OLPC Kosrae/Workshops/Workshop January 2010
Workshop Report June 2010 - Goals and Objectives - Awareness - Policy - Governance - Deployment Action Plan - Training - Curriculum Integration - Content - Community - Server and Power Infrastructure - Localisation - Child Online Protection - Recycling - Support - Lesson Plans, Teaching Ideas and Resources
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Venue
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Department of Education, Tofol, Kosrae June 28 - July 2, 2010
Gallery
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Participants
| Name | Title/Location | Email address | |
| 1 | Joe Talley | Community ICT enthusiast | joeatalley@yahoo.com |
| 2 | Romeo Alikso | L.E.S. Teacher/Librarian | rastman99@yahoo.com |
| 3 | Donald J, Mongkeya | T.E.S. Classroom/Science Teacher (G7) | |
| 4 | Morrison George | T.E.S. Classroom/Maths Teacher (EC) | m2geo@hotmail.com |
| 5 | Sadako William | T.E.S. Classroom/English Teacher (G4) | sadawill@comfsm.fm |
| 6 | Rogalsky Henry | L.E.S. IT Teacher | henry_rogalsky@hotmail.com |
| 7 | Shrew Jonas | M.E.S. Teacher | ginabiz2@yahoo.com |
| 8 | Likiu K Phillip | M.E.S. Teacher (PCV) | manninz@mail.uc.edu |
| 9 | Shiver Edmond | U.E.S. Librarian | e.shiver@yahoo.com |
| 10 | Vernet Waguk | U.E.S. Classroom Teacher (G6) | vern21@hotmail.com |
| 11 | Lipton Tilfas | S.E.S. Teacher | liptontilfas@yahoo,com |
| 12 | Eterny Edwin | L.E.S. Teacher/Acting Principal | eetrny@yahoo.com |
| 13 | Quartas Esau | S.E.S | |
| 14 | Tulensu Wagal | U.E.S. | |
| 15 | Bob Tilfas | W.E.S. | tilfb10@yahoo.com |
| 16 | Jesse Cornelius | S.E.S Classroom Teacher | |
| 17 | Danny Joe | W.E.S Librarian | |
| 18 | Swin Charley | M.E.S Classroom Teacher | |
| 19 | Joeson Nithan | DoE - IT Officer | jnithan06@yahoo.com |
| 20 | Moody Kilafioasru | DoE - IT Officer | mkilafwasru@gmail.com |
| Facilitator | . David Leeming |
Key:
- M.E.S. Malem Elementary School
- S.E.S. Sansrik Elementary School
- W.E.S. Walung Elementary School
- U.E.S. Utwe Elementary School
- T.E.S. Tafunsak Elementary School
- L.E.S. Lelu Elementary School
Main contact, Kosrae, DOE
- Paul Hadik, Director of Education
Others assisting, participating and/or with an interest in the project:
- Lugo Skilling, IT Manager, DOE
- Wilson Kephas, Planning, DOE
- Jacqueline Hazen, Islands Research and Education Initiative
- Jimmy Hicks, College of Micronesia/FSM
- Spensin James, President, College of Micronesia-FSM
Workshop Objectives
- Kosrae officials fully informed of the components and requirements of an OLPC Country Programme and equipped with all the information and skills needed to launch such a programme;
- Teachers and supporting technical and education officers and persons trained in the theory, principles and basic operation of the OLPC laptops and school server, with elementary thinking developed on curriculum integration;
- An OLPC deployment plan developed using the WikiEducator, and a clear plan for the OLPC Team to follow to continue with Kosrae’s OLPC programme;
- Including in the above, the identification of an appropriate governance system for the project, with team members and partners and policy requirements identified;
- At minimum, some examples of localised curriculum content and training materials aligned with Kosrae’s national curriculum;
- A demo XS school server with wireless network set up and with Kosrae technical officers equipped with skills to develop the server.
Workshop Schedule
The workshop covered the following:
(to be completed)
Introduction to Content and Curriculum Integration
| Creating lesson plans and resources
In this activity participants were asked to
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The following are some of the examples created by participants:
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The Earth's Mantle Example of animated eToys resource and lesson plan for G7 Science, by Donald
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Memorize game for teaching polygons, by Sadako |
Can we keep the lake clean?
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Overview: This lesson introduces students to the water cycle by having them help draw a picture of a lake ecosystem, adding human impacts that effect water quality. Students will help fill in the components of a drawing of a water system. They will conclude by creating their own illustrations of human-induced changes to the freshwater habitat of a lake ecosystem. |
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Active essay by Sadako |
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Active essay in Kosraen language by Sadako |
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Memory game matching photos by Lipton |
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Active essay |
Workshop Evaluation
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A. Using the POLL ACTIVITY on the laptops, participants rated how confident they were at the end of the workshop, that they could train others in the following:
This activity not only involved participants evaluating the training, but also demonstrated the use of Poll Activity and using the "invite" feature on the laptops. Results from the voting were captured and are shown below. B. Write additional comments and training needs in the table below.
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Results of Evaluation
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| The results for poll 9 were not saved,
but most of the participants responded
"Can do a good job of it" |
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| Please write any further comments about your training needs here | |
| Awareness of the basic theories and principles (of OLPC within the context of ICT for Education). |
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| Basic operation. Networking, connecting | |
| Collaboration – sharing and inviting | |
| Browsing content – the server | |
| Managing work, saving, copying, transferring | |
| Using the laptop Activities | |
| Creating resources | |
| The XO in the classroom: lesson planning incorporating the laptops | |
| Other training needs and comments |
