Cascade District Workshops for Mathematics 2014-15

From Karnataka Open Educational Resources
Revision as of 07:27, 16 September 2014 by Gurumurthy (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

District Cascade Mathematics STF Workshops 2014-15

  1. District level information of Contact person - DIET/CTE nodal officers, District-wise information of number of schools and number of batches are available here.

Click on district in table below to see progress of the the Subject Teacher / Head Teacher Forum district workshops,

Bangalore Division Bangalore Urban Bangalore Rural Chikkballapur Chitradurga Davanagere Kolar Ramanagara Shimoga Tumkur – Madhugiri
Belgaum Division Bagalkote Belgaum Bijapur Dharwad Gadag Haveri Uttara Kannada
Gulbarga Division Bellary Bidar Gulbarga Koppala Raichur Yadagiri
Mysore Division Chamarajanagara Chikmagalur Dakshina Kannada Hassan Kodagu Mandya Mysore Udupi


Focus areas for the District Cascade Workshops

The STF programme will work with ICT Phase 3 school teachers and the focus of this year's MATHS STF District workshops will be to:

  1. Build the computer literacy skills for teachers
  2. Introduce the learning possibilities from using the Internet
  3. Use emails, subject mailing forums and discussion forums to communicate
  4. Build digital resource libraries
  5. Access the Karnataka Open Educational Resources and Contribute
  6. How to use the internet as a learning resource - to create a resource library for my use and for the classroom
  7. Develop digital literacy skills - email, internet search and downloading, using image editor and text editor
  8. Learning to use Geogebra for creating simulations in algebra and geometry
  9. Use of ICT tools - photos, simulations for teaching
  10. Understanding how the resources are organized on KOER and share feedback and activities


Activities before the workshop

  1. Lab readiness checklist The DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer and RP should ensure internet availability, with minimum 4 Mbps connection
  2. Enough computers to allow 1:1 computer:teacher ratio.
  3. The training labs should have the NEW Ubuntu version 14.04 installed on them.

  4. To allow for adequate practice, the batch size should be kept to 20-25 based on number of working computers. The number of teachers to be trained and number of batches needed is available [ here.]

  5. DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer to enter the cascade training timetable information. Please click [here] to enter information about the District workshop schedule for STF 2014-15 and enter the cascade schedule.

Contact Information

  1. RP List
  2. DIET Contact Information

Preparation for the cascade

Master resource persons from all 34 districts have been trained on the use of Internet for building resource libraries and contributing resources to the Karnataka Open Educational Resources. They have also been trained in using mind maps to build resources, image editing. They focused on the use of Geogebra for classroom lesosns.


Activities during and after the workshop

  1. You can contact the ITfC team for support mail and phone for any support during the training.
  2. DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer to enter the DIET feedback from the workshop. Please click [here] to view the form.

Resource person checklist

During the workshop, the resource persons are expected to transact the proposed agenda with modifications as needed.

The participants must complete the following activities:

  1. Creation of email IDs and add them to the Cascade Training Group for email practice
  2. Creation of a meta document for organizing their own resource library and share the links and descriptions of such resources to the forum
  3. Familiarization with the KOER resource website and identifying resources to be added
  4. Submission of one activity to KOER
  5. Updating district training details on the district pages here
  6. Uploading workshop photographs on Picasa
  7. On Day 5, addition to the maths science forum
  8. On Day 5, Participant Feedback Form is to be filled by participants

District Training Hand-outs

  1. Detailed Agenda - Googledoc link
  2. Detailed Agenda - Download as spreadsheet

Hand-outs for training

Day 1

  1. Subject Teacher Forum
  2. Ubuntu
  3. Libre-Office typing
  4. Internet-1
  5. Internet-2
  6. NCERT Mathematics Text Books
  7. Resource library handout
  8. KOER Useful Websites

Day 2-3

  1. Creating Gmail id and sending emails
  2. Add to Cascade Training Group for email practice
  3. Adding emails to groups
  4. Learning Mind mapping
  5. How to use Freemind
  6. Emailing
  7. Geogebra tutorials

Day 4

  1. [KOER - Introduction Page] - Will be added KOER
  2. Uploading on Picasa
Retrieved from "https://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php?title=Cascade_District_Workshops_for_Mathematics_2014-15&oldid=16072"