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=== Design of school-level intervention ===

=== Design of school-level intervention ===

==== Collection of information for planning teaching-learning ====

==== Collection of context information for planning teaching-learning ====

While schools will have basic information about their students and parents, collected during the admission process, to enable online education, more information needs to be collected covering - address, map location, number of devices at home, Internet connectivity on each device, availability of device with the student (if the device is owned by a parent who takes it to work, then it would be accessible to the student only in the morning or the evening), electricity supply situation, siblings and the grades they are studying in (since some of the offline activities can take support of parents and siblings), parent's educational status etc. See this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OtWD_OePmJ7jCjRGxF8YMDftGAo4df1Cg7G8QrWUizY/edit?usp=sharing sheet] for an information template. Each school needs to create a similar document to plan its online and offline teaching efforts.  

While schools will have basic information about their students and parents, collected during the admission process, to enable online education, more information needs to be collected covering - address, map location, number of devices at home, Internet connectivity on each device, availability of device with the student (if the device is owned by a parent who takes it to work, then it would be accessible to the student only in the morning or the evening), electricity supply situation, siblings and the grades they are studying in (since some of the offline activities can take support of parents and siblings), parent's educational status etc. See this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OtWD_OePmJ7jCjRGxF8YMDftGAo4df1Cg7G8QrWUizY/edit?usp=sharing sheet] for an information template. Each school needs to create a similar document to plan its online and offline teaching efforts.  

==== Familiarity and comfort with online learning platform ====

==== Familiarity and comfort with online learning platform ====

One line learning platforms have some features to support online teaching including - video conferencing, sharing screen (which has a presentation or a video or even a web page), digital white/black board, online chattigng etc. Student management functions like muting participants, locking participants, sharing presentation righss etc are also useful to learn.   

O (connecting and teaching)ne line learning platforms have some features to support online teaching including - video conferencing, sharing screen (which has a presentation or a video or even a web page), digital white/black board, online chattigng etc. Student management functions like muting participants, locking participants, sharing presentation righss etc are also useful to learn.   

[https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_BigBlueButton BigBlueButton] is a free and open-source online teaching platform. It can be used as a standalone platform to teach or can be integrated with the Moodle Learning Management System. The latter option is suitable for teacher training programs while the former is simpler and hence suitable for student teaching. [https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_BigBlueButton BigBlueButton]  has the advantage that it does not require an app installation to use on the phone, a web address (URL) is sufficient.  

[https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_BigBlueButton BigBlueButton] is a free and open-source online teaching platform. It can be used as a standalone platform to teach or can be integrated with the Moodle Learning Management System. The latter option is suitable for teacher training programs while the former is simpler and hence suitable for student teaching. [https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_BigBlueButton BigBlueButton]  has the advantage that it does not require an app installation to use on the phone, a web address (URL) is sufficient.  

Familiarity with [https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_BigBlueButton BigBlueButton] will require two sessions of a few hours each, the second to refresh learning and solve any doubts or issues. See BigBlueButton_Workshop page for a workshop plan to learn BigBlueButton  

Familiarity with [https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_BigBlueButton BigBlueButton] will require two sessions of a few hours each, the second to refresh learning and solve any doubts or issues. See BigBlueButton_Workshop page for a workshop plan to learn BigBlueButton  

==== Creating appropriate lessons/content for online teaching ====

==== Creating appropriate lessons/content for online teaching (creating and teaching) ====

Online teaching is NOT the conversion of 'chalk and talk' into video recording of lectures, much more creativity is needed to make the learning an engaging activity. Students are unlikely to spend hours watching videos of teaching. Interactivity is even more necessary in online learning.  

Online teaching is NOT the conversion of 'chalk and talk' into video recording of lectures, much more creativity is needed to make the learning an engaging activity. Students are unlikely to spend hours watching videos of teaching. Interactivity is even more necessary in online learning.