Hi every Body, I'm writing this to thank all of those people who worked hard behind this conference. Beacause my final semester project submission deadline is close I can't attend tomorrow. It was very encouraging.
Thankyou for the stall, it was great explaining the possibilities of Linux to students. We got really good response.
Now it's time to become a member of fsf... I have been promoted this free software since last 4 years but was in no way associated with any official bodies. Just had accounts in few linux forums. Please enlighten me with the procedures and direction!
Thank you again to all!
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:28:10 +0530 From: renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Teacher Training on Sugar for Primary Education To: Free Software Users Group - Bangalore fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: 2edece8c1003190058q9f28523waa33a2bf03e019ee@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
R V Educational Consortium and R.V.College of Engineering in association with FSF-India, HBCSE, FSUG-Bangalore, ITForChange, DeeprootLinux and other individuals and organization is hosting a two day workshop for teachers on sugar keeping in mind the primary education
Venue : R.V.College of Engineering, Bangalore Participants : 40 teachers already registered from private and government schools ( maximum : 50) Fee : Rs 500 per participant ( including lunch + tea /coffee + CD/DVD ) Resource Persons : Dr Nagarjuna and Dr Amit ( HBCSE ) Volunteers : FSUG-Bangalore, DeeprootLinux, ITForChange, other individuals also
if any body on the list has already worked on sugar desktop and related activities, please let us know whether you are willing to volunteer for the program
-------------------------------------------A brief note about the workshop
The use of ICT is increasingly becoming necessary for universal access to education for all. While several agencies are trying to develop the infrastructure, not much effort is being made in providing guidance, content creation, and empowering the teachers. We (at gnowledge.org lab of HBCSE) have been giving workshops to teachers in proper use of ICT without neglecting the traditional modes of class room practices, and also train the teachers in use and abuse of computers and communication technology. We also link it to the general objectives and philosophy set in NCF 2005 in the context of ICT use in the class room and empowering teachers.
As a part of the workshop we will be also arranging a CD for all participants at a cost of Rs.100/-, which contains all the software used for the workshop. All the software is licensed for use in any number of installations within the state and can be distributed free of charge or for a nominal amount to all teachers, students, schools and colleges provided they are distributed with the same set of conditions.
The workshop will introduce the main activities in the Sugar Platform ( http://sugarlabs.org), as well as the special suit of applications present in the Gcompris (the latter is part of the Gnome desktop environment of GNU/Linux). The philosophy of constructivism and constructionism in the context of studio based learning will be introduced. The activities address language learning, mathematics, music, animation, turtle graphics (basic computing), presentation, recording (audio, video), art (painting and sketching), talking, mind/concept mapping etc. All the activities support collaboration. The computer records all transactions helping the teacher to know the achievements of children. Some of the topics in the workshop pertain to capacity building among teachers, collaborative construction of teaching/learning sequences, lesson planning etc.
for more details write to nagarjun@gnowledge.org
with regards
renuka prasad