[Sugar-devel] Education on the XO

[Chris Marshall]

Sorry, I am unable to take on this task.
I will continue to follow the thread and
participate as I can.

Regards,
Chris

David Farning wrote:
> 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.