Please don't speed it up. I feel like someone trying to catch successively faster and more numerous tossed bean bags. It is all I can do to keep up. I understand there is much to cover and each activity and reading does add to my knowledge, but I don't think I'm retaining it too well.
The Drupal install was complicated but as time consuming and detailed as it was it was only the start of the tech activities this week. After that came the draft? construction of the Drupal website. Learning some introductory concepts about Drupal vocabulary and the associated hierachical arrangement of terms and subterms while it does reinforce and place in context our earlier readings by Shirky and Zeng, it is all becoming somewhat overwhelming. Layering all this on top of hours of tech readings, together with what amounts to a second class in digital collections management, plus numerous writing assignments, listening to podcasts and replying to the seemingly endless discussion posts from classmates, well ...
Despite the deluge of material and assignments, I'll continue to give it my best effort. The connection between MySQL and Drupal was the most instructive concept learned this week. Trying to locate my initial page and then grasping that rather than being located in a familiar static directory and subdirectory structure that Drupal instead dynamically recalls content from a database was a very important lesson.
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