How to enable elearning with minimum cost and effort in Eminima? Try these:
- Get your own Internet server so you can develop elearning content on your own. This server is the Slax/EM miniCD that you can use with any Pentium PC with CDROM drive. All our partners have this miniCD. They will give you a copy at cost. Or open the email link to order a copy - click on the dome icon above, right. $10 should be sufficient to cover courier costs. Using that miniCD is the same as using these pages. For practice, try this link for authoring, then get oriented on how to use the miniCD here.
- If you have course documents in print (hardcopy), convert these to digital form using the Puppy miniCD. You can obtain this CD, too, from our partners, or download and burn your own copy. If you ordered the Slax/EM miniCD above, this miniCD will also be provided (so you get two miniCDs in one order). Read this article about the tools of documentation for elearning.
- Once you have the miniCDs above, you should be able to put together your course content. You will then want to transfer these contents to a new miniCD. The instructions are here, or get help from your nearest partner. The new miniCD is a ready Internet server for your course. You can deploy it using any Pentium PC with a CDROM drive.
- You may want to have your content hosted by a third party. Mail us so we can give you a referral. The cost of a shared website (shared space and domain name) should be no more than $10 per year. Getting a unique domain name (.org, .net or .info) plus your own hosting package should cost about $48 per year. If you have friends who want to share your domain name, up to four of them can share your site at no added cost (billing them for the services is up to you). By this time, you should have become an EM expert and the new partner in your area, so feel free to bill users for your services!