Teachers capacity building workshop on conducting online classes - 2021

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Background

Due to the current pandemic situation, all schools are closed, and this may continue. SSLC examinations will be held in June. Class 10 students are preparing for the examination, and many need continuous support from teachers to prepare.

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.

IT for Change, under the “Teachers Community of Learning” (TCOL) program would like to help Government and Government aided schools teachers to conduct online classes for their students. To make teachers comfortable to take online classes, we plan to conduct an on-line teacher’s workshop.

Objectives

1. To build basic digital literacy skills for teachers
2. To help teachers to access existing OER resources from the Internet.
3. To help teachers to create digital resources for the classroom teaching
4. To help teachers to get familiar with online webinar tools to conduct classes
5. To help schools/institutions to use FOSS webinar platform to conduct online classes

Approach

1. The workshop will be held over 4 webinar sessions.
2. Each webinar session will be for a duration of 90 minutes through BigBlueButton FOSS webinar tool
3. All the workshop resources will be shared through KOER online repository
4. The topic of each session will be stand-alone (one topic per session)
5. Registered teachers will become members of a WhatsApp group where important notifications related to workshop will be communicated. This will also be used for any virtual support and instant resource sharing with teachers.

Registration

Click here to register in this course

Last date for the registration is May 7th, 2021.

Workshop agenda

Sl no	Particulars	Activities	Session Resources
1	Introduction to the program	Introduce to the workshop Go through workshop agenda Teachers sharing their expectation and requirements from the workshop
2	Accessing OER resources	Understanding and accessing OER Accessing different OER resources on the Internet Downloading OER resources – Text, Image, Video, and Audio	OER Resources Text OER
3	Create simple presentation	Creating LO- presentation on the selected - Adding text Adding images and videos to the presentation, and basic formatting Adding text and formatting text Use different slide templates, themes Insert images in slide and image formatting Exporting presentation into a different format to share or open it on other platforms	LibreOffice Impress handout
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
5	Use Google form for the students assessment	Go through Google Drive - to save and share all your files on the cloud Use Google form to conduct online test and exams Use Google form and sheet for the students' assessment

Resources

Technology handouts

1. Mozilla Firefox handout - to browse, download resources from the web
2. LibreOffice Impress handout - to create presentations
3. BigBlueButton handout - to conduct online classes
4. Kazam handout - to do screencasting
5. Audacity handout - to create/edit audio files
6. Explore subject based tools
7. Explore an application
8. Spoken tutorials
   1. Geogebra tutorials
   2. Firefox
   3. LibreOffice Writer
9. Geogebra tube - to download created geogebra files
10. FOSS applications to create OER resources

Reading resources

1. Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS

Course feedback form

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