Teaching Tools: Open Web Ware

Open source content management systems (CMS) are pretty prevalent.  Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress and a huge host of others are available to the masses with new ones popping up frequently.  Earlier this week in my web development class, I was introduced to a great introductory CMS called Open Web Ware.

It is super light, PHP/Javascript driven management system that is a great introduction to students about the concepts of content management.  More over, you can tear it down into pieces quickly and use those as a great instruction tool showing budding web builders how it was created and what drives it.

The beauty of CMS's are their WYSIWYG editors that give users immediate feedback on how their code is being rendered.

Over all, a great teaching tool for introductory CMS training.  Well done Open Web Ware!