Curriculum for a Open Source Course - High School Computer Science

[EDTECH Editor-Jones]

Good morning!
I'm hoping to do an independent study with a handful of kids next
year, exploring the installation and use of open source software (mostly
Web stuff like Moodle, Drupal, and such) - not so much the coding end, but
the basics of managing things like Apache and MySQL, as well as the
specific platform. I'm wondering if anyone out there is doing anything
like this, and might be willing to speak to what they're using for
curriculum and instructional resources. Digital stuff, of course, is
preferred, 'cause I'm probably going to do a lot of this online.
Thanks.
Jeff
Jeffrey L. Jones
http://www.emck.net

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From: Reggie Ryan <rr...@dist57.org>

Hey Jeff,

I'm not doing the instructional piece of what you're looking at. We're using
OO, Drupal, WP and Moodle though in our district. I would suggest that you
take a look at the developer tools like MAMP, XAMPP ect that allow local
lamp installs of Apache, MySql & PHP.

Kids could install, manage and kill to their hearts content, and be back up
and running in no time. You could have clean installs for both Wintel and
OSX. There's 'no-install' packages for both so you could have a read only
directory on your network that would allow kids to simply copy a clean
install to a local machine and off they go.

I use a MAMP copy from moodle.org to run Moodle, Drupal and WP on my local
machine for developing. I regularly develop, kill and reinstall in a few
minutes.

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Reggie Ryan
Director of Technology
Mount Prospect School District 57
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
847-385-3733