-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Great Idea, I would also offer www.pythonworks.org/moodle as a home.
I have a CS1 course (using Zelle's book) that I can put out on whatever site we decide to use. By May I'll have a CS2 course ready to go. Brad On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:12 PM, kirby urner wrote: > > Here's an idea. Given a lot of us teach Python, plan to, or have > ideas for doing so, if we had shared access to a Python Moodle > someplace, we could develop open source courseware, either as > individuals or in teams. > > The Algebra with Python stuff I'm doing could be cloned to the new > site. I'm pretty sure the backup zip I'm able to create through > the interface, will restore to another Moodle. I could easily > transfer the content in that case. Others could roll their own. > > Seems like a good idea (didn't someone already propose this?). I'm > sure there are plenty of alternatives to Moodle, but so far it > seems like a pretty workable solution to a problem. It's more > vertical market than Plone, i.e. is built from the ground up with > distance education courseware in mind. > > I don't have the server or the time to get a Moodle up and > running. But if someone in the Python community does, and wants to > use edu-sig as a staging ground and talent pool, I bet we could go > places with it. Lots of new tutorials, useless python and vaults > of parnassus type stuff could be recast in a more distance > education friendly format. > > Kirby > 4D/OCN > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFD25MGt6pClM1VKiYRAmKdAJ9dPFgZmIt3HPuVZOjdiB7FEJaLfACgt1Uw p5IeHS6fztdx23Im71tC9Ig= =cxkO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
