Member of Plone 4 and 5 Framework Teams Releases Book on Educating Using Plone
Plone 3 for Education shows a technically savvy educator or school web group exactly how to deploy this free, open source content management system in any educational environment. The author, Erik Rose, worked on the Plone 4 and 5 framework teams and explains how to dig beneath the surface and put the full power of Plone to work for your institution. Plone has several features that make it particularly suited for use in the education sector, including its security capabilities and powerful back-end tools.
The book details how to utilize Plone in common e-learning situations such as collecting forms, maintaining assignment schedules and authoring rich course materials complete with audio and video. Class discussions can be facilitated through Plone online forums. Educators can even create podcasts for students to access at their leisure.
The author then delves into more advanced aspects of Plone such as integration with third-party plugins. Rather than getting bogged down in technical details, the book lays out 11 common cases of plugin integration unique to the educational environment. This allows the webmaster to concentrate on implementation in their particular system rather than wasting time trying to make sense of all the available options.
Plone 3 for Education is a must-have manual for any school webmaster looking to deploy this feature-rich, free CMS on their system. Once implemented, the beauty of Plone is that maintenance can be handled by the educator, freeing the web team for other more complex tasks.
Plone 3 for Education is available from Packt Publishing direct for $39.95 in soft-cover and $31.99 in PDF ebook.
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