>I'd appreciate any thoughts where to stick this further - if I should be waiting > for an idea comp to come along, or try mailing my mp or dept. of education. [ha]
Andy All secondary schools in England - education is a devolved responsibility - must have a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) up and running this year. The intention is that pupils can work on projects at home as well as at school, amongst other things. Have a look at Moodle (www.moodle.org) the biggest of the open source offerings. Most of these VLEs will have methodologies for resource sharing amongst the teachers. Off the top of my head, I think there may be a requirement for primaries to have them available by 2012 or something, although that may only be a guideline. Google launched a platform some time ago around http://www.google.co.uk/schools/ which does some of what you are looking for, but I think it is pretty underwhelming and underused. Our educators are - !!! huge generalisation alert !!! - generally quote tech-phobic And if it doesn't come with a DCSF/Becta-approved badge on it they tend to be quite resistant. Certainly implementing something like Moodle in a school requires a host evangelist to lead the project. Its not something they'll pick up and run with. HTH Feargal Hogan _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
