Cascade District Workshops for HTF 2014-15

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District Cascade HTF Workshops 2014-15

HTF MRP Page

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.
2. Click on district in table below to see progress of the Head Teacher Forum district workshops,
   1. Bangalore Rural
   2. Chamarajanagara
   3. Gulbarga
   4. Kodagu
   5. Kolar
   6. Ramanagara

Master resource persons from these 6 districts will be trained on the use of digital ICTs for school leadership and school development. They will learn Internet for building resource libraries and contributing resources to the Karnataka Open Educational Resources.

Focus areas for the HTF District Cascade Workshops

The HTF programme will work with head teachers and the focus of this year's HTF District workshops will be to:

1. Build the computer literacy skills for teachers
2. How to use the internet as a learning resource - to create a resource library for my use and for the classroom
3. Build digital resource libraries
4. Use emails, Head Teachers Mailing Forum to communicate
5. Access the Karnataka Open Educational Resources and Contribute
   1. Understanding how the resources are organized on KOER and share feedback and activities
6. Develop digital literacy skills - email, internet search and downloading, using image editor and text editor

Activities BEFORE the workshop

1. The DIET/ CTE Nodal Officer and RP should read the ICT Lab readiness checklist and ensure ICT Lab is in full working condition
   1. Since STF-KOER requires Interent, 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.]
2. 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. HTF MRP List - Head teachers who received training in Bangalore state level workshops
2. DIET Contact Information

Activities DURING 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 HTF and relevant Subject 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 Agenda as Spreadsheet]

Day 1

1. Subject Teacher Forum
2. Ubuntu
3. Libre-Office typing
4. Internet-1
5. Internet-2
6. Resource library handout
7. 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

Day 5

1. [Participant feedback form] to be filled by participants

Activities AFTER the workshop

Please check your HTF Mailing Forum mails daily Please visit KOER regularly and also Contribute