<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> All this exists here... <a href="http://moodlecommons.org/">http://moodlecommons.org/</a> I think packaging the Moodle training courses in with Moodle in Edubuntu might be worth while.  Then I would think pointing to this and trying to help out there might be most effective? William Walter Kinghorn wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:81DF9FB413A687439AC309E7E914C8E41710E40178@SMLSMBXSTF01.dut.ac.za" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Steve, As you and some of the teachers have used Moodle, one of the ways to help, is to create 2 or 3 courses that teach Moodle, that can be on the DVD I am not a teacher, so I am not the person to do this Courses that are small, and do not take much thinking, just learning Moodle. What I mean, use subjects that everybody sort of knows, eg First Aid or Basic Hygiene Teach from the beggining I have a book ( free book obviously, based on some free Lic, possibly 20 to 30 pages ), I have to lecture this using Moodle, I am going to do the Blended learning way ( or it could be on-line only ) Now, how do I create a Moodle course, and how do I teach this William ________________________________________ From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a>] On Behalf Of Steve Rippl [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rippls@woodlandschools.org">rippls@woodlandschools.org</a>] Sent: 20 January 2010 00:16 To: Edubuntu Users Group Subject: Re: Teachers and Edubuntu and more David Groos wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">What do you think? Should we expand our community with additional channels of communication specifically designed for 'teachers'? Should we seek to invite educational researchers into our community? Any proposal such as this is fraught with the dangers and benefits of change. What are the risks and what are the benefits as you see them? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I whole heartedly agree with the spirit of this, and I'll just chime in with a bit from the School District Tech Director perspective (not developer, not teacher, just the guy in the middle!) Most teachers, even the really tech savvy ones that we have, aren't going to want to get onto any irc channel, especially one that has developers talking 'geek'. A separate mailing list for 'Edubuntu in action' sounds like a good idea, and if that's already there with ubuntu-education all well and good. Looking back a little on it's archives it looks like the place a teacher would go. Who "oversees" this list? I would think to make it effective for what I'm imagining all tech related queries would have to be directed to another list to encourage this one to remain focused on the education aspect. Anyway, I just subscribed to see for myself! I think the idea of using Moodle to develop further resources is an excellent one. I have a number of teachers using Moodle in their classrooms and thin-clients for student access to it all. They're at a Middle/High School level, so the emphasis isn't about how to use this app or that app so much, but rather how utilize these tools to get across your curriculum, how to manage a class in a lab environment, what other online or local app resources are available and applicable. So I think a conversation needs to happen with teachers about their perspective, what is the help/support/encouragement/tools that they need. So what can I offer? Well between myself and some of our teachers we have quite a bit of Moodle experience. I can also try to persuade some of our more "up-for-it" teachers to tune into a mailing list and chime in with their views (I said try, teachers are a group that already feel pushed and don't often want to take on even more!). Where should this happen? Overall I think getting more input from teachers and researchers would be great. Having teachers start to feel part of the community based around the tools they use would be fantastic! Steve -- Steve Rippl Technology Director Woodland Public Schools 360 225 9451 x326 -- edubuntu-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a> "This e-mail is subject to our Disclaimer, to view click <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dut.ac.za">http://www.dut.ac.za</a>" </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Steve Rippl Technology Director Woodland Public Schools 360 225 9451 x326 </pre> </body> </html>