Tonight has been a productive one. I have been thinking about my desires for openness for my students, and I have come to the conclusion that we need some sort of outward-facing website for them to edit and publish work. They sure like the Moodle for slide presentations, online quizzes, and messaging, but don’t seem to really be blogging much. Perhaps it is because Moodle’s blog integration doesn’t really feel like a “blog”. Last nine weeks, my kids went to town on a Drupal install, so I decided to revamp my own interest in Drupal.
I noticed that there was a new version, 5.0 Beta 1. As I always a sucker for a good beta of open source goodness, I installed it on a different server, as not to mess with my trusty 4.6.4 install.
My single biggest aggravation with Drupal is the lack of csv uploading of new users. There seemed to be an add-on for that in 4.7.4, but there is no such animal for 5.0 as of yet. Grant you this is an early beta.
So that’s where I am. I want more chances for my kids to publish work. Our wiki got a little messy with nonsense, so I need to clean it up. I am having MAJOR trouble with my Jot wiki, and can’t get any support. Maybe they are busy migrating to Google. Maybe the answer is to have my kids publish to a wiki? Boy I sure like them being able to just ramble about nonsense in a blog setting. It’s just so much to do in nine weeks. And to think, this bunch is almost halfway done! In January, we start this journey all over again. Sigh.
The more you talk about Drupal, the more you’re making me want to install it myself.
Hm, I wonder if Drupal would get my students more interested in using the online portion of my Art Club…