Exemplar CMS designs?

23rd February 2006

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I spoke with Steve Dembo of Teach42 today about the relative merits of open-source content and course management systems like Moodle and Drupal. A team at the Discovery Educator Network is working on creating a new website portal for educators related to some international trips educators will take and students can virtually follow, related to the Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, etc.

When it comes to customized website designs using open-source content management systems and course management systems (including but not limited to Drupal and Moodle), what are some of the best ones you have seen? Do you have a recommendation for a particular CMS based on the purpose described above for the Discovery Educator Network?

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1 On February 23rd, 2006, Miguel Guhlin said:

Wes and Steve, I mentioned one particular exemplar for Drupal in my Penguin Day series at
http://www.mguhlin.net/blog/archives/2005/11/entry_638.htm

Nick Lewis, who has a blog at http://nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com
would be someone to write to. He and Gene Crick–listen to audio of their presentation at http://itls.saisd.net/mg/penguinday/nickgene.mp3–gave a presentation on “Write On!” community story collection project, which I thought was AWESOME idea for use in education. The techie behind the scenes work involves using Drupal and a module of Drupal known as “CivicSpace.”

You can find a link to WriteOn! at http://www.writeonaustin.org/

Hope this helps,
Miguel Guhlin
http://www.mguhlin.net/blog

2 On March 20th, 2006, Teach42 - Education and Technology, by Steve Dembo » Discovery Educator Abroad: Pacific Rim said:

[...] The bulk of the website is being handled by Drupal, thanks in no small part to the advice of Wesley Fryer. Blogs are being handled by Drupal as well. Photos are being brought into the site using Flickr, and Feedburner is massaging the feed to incoroprate the photos as well as provide enclosures for the webisodes allowing people to subscribe to them as vlogs or vidcasts. [...]