[documentation] Babies, Spoons, Food and Funny Faces

[Bèr Kessels]

One thing to start off with, when doing the babyfood-dance, is recipes.

I consider myself one of these babies that never eats carrots. I do, however, 
love to learn by example. Don't start telling me about nodes, or nodeapis, or 
contributions, or theme engines. but tell me, how to build my own 
restaurant-reviews-site (or so). How to make it work, step by step.

I am sure a lot of people "work" the same way. By following short examples, 
they can experience The Drupal Way. But also learn about Drupal concepts, 
while in the mean time, building a real live, working site. 

Just an idea, from a developer who still wants to write some recipes. 

bèr


Op donderdag 05 januari 2006 20:53, schreef gunnar:
> Thanks a lot Themacgeek for volunteering to taking on this huge project.
> ;-)
>
> We have onboard a few people with e-learning, tech training, wbt experience
> (including my four years in e-learning/wbt/cbt in 1997-2001 - It's a little
> rusty now but I did great things back then in Oracle and as an independent
> consultant later).
>
> I totally agree that Drupal needs training material to get those nasty
> newbies off our developers backs ;-).
>
> So how can this be approached? Maintaining visuals after an upgrade? That
> may prove to be a lot of work.
>
> Could a Drupal installation have a build in training system - based on
> drupal? I think it could (ask Charlie Lowe and others).
>
> What would be the first goal of such a project? A pilot lesson/course. The
> real objective? training for end users/bloggers - admins? - training for
> consultants - training for developers?
>
> Themacgeek wrote:
> > I have spent the better part of 4 days now reading through the Drupal
> > documentation, participating in IRC chats, reading forums and hunting
> > the web for Drupal related sites.  During this time I have met and
> > spoke with some wonderful people, learned A LOT about Drupal and its
> > capabilities, and discovered that communities can do more than any
> > one person ever can.
> >
> > After having experience all of these things, I am left with one thought:
> >
> > A Training System Is Needed
> >
> > As explained my earlier post today, I have been a software trainer
> > for almost 10 years now.  And if there is one thing I have learned,
> > it is that books and words (of which Drupal has a great resource of)
> > will only help a certain percentage of people reach full competency
> > with any software package or skill set.  Many, if not most, need
> > interactive, step by step teaching to fully grasp an idea or develop
> > a set of skills. Additionally, that teaching has to be tailored to
> > the different types of individuals and their needs.
>
> Gunnar Langemark
> gunnar at langemark.com