[Wylug-announce] Next Meeting - Monday 14th March 2005

[Jim Jackson]

Greetings All,

This is an EARLY Notice for 14th March - as I am away next week.
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I don't want people turning up on March 7th (next mon) like they did when 
I last did this!!!!

Thanks to Nigel and Smylers for the talks last month. We had a good turn 
out despite the date.

This meeting has a Linux in Schools Flavour. So m,ake sure you tell anyone 
you know interested in School and Linux - we should have time for some 
discussion.

Tim Fletcher will talking about Moodle ( http://moodle.org/ ), a Course 
Management System. Chris Tebb has also had experience with Moodle in a 
pilot in a few Leeds High Schools. I think Chris will in addition be 
talking about some of the work he is doing with Edukalibre
( http://www.edukalibre.org/) and he will also be highlighting some of the 
issues facing Open Source software in the school environment.

Advance notice of the April meeting where Rob Speed will be talking a bout
Wireless and Linux, and hopefully, James Holden on DVD authoring under
Linux.

Hope to see lots of you a week on Monday

all the best
Jim


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                  West Yorkshire Linux Users Group  (WYLUG)
               Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.
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                           Monday 14th March 2005

                       6:30 pm for Tea/Coffee and chat
                           7 pm prompt for meeting


                          Experiences Using Moodle
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                               Tim Fletcher
                        Parrs Wood Technical College
                   http://www.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk/

                                 Chris Tebb
                             School of Computing
                             University of Leeds

           Moodle has been rolled out to 1500 students. The talk will
          highlight the background and experiences we have had so far.


                         Issues for Linux in Schools
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              If you have questions or views join the discussion


        [ see http://www.wylug.org.uk for more details of the talks ]



          WYLUG Venue:  Active Learning Lab.,  (Level 9, near staircase 2)
                        E.C. Stoner Building   (aka Physics/Admin)
                        University of Leeds
                        Woodhouse Lane
                        Leeds UK

               for location of meetings please see
                   http://www.wylug.org.uk/meetings.html

      "Informal" Discussions Continue after the meeting at the Victoria Pub
       on Great George St. at the back of the Town Hall - Everyone Welcome