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  • From: Childers.Paula AT epamail.epa.gov
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] what technology would you use to organize a school?
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:15:20 -0400

eeeeee! For a small, funds-limited new school with no paid technical
people, I would steer well clear of Blackboard. Proprietary software
that I hear is expensive, not well-documented, and not very
Internetwork-ian: check out their patent issues at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc . I went looking to learn
Blackboard once, and discovered the only way to do so is to pay
exorbitant sums for training classes. I don't think this is what Michael
is looking for at all.

Moodle.
Paula


internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 07/31/2008 02:06:50
PM:

> Blackboard seems to be something that many schools (K-12 as well as
> universities) are using. My kids go to Enloe HS, and they use it
> quite a bit there.
>
> http://www.blackboardschoolcentral.com/encourageParental.asp has an
> interesting screenshot. Click around for the other capabilities.
>
> Greg
>
> On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
>
> It looks like my wife and I will be among the parents starting a new
> small private school, and I'm trying to figure out what software to
> recommend to organize it. Its a real school in the sense there will
> be paid teachers, actual classrooms, etc., but without the overhead
> of non-teaching positions. I think we need something to help
> organize the calendar, volunteer to do lists, mailing lists, lesson
> plans, etc., but it has to be something non-technical people can
> use, and I certainly don't want to be editing web pages.
>
> Suggestions? Wiki? Some sort of CMS?
>
> Thanks!
>





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