Fedena

Project Fedena is the open source school management system based on Ruby on Rails. It was initially developed by a team of developers at Foradian Technologies.



Also available some screencasts:

1. Introduction
2. Login to Fedena
3. Academic year migration intro
4. Create academic year
5. New Academic Year
6. Timetable
7. User management
More information here http://www.projectfedena.org/about

My opinion it's kind of promising project for school or college, will see what will be in future with it...

"Образ студента сегодня", Майкл Уэш

Free Dean’s Office(Электронный деканат)

Free Dean's Office (Электронный деканат) - это модуль для среды дистанционного обучения Moodle, который добавляет возможность управления процессом обучения, типичным для российских школ, колледжей и ВУЗов. Free Dean's Office позволяет оперировать такими объектами, как "Предмет", "Дисциплина", "Группа", "Семестр", "Учебный план на семестр", "Итоговые оценки по дисциплинам", "Расписание очных занятий".
Free Dean's Office является свободным программным обеспечением и распространяется под лицензией GNU GPL.
Подробности тут -> http://www.deansoffice.ru/
А тут можно скачать -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedeansoffice/

Notes

Great article about taking notes, more usefull for research and science than for pure education.
How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison

Web 2.0 Taxonomy chart

I created this chart to help teachers determine the best Web 2.0 tools to use in the classroom.

Original post here

Distance education for schools

Here is a new Russian project called РИШ(Российская Интеренет Школа)

Wolfram|Alpha Homework day

Yes I know this news a little bit late, but still it was amazing event showing how to solve may many problems related to education and getting many answers to the questions that every student asking himself/herself/others around every day.
This Site will help you to solve them.


P.S. I want that Alpha sticker :)