Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by mandy honeyman -
Number of replies: 8
I was shown a demo of Starz the primary school add-on for Digital Brain yesterday and I thought that the look and feel was excellent.

I am now looking for any themes that have specifically been created for small children/primary schools (age 5-11).

If anyone has done any or knows where they might be found, please let me know.

cheers
Mandy

PS I've seen the one over at http://nvc.bwaterps.vic.edu.au/login/index.php
but I'm looking for something with bigger icons, bigger text, pared down pages - that kind of thing.

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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by Miles Berry -
It may not be quite what you're after, but have a glance at http://chalk.churchastoninfantschool.co.uk/
Their main site is rather lovely too: http://churchastoninfantschool.co.uk/
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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by Rene Louwers -
I love that theme, Miles. Are you planning to share them?
Regards, Rene
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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by Miles Berry -
They're not mine! I'd be thrilled to produce something half that good.

Back to Mandy's orginal question, David Scotson's Kubrick theme and it's descendents might be a good place to start if simplified layout is high up the wishlist.

You'll have seen Leon Cych's proposal to develop a flash front-end to Moodle.

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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by mandy honeyman -
Miles
Thanks for the link to the Church Aston site, yes that's almost exactly what I mean, now it would just be a case of getting hold of Lemm Lemming - not quite sure why she has removed any way of contacting anyone from the OLE!

I know what you mean about the Kubrick theme - and I would be happy to do (most of) a theme for primary level but, I confess, I just needed a quick way of showing my primary cluster what might be possible and as a counter point to Starz. (I had been looking for the flash discussion, having remembered it vaguely, so thanks for that too!)

I hope giving them the link to Church Aston will make my point.

cheers
Mandy

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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by Rene Louwers -
Mandy,

If you need someone to make/develop a tailormade theme for you, I would love to do this job. I'm also very enthusiastic about it and I could use it also for myself.

Regards,
Rene
http://ecoach.nu
http://ecoach.nu/drp (both are in dutch)
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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by mandy honeyman -
Hey Rene,
Thanks for offer, but as you can see from my note above, I really needed something to show these heads. But as I don't know which way they will jump, there is no point in spending time on this task now. Though - strong argument for making some young children friendly themes available to the community.

cheers
Mandy
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Re: Theme(s) for primary school(s)?

by Dale Jones -
The theme was done by Anne Garner's daughter who used to be on Moodle.org as Lemm Lemming.  IT is rather lovely.