Out of curiosity, did anything come of this... or are we at the same stage as when this email was written in terms of a deployment plan for curriculum content? <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org">bryan@olenepal.org</a>> 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 <a href="http://moodle.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">moodle.sugarlabs.org</a>. 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. -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. <a href="http://earthtreasury.net/" target="_blank">http://earthtreasury.net/</a> (Ed Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></blockquote></div> -- <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html" target="_blank">Joan Crawford</a> - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."