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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Moodle is a superb LMS and that’s why it’s so widely
used. We have one <a href="http://www.schoolnet.net.sb">www.schoolnet.net.sb</a>
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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>David Leeming<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Technical Advisor, People First Network<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>www.leeming-consulting.com<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Van Assche
[mailto:dvanassche@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 6 July 2008 11:43 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> David Leeming<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Martin Langhoff; XS Devel<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Server-devel] Content management in the XS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi David,<br>
Just out of curiosity, why do you think Moodle is not the answer?<br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
David Van Assche<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2008/7/6 David Leeming <<a
href="mailto:leeming@pipolfastaem.gov.sb">leeming@pipolfastaem.gov.sb</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Is there any CMS built into the XS, or is this up to us to install (i.e.
Moodle or whatever)? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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... <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><i>David Leeming</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i>Technical Advisor, People First Network</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i>Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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