international telecommunication union sep, 2008 inclusive applications for education empowering...
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InternationalTelecommunicationUnion
Sep, 2008
Inclusive applications for Education
Empowering Educators and Learners
Objectives – Tues session 1
Provide you with basic wiki editing skills
Introduce you to the WikiEducator community
About this training Initial lessons only of the Learning4Content
series
Copies of the lesson notes for full course on the server
Instructions how to follow upSelf learning tutorialsGuided free L4C courses from OERFJoin the WikiEducator Google Group
About the WikiEducator
All of the following Collaboration tool for educators An OER A portal for a large growing community
Launched by Commonwealth of Learning Now hosted by OER Foundation of NZ
About the WikiEducator
WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:
planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
work on building open education resources (OERs) and on how to create OERs.
networking on funding proposals developed as free content
Special features
Pedagogical templates Books and publishing tools Interactive features such as Quiz Can export as SCORM/IMS and
import into Moodle
Learning4Content
Lesson 1-4 By the end of this you will:
Have an accountHave created a user pageUnderstand basic wiki text editingBe able to do some formatting,
linking, adding media, etcKnow how to continue!!!!
Objectives – Tues session 2
Brief intro to OER movement
OERs and applications from the OLPC movementOLPPC XS School Server (demo/hands-on)Sugar on a Stick (install/hands on)
Wi-Fi Broadcast system (demo if time allows)
Introduction to OERs
Open Educational Resources
Definitions Origins The 4 Rs Open licenses The Cape Town Declaration Famous OER Projects
Definitions
“digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”
OERs are all of:Digitised materials, freely available, reusableTools and softwareBest practices and projectsOpen licenses
Reuse - verbatim copies
Redistribute - share copies
Revise - make adaptations
Remix - combinations / mashups
The 4Rs
Openness in Education TED Talk – David Wiley
Origins
OER mentioned in 2002 in UNESCO workshop Two major OER projects started at same time
WikipediaMIT OpenCourseWare
And accelerated in 2007 with : Cape Town Declaration OpenCourseWare Convention
Why OERs?
Government OERs expand access to learning Esp non-traditional groups of learners Efficient way to promote lifelong learning Bridge gap between formal and non-
formal
Why OERs?
Institutions Altruistic – sharing knowledge Obliged to leverage taxpayers money Quality Productivity
Why OERs?
Educators (and individuals) Altruistic reasons Personal professional advancement Joining to OER movement and learning
the skills is immensely empowering Free sharing is a good business model
Offers easy to use 4Rs licenses
Check the “Copyright Statement” or “Terms of Use”! Without a CC license
you will (likely) not have 4R permissions.
Free = Open
Some OERs and other free resources
Adult education, technical, vocational OCW Consortium MIT OpenCourseWare (Thai courses available) Global Health Learning UNESCO Open Training Platform WikieducatorRepositories http://www.repository.ac.nz/Schools Skoool.com UNESCO ASEAN SchoolNet Moodle in Schools (NZ) WikieducatoreBooks WikiBooks Gutenberg project
The OER Handbook
A WikiEducator project http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook
On the server
Activity – Sugar on a Stick and OLPC’s XS School Server
An open educational resource that is a tool and an activity, for collaborative, creative learning
Sugar on a Stick Derives from the OLPC movement
Some background first
Five core principles
1.child ownership*2. low ages3. saturation4.connection5. free & open source* PLUS COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION
Origins in constructivist learning theory...
think of: “learning by doing”... “discovery learning”“active learning”....
The programs on the laptop are called activities. There are many activities associated with reading, writing, language and literacy, science, maths and measuring, creating, music, painting, photography, video and recording, and educational games. Also programming activities specially designed for the young. Importantly, information resources from the server and Internet are accessed via the browser.
Creative , collaborative, joyful learning
Sugar Labs now develops the Sugar user interface and learning software for children
http://sugarlabs.org
Sugar on a stick – you can even boot Sugar and the Activities from a flashdrive...
http://sugarlabs.org
Demo of XO
One Laptop per Child
The XS - School Server
“The Internet in a box”“School and community electronic library”
One Laptop per Child
XS School Server
A set of software (based on Linux - Fedora) which provides:A Network GatewayCentralized school services including
Moodle LMS (Learning Management System)
Content services
hardware platform depending on power and student numbers
Typical example
Remote underserviced communities
Rural primary schools with no power
“Moodle in a box” – simple way to deploy Moodle
Wi-Fi broadcasting to community
• 30 students per AP• Power over Ethernet where possible• Solar powered sites run on 12V
The XS Moodle Learning Management System
How to get and install the XS
Documentation on the server
One Laptop per Child
The XS - School Server
QUICK DEMO
One Laptop per Child
Activity – Sugar on a Stick
An open educational resource that is a tool and an activity, for collaborative, creative learning
Sugar on a Stick Derives from the OLPC movement
SOAS
Where to get the latest SOAS imagehttp://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
Need LiveUSBCreator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
USB format tool http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk
Installing
Install LiveUSBCreator
Prepare Flashdrive (we have done this for you on the one provided)note: use FAT
Run LiveUSBCreator with the latest SOAS image
Running SOAS
Warning- development versions
Boot priority
Latest version needs a helping hand booting (press shift key and enter “linux0” at prompt)
Install other XO activities when running
Laptops provided, wireless not detected
Can be run locally, no Internet costs
All based on open source, no licensing costs
A great way to make local content available more freely
A highly localised portal
Access on your mobile phone (Wi-Fi needed)
A Wi-Fi Broadcast System
Wi-Fi Broadcast System
Installation instructions on server Ubuntu 10 + LAMP
MySQL
WordPress + mobile plugin
Dnsmasq
Installation easy with Aptitude
Can use a high-gain omni