[Sugar-devel] Education on the XO

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

Creating a Moodle site is quite easy - see http://moodle.org/. It does 
not require the schoolserver.

OLENepal has created a livecd version of XS based on XS-0.4 (see 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLE_Nepal:Schoolserver)

Clearly, two things are needed. One, a Moodle site for the XO. Two, a 
set of courses on the site aimed at K-8.

Hopefully in the next two months, we will be able to put the existing 
Nepal course materials online in the form of Moodle courses.

Tony

Chris Marshall 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.
> 
> .
>