Teachers capacity building course on conducting online classes - 2022

Background

Due to the continuous spread of Covid-19 over the past two years and the impact of the current (Omicron) wave, schools are likely to close for a few more days in the state. Across the state most schools have created students' WhatsApp groups to share learning resources. In many schools, teachers are conducting online classes for students. Some teachers may want to start online classes if they can be guided and supported for doing this. Now with the support of Karnataka school education department, IT for Change is conducting a online courses for school teachers to create digital resources for the online/offline classroom teaching purpose.

Since all teachers do not have access to computers, we plan to conduct this online course separately in two groups: for teachers who use mobile devices and for teachers who use computers.

Objectives

To help teachers to access existing OER resources from the Internet.
To help teachers to create digital resources for the classroom teaching
To help teachers to get familiar with online webinar tools to conduct classes
To help schools/institutions to use the FOSS webinar platform to conduct online classes

Registration for the course

Interested teachers can register their names through this registration form

There is no fee for this course, and any teacher can participate. The last date for the registration will be on January 28th 2022.

Approach

The workshop will be held over 4 webinar sessions.
Each webinar session timings will be from 6pm to 7.30pm (90 mins) through the BigBlueButton FOSS webinar tool
All the workshop resources will be shared through KOER online repository
Registered teachers will become members of the course WhatsApp group

Agenda of the course

Webinars	Particulars	Activities	Session Resources
Session 1	Accessing OER resources	Introduction to the program What is OER? Explain different resource licenses Accessing resources from the web - text, images, videos, audio, and presentations	OER Resources Text OER
Session 2	Create a simple presentation	Creating Libre office/Collabora office- presentation on the selected topic - Adding text Adding images and videos to the presentation, and basic formatting Adding text and formatting text Insert images in slide and image formatting Exporting presentation into a different format to share or open it on other platforms	Libre Office Impress Collabora office user manual
Session 3	Create Video resources	Implementing free and open video software Using images and words to find resources in a video Retaining videos in different formats Sharing videos created on the internet	Vokoscreen handout
Session 4	Use webinar FOSS tool to conduct online classes	Why BigBlueButton (BBB) tool? Use BBB as a student to understand the platform Create classroom links to share it with students Use BBB as a teacher and familiar with all the features Use “BigBlueButton” FOSS webinar platform to interact in the virtual classroom	BigBlueButton handout

Resources

Technology handouts

Mozilla Firefox handout - to browse, download resources from the web
LibreOffice Impress handout - to create slide presentations on the system
Collabora office user manual - to create presentations on the phone
BigBlueButton handout - to conduct online classes
Vokoscreen handout - to do screencasting
Audacity handout - to create/edit audio files
Explore subject based tools
Explore an application
Spoken tutorials
FOSS applications to create OER resources

Subject resources

TESS India OER
NCERT DIKSHA
UPOER
NCERT E-पाठशाला
अरविंद गुप्ता कहानियां और प्रयोग
जियोजेब्रा ट्यूब - बनाई गई जियोजेब्रा फाइल्स को डाउनलोड करने के लिए
आई वंडर
प्रथम बुक्स द्वारा "ओपन स्कूल"
प्रथम बुक्स द्वारा प्रस्तुत डिजिटल कोष स्टोरीवीवर (Pratham Storyweaver): हिंदी में , हिंदी +अंग्रेजी में
प्रेमचंद की कहानिया
शेर और शायरी

Other resources

Course feedback form

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