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A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Establishing ICT infrastructure (view source)
Revision as of 10:30, 3 January 2018
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# Many states use FOSS applications in their school programs. The Kerala IT@Schools program, Subject Teachers Forum program of Karnataka and Telangana use FOSS platforms and tools.
# Many states use FOSS applications in their school programs. The Kerala IT@Schools program, Subject Teachers Forum program of Karnataka and Telangana use FOSS platforms and tools.
# Teachers and students can study the software and customise additional software packages for their own use. They can also share the tools with others
# Teachers and students can study the software and customise additional software packages for their own use. They can also share the tools with others
# Government of India has issued the '[http://egovstandards.gov.in/sites/default/files/Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance.pdf open standards in e-Governance'] policy in November 2010, which requires government departments to use only open standards. The OpenOffice document standard (ODF) has been notified under this policy, while the MS Office format .doc is not open and hence not notified under thus policy
# Government of India has issued the '[<nowiki>http://egovstandards.gov.in/sites/default/files/Policy</nowiki> on Open Standards for e-Governance.pdf open standards in e-Governance'] policy in November 2010, which requires government departments to use only open standards. The OpenOffice document standard (ODF) has been notified under this policy, while the MS Office format .doc is not open and hence not notified under thus policy
# FOSS is available in all subjects, which allows us to integrate computer into regular teaching learning. The table below provides some popular FOSS subject tools.
# FOSS is available in all subjects, which allows us to integrate computer into regular teaching learning. The table below provides some popular FOSS subject tools.
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|Tux Typing" is an educational typing tutor.
|Tux Typing" is an educational typing tutor.
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In addition, the generic software applications used for creating resources in text, image, animation, audio and video formats are available as FOSS tools. Including these in the school software environment provides much greater opportunities to teachers and students for both digital literacy as well as for creating resources for teaching-learning. Some of these tools (they are too numerous to list) are provided in table below:
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Area'''
|'''FOSS'''
|'''Popular proprietary Software'''
|-
|'''Operating system'''
|Ubuntu GNU-Linux / Bhartiya Open Source System (from CDAC)
|Microsoft Windows
|-
|'''Office Applications'''
|Open Office / LibreOffice
|Microsoft Office
|-
|'''Email client'''
|Mozilla Thunderbird / Evolution
|Microsoft Outlook
|-
|'''Internet Browser'''
|Mozilla Firefox / Chrome
|Internet Explorer
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Vocational Educational tools'''
|-
|'''Desktop Publishing'''
|GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus
|Page Maker, Corel Draw
|-
|'''Video editing'''
|PiTiVi, Kdenlinve, Openshot
|Adobe photoshop, Final Cut Pro
|-
|'''Animation'''
|Blender
|Adobe Macromedia
|-
| colspan="3" |On-line FOSS platforms
|-
|Web platform for OER publishing
|MediaWiki
|
|-
|e-learning courses Learning Management System (LMS)
|Moodle
|
|-
|Digital resources authoring and publishing
|H5P
|
|}
For more information on how teachers can use these tools, please refer to the [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS]]
[[Category:A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit]]
[[Category:A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit]]