[OLPC-Philippines] Moodle, XS and capacity building...

[Cherry Withers]

Hi Guys,

[Note: I am posting this to the list to get a wider discussion although I've
left some of your e-mail addresses in BCC as some of you may not be signed
up yet or might want to make your e-mail address private.]

Joel was kind enough to set-up an Edu2.0 site for Lubang Integrated School.
Thank you so much for doing this Joel!
I was able to play around with it and it looks to be simple enough to use.
However, it seems that Moodle has a more seamless integration with the XS
and is the one recommended by OLPC.
Both seem to work offline and both are free. Admittedly, I don't have the
experience to comment on one vs. the other.

Here are some documents on XS and Moodle from OLPC:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/OLPC_XS_installation
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Moodle_design

I am hoping to start a discussion on how we will design a template for a
Classroom Management System that will be used for future deployments in the
Philippines (and possibly of use to other countries as well). I know a
couple of you have a long standing experience with Edu2.0 and maybe with
Moodle as well.

I am trying to get a feel for our capacity for building a Moodle portal for
both Science and Math. Maybe start with one grade for now. Initial findings
in Lubang suggests 4th grade to be the optimal grade. This will be good one
to start with as Squeakland curriculum mapping is 4th grade and Mitch
provided a link to Math mapping for 4th grade at Sugarlabs as well. Of
course the content and curriculum itself will need to be worked out by
teachers and educators of the receiving schools themselves but a framework
and baseline lessons might be useful to jumpstart their efforts. I am not
sure of what the target grade for Muscovado would be.

So what do you think guys? Would you be able to spare some of your time or a
couple of your students for this effort?

Regards,
Cherry
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