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Greetings all!!!

I am a novice in Joomla - but that hasn't stopped me from selecting Joomla for a "Special Topics" course I am starting tomorrow!!!

As one of our first assignments to expose my class to Joomla and to Web 2.0 development (and forums); my students will be expected to become members of this Joomla forum. Between them and myself, we are going to have an exciting semester exploring Joomla and various applications.

Thank you!!!

Bruce White
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT 06518

(And ... any Joomla experts in the Connecticut area that would like to take some 'newbies' under his / her wing and guide us - or be guest speakers for our class? (MWF at 10:00 to 10:50 a.m. - not necessarily a good time to come to campus to speak - maybe we can do a Skype (or other) video conference!!! )

What's your underlying goal with this course? To teach students how to setup a personal website? I'm just curious.

Greetings Bla4Free!!!

These will be senior students in Information Systems (so not computer science, but they will have programming in Visual Basic). They have all done personal websites. These will be for clients and hopefully can turn them over to them after the course.

Several goals:
- apply open source solutions
- gathering requirements for a web 2.0 site
- formulate policies (such as forum, e-mail, content addition, editing, handing disruptions, etc.)
- develop a site for clients (probably non-profit - like various entities within the university)
- evaluate and select components
- create / modify templates
- evaluate / edit / select banners
- user management
- content / image / management

In particular, I want them to develop forum applications - possibly for alumni, students, faculty, campus career planing job posts, etc. I want them to go deeper than just "setup" a site, but to focus on management, synthesis, evaluation of components and other aspects. It will extent the Systems Analysis and Design course and Database Management course that they already have taken.

Does that make sense?

Any other suggestions / ideas / comments for us to consider?

THANK YOU!!!!!

Bruce

Hello,

My name is Jeff and I am one of the students taking this course. I am excited to apply what we've learned within the past few years and see our progress in creating these websites.

In yor post you stated that these are VB students, how will this be related to the use of php and the lamp stack as this is a non microsoft platform

also, there are excellent forum components available for joomla that are quite deep with functionality already, if you want them to really get their feet wet, would you entertain the idea of having them create some custom functionality for my companies websites as intern projects? I am located in connecticut myself and I use joomla exclusively

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I am Matt, also one of Prof. White's students, and I would like to say this platform looks very interesting, and I am looking forward to exploring Joomla.

SO, how did this class turnout

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I just moved my moderate-sized website from FP to Joomla and I'm eager to get hands on training from someone here in CT. I'm not sure I want a college class per se as this is my home-business and I'm past the point of wanting/needing college credits but I would LOVE to know if anyone up or near the northeastern part of the state would be interested in taking this newbie under their wing as well.

fantastic Initiative taken,
It would only be a good thing to spread the cms more and around.
best of luck In your ordeal.

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trumedia.com out of East Haven CT offers joomla training

ask for Jon

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