11/3/07 retrospective: It is up and working now at http://coal2.missouristate.edu/composition/. Much of it is only visible to Missouri State University Composition students and instructors, but parts are visible, especially Project Hope, which will be available to all once it is up and running.

The DrupalEd site for the Composition Program at Missouri State is up, but won't be visible for some time yet as the College of Arts and Letters support staff (AKA Angela Barker) and I tweak and mold it into everything it can be. What might that be? Here's what the opening screen says. Oh, the possibilities....

Welcome to DrupalEd!.

If you're looking for a way to get started, here are some options:

    * First, if you haven't already done so, log in.

    * Once you have logged in, create your bio.

    * Read over the existing documentation on the wiki pages.

    * Create a Group , or a Blog post , or a Podcast.

This site can be used as an informal learning site where all users have comparable permissions, or as a more hierarchical learning environment with students, teachers, classes, and working groups.

Some of the functionality within this site includes:

    * a personal workspace;

    * a group workspace;

    * the ability for site members to create informal working groups;

    * the ability to create formal class spaces;

    * podcasting;

    * wiki functionality;

    * personal and class blogs;

    * rss feeds for the entire site, individual courses, individual terms, and individual users;

    * personal image galleries;

    * personal file repositories;

    * the ability to create private, invitation-only groups;

    * social bookmarking, with searching within bookmark descriptions;

    * spam protection;

    * assignment calendars by course;

    * event calendars for site-wide events;

    * configurable user profiles with searchable text descriptions;

    * the ability to create lists of "friends" among site members;

    * the ability to find the missing sock in the dryer.

The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment depending on the needs of the learners within the site. With this current framework, both approaches are supported.

This is going to be fun.