Moodle is a superb LMS and that's why it's so widely used. We have one www.schoolnet.net.sb but if you look there, you will see little evidence of use. This is because it's a considerable effort to build critical mass of skills, policy and general awareness in the education system here, and the teachers in the rural schools who we hope will use such systems through their local learning centres. I am not saying it's not the answer, I am asking if it is the only answer and commenting that the resources should be presented in as simple a way as possible, with as limited use of registration, complicated navigation (for remote rural teachers in places like PNG who have no experience of the Internet). As a server grows, one would need more sophisticated ways of storing and searching for resources, of course. Wikis are not the best structured CMS around. Can anyone point to some deployments of Moodle or other CMS that offer simplicity and clarity above all?
David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w) www.leeming-consulting.com From: David Van Assche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 6 July 2008 11:43 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: Martin Langhoff; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Content management in the XS Hi David, Just out of curiosity, why do you think Moodle is not the answer? Kind Regards, David Van Assche 2008/7/6 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there any CMS built into the XS, or is this up to us to install (i.e. Moodle or whatever)? I have for some time been thinking of the Wikieducator as a tool to scale up local content development for the XO. It has an IMS export facility and I have tested this; one can create "collections" (collected wiki content) and export them as PDF or IMS packages. The IMS packages can be extracted to the /var/www/html folder of the XS and the XOs view them just fine - although there is no cross linkage between html files. The collection I tried was 750KB as a PDF but only 62KB as an IMS package - so it is obviously much more efficient than using PDF files. With OLPC Oceania we are toying with the idea of using the Wikieducator as a core tool to build community and resulting capacity/sharing of skills, as a massively scalable repository for Oceania content, that can be adapted, translated, pick and mixed, etc... and published for the XO with a few clicks of the mouse... I am involved with both OLPC Oceania and the Learning4Content (Wikieducator) workshops of COL, and can see that by linking these programmes one can bring together a range of government, NGO and wider community around a common focus, to the advantage of all. But some sort of CMS is needed on the XS. All the time one has to think of simplicity. Moodle etc might not be the answer. I am sure that plenty of thought has gone in to that - some pointers to that would be appreciated. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
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