Interdependent Web

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(these are notes from a session at the DrupalCon 2010 Unconference.)

slideshow from iPhoneLife.com case study: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AZAzJFrS9AdOZGdwNGc2ajJfMzhwNWJ2Y3BmbQ&hl=en

School District 16, New Brunswick, dt16community.nbed.nb.ca

• needed a video-publishing environment safe for K-12 students
• wound up creating a Drupal solution for all schools in the district - each teacher has a page
• allows parents to have a window into kids' classrooms every day
• teachers say students are proactive about getting assignments and working on them
• broadcast journalism class: students contribute content directly to "District 16 Report" online newspaper
• planning to scale up the model to other districts in the province

uOttawa Student Portal

• requirement of dynamic language switching (French/English)
• all student data stored in DB2 database on mainframe
• purchased Luminis Portal, but missing promised requirements, poor usability and performance, poor i18n.
• Drupal supplemented missing functionality, gradually took on more and more functionality, with Luminis only as the portal
• using Messaging, Notifications, i18n, OG, jQuery UI, Panels, Services, Rules