[IAEP] courses.sugarlabs.org

[David Van Assche]

If someone makes me a course creator there, then I can create
categories and upload content that I've collected over the years.

David Van Assche

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Thanks for help us get this started!  This will happen at
> schools.sugarlabs.org .
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> 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.
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> thanks
> david
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>> Kind Regards,
>> David Van Assche
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>> 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:
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>> >> 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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