= Learning Mill =

'''LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources.'''

LeMill is independent server software that is hosted for free for anyone at [http://lemill.net] and that can be [wiki:Download downloaded freely].

LeMill is also part of the [http://www.eun.org European Schoolnet]'s Learning Resource Exchange Portal developed in the European (IST) [http://calibrate.eun.org/ Calibrate project].
In the Calibrate project LeMill is part of the [http://calibrate.eun.org/merlin/ EUN LRE Portal], and referred as the "Learning Toolbox", since it is a tool used for working collaboratively with resources.

See also: [wiki:Overview] and [wiki:FAQ]

== Introduction for teachers and other learning content creators ==

LeMill is a web community for teachers (and for anyone else interested in learning resources) for
 * finding learning content, pedagogical techniques, tools and tips for use that encourage collaborative learning approaches
 * authoring learning resources collaboratively with other teachers (and others)
 * sharing experiences
 * professional development
 * metalearning (learning about learning)

== The Mission of LeMill ==

Some candidate slogans:

 * "Give all children meaningful/quality learning experiences."
 * "Give all learners meaningful/quality learning activities."
 * "All learners of the world, unite!"
 * "Learning equality"
 * "Material quality - immaterial equality"
 * "Give teachers simple tools to improve the way students learn."
 * "Free speech *with* free beer!"
 * "The combined wisdom of all the teachers in the world."
 * "Lessons for learning"

== Functionality ==

Short list of what teachers and other content authors can do in LeMill:

 * find open content to enrich their learning material
 * browse ready-made learning material aimed for their subject area, teaching language and student age range
 * browse pedagogically meaningful activities with links to background theory
 * connect to other teachers who teach the same subject area, or in the same language, or the same age range
 * make collections of good or promising material and activities
 * create lesson plans with all the content and activity descriptions they need for a lesson or course
 * use learning material in their own VLE (virtual learning environment)
 * share experiences they've had with certain learning content and activities

 * create and share new learning material from the material they have in their own computers
 * create and share new learning material built from pieces of open learning content
 * translate material made by others to other languages and locales
 * improve material made by others
 * create material based on material made by others

 * create and join groups around certain themes
 * follow and comment on the activities of groups

== Technical details ==

Learning Mill is a [http://www.plone.org Plone] product.
Plone in turn is a publishing system for the [http://www.zope.org Zope] application server.
Zope is written using the [http://www.python.org Python] programming language and runtime environment.
All these are Free/Libre software.

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