I posted this request at DrupalEd, but decided this might be a more appropriate forum.
I am interesting in creating a drupal based site for daily use in my secondary social studies classroom. Drupal is very robust and seems to offer endless possibilities for the classroom. I have been working on a Drupal based site for the past 10 days. I have been experimenting with modules, user permissions, navigation, themes, and general setup. I currently have a working site with lots of potential. But, unsurprisingly, I am running into pretty standard organizational and conceptual problems concerning Drupal. I have created many project oriented web sites for my classes in the past, but these were in dreamweaver and were html rather than cms based sites. I think I know how I want my site to be organized, and how I want to use the different modules - and I know Druapl is up to the task - but I get lost when it comes to the actual set up of the site.
I have searched the discussion forums and read the handbook and documentation and these have been helpful in many ways. I have approached new technology in the past and am familiar with my own learning curve, but unfortunately I don't have the time to let my brain run its course - school starts September 1st. I would like to have at least a basic site up before the beginning of the school year.
I have many small simple questions that don't seem important enough for the forums - and, at this point, I really need to focus on instructional goals and content and how my site can enhance those and function as a tool for learning - and leave the actual site set up to someone more savvy than me and who can then bring me up to speed. In the simpliest terms - I need someone very familar with Drupal who can listen to what I want, make my site do that and then educate me on how they did it.