The ISchool WebBoard is a joint-initiative of DEPED Bureau of Secondary Education, CICT-Human Capital Development Group with the support of USAID, Last Mile Initiative Philippines, and Intel.
The Context:
The continuing investments of government, corporate foundations, foreign donors to bridge the digital divide in education have brought computers with Internet connection in the public schools.
The infrastructures bring in on-line resources to improve curricular content and learning activities.
The proliferation of Internet Cafe and computer shops offering on-line services at affordable rate per hour has given impetus to student to hang around these places. The Internet services have come to redefine the attitude and approach to interactivity, leisure, and learning.
Hence, with the digital opportunity comes the challenge to improve understanding of learning and teaching to permit on-line instructional event. The teacher must be self-enabled, empowered to exercise her role of “teaching” inside the digital space.
This project brings into the hands of the teacher the guidance, the walk-through experience, and the tools to create and manage on-line instructional web space.
The ISchool Webboard:
A teacher managed instructional website for e-learning. A web based extension of the teacher’s blackboard, named as ISchool Webboard. A simple e-learning portal in the World-Wide-Web authored by the teacher to invite the students for self-directed learning.
The ISchool Web Board contains organize collection of instructional presentations, guided activities, reviewed references, and test materials that students can access on-line before and after the classroom based instruction.
The content of the e-Learning website is defined by the teacher guided by the curricular standards and adapted instructional strategies, that DEPED requires the teacher to bring inside the classroom.
The teacher defines the Internet services that the student can log-in to participate in the on-line learning activities. It also includes links to the reviewed websites that offer learning materials supportive of the prescribed competency goals defined by DEPED in the Secondary Education Curriculum.
Training Program of ISchool Web Board
Training Objectives:
For the teacher to:
- Define the common language, work objectives, work packages, process and technology to implement e-learning.
- Build a common understanding on Instructional Design Plan to integrate digital technology resources in the academic subjects of the school.
- Create the Subject Instruction Plan template that incorporates modalities of e-learning and content from readily available digital repositories.
- Design and create subject e-learning web board to contain subject lesson plans, study guide, lecture notes, links to on-line forum, e-mail group, blogs, wikipedia, and on-line content references.
- Review and use curricular content and standard references from the World Wide Web, and integrate the use to the approved curricular references of DepEd-BSE.
- Work with the software to get into the Internet, to search and retrieve information, to create presentation, write and publish web pages, and to collaborate and communicate.
Training Strategies:
1. Lecture and Actual Demonstration
2. Hands-on Activities
Training Deliverables:
- Instructional Guidance on Infocommunications Technology Integration in Instruction and Learning
- Teacher’s Created e-Learning Web Board through the use free and open source webpage publication system
- Open Source Productivity Software for Teachers
Training Duration:
Five (5) Days
Training Requirements:
- Computer Laboratory with Internet connection, browser, and appropriate plug-in to play multimedia files.
- Participants pre-training requirements:
- Understand written instruction in English
- Knows PC on/off, start program,
- uses mouse and keyboard
- recognizes icons, toolbars, cursor, desktop, and menu
- understands files and folder
- able to write using word processing tools
Training Content:
Day 1 –
Learning and Instructional Framework of e-Learning
Morning:
Instructional Design and Planning Model
The module leads the participants to define and agree on the effective learning framework and instructional design process model to promote implementation of e-learning technology integration.
Afternoon:
Program of Instruction and e-Learning Modalities
The module leads the participant to review instructional and curricular guidance of DEPED-BSE, and define the lesson plan template to integrate e-learning instructional modalities, and digitally available content to deliver instruction and learning.
Day 2
Infocommunications Technology for e-Learning
Morning:
Open Source Software to Implement e-Learning
The module introduces quick start lessons on using presentation software, web page authoring software, e-book authoring software, and Internet tools using the free, open source technology.
Afternoon:
Open Source Services in the Internet
The module explores the use of the World Wide Web as an instructional strategy. It introduces the teacher to the free and open source services deployed in the Internet for information content, communication and collaboration, web hosting, learning management, and on-line assessment
Day 3 –
Building the ISchool Web Board –Teachers in the Web
Morning: Discovery and Design
The module guides the preparation and design process to build the e-learning website that incorporates the publication of subject information, study guide, lecture notes, assignment guidance, and links to on-line content repositories, e-groupware facilities, and email.
Afternoon: Define Course Materials and Create Web Address
The module guides the teacher on how to gather and review relevant course content materials on the web that can be linked to meet the learning objectives of the subject. It also guides the teacher on how to enroll, activate, and manage a website.
Day 4 – Building the ISchool Web Board –Part II
Morning – Setup email, Blogs, Forum, Wikipedia, and On-Line Assessment
The module guides the teacher on how to enroll for an e-mail address to setup and activate for student use web blogs, forum, wikipedia, and on-line assessment services.
Afternoon – Continuation of morning activities
Day 5: -
Building the ISchool Web Board Part III
Morning: Create the Web Page I
The module guides the teacher to write a web page to contain information, activities, and assessment of instruction and learning.
Afternoon: Create the Web Page II
The module guides the teacher on how to publish the web page, and to perform editing.
Closing Ceremony.
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