[IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

[Luke Faraone]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:27, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> curriki != moodle courses, format is quite different. So unless you create
> seperate instances of the courses one will have to choose either curriki
> format or moodle format.


Hm, that doesn't sound right: wouldn't Curriki benefit by making their
content easily convertible to a variety of formats?

CC'ing an acquaintance of mine at Curriki to get the full story.

 On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:32, David Van Assche<dvanassche at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Well, this is really what moodle was created for. Especially considering
>> its
>> > the main tool used in all XS server implmentations and is in use in at
>> least
>> > 40% of British schools. I'm not sure about the American numbers, but
>> pretty
>> > sure it must be highly used there too. Creating courses in moodle is not
>> > only easy, but extremely powerful, and can be easily shared with other
>> > teachers. There are existing general moodle implementations, though none
>> > have enough content, including the sugarlabs one (schools.sugarlabs.org)
>> I'm
>> > focusing my own efforts on linux-for-education.org, where little by
>> little
>> > we're growing the site. The latter has 5 sugar based courses I created
>> and
>> > several ubuntu and opensuse courses. Apart from the courses, the
>> glossaries
>> > and database modules link straight into the course content, allowing
>> > students to easily look up terms used in courses that might be
>> confusing.
>>
>> But I guess you can deploy Curriki content in Moodle instances? I
>> think the main point of Curriki is working together with an existing
>> community, not so much about what is used to deploy the content.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > kind regards,
>> > David Van Assche
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > From: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
>> >> > Subject: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?
>> >> > To: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, Kellie Doty
>> >> >       <kmd970 at mail.harvard.edu>
>> >> > Message-ID:
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>> >> >
>> >> > I'd like to introduce Kellie Doty, she is a fellow student in the
>> >> > Technology, Education and Innovation program at Harvard Grad School
>> for
>> >> > Education and she is in Intern at Sugar Labs this fall working on the
>> >> > GPA
>> >> > project.  Kellyie's role will be to help us develop curriculum, test
>> it
>> >> > at
>> >> > GPA and publish it in a format that will be easy to adopt by other
>> >> > teachers.
>> >> > One of her first tasks will be to take the lessons we did
>> >> > over the summer and try to write them up.
>> >> >
>> >> > One question is where should we put lesson plans?
>> >> >
>> >> > My first thought was wiki.sugarlabs.org
>> >> >  our wonderful maze of twisty pages all different.  But Kellie
>> pointed
>> >> > out that teachers need to be able to find things through various
>> paths
>> >> > such as subject, grade level and activities used.
>> >> >
>> >> > My second thought was Moodle as it probably has a module for that.
>> >>
>> >> +1 for curriki. It has an existing community of teachers to work w/ and
>> >> it is a good tool, geared to their needs
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Bryan W. Berry
>> >> Technology Director
>> >> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
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