INTRODUCTION:

In a nutshell, Drupal is like WordPress, but it is more robust. You can do more things with it.

Drupal is an open source content management system, which comes with a core package of functionality when you install it. Because it is open source, its potential is vast. Open source developers contribute ‘modules’ - which you can add on to your Drupal core package to extend it. Thus, if you want to do more with your core package, you can search for modules available for download on the internet.

I am examining from the ADMINISTRATOR view of an installed Drupal site. This shows you what functionality is available in the core install of Drupal 7.16. I am looking for functionality that will allow students to apply the learning objectives according to BLOOM’s taxonomy.

*The ADMINISTRATOR view differs from a typical user view, in that it provides an extra menu bar where you can set and configure the functionality you want to use.*

REFERENCE: Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Summary Map:

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Drupal 7.16 and Bloom’s Taxonomy for Learning

REFERENCE: Drupal

http://drupal.org/

Evaluating -

Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring

Digital application:

(Blog/vlog) commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, (Alpha & beta) testing,

Validating.

Creating –

designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making

Digital Application:

programming, filming, animating, Blogging, Video blogging, mixing, remixing, wiki-ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing/producing, creating or building mash ups

Analysing -

Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating

Digital application:

Mashing, linking, reverse-engineering, cracking, mind-mapping.

Also:

Remembering -

Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding

Digital application:

Bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, social networking, Social bookmarking, favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching,

Googling.

Understanding –

Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying

Digital application:

Advanced searching, boolean searching, blog journalling, tagging, categorising and tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing

Applying -

Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

Digital application:

running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing

NOTE: Also for uploading images, and making image

galleries, the following module can extend core drupal: