Out of curiosity, did anything come of this... or are we at the same stage as when this email was written in terms of a deployment plan for curriculum content?
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some comments, > > > > Most of the folks running deployments are so busy running them that they > > don't have time to document their work or share their experiences. > > Greebo is a notable exception and I am continually astounded by her > > productivity and quality. > > > > I think it would be extremely helpful for someone outside of a > > deployment to go to a well-run one-- and not necessarily large one-- and > > document their work. I would particularly like to learn about David > > Leeming's experiences in Oceania. He may be doing the best job of > > running deployments in the world right now but he doesn't have time to > > document his work. > > I would be delighted to do that, and so would FLOSS Manuals. Let's talk > offline. > > > Christoph Derndorfer is coming to Nepal for the summer and we hope that > > he can help us better document our work and communicate our > > requirements. > > > > I will try to make a better effort at joining the IRC meetings for > > deployments. When are they again? > > > > > > >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. > > +1 > > Earth Treasury would be happy to host that on our new server, as part > of our Digital Textbooks initiative. > > > 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. > > -- > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. > http://earthtreasury.net/ (Ed Cherlin) > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Joan Crawford<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html> - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."
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