Duration: 1 hour

• Talking Points:

  • Discussing pecific topic like “using views 2” or some other specific Drupal technology

Question and Answer

• Audience: Anyone (can be group focused if you want to have multiple ones)

• Duration: Question Driven, as long the audience wants or maybe 30-45 minute sessions one for each audience?

Audiences

• Instructional Designers / Faculty

• "Coders" include those who work w/ Drupal on a php/MySQL level

• "Clickers" are non-coder-site-developers

• "Anyone" includes people who are invested in our eLearning landscape (CMS admins, eLearning roadmap, ComETS members)