<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Re: [IAEP] courses.sugarlabs.org</title> </head> <body> Done - offlist<br /><div><hr /></div><br />On 11/01/2008, 13:34, David Van Assche (dvanassche@gmail.com) wrote:<div style="border-left: 1px solid #0000cc; padding: 5px; margin-left: 10px">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 wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, David Van Assche > 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 >> 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 >> >> 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/ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >></div></body></html>