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Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help
June 24, 2008 – 11:05 pm

Well… i’m finally getting my teeth back into opensim and finding that there are a couple of things i’d like to get built over the next couple of months. We’ve already gotten a good start on the automated installer for opensim, but what i’d really like to do now is attempt an integration with drupal. I’ll be keeping my running requirements list for that integration on the openhabitat project page and will hopefully pop a few updates into here from time to time.

What I need
I need two things.

1. I need a good drupal/opensim programmer. Someone familiar with both platforms who can spearhead the drupal integration (or, if you like opensim integration).
2. I need some sense that there are other folks in the British Higher Education community who would find this integration compelling for an application to the emerge community for extra funding.

I know it is fairly well documented around the web that some of the old 'ROR up and running' tutorials are a bit difficult to digest with the new features in in Rails 2.0. So, I wanted to document my findings. And provide links to the resources that have helped me.

Here's a couple of resources to get started:

akitaonrails.com
weblog.infoworld.com

Stay posted for more of my findings.

I've received a number of requests for help with 'Drupal Basics' in the last couple of weeks. Here's something to get you started, hope it helps.

Your Virtual Ph.D. - Popular Science

Want to master a new computer language? Brush up on your calculus? Learn how to fix your car? No sweat. With the vast array of college courses and podcasts available online, the apple of knowledge is ripe for the clicking. Here, we've narrowed the options to our favorites—the best of the geeky best, from free podcasts and lectures to accredited distance-learning programs from major universities.

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This list is really a mashup of the work done by others - see shoutouts (references) below:

• 1. Gold Farmer
• 2. New Media Producer
• 3. Professional Reviewers
• 4. Video Syndication, RSS, Photo, VoIP, Consultants
• 5. Clothing Label Crafter
• 6. Senior Interface Hacker
• 7. Micro Investor
• 8. Community Curator
• 9. Ruby on Rails Developer
• 10. PHP Ninja

shoutouts (references)

webworkerdaily.com
technologyevangelist.com
fastcompany.com
oreillynet.com

..And where can you get started training for one of these positions?

more later

What about finding a position?

• jobs.37signals.com
• crunchboard.com
• weblog.rubyonrails.org/jobs
• craigslist.org/

more later

Interesting Snippets - a photoset on Flickr This is a fantastic set of images related to the state of the web, communications, and new media. Each image is accompanied by a thought provoking quote. I thought this would be perfect for an anticipatory set for a new media presentation, or an introductory visual for a shared discussion on topics related to new media or web 2.0. Enjoy!

I've been watching the growing number of universities adopting drupal for their content management, podcasting, blogging and wiki integration needs. Here's my current list.

• UT at Austin - Department of Rhetoric and Writing - http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/
• Rice University - http://sa.rice.edu/
• Arizona State University - http://www.asu.edu/
• UNC Charlotte University Center Information Technology - http://ucit01.uncc.edu
• Brigham Young University (BYU) – Computer Science Department http://cs.byu.edu/
• Bradley University - http://slane.bradley.edu/
• Washington University in St. Louis - http://artsci.wustl.edu/
• University of Calgary - http://www.ucalgary.ca/
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) http://fab.cba.mit.edu/central/
• Purdue University - http://www.digitalparlor.org/pwenglish/
• Michigan State University - Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory - http://www.egr.msu.edu/ndel/home

Other Drupal Sites related to Innovation in Education include:

• connect.educause.edu - http://connect.educause.edu/
• The International Center for Integrative Studies (ICIS) - http://www.icisonline.org/
• IDEAL (Integrated Data Enhancing Arizona's Learning) - https://www.ideal.azed.gov
• Texas Digital Library - http://www.tdl.org/

If you know of any others - give us a shout.

Here is a comprehensive list of all the San Antonio Area K-12 Teaching and Education Positions available. I organized the content in my del.icio.us account. I'm in the process of creating an RSS feed of each of the pages, but most, or all, of these websites are poorly written and it is difficult to extract the content in some type of structure thats make sense.

What gets me is that most or all of these government websites are not section 508 compliant.

cravens' bookmarks tagged with "SanAntonioTeachingJobs" on del.icio.us

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Open Culture: The Hottest Course on iTunes (and the Future of Digital Education)

I'll be using this podcast, the Understanding Computers course from Harvard in my Computer Systems inservice. This will serve a number of purposes...to enhance my own instruction, and to open educators to the value of podcasting in education.