Hi, Actually the model for the website/wiki already exists. It is DART at the Bering Straits School District. They have married mediawiki with their own software to provide a killer tool. The standards, lesson plans, etc. are in a wiki. DART maintains a data base which allows teachers to see/record the status of each of their students in each area of each subject/strand.
Having the curriculum standards in a wiki makes it trivial for each deployment to set that up for their own requirements cross linked to anything relevant. Tony Berry wrote: >From Michael's questions: > > * Is there anything we could spend our time on which would yield a > > greater > > return on investment? The most helpful thing I can think of right now would be a special-purpose website/wiki only for curricula. Each curriculum should map to a course in moodle.sugarlabs.org. We need to start the process of mapping standard curricula to the open-source resources (quizzes, readings, activities) that are available in some sort of intelligible order. Then an interested developer or educator could start plugging in the holes. Really, all is needed is some kind of special-purpose wiki mapped to moodle. No special software. The hard and incredibly *unsexy* work is uploading the n curricula from X states/countries and mapping it to sequenced materials. We can talk about quality, pedagogy ad infinitum but the vast majority of teachers don't have a starting point to even provide mediocre education beyond what they are currently provided by their own governments. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep