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Teaching Digital Art Applications
Problem of practice
In my digital art classes, my students use rich computer applications with loads of functionality (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, for example). I have wrestled with different ways in which to teach these programs. I have found demos to be ineffective for my students. Either they don’t pay attention, or they try to follow along, missing the next part of the demo. Even when students are paying attention, they often forget what I did by the time they are ready to try themselves.
Solution
Each day I ask a question about the program students are using for the current project, and provide instructions to help them figure out the answer. Following the steps, students discover an element of the program that they can use in their project.
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The tool you need...
I've got a fair bit of experience working with a CMS called Drupal, including building a set of book review features directly into my school's website that can do everything you imagined in your hack and more.
It's a fairly heavy lift to learn, but once you get it, you can do almost anything with it. It's what YouPD is built on.
Check out drupal.org
You could get started with a simple hosting plan like these: http://drupal.org/hosting
Other possibilities....
Thanks, Andrew,
Do you know if Drupal is similar to Joomla? The other thing that I've been meaning to experiment with is Wordpress--maybe a little simpler?
Rachel
Two great projects
I love both of your ideas and they would both be useful for sharing across schools. I could use a book review/reading website too! The features that you outlined are perfect.