1. International Telecommunication Union Sep, 2008 Inclusive applications for Education Empowering Educators and Learners

2. Objectives – Tues session 1  Provide you with basic wiki editing skills  Introduce you to the WikiEducator community

3. About this training  Initial lessons only of the Learning4Content series Learning4Content  Copies of the lesson notes for full course on the server  Instructions how to follow up  Self learning tutorials Self learning tutorials  Guided free L4C courses from OERF Guided free L4C courses  Join the WikiEducator Google GroupWikiEducator Google Group

4. About the WikiEducator All of the following  Collaboration tool for educators  An OER  A portal for a large growing community  Launched by Commonwealth of Learning  Now hosted by OER Foundation of NZ

5. About the WikiEducator WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:  planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;  development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;  work on building open education resources (OERs) and on how to create OERs.  networking on funding proposals developed as free content

6. Special features  Pedagogical templates Pedagogical templates  Books and publishing tools Books  Interactive features such as QuizQuiz  Can export as SCORM/IMS and import into Moodle

7. Learning4Content  Lesson 1-4 Lesson 1-4  By the end of this you will:  Have an account  Have created a user page  Understand basic wiki text editing  Be able to do some formatting, linking, adding media, etc  Know how to continue!!!!

8. Objectives – Tues session 2  Brief intro to OER movement  OERs and applications from the OLPC movement  OLPPC XS School Server (demo/hands-on)  Sugar on a Stick (install/hands on)  Wi-Fi Broadcast system (demo if time allows)

9. Introduction to OERs Open Educational Resources  Definitions  Origins  The 4 Rs  Open licenses  The Cape Town Declaration  Famous OER Projects

10. Definitions “digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” OERs are all of:  Digitised materials, freely available, reusable  Tools and software  Best practices and projects  Open licenses

11. Reuse - verbatim copies Redistribute - share copies Revise - make adaptations Remix - combinations / mashups The 4Rs

12. Openness in Education TED Talk – David Wiley

13. Origins  OER mentioned in 2002 in UNESCO workshop  Two major OER projects started at same time  Wikipedia Wikipedia  MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare And accelerated in 2007 with :  Cape Town Declaration Cape Town Declaration  OpenCourseWare Convention OpenCourseWare Convention

14. Why OERs? Government  OERs expand access to learning  Esp non-traditional groups of learners  Efficient way to promote lifelong learning  Bridge gap between formal and non- formal

15. Why OERs? Institutions  Altruistic – sharing knowledge  Obliged to leverage taxpayers money  Quality  Productivity

16. Why OERs? Educators (and individuals)  Altruistic reasons  Personal professional advancement  Joining to OER movement and learning the skills is immensely empowering  Free sharing is a good business model

17. Offers easy to use 4Rs licenses

19. Check the “Copyright Statement” or “Terms of Use”! Without a CC license you will (likely) not have 4R permissions. Free = Open

20. Some OERs and other free resources Adult education, technical, vocational  OCW Consortium OCW Consortium  MIT OpenCourseWare (Thai courses available) MIT OpenCourseWare Thai courses available  Global Health Learning Global Health Learning  UNESCO Open Training Platform UNESCO Open Training Platform  Wikieducator Wikieducator Repositories  http://www.repository.ac.nz/ http://www.repository.ac.nz/ Schools  Skoool.com Skoool.com  UNESCO ASEAN SchoolNet UNESCO ASEAN SchoolNet  Moodle in Schools (NZ) Moodle in Schools (NZ)  Wikieducator eBooks  WikiBooks WikiBooks  Gutenberg project Gutenberg project

21. The OER Handbook  A WikiEducator project  http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook  On the server On the server

22. Activity – Sugar on a Stick and OLPC’s XS School Server  An open educational resource that is a tool and an activity, for collaborative, creative learning  Sugar on a Stick Sugar on a Stick  Derives from the OLPC movement  Some background first

23. Five core principles 1. child ownership* 2. low ages 3. saturation 4. connection 5. free & open source * PLUS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

24. Origins in constructivist learning theory... think of: “learning by doing”... “discovery learning” “active learning”....

25. The programs on the laptop are called activities. There are many activities associated with reading, writing, language and literacy, science, maths and measuring, creating, music, painting, photography, video and recording, and educational games. Also programming activities specially designed for the young. Importantly, information resources from the server and Internet are accessed via the browser. Creative, collaborative, joyful learning

26. Sugar Labs now develops the Sugar user interface and learning software for children http://sugarlabs.org Sugar on a stick – you can even boot Sugar and the Activities from a flashdrive... http://sugarlabs.org

27.  Demo of XO

28. One Laptop per Child The XS - School Server “The Internet in a box” “School and community electronic library” One Laptop per Child

29. XS School Server  A set of software (based on Linux - Fedora) which provides:  A Network Gateway  Centralized school services including Moodle LMS (Learning Management System)  Content services  hardware platform depending on power and student numbers

30. Typical example  Remote underserviced communities  Rural primary schools with no power Rural primary schools with no power  “Moodle in a box” – simple way to deploy Moodle  Wi-Fi broadcasting to community

31. 30 students per AP Power over Ethernet where possible Solar powered sites run on 12V

32. The XS Moodle Learning Management System

38. How to get and install the XS  Documentation on the server Documentation on the server

39. One Laptop per Child The XS - School Server QUICK DEMO One Laptop per Child

40. Activity – Sugar on a Stick  An open educational resource that is a tool and an activity, for collaborative, creative learning  Sugar on a Stick Sugar on a Stick  Derives from the OLPC movement

41. SOAS  Where to get the latest SOAS image http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick  Need LiveUSBCreator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/  USB format tool http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk

42. Installing  Install LiveUSBCreator  Prepare Flashdrive (we have done this for you on the one provided) note: use FAT  Run LiveUSBCreator with the latest SOAS image

43. Running SOAS  Warning- development versions  Boot priority  Latest version needs a helping hand booting (press shift key and enter “linux0” at prompt)  Install other XO activities when running  Laptops provided, wireless not detected

44.  Can be run locally, no Internet costs  All based on open source, no licensing costsopen source  A great way to make local content available more freely  A highly localised portal  Access on your mobile phone (Wi-Fi needed) A Wi-Fi Broadcast System

46. Wi-Fi Broadcast System  Installation instructions on server Installation instructions on server  Ubuntu 10 + LAMP MySQL WordPress + mobile plugin Dnsmasq Installation easy with Aptitude Can use a high-gain omni