[Sugar-devel] Education on the XO

[David Farning]

Chris,

Is this something that you would be able to look into more deeply?

Sugar Labs has a moodle server at schools.sugarlabs.org . But, we
don't have anyone with the time and skills to champion the effort yet.

There are a lot of interest people!  No one with a knowledge of Sugar,
Moodle, and content development.... and enough passion led craziness
has volunteered to coordinate the effort:(

david

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Chris Marshall
<jns-cmarshall at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
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