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Phase I: Research
OWL has identified "Digital Literacy" (aka "Computer Literacy") as a core community need and has developed a program theory and implementation plan for executing research in this area. The goals of this research are to produce a white paper on best practices, identify and communicate with strategic partners and field experts, develop an advisory board on digital literacy programming and create a program theory and implementation plan for development of "Digital Literacy" project.
Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites
by David Mercer
267 pp.
PACKT Publishing May 2006
ISBN 1-904811-80-9
Reviewed by Tim Torgerson
With clear and concise prose and an easy, friendly manner, author David Mercer adeptly guides the reader in setting-up, configuring and customizing Drupal, the PHP/MySQL-based, open source, content management system. Mercer pulls up a chair along side us to provide a knowledgeable hand in designing, developing and deploying a Drupal-based website. Whether it's discussing network settings or writing code, Mercer's good humor and sound advice creates the encouraging environment open source is meant to have.
Guy Prints Out Single Net Course, Decides Whole Thing is For the Birds
By Heidi Bakk-Hansen, OWL Institute (Blog Commentary)
4/7/06
I just found the following column, and couldn't reprint without a bit of commentary. Although it makes some sense to me--this whole throwing up the hands thing when it comes to new technology--that doesn't mean that someone should be putting out this kind of thinking without some acknowledgement, at least, of the narrowness of this sort of opinion, having been based on a single experience.
Here's the link to the article:
