[Sugar-devel] Education on the XO

[Chris Marshall]

It would help if there were a Moodle connection
for G1G1 XO-ers.  From my limited reading it
appears that Moodle is tied in with the XS which
means that a G1G1 laptop owner will have no
easy way to get started or even to discover the
availability or applicability of Moodle.

As one example, I've shown a number of teachers
the XO and they were very interested to see the
laptop.  The case would have been *far* more
compelling if I had been able to show them more
of a classroom use case.

Some thoughts:

(1) Develop a Moodle activity to let XO users
     create courseware without a full XS

(2) Make a mini-LiveCD of the XS to support
     Moodle course development and testing.

(3) Is Birmingham using Moodle?  I've done
     periodic Googles with no real information
     on progress, XO usage, ...

--Chris

Tony Anderson wrote:
> 
> The XO's primary tool for education, as opposed to learning experiences, 
> is Moodle. The problem is that Moodle for the XO is a tool which is 
> ready and waiting to be used (all dressed up and no where to go).
> 
> ...snip...
> 
> The primary problem with Moodle at the moment is that there are is not a 
> body of grade school courses available to illustrate how to build them 
> or to provoke the community to 'make it better'. Unfortunately, at the 
> moment, many people in the community do not consider the schoolserver to 
> be essential, existing Moodle courses are primarily aimed at the 
> university or pre-university level, and most of these are behind 
> proprietary walls.