Some interesting work's being done at the moment with integrating a number of different web-based applications covering a range of e-learning affordances. For example, Bill Fitzgerald's exploring ways of integrating Elgg and Drupal (with a bit of Moodle thrown in) - see http://www.funnymonkey.com/together-at-last, and rapid progress is being made on Moodle-Elgg integration - see http://elgg.net/news/weblog/8901.html and, for more techie stuff, http://lists.elgg.org/pipermail/development/2006-February/000171.html .
We're hearing more and more about the notion of a Personal Learning Environment (see eg http://headspacej.blogspot.com/2006/02/personal-learning-environment-model.html and http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/ but Google will find lots else) which uses RSS to pull together all the resources a learner want to use. Exciting stuff, but Leon Cych has, I think sensibly, raised the issue of how to actually get this cool stuff into schools in a relatively painless way: "My main concern at the moment is the fact that so many Open Source systems are needing integration. What is needed is a toolkit for convincing, installation and integration." (http://elgg.net/leoncych/weblog/8962.html) Well, obviously there's cultural and change management issues here, but I wonder if the installation and integration aspects might perhaps be something which edubuntu could sort out in some future release? -- Miles Berry Deputy Head, St Ives School, Haslemere http://stiveshaslemere.com http://elgg.net/mberry/weblog -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
