Cascade District Workshops for Mathematics 2014-15

District Cascade Mathematics STF Workshops 2014-15

The MATHEMATICS Subject Teacher Forum district training programme district wise progress is available from table below:

See Maths RP list

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.

District Training Agenda

The focus of this year's MATHS STF District workshops will be on:

1. How to use the internet as a learning resource - to create a resource library for my use and for the classroom
2. Develop digital literacy skills - email, internet search and downloading, using image editor and text editor
3. Learning to use Geogebra for creating simulations in algebra and geometry
4. Use of ICT tools - photos, simulations for teaching
5. Understanding how the resources are organized on KOER and share feedback and activities

Forms to be filled by participants

1. Day 5 - # Participant feedback form to be submitted [ Participant Feedback Form]

[ See Maths Participant Information]

District Training Hand-outs

1. Detailed Agenda - Googledoc link
2. Detailed Agenda - File:Maths District Agenda 2014-15 - Final.ods

ICT Literacy

1. Ubuntu
2. Libre-Office typing
3. Internet-1
4. Internet-2
5. NCERT Mathematics Text Books
6. Resource library handout
7. KOER Useful Websites
8. Creating Gmail id and sending emails
9. Adding emails to groups
10. Learning Mind mapping
11. How to use Freemind
12. Emailing
13. Geogebra tutorials
14. [KOER - Introduction Page] - Will be added KOER
15. Uploading on Picasa

Mathematics teaching

1. Brief background on Internet, Wiki and KOER

1. KOER Background Note.odt How to navigate KOER hand-out
2. CCE

Expectations from the workshop

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 addition to the maths science forum
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 atleast one comment or activity to KOER
5. Updating district training details on the district pages here
6. Uploading workshop photographs on Picasa