The Village Green » opencolearning http://villagegreen.edublogs.org A gathering place to discuss the implications of technology in education Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 An Open Source Conversation http://villagegreen.edublogs.org/2009/02/21/an-open-source-conversation/ http://villagegreen.edublogs.org/2009/02/21/an-open-source-conversation/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:27:59 +0000 Matthew Woolums http://villagegreen.edublogs.org/?p=526 http://colearning.wikispaces.com/Roundtable+Conversations

Why (or why not) are you using open source solutions?

- District processes are complicated or hidden.

- If I want to know how to do something, what do I do? Train teachers how to search Google for self-directed PD.

- Start teachers with the basics, like calendar, quizes.

- Posting materials first to Moodle has reduced paper/duplication costs.

- Increased parent participation.

- Open source relies on a community of practitioners.

- Maybe tighter budgets make open-source more viable.

- Gallery for a flickr alternative.

- http://opensourceschools.org.uk/

- Format and organization are important, especially when providing services at a building level. Consistency at the teacher level helps the learner.

- Agreed upon tag for presentations is #opencolearning when used in delicious, slideshare.

- Geogebra, a java-based geometry sketch pad that includes a filter for Moodle.

- http://moodle.legendtitans.org/ instance of moodle

- http://learningischange.com/now/ instance of Wordpress multiuser

- Be careful about the tools we pick on Tuesday, because we’ll need them to be available beyond that. Google notebook is a good example.

- you need to be able to get the data back out of a system, interoperability.

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