Technologies and Learning

I work as an IT teacher, my students sometimes have to write in a blog, they can program a simple website and they use Moodle on a daily basis. I have a prefered CMS for every situation. When I need to create a fast website or blog to publish some information they can use "Google Sites", "Wordpress" or "Blogger" On the other hand "Moodle" is the best solution for LMS, I tried "Google Classroom" and although it is very simple, it still lacks power. We do not use Drupal or Joomla CMS, there are for professional and powerful solutions.  Students learn basic HTML and CSS to undestand some basic concepts. In my opinion is very important that they know how these systems works internally.  

Comparing some websites using different CMS, I personally prefer Drupal and Joomla sites. I think these systems are very popular, thus with Drupal or Joomla we have more templates and options. PHP-Nuke is an old CMS system and in my opinion websites look so old-fashioned. The website in the example is not responsive (automatically adapted to de device size) and nowadays I think this is very important. SPIP and Zikula sites are very simple and templates are not very atractive. Websites based on "mestre a casa" are very similar and the do not use modern templates like Drupal or Joomla. I think this kind os sites are more focused on content and information than on the aspect. Finally Moodle site is an option, but like in the previous sites analyzed all web sites using Moodle are very similar and for a company we need be different and more atractive than the other one. To sum up, as IT Teacher having enought experience using some CMS, I prefer Drupal or Joomla for profe

Joomla is a wonderful content management system, I tried it a few years ago and it is very powerful. On the other hand, I think there are simpler solutions for teachers like WordPress, which although it is a blogging system, also implements a basic CMS. Joomla implements a menu system for a little complex. If you do not need a very complex website, I prefer Wordpress, and if you need a sophisticated website, you can try Drupal. This CMS has many add-ons and extensions, you can customize the look from the large list of templates and there are many resources to help you on the Internet.