APSWRIES -TSWREIS Programme September 2015

=APSWREIS September, 2015= Andhra Pradesh state government started the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (APSWREIS) in 1984 to provide quality education to poor SC, ST, and OBC students by establishing 177 residential schools for students of Class V to Class XII with 86,880 students. There are about 4,000 teachers in the society making teacher-student ratio to 1:32. Students have been admitted to the institutions through a lottery method since 2008 (after RTE Act) in the fifth class and being the medium of instruction is English. APSWREIS has been the pioneer in leveraging technology both, in administration and education and made rapid strides in achieving efficiency through technology. Today all 177 institutions are a part of an intranet with assured connectivity, own an e-mail service and a website. The academic progress of the students and teachers is monitored online through Student Academic Monitoring System (SAMS). Today APSWREIS is reaching out to almost 200 of its institutions through state run SAPNET, ‘MANA TV’ to arrange lectures for EAMCET, LAWCET, I-CET by the experts.

The workshop aims at training around 45 teachers in integrating ICTs in education, by collaboratively constructing digital Open educational resources and by sharing resources, experiences and ideas in a professional learning community

=Agenda= To see agenda Please click here

=Participant profile=
 * 1) Please click here for participant form
 * 2) See summary of participant information

=Resources in English=
 * 1) Complete handout in PDF and ODT formats for download
 * 2) Circulars on adopting Public (Free and Open Source) Software
 * 3) Handouts for sessions
 * 4) Internet – a new method of learning
 * 5) Note_on_Internet_access
 * 6) Ubuntu
 * 7) Using a text editor
 * 8) Telugu typing - itrans method in Ibus Ubuntu
 * 9) Learning Mind mapping
 * 10) How to use Freemind
 * 11) How to access the internet
 * 12) Learning basics of spreadsheets for maintaining digital registers
 * 13) Learning Geogebra
 * 14) Social Science Useful websites
 * 15) Science Useful websites
 * 16) Mathematics Useful websites
 * 17) Simple GIMP tutorial
 * 18) Background on Internet and Wiki
 * 19) How to create a Personal Digital Library
 * 20) Brief History of ICTs and How have digital ICTs impacted society
 * 21) Telugu typing - itrans method in Ibus Ubuntu
 * 22) GIMP Manual
 * 23) Open shot video editing manual
 * 24) Record my desktop
 * 25) LibreOffice_Calc_basics

=Resources in Telugu=

Ubuntu Installation
Video on Kalpavriksha installation produced by Balaji Sir, UPS Kondapur, Telangana
 * 1) See Mathematics resources prepared by Telangana Teachers here
 * 2) See Science resources prepared by Telangana Teachers here
 * 3) See Social Science resources prepared by Telangana Teachers here

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