My second semester of TA mentoring at Purdue offered an introduction to the uses of drupal in the classroom. During the Spring 2005 semester of ENGL 106 sec. 17-02, I found myself offering the students a more centralized method of class communication, a classroom outside of the classroom. Through categorization and daily updates, the drupal site provided the students with a platform for building on previous discussions (a mode of facilitation which blogger does not offer--blogger merely provides archived recesses that the students for which the students must search and which are not readily available on the front pages of the website). I plan to integrate drupal further into my teaching of ENGL 108 Advanced Composition Learning Community for Computer Science freshman next semester.

class website and blog