Technology integrated learning workshop for B.Ed student-teachers - Al Ameen College of Education

Objectives

1. Introducing Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) to the Student-teachers
2. Introducing student-teachers to different FOSS tools and OER resources to create learning/classroom resources
3. Introducing students-teachers to FOSS based audio-visual creation tools to create learning resources
4. Build the computer literacy skills for student-teachers

Participants information

Student information form

Agenda

Day 1
Inaugeration
Workshop Overview	- Introduction to the workshop - Objectives agenda and expectation - ICT in Education
Interacting with ICT	- Why Open Source? Open Source v/s Proprietary - Introduction and importance of FOSS
Interacting with ICT (SYSTEM BATCH)	- Overview of Ubuntu interface – How is it user-friendly? - Exploring FOSS applications – Generic and Educational applications - Getting comfortable with Keyboard and mouse - Typing in various languages (Urdu, Kannada..)	Various Free and Open Source Softwares - Handout
Interacting with ICT (MOBILE BATCH)	- Free and open source application repository - Managing the files on phone - Exploring the ways to browse information
Day 2
Connecting and Learning (SYSTEM BATCH)	- Interacting with ICT – Understanding GDL, Creating a PDL on selected topic - Bookmarking the pages - Exploring the web : Browsing and downloading the various content - Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) - Exploring OER websites (Wiki sites) - Saving the webpage – PDF, HTML, screenshot	https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Firefox
Connecting with the world (MOBILE BATCH)	- Accessing useful educational website - Translating the text materials to various languages - Searching, translating and scanning through camera - Managing space on cloud - Working with mobile applications and websites (exploring and bookmarking) - Working with office applications - Basic security tips for safe browsing	https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Firefox
Day 3
Creating with ICT : Concept Mapping – 1 (SYSTEM BATCH)	- Why concept mapping? - Role of thinking, documenting, presenting in education - Having a demo on some topic - Creating a map on selected topic- Inserting nodes, moving nodes, Hyper linking files and web links	https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Freeplane
Cyber security awareness (Mobile batch)	- Open discussion on cyber issues that we face in day-to-day life - Various test cases to understand and to be aware of cyber crimes
Day 4
Creating with ICT : Concept Mapping – 2 and Creating the presentation (SYSTEM BATCH)	- Adding notes and note window, images, connecting nodes - Saving and exporting the map in various formats. - Creating the presentation - Using Artificial Intelligence processing the information and creating the text for the presentation - Working with text features, alignment, using font works, importance of view menu - Choosing the slide layout, Adding images, shapes and table	https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Freeplane https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_LibreOffice_Impress
Data collection / Survey / response analysis	- Creating the form to collect information - Exploring various options in the form - Downloading the response and analysis	https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Google_Form
Day 5
Subject specific tools	Group 1 - Language Group 2 - Science and Mathematics
Creating the presentation (Advanced)	- Making the text animate in the presentation - Exploring various designs and transitions
Student presentation, feedback, certificates distribution

Resources

Technology Resources

1. Explore an application
2. Toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS
3. Why FOSS in education?
4. Why public software?

Other Resources

1. Buy an ICT device

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