Teachers capacity building course on conducting online classes - 2022

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 conductclasses
5. To help schools/institutions to use the FOSS webinar platform to conduct online classes

Aproach

1. The workshop will be held over 4 webinar sessions.
2. Each webinar session will be for a duration of 90 minutes through the 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 the workshop will be communicated. This will also be used for any virtual support and instant resource sharing with teachers.

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. Kazam 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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