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Sophia ProjectThe Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Sofia encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.
SOFIA project http://sofia.fhda.edu/index.htm
Gallery http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
Sofia Project overview http://sofia.fhda.edu/overview.htm
SOFIA Faculty Feedback
Congratulations! Sofia is not only a beautifully designed web site, it's also easy to navigate and the subject is SO important! I strongly believe that this is the true mission of the Internet (well, if it had one): To provide information (in your case "course materials") to diverse audiences (in your case "learners and faculty") "who can then build upon it for their local needs. Bravo for your efforts!
- University of California, Berkeley
This is wonderful stuff. I could use quite a bit of this material with my online students in multimedia. I think you have accomplished something quite wonderful and rare. You and the course authors are my heros!
- Mt. San Jacinto College
Congratulations - this looks like a great beginning to an amazing project! I am not clear how these courses can be used by my college if any of the departments here wishes to offer this course: do we link to the Gallery link? How do discussion forums, test, etc. get to be part of a specific course rather than an "open gallery"? Do we have to get licenses for etudes in order to offer these courses at LBCC? if so, is there a cost associated with that and are the actual courses hosted on your server? Thanks for clarifying these issues and for the additional information.
- Long Beach City College
Congratulations on getting SOFIA launched -- it looks excellent! I am just now reading the stories behind the course -- very engaging and well written.
- De Anza College
I gave the link to SOFIA to the computer teacher, since many of the courses [here in Burkino Faso, West Africa] are computer courses, and she told me today that she LOVED it! She checked a lot of them out, and said she was really impressed and going to see if she could incorporate them into her classroom and recommend them to students! She was really thrilled about it. The instructions were very clear, and I think even my middle school students would be able to walk through the program - not all the classes of course, but the geography looked like something they could do and understand. I had no trouble with speed of access either. Everything popped right up!
I just skimmed Web Page Authoring and found it clean, comprehensive, with not just content, but assignments, exams, and discussion areas. Are these "learning objects"? "course objects?" Who cares what you call it, it's good stuff... and it is free. Keep an eye on SoFIA, she's a looking gooooooood...
- Maricopa CC District.
I teach introductory Geology and this is OCW for intro Geography, [so] this is actually extremely useful for me. The assignments are particularly useful for me, because I create my own lab from a combination of the lab manual my students have plus outside material that I dredge up. I don't need to take this material from Sofia directly into my lab assignments, but it gives me some direction. The links sprinkled in are particularly appreciated, b/c too much of waking time is spent Googling material for labs which entails sifting through endless pages of garbage to find the few good sites. Someone else did the work for me.
- San Jacinto College
SOFIA Student Feedback
2005.10.19 Vivie Sinou, SOFIA Project Manager, summarized student feedback: For the most part, students send notes using the "feedback" form on the course home pages, saying things like, "This is great. It clarified things I didn't understand when my teacher explained this in class." It sounds like they are using it when looking for extra resources to "get it" - not from "self-learner" types.
I am going through your Flash course and have questions regarding chapter 3 - motion tweening, layers, and scenes. Do you provide an explanation of how you created the scenes (intro, red, and blue) and the mushroom? I would greatly appreciate your help with this. I'm trying to learn Flash so that I can create tutorials for students on how to do library research. Thank you for your help!
- Blinn College Bryan, TX
I totally love the SOFIA courses and website. I showed the Flash course to my instructor and he wants to get in touch with you about including the link under the Grad School in Education Technology at San Diego State University website.
- SDSU
Thank you for the Sofia courses. I am very interested in the HTML class. Would you please advise me where I need to go to sign up?
- Santa Barbara City College
I was looking through your website and I saw the courses you were offering, I wanted to find out if their is space in your Elementary Statistics Online Course if their is may I add your class. I am not sure how to register for this course can you please send me information on how I can sign up as well.I attached my number if you can call me and explain the details or email I am always online so you can reach me online as well. Thank You!
- student, US
I am from PONDICHERRY, INDIA. I found your course material very very interesting. Thank you.
- student, India
I am teaching a web design class in a high school in Georgia. I am learning Flash along with my class. I just happened to run across your web site for Macromedia Flash. It is great, and I have learned a lot from it.
- student, US
I just ran into your Introduction to Java Programming course. Very comprehensive, clear, and helpful for a beginning programmer. thank you for this awesome course!
- student, US
Your explanations are wonderful [in Introduction to Macromedia Flash]! You answered questions that my instructor couldn't. Thank you!!
- student, US
How do I sign up for these sofia classes? I am interested in the Physical Geography.
- student, US
This looks great. Very easy to follow & navigate. What are the parameters around using this content in a program we offer at Humber? I would like to use the Musicianship class.
- student, Canada.
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