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Dear all,

My country is setting up an e-school project for secondary school students and I'm investigating the layout of different intitutions in different contexts where similar projects have been implemented . I would be grateful if anyone coud provide me with any relevant information, pictures, figures or diagrams and/or advise me on where to search for similar projects that you might have come across. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks

These sites may save you time and help you generate code:

http://www.tomaweb.com/freeware.asp (I use the image mapper but haven't tried anything else from here)

http://www.webenalysis.com/table-tag-generator.asp
Save a lot of time writing repetitive code

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/cit/quizze ... n_15a.html
I'll get round to using this eventually.

Hi Sameera

If what you want to do is actually write some software yourself, Andrew's links are good - one addition I might make is Microsoft's .NET framework, especially the free webMatrix server which basically does a lot of hard stuff like databases for you.

If, on the other hand, you don't want to get involved in that and want a ready made Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) the place to look is www.moodle.org - it's free, and it's been written by educators who happen to know how to program - not by software companies who know disappointingly little about teaching and learning.

All the best, Al

I tried to download moodle myself, Al but couldn't get it to work. The files seem to be zipped, and I can't unzip all at once.

Hi Andrew

It should be straightforward. Here's a checklist - some of whose points will be a bit bleedin' obvious but hopefully one might be of relevance:

1) have you got a web server environment with Apache (recommended), PHP (compulsory), MySQL (ideally, but other dbs will work)?

2) The downloads are in tgz format. Windows XP's native unzipper won't do these; winZip will.

3) Did you download to your server's webpages folder? Won't work otherwise.

4) er...

5) That's it.

Any other details about your setup would help. Oh, and if you can put it on a Linux box, performance will be a lot better.

Cheers, Al

Take a look here: http://free-esl.com/all/call/default.asp where there's a database of software as well as some articles on CALL.

Might be useful.

Henry

www.free-esl.com