it might be worth forgetting about where and how to best publish the curriculum for this term.
Creating curriculum for a new class seems like enough of a challenge for one intern for one semester. Next term as you are figuring out how to scale out the curriculum to the rest of the school, you can figure out how to make it widely available. david On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Luke Faraone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:27, David Van Assche <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> curriki != moodle courses, format is quite different. So unless you create >> seperate instances of the courses one will have to choose either curriki >> format or moodle format. > > Hm, that doesn't sound right: wouldn't Curriki benefit by making their > content easily convertible to a variety of formats? > CC'ing an acquaintance of mine at Curriki to get the full story. >> >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:32, David Van Assche<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Well, this is really what moodle was created for. Especially >>> > considering its >>> > the main tool used in all XS server implmentations and is in use in at >>> > least >>> > 40% of British schools. I'm not sure about the American numbers, but >>> > pretty >>> > sure it must be highly used there too. Creating courses in moodle is >>> > not >>> > only easy, but extremely powerful, and can be easily shared with other >>> > teachers. There are existing general moodle implementations, though >>> > none >>> > have enough content, including the sugarlabs one >>> > (schools.sugarlabs.org) I'm >>> > focusing my own efforts on linux-for-education.org, where little by >>> > little >>> > we're growing the site. The latter has 5 sugar based courses I created >>> > and >>> > several ubuntu and opensuse courses. Apart from the courses, the >>> > glossaries >>> > and database modules link straight into the course content, allowing >>> > students to easily look up terms used in courses that might be >>> > confusing. >>> >>> But I guess you can deploy Curriki content in Moodle instances? I >>> think the main point of Curriki is working together with an existing >>> community, not so much about what is used to deploy the content. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Tomeu >>> >>> > kind regards, >>> > David Van Assche >>> > >>> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> > From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> >>> >> > Subject: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki? >>> >> > To: iaep <[email protected]>, Kellie Doty >>> >> > <[email protected]> >>> >> > Message-ID: >>> >> > <[email protected]> >>> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >> > >>> >> > I'd like to introduce Kellie Doty, she is a fellow student in the >>> >> > Technology, Education and Innovation program at Harvard Grad School >>> >> > for >>> >> > Education and she is in Intern at Sugar Labs this fall working on >>> >> > the >>> >> > GPA >>> >> > project. Kellyie's role will be to help us develop curriculum, test >>> >> > it >>> >> > at >>> >> > GPA and publish it in a format that will be easy to adopt by other >>> >> > teachers. >>> >> > One of her first tasks will be to take the lessons we did >>> >> > over the summer and try to write them up. >>> >> > >>> >> > One question is where should we put lesson plans? >>> >> > >>> >> > My first thought was wiki.sugarlabs.org >>> >> > our wonderful maze of twisty pages all different. But Kellie >>> >> > pointed >>> >> > out that teachers need to be able to find things through various >>> >> > paths >>> >> > such as subject, grade level and activities used. >>> >> > >>> >> > My second thought was Moodle as it probably has a module for that. >>> >> >>> >> +1 for curriki. It has an existing community of teachers to work w/ >>> >> and >>> >> it is a good tool, geared to their needs >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Bryan W. 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