Teachers capacity building course on conducting online classes - 2022

Background

Due to the continuous spread of Covid-19 over the past two years and the impact of the current (Omicron) wave, schools are likely to close for a few more days in the state. Across the state 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.

Now with the support of Karnataka school education department, IT for Change is conducting a online courses for Karnataka teachers to create digital resources for the online/offline classroom teaching purpose. Teachers interested in participating in this course are requested to register by following link:

https://tinyurl.com/itfcworkshopregistration

Since all teachers do not have access to computers, we plan to conduct this online course separately in two groups: teachers who use mobile devices and teachers who use computers.

Objectives

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

Approach

1. The workshop will be held over 4 webinar sessions. The course starts on February 1st and the following session dates: 3rd, 4th, and 5th of February
2. Each webinar session timings will be from 6pm to 7.30pm (90 mins) through the BigBlueButton FOSS webinar tool
3. All the workshop resources will be shared through KOER online repository
4. Registered teachers will become members of the course WhatsApp group

Agenda of the course

Webinars	Particulars	Activities	Session Resources
Session 1	Accessing OER resources	Introduction to the program What is OER? Explain different resource licenses Accessing resources from the web - text, images, videos, audio, and presentations	OER Resources Text OER
Session 2	Create a simple presentation	Creating Libre office/Collabora office- presentation on the selected topic - Adding text Adding images and videos to the presentation, and basic formatting Adding text and formatting text Insert images in slide and image formatting Exporting presentation into a different format to share or open it on other platforms	Libre Office Impress Collabora office user manual
Session 3	Create Video resources	Implementing free and open video software Using images and words to find resources in a video Retaining videos in different formats Sharing videos created on the internet	Vokoscreen handout
Session 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

Resources

Technology handouts

1. Mozilla Firefox handout - to browse, download resources from the web
2. LibreOffice Impress handout - to create slide presentations on the system
3. Collabora office user manual - to create presentations on the phone
4. BigBlueButton handout - to conduct online classes
5. Vokoscreen handout - to do screencasting
6. Audacity handout - to create/edit audio files
7. Explore subject based tools
8. Explore an application
9. Spoken tutorials
   1. LibreOffice Impress (slide presentations)
   2. Firefox
   3. LibreOffice Writer
10. FOSS applications to create OER resources

Other resources

1. Why OER?
2. FOSS importance in education
3. Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS
4. Geogebra tube - to download created geogebra files
5. Buy your own laptop

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