[Year 12 IT Apps] CMS on networked computers

Wed Oct 13 10:10:08 EST 2010

True,

But I give them out and take them up each period.

Andrew Weir

Information Technology Co-ordinator

Thomas Carr College

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mann, Warrick D
Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 9:46 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] CMS on networked computers

Hi All,

While the USB drive (local installs) do work great, there is one thing
you are missing - students cannot take work home for a SAC. :-)

Warrick

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of ken price
Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 9:28 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] CMS on networked computers

Hi Mark

I have been running Drupal and Moodle on a local computer using the
MoWes software for some time, as a development environment.

The MoWes (Mobile Webserver) lets you bundle the CMS and LMS along with
the server stuff they need to run ( Apache, MySQL, PHP etc) on a student
computer, or USB drive or external hard drive. The students can then
have complete admin ability over their own installation. If you do it
with a USB stick or external hard drive, their applications AND their
data (the actual web site) all live on the device and can be taken home
and worked on.

There are several similar environments that do the same thing but I've
found MoWes to be the easiest to use as the whole install is one zip
file.

This (to me anyway) seems a better alternative to trying to manage a
school server with multiple CMS and LMS installations for students. Plus
it is accessible from home. Kids just need a $10 USB drive. MoWes is
free.

It has the disadvantage that each student's installation is local so
they can't have a classroom-wide wiki. Actually they probably could with
some configuration but as soon as things start to travel on school
networks there is a security etc risk to be considered. 

Oh - there were some people who had problems with using MoWes when Skype
is running - this can be fixed by terminating Skype, though I just
noticed with my latest install that it seems to work OK with Skype now.

Hope this helps,

Ken

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

Hi all. I'm seriously thinking about ditching Dreamweaver for a CMS for
U3O1 next year.

A CMS is far more meaningful for modern websites, especially
community-based, interactive sites like wikis, forums and blogs.  Less
simulation will be required, for a start.

The minimum features list says the required skills for webpage editing
(http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_
study.html#2) are:

*	cascading style sheet
*	edit and format content
*	links (relative and absolute links, internal and external links)
*	navigation
*	buttons
*	screen layout
*	tagging (metadata tags, alt tags)
*	forms
*	incorporate images/sound

and all of these appear in a CMS, as far as I can tell.

So the big question is: has anyone successfully put a CMS like Joomla or
Moodle onto locked-down school computers for student use?

I'd like to hear about it.

Regards
Mark

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