[sugar] [IAEP] Schools.Sugarlabs.org

[David Van Assche]

Having actually taught with Moodle, I can tell you that teachers want
to be able to have a place to download content from and put into their
own Moodle setups as quickly as possible (most UK schools are going
moodle), learning to use it as they do that. I'm not sure how many
teachers will have time to actually go through how to use sugar from a
teachers perspective, or what sugar is. I envision a centralised
Moodle server being more for content creators and developers, with
teachers taking part when they need to collect and download content.
In order for Sugar to be effective in lesson plans it must be fit into
the particular country's curriculum and subjects.

Also, from the name, its not quite clear whether schools.moodle.org
would be teacher centric or student centric.

just my 2 cents.

David Van Assche

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:46 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Very nice, and a little bit scary.
>
> As Caroline said, we are breaking out of our comfort zone and engaging
> teacher.  Yikes!
>
> From the teachers that I have talked to and Caroline's recommendation, we
> are establishing a separate community for teacher and students.  Apparently,
> wikis, mailing lists and IRC channels, which are primarily populated by
> developers, are not user friendly:(
>
> The overall goal is to provide a means for small deployment to work together
> to create the synergy of a large scale saturation deployment.  I am
> envisioning starting with three themes or courses:
>
> Using Sugar - A gentle introduction by teacher and for teachers into Sugar.
>
> Teaching with Sugar - A place were teachers learn to teach use the Sugar
> interface, activities, and pedagogy.
>
> Lesson plans - A place to teachers to develop and share lesson plans.
>
> But, Please Note, the only time I have interacted with live students was as
> a TA in an engineering finance.  So I may be totally wrong:/)
>
> thanks
>
> david
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> On 11/01/2008, 09:58, Caroline Meeks (caroline at solutiongrove.com) wrote:
> There is now a Moodle server for the Sugar community's use at
> schools.sugarlabs.org.
>
> If you would like to set up a course please let me or David Farning know.
>
> So far our plans are to use it support collaboration by nontechnical groups
> that maybe more used to a web based forum then a mailing list.  However, its
> available for repositories and other uses as well.
>
> It is being hosted by Solution Grove.  We also support LAMS so we'll hook
> that into Moodle next week so folks can play with it if they like.  We are
> open to trying out new things, installing Moodle Modules etc. so let us know
> what you need.
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
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