[IAEP] schools.sugarlabs.org

[David Farning]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:25 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok, I've been adding content and setting up various parts of the site.
> I've put in a bunch of examples in the various modules, that it is
> obvious how other contributors can expand and help. Right now I've
> been adding content from throughout the net that is already in moodle
> format and falls under the creative commons license. I've also begun
> categorising the sections courses should be in, though really we have
> to think about how one categorises courses by age level and language.
> It may actually be better to have a seperate moodle instance for
> different languages, because otherwise the course content will end up
> being to big.
>

Thanks for getting this started!

Yes, categorizing the content will be a challenge.  The emergent properties
of an Open Source project are fascinating.

Using and emphasizing open content, such as CC, is great.  I have a
telephone call scheduled with http://www.openmedianow.org/ to see how we can
cross market Sugar Labs and Open Media Now.

I've also added a terms glossary for sugar, and started grabbing terms
> from here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Glossary
> these terms are linked from all content, so that if the keywords
> appear in any course text or any other text, a link to that glossary
> term is automatically added.
>
> There is also a Frequently Asked Questions list I put up (with
> commenting allowed) with some example questions about downloading and
> licensing
>
> I added a list of open content links which are a good place to start
> looking for material which can be either uploaded or used to create
> Moodle Courses.
>
> The sugarlabs lounge is forum where people can ask general questions
> or get into discussions about courses, sugar, or teaching.
>
> Kind Regards,
> David Van Assche
> www.nubae.com
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