On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 14:42 +0200, David Van Assche wrote: > Hi, > I want to second the opinion that Moodle is definitely the right > tool for content distribution, though a localised broken down > wikipedia as a global reference to information is not a bad idea. > Coming from a teaching perspective, children students need to be led, > they need to be shown what to do.
No really, kids i have given an XO from 3 Years open the XO faster than adult from 30 years. And even switch it on faster. When we give childeren a ball, they quite capable of exploring the possiblities of it. Even with evenout a handbook. They quite capable or create rules to play and adjust to play better. We can learn a lot from our kids. please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_teaching_methods and watch on youtube some movies of kid demoing thier XO's and reparing them. Kind regards, Marten > It is not at all the same as at Universisty level where the student > often takes in the informtation they are interested in. For example, > not everyone likes mathematics at a school level, yet it is an > essential teaching philosophy and must be pushed to the student, > rather than pulled by the student. Moodle allows for this, and I have > successfully used it in this enivornment for several years. It is > extremely easy to create content and assignements of any nature, > though they willl of course all be web based, but that doesn't mean > you coudln't integrate a core moodle program centred around the sugar > array of software and how to use it. > Another thing I've noticed on this list is the insistence on > recreating the wheel, and the amount of good FOSS that is already out > there reallly makes this a waste of time. We should be talking about > integrating existing tools rather than recreating new ones. Just my 2 > cents... > > Here is a list of eductational FOSS compiled by an organisation in the > US: http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=155 > > David > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Martin: I have cc'd you because I think Moodle is the right > tool for > relating activities in a logical narrative, i.e. a 'lesson' or > a > 'tutorial' > > > > 7. Need graphical activity manager for removing and > adding > activities > >> > >> Could you detail the requirements for this? Perhaps in the > wiki? > > >This is a good point. The activity list in Home is intended > to take > >care of this. Tomeu, we should probably add little delete > buttons at > >the right of each entry in the list to make this a simple > process. A > >non-modal alert should appear to confirm the deletion, of > course. > >This should be relatively easy to add. > > Being able to remove activities w/ an option from the activity > list is a > good short term option. Long term we quite need a > activity/package > manager. Right now it is more important to have a good media > player than > a great activity/package manager. > > Ben Schwartz wrote: > >They present a window saying "You are > >downloading a file of type "PDF". Would you like to open it > using > >"Document Viewer"?" They also offer a drop-down list of > alternative > >applications. > > This sounds good to me. One problem kids will access file > types from > many sources, such as their local Moodle server or a regular > Internet > site. It will be annoying if they have to confirm that they > want to > launch an activity each time. It would be good if they could > choose the > default action to launch activities from the local moodle > server but > this decision shouldn't apply to files of the same type on > non-trusted > servers -- ugh this could get complicated. > > > Another issue related to the Roadmap . . . > > ==The Problem of Building an Open-Source community around > Sugar== > > I foresee problems building an open-source community around > Sugar > because most successful open-source projects are ones that > allow > programmers to "scratch their own itch" that is build or > improve tools > they themselves use. Sugar will primarily be used kids and > adults w/ low > literacy. I can't see programmers using it as their own > desktop. A good > case in point is GCompris which addresses a critical need of > millions > (basic math and English) but has very few contributors from > what I can > tell. Contrast this w/ something like git or the gnu > utilities. I > believe that Sugar will need longterm financial support to be > viable. > Perhaps that could come from some of the more enlightened > pilot > countries once they are heavily invested in Sugar. > > Another option would be to create a version of Sugar that > appeals to > programmers. But I can't imagine creating such a version that > wouldn't > require a lot of programming resources. > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Marten Vijn http://martenvijn.nl http://wifisoft.org http://opencommunitycamp.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
