[school-discuss] Re: Courseware: more on FLE and Manhattan

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

Just a note about FLE and Manhattan. 

These are very different tools with very different purposes. FLE is more of a 
Seymore Pappert-type "constructivist" teaching and learning model. It allows 
teachers and students to "construct" knowledge -- it focuses users on their 
learning process. FLE is in part interesting because it runs on Zope.

Manhattan, on the other hand, uses traditional categories such as Assignments, 
Hand Outs, Internet Resources, Post Office (internal mail), Chat, Self-tests, 
Lectures and even Grades. You can put whatever you like in each of these 
categories and Manhattan is very friendly to uploads, especially entire Web 
sites. These can be uploaded as single zip archives. 

Each of these "modules" can be turned on or off by the teacher. Manhattan comes 
with a growing range of teacher's admin tools for checking on students' 
progress. It is interesting in part because it is written in C (unlike most Web 
apps these days) and uses Linux's directory services rather than an additional 
database such as MySQL. 

 Quoting Teemu Leinonen <teemu.leinonen@uiah.fi>:

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> Hi,
> 
> >>Can you tell us if this tools is web based or not ?
> 
> >>but can't tell if it is browser based (which would mean web
> based.)
> 
> Fle3 (http://fle3.uiah.fi) is more web based than the majority of
> the "web pages" in the web nowadays :-).
> 
> For teacher's and students' use Fle3 is designed to work every web
> browser (Netscape, Opera, Explorer, Mozilla, Konqueror) on every
> operating system (Unix, Linux, Mac OS, Windows, etc.). As it is
> impossible to test for all combinations beforehand we appreciate any
> reports on bugs you may encounter (http://fle3.uiah.fi.)
> 
> Fle3 does not require the use of cookies, flash, javascript or
> Java.  However it does use CSS (style sheets) to render the visuals
> on the page. While this is not 100% essential, the display can look
> a bit confusing without style sheet support. All modern browsers
> (IE5, Netscape4, Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera5 or later) support some
> type of style sheets.
> 
> - Teemu
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jkinz@rcn.com>
> > To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 5:32 PM
> > Subject: [school-discuss] fle3 (was: class scheduling applications
> needed)
> >
> >
> >
> >>On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 03:51:24PM +0300, Ilpo Halonen wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>let me add http://fle3.uiah.fi/ to your list of virtual learning
> >>>environments. I have also heard about a product called Manhattan
> but
> >>
> > don't
> >
> >>>know much about it.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Just looked at fle3.  It doesn't appear to have any Master
> schedule
> >
> > creation
> >
> >>abilities at all. (That was the topic/purpose of this thread. ;-)
> )
> >>
> >>But it looks pretty neat otherwise.  It seems to be a
> colloborative
> >
> > learning
> >
> >>tool designed for use in a school environment.  The interface
> languages
> >
> > are
> >
> >>already available in Finnish, English, Spanish, French,
> Portuguese,
> >
> > Brazilian
> >
> >>Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian, Lithuanian and German.
> >>It has tools called Webtops, Jamming, and knowledge building.
> >>
> >>Hey Ilpo - Can you tell us if this tools is web based or not ?  If
> it is
> >>web based it can be deployed in schools using both Microsoft and
> Open
> >>Source platforms and still be equally accessible to both.  If it
> runs
> >>locally on either platform then the other platform is excluded.  I
> looked
> >>but can't tell if it is browser based (which would mean web
> based.)
> >>
> >>So -
> >>MSS=0  (not a bad rating, just means it doesn't do master schedule
> 
> >
> > creation)
> >
> >>VS=HIGH, a 9 or 10
> >>R=?
> >>
> >>Looks very neat.  Doesn't do Master schedule creation. Of course
> that was
> >>never the intent for this product.
> >>
> >>
> >>Ilpo - have you added this product to the SEUL Education
> applications
> >
> > index ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
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> Teemu Leinonen
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> 
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