Does anyone know of schools using something other than #GoogleClassroom for schools and education?

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

Does anyone know of schools using something other than #GoogleClassroom for schools and education? Maybe in #SchleswigHolstein Maybe in #Österreich? (you seem progressive in digital sovereignty). Or maybe my next door neighbour #Danmark?

It'd be nice to have some exchange of experiences between the board of education for the municipality of #Lund (we need to learn) and some other city.
If there is one? 😀

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSuveränität

[fedel@mastodon.nu]

@leanderlindahl maybe @tamiel can share some of the Brazilian experience?

[jonassmith@theforkiverse.com]

@leanderlindahl Maybe talk to @jeppe

[heleenkuiper@mastodon.nl]

@leanderlindahl @venite at my daughter’s high school they use(d) Moodle.

[jpostma@mastodon.clusterfucks.nl]

@leanderlindahl Sounds like you're looking for a Learning Management System (LMS). There is an open source one which is actively used in The Netherlands, named Canvas.

https://www.instructure.com/canvas

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@jpostma Sounds interesting, do you know of a specific municipality or school district where it's used. I'm thinking maybe there could be some exchange (for us to learn) and then I need specific politicians or civil servants to start a dialogue with.

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@heleenkuiper @venite Hi Heleen! Sounds interesting, do you have any more details of whom one could start a conversation with to learn more?

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@jonassmith @jeppe Great tip. I "see" Jeppe all the time here on Masto. It'd be a killer if they're doing something non-google, non-microsoft in schools in Denmark.

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@leanderlindahl Computers don't belong in the classroom

[otte_homan@theblower.au]

@jpostma @leanderlindahl many schools and universities in Australia use it, too.

[anne@peekeend.nl]

@leanderlindahl My company works for a school where we setup opensource tools like proxmox to run projects for students.

[nitrml@tyrol.social]

@leanderlindahl my Austrian school - over 10 years ago - used Moodle for highschool classes. No software at all used for the middleschool classes back then. I have no idea about current status quo though.

[tofuhuehnchen@fedi.at]

@leanderlindahl Hi, maybe give the guys from @osos_austria a shot.

They are a few it teachers from austrian schools, that use linux and free software in different use cases.

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

Thanks for all the amazing feedback. To clarify I would need clear examples of a school or schools and a municipality or district that are using software other than MS/Google so that I can bring an example and say:

"Look at these guys, they're not using Google Classroom. Why don't we talk to them and learn from what they're doing and run a pilot to see if we could do something similar?"

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@leanderlindahl oh I'd be really interested in following this discussion... can you create a custom hashtag for it?

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

I'm not at all knowledgable in this area (yet), but I assume the use cases are:

• teacher-student e-mail,
• groups,
• shared files,
• shared calendars
• online collaboration tools for writing and presenting

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@_elena 😃 Elena! Yes, do you have any suggestions?
# EUClassRoom, # LibreClass ? It's tough coming up with a good one. The essence should be about "libre" educational collaboration tools...

[mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu]

@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se @_elena@mastodon.social ​# LibreClassroom sounds good, it doesn't seem like a thing that would need to be EU only (as long as solutions are able to be hosted in the EU). I'd be interested in this as well.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@leanderlindahl hmmm how about something like FOSSClassroom to set up a big contrast to GoogleClassroom?

[onion@mastodon.tal.org]

@leanderlindahl #wilma is used for school - home messaging, schedules and stuff in Fi, https://www.wilma.fi/