Hi!
I haven't yet heard back from the resellers, but it shouldn't take too
long, according to a notification I received. MOODLE is now a standard
feature on most of the sites offering free/low cost web hosting, though
the resources available vary quite a bit. I had no trouble setting up a
MOODLE server on the Freehostia free "Chocolate" version, and no
difficulty setting it up as a SLOODLE package in the virtual world of
Second Life, where I intend to do my teaching. SLOODLE is the Second
Life implementation of MOODLE and is strongly promoted and supported by
a very active group on there. They have their own island sim where they
conduct numerous promotional and training activities. Freehostia,
110MB, and numerous other such sites now offer MOODLE as a standard
option. In my case, when I applied for my site, I indicated I wanted
MOODLE set up and they did it automatically. Whenever anybody acesses
my site URL, it opens to a MOODLE sign in page.The sticking point in
this otherwise rosy arrangment is the amount of space allocated to data
space, only 10MB for the free version. This is too little for any
serious MOODLE set up. Even the top payu version, the $10 a month
"Supernatural" version only allows you 120mb total data space access.
Though this is workable, it is very stingy and you would have to
constantly watch your usage to keep from going over your limit. MOODLE
makes extensive use of data spaces. I think 110MB doesn't have the same
restrictions on data bases that Freehostia has but the free version is
a little too small and they have sneaky hidden charges. On the other
hand, you can probably set up a good working system for only $5 a month.
A more reasonable approach is that of www.keytoschool.com. Key To
School is run by educators for educators and is solely dedicated to
MOODLE. They offer free web hosting but with substantially more
resources avaialble than the commercial services. You get 2.5 gigs of
storage and access to 50 GB bandwidth, and no restrictions on the
amount of your allocated disk space you are allowed to use for your
data bases. There is a wide assortment of addons for MOODLE, some of
which can give weak and limited SAGE-like functionality. I heartily
uphold attempts on you guys part to integrate SAGE and MOODLE. I think
it would be relatively trivial to host MOODLE additionally on a SAGE
site and the combination of the two would be wonderful, MOODLE add ons
include those that give it video conferencing capabilities well suited
for teaching a virtual class over the Internet, though the ideal setup
for that would be to have a fully-equipped virtual classroom in a
virtual world like Second Life.
Cheer,
Jerry (a.k.a. Math Bear)
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From: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>
To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:44:44 PM
Subject: [sage-edu] Re: Grant for a sage server
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Pong <wypon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Thanks for letting me know. So sagenb is supported by Sun and NSF
> now?
Yes, by Sun, NSF, and Univ. of Washington (who pays the bandwidth).
> In that case, I certainly don't feel gulity to have my students
> sign up and use it then.
Go for it.
> Haven said that I'm still interested to hear from Jerry on what's
> the progress on his idea. So Jerry, feel free to contact me offline.
William
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