[IAEP] courses.sugarlabs.org

[David Farning]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, I know of many places we can collect creative commons and open
> licensed courses in various subjects, and am willing to go ahead and
> start putting that up, including a course on python I did for my
> students, but first I'd like some clarification on where that could be
> done. It is currently unclear to me where we are going to collect and
> host such material, is it courses.sugarlabs.org, moodle.sugarlabs.org,
> or schools.sugarlabs.org?
>

Thanks for help us get this started!  This will happen at
schools.sugarlabs.org .

Caroline Meeks, from Solutions Grove, will be hosting it on one her
servers.  We asked Solutions Grove to host it because as a professional
moodle provider they are able maintain the system with much less effort then
we could ourselves.

thanks
david

>
> Kind Regards,
> David Van Assche
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> wrote:
> > Today I also feel like top-posting a little...
> >
> > Yes, I think that would be a great idea.  Do you know who could help us
> > organize such courses or write them anew?
> >
> > Also Cc'ing Seth as he expressed interest in working on content, although
> > perhaps he had in mind something different -- possibly complementary --
> to
> > online courses.
> >
> >
> > David Van Assche wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey bernie and list,
> >>   I don't believe so. Originally it was set up to help OLE Nepal make
> >> a centralised repo, but that never happened. I am all for making a
> >> centralised Repository of content that can be used throughout the
> >> deployments worldwide. An idea is to make an example course (learning
> >> python for example) which course creators can then use as a base and
> >> make other courses from there. The first thing to do is to get people
> >> to suggest/apply for courses to be made on specific subjects:
> >> - programming with python
> >> - creating XO activites
> >> - Maintaining/administering Sugar and the XOs
> >>
> >> or they could be more specific like:
> >> - making python games
> >> - learning the sugar shell and its commands
> >> - maintaining the XO hardware
> >>
> >> On another note, the edubuntu list, k12linux and olpc.at are also very
> >> interested in creating a common repository of content to be used in
> >> schools. If we all team up together, this could be a great project
> >> that will actually survive and have usable content in the short and
> >> long term, across all distros... Why not make that location
> >> moodle.sugarlabs.org or schools.sugarlabs.org
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >> David Van Assche
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ciao,
> >>>
> >>> does anyone still use it?
> >>>
> >>> Caroline has setup another Moodle instance and asked us
> >>> to make "schools.sugarlabs.org" point at it.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe the two of you should join forces on a common Moodle
> >>> server?  I think getting some content there should be a
> >>> priority.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>  // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
> >>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
> >>>
> >
> >
> > --
> >   // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
> >  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
> >
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