On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 22:57 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > My apologies - I need to do some research on how to setup the > repo.or.cz. As an immediate expedient, I have attached the relevant > files to this email. When I get a little time, I will set this up > properly. The readme tries to describe the files and how they are used. >
hey Tony, this is a good start. I have a somewhat different workflow in mind. Here is a narrative that describes what I am thinking User Story 1: Intermittent School attendance and School Server Outage Monday 1. Kid goes to class 2. Teacher directs kids Moodle site 3. Kid navigates to Moodle Module for Class 2 math for the current month 4. Kid clicks 'download' link next Moodle module 5. This action downloads a the moodle module as a ".xo" bundle and locally installs it to the XO 5.1 Inside the module are readings, pictures, animations, etc. all available offline 6. School ends on Monday Tuesday Kid can't go to school. Mom and little brother are sick, has to take care of them. Kid opens up XO and offline Moodle activity he downloaded the day before. He does lessons that show him basic concepts, introduce him to basic animations using activities like Etoys, and reads explanations that answer some of the things he doesn't understand. Wednesday Kid still can't go to school. Has to help out in the fields. Later that day the kid spends some time w/ the Moodle module Thursday Kid goes back to school. Kid isn't behind the other because he followed the lesson plan at home. This has social importance that shouldn't be understated. Over night there was an electrical surge that fried the school server. The teacher can still instruct using the XO because she has it installed locally as an activity and so do the kids. The key here is that we need to package each offline moodle course as an .XO Activity Bundle. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles Getting started, we only need the most basic features of Moodle. Basically page navigation and the ability to display flash animations and embedded pdfs for the supplementary readings. In time we can look at adding more dynamic stuff like access to the gradebook but that can wait. In Nepal's context, our kids have no libraries and maybe 4 small coursebooks. Hope this helps and sorry I haven't been able to provide you w/ more feedback earlier. Pls post our correspondence regarding Offline Moodle to the Server-Developers mailing list. http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
