Introduction 0.4 - Further links and pointers

Title: 0.4 - Further links and pointers
Number: 0.4

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Lesson and activity templates

• OER4Schools lesson plan (blank)
• OER4Schools activity template (blank)

Classroom activities

• OER4Schools/Netbook familiarisation
• OER4Schools/Collaborative writing with EtherPad

More assets (both classroom activities and suggestions for workshop activities, as well as other supporting materials) are available here.

Further resources

• Leadership for Learning
• OER4Schools/ChaUni Effective use of ICT
• You may also be interested in exploring the resources of the ORBIT project, hosted on this wiki.
• Interactive pedagogy in literacy teaching

There are a number of key texts, often given in references in the OER4Schools units. These include:

• Alexander, R. (ed) (2010), Children, Their World, Their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review. London: Routledge.
• Maddock, M., Peacock, A., Hart, S. & Drummond, M.-J. (2012). Creating Learning Without Limits. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
• index for inclusion, http://www.csie.org.uk/
• Links to the literature review: http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/ict/index.html

Taster sessions

• Taster activities for UNISA
• Resource for taster workshop at KCE
• Resource for taster workshop at NISTCOL
• Resource for taster workshop at UNZA

Videos

Much of our resource draws on video specifically produced for this programme. You can view a number of videos here:

• Video clips from a lesson on rectangles
• Video clips from a lesson on classifying vertebrates
• Video clips from a lesson on the power of two / Exponentials
• Video clips on 3D shapes

Many of the videos used in our resource are also available from our YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/user/OER4Schools.

VIDEO

Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School

Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School

Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v, https://oer.opendeved.net/wiki/Video/Introduction_to_Chalimbana_Basic_School.m4v,This video is available on your memory stick in the video/Talks folder. Duration: 1:57 (Series: Talks, episode 03)

Conference presentations

• BERA 2012: http://tinyurl.com/BERA2012
• Information about ICT Forum 2012
• e-Learning Africa 2012

Alternative page versions

• OER4Schools/1.4 Effective use of ICT and collaborative writing v2

All-in-one pdf

• You can get a full pdf of all units so far here: ORBIT:Books/OER4Schools Note that some of the formatting isn't perfect just yet!!

ICT

The following ICT-tools are used throughout this programme (with example activities given in brackets):

• Geogebra^(tool) (see e.g. introduction to Geogebra)
• Spreadsheet^(tool)
• Word processors^(tool)
• Mind-mapping^(tool)
• Images^(tool) (see e.g. Using images, introduction to slideshows with OpenOffice)
• Typing tutor (see e.g. typing practice with students)