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    9. Evaluation
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LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources. Its main target group are teachers and learning content authors, but anyone is free to join.

This site (http://lemill.org) is the home of the LeMill server platform. The open source software is developed in here. If you want to test or use LeMill, go to http://lemill.net. LeMill.net is a LeMill server hosted by us, the developers.

If you just need to get a general level information on what is LeMill, you may have of the overview at: http://lemill.net/content/overview-of-lemill.

LeMill is also known as "Learning Mill" or Learning Toolbox.

News

News from the LeMill blog and the Learning Environments research group's blog.

LeMill design sprint (Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:32 +0000)

Last week we organized a LeMill design sprint. LeMill was launched more than 4 years ago and it needs some rethinking on the design and user experience. We have developed a lot of small new features but the overall design has not changed much. New features that were added gradually have also resulted some issues [...]

LeMill updated, new PILOTs. (Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:53:39 +0000)

Preparing for annual ITK-days, the largest education technology event in Finland, we had to finally push an update to LeMill. There are few interesting features and some inner changes that prepare the base for nice new things in near future. List of changes: New PILOT-player: should be more robust than the previous one and includes a fullscreen [...]

LeMill community has reached 10000 members (Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:59:48 +0000)

We are happy to announce that LeMill community has reached 10000 members today. Most of them are primary and secondary school teachers who are looking for a simple solution to create and share web-based learning resources. LeMill allows them to create various types of web-based learning resources (web pages, exercises, lesson plans, etc), descriptions of [...]

Don’t Make Me Think - a more simple LeMill (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:40:40 +0000)
Short maintenance break tonight (Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:33:30 +0000)

LeMill ITK-päivillä (Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:00:57 +0000)

Tarkoituksemme on tuoda LeMill opettajien tietoisuuteen Suomen suurimmassa opetusteknologiatapahtumassa: ITK’08 – Opi valitsemaan, olet aikaasi edellä Toivottavasti pääset paikalle, tilaisuus on aina mielenkiintoinen ja meiltä on luvassa kolme ohjelmanumeroa. Tärkeimpänä workshop, tämä kutsu koskee sinua: ITK-08 workshop “LeMill opettajan työkaluna” Järjestämme ITK-päivillä kaikille perus-, keski- ja korkea-asteen opettajille sopivan työpajan, jossa opitaan löytämään, käyttämään ja luomaan avoimia oppisisältöjä [...]

LeMill 2.0 (Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:44 +0000)

Our final deliverable for CALIBRATE project is ready. The original promise was to develop an ‘open source learning toolbox for collaborative learning’ and this should be it. It looks like our latest version announcement was from version 1.9, so 2.0 doesn’t seem so big a step, but really, we have gone a long way from [...]

LeMill merged with Learning Toolbox (Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:28:38 +0000)

As some may already know, LeMill is developed in the CALIBRATE project and so far the teachers participating in the project have used a separate, closed copy of LeMill for their testing. A month ago it was decided to combined the closed Toolbox and the open LeMill communities. Instead of having two small communities, we [...]

Publications coming (Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:03:44 +0000)
LeMill 1.9 released (Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:09:42 +0000)

About LeMill

Development

This section is mainly targeted for the developers of LeMill.

Design

This section is a collection of design ideas, notes, lists and other material. It may be a bit unstructured. :-)

Communication

This section has information about what kind of communication tools and practices are used in the software development of LeMill.

  • Mailing lists for developers, maintainers and users
  • IRC -- IRC is used for daily communications
  • Meetings and workshops
    • Meetings -- Agendas and decisions of meetings
    • Workshop -- 1st workshop/sprint in Helsinki
    • Workshop 2 -- 2nd workshop/sprint in Tallinn/Budapest
  • Title index -- List of all pages in this wiki

People

Guidelines for developers

  • Infrastructure -- Information on servers, services and tools for development
    • PPTConversion -- How to setup PPT to images -conversion with Open Office
  • Book list -- List of useful stuff to read in libraries or on the net

Evaluation

Dissemination

About this site

This site is for the development of the LeMill server software of the CALIBRATE project (work package 3). Visitors to this site can browse all the content we have here (try out the buttons on the top of the page). More information on this Trac system is available in the Trac Guide.

You can't any longer submit bugs (here called "tickets") anonymously - since some spambots tried to harass the system. If you think you need an account here (you would like to contribute), please contact tarmo.toikkanen(at)uiah.fi for account creation.

Disclaimer: All content in this site is made by individual authors. Nobody takes any collective responsibility for the correctness of information here. But since this is a Wiki, you should have already figured that out. :-)