[IAEP] CurrWiki, documenting deployments (was Re: IAEP Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> Some comments,
>
> Most of the folks running deployments are so busy running them that they
> don't have time to document their work or share their experiences.
> Greebo is a notable exception and I am continually astounded by her
> productivity and quality.
>
> I think it would be extremely helpful for someone outside of a
> deployment to go to a well-run one-- and not necessarily large one-- and
> document their work. I would particularly like to learn about David
> Leeming's experiences in Oceania. He may be doing the best job of
> running deployments in the world right now but he doesn't have time to
> document his work.

I would be delighted to do that, and so would FLOSS Manuals. Let's talk offline.

> Christoph Derndorfer is coming to Nepal for the summer and we hope that
> he can help us better document our work and communicate our
> requirements.
>
> I will try to make a better effort at joining the IRC meetings for
> deployments. When are they again?
>
>
> >From Michael's questions:
>
>> * Is there anything we could spend our time on which would yield a
>> greater
>> return on investment?
>
> The most helpful thing I can think of right now would be a
> special-purpose website/wiki only for curricula.

+1

Earth Treasury would be happy to host that on our new server, as part
of our Digital Textbooks initiative.

> Each curriculum should
> map to a course in moodle.sugarlabs.org. We need to start the process of
> mapping standard curricula to the open-source resources (quizzes,
> readings, activities) that are available in some sort of intelligible
> order. Then an interested developer or educator could start plugging in
> the holes.
>
> Really, all is needed is some kind of special-purpose wiki mapped to
> moodle. No special software. The hard and incredibly *unsexy* work is
> uploading the n curricula from X states/countries and mapping it to
> sequenced materials. We can talk about quality, pedagogy ad infinitum
> but the vast majority of teachers don't have a starting point to even
> provide mediocre education beyond what they are currently provided by
> their own governments.

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