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Category Archives: Drupal

EdTech Posse migration

Friday, August 31, 2007

I’m preparing to migrate the EdTech Posse website from Drupal to WordPress. I’m too lazy to hack SQL, so I’m going to do this the quick and dirty way. I’ve downloaded a copy of our current RSS feed, and I’ll import that into a shiny, fresh installation of WordPress. This should be fairly easy. Or [...]

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NBCHS goes Drupal

Friday, March 23, 2007

I recently updated the [NBCHS website](http://www.nbchs.lskysd.ca) to Drupal. Although I had planned the change for some time, the final impetus for getting it done was a mass IP address renumbering throughout the school division, which broke some of our existing links and DNS entries. So far, the site is pretty basic. I haven’t changed from [...]

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Drupal 5.0 released

Monday, January 15, 2007

Drupal 5.0 released I’ve set up a few sites, like openthinking.ca, with Drupal. This latest version looks fantastic with a new default theme that can have its colour scheme configured from within Drupal. The usability of the administration of a Drupal powered site just improved by an order of magnitude with the revision and enhancement [...]

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Drupal 4.7 RC released

Friday, March 31, 2006

Inevitably there is a significant Drupal release just as I start working on a Drupal project. Drupal 4.7 is a joy to work with, and I’m looking forward to playing some serious testing as soon as I can. Drupal 4.7 RC Announcement | drupal.org

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Request for ideas: private, restricted and public posts in a Drupal-based class blog

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I’m working with a teacher in the school who wants to give students a chance to do some authentic, self-directed writing (music to any edu-blogmeister’s ears, I’m sure). I’ve set up a site using Drupal. On the first day of student writing, we’ve already had some issues about appropriate levels of self-disclosure in the students’ [...]

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Charles Lowe and Dries Buytaert write about Drupal

Friday, June 10, 2005

Charles and Dries have a good writeup describing Drupal in It’s about the Community Plumbing: The Social Aspects of Content Management Systems. Not only a description of Drupal, their essay also addresses the unique context of development of Drupal and other open source content management systems. The tools are not only the product of the [...]