1. Biosafety Clearing House Training Workshop for Regional Advisors 22 - 27 May 2006 Bangkok, Thailand

2. National Workshop Training Manual Module Rohit Khanna Ernesto Ocampo

3. OBJECTIVE To provide a tool in order to have a uniform training provided by RAs Developed by Rohit Khanna & Ernesto Ocampo based on their own experiences and comments from Biosafety Unit

4. Manual contains: Training guidelines How to plan Schedule Presentations Case Studies Detailed instructions on lab set up….

5. Availability Located on the unep.ch website under resources for RAs http://www.unep.ch/biosafety/bch/training Constantly updated and modified Available in HTML and pdf format with links to presentations, documents (case studies) and reference materials

6. Outline of Contents INTRODUCTION & COURSE OUTLINE METHODOLOGY, ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION MODULES –INTRODUCTION MODULE –INTRODUCTION TO THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY –INTRODUCTION TO BCH –SURFING THE BCH CENTRAL PORTAL –FINDING INFORMATION ON THE BCH PORTAL –REGISTERING INFORMATION ON THE BCH CENTRAL PORTAL –OPTIONS FOR NATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN THE BCH –READY-MADE OPTIONS AVAILABLE –OPERATIONAL MANUAL, SAMPLE MOU AND FORMS CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS LINKS TO DOCS AND PRESENTATIONS

7. Outline of Contents ANEXES –Sample time table, BCH training workshop agenda –Recommended Equipment and tools –Classroom and computer lab setup –Hardware and software requirements –Handouts preparation and deployment –Interactive modules installation and use –CASE STUDIES –IMPORTANT NOTES

8. How to use it Use it as guideline Contains a comprehensive workshop schedule Adapt it!

9. Let us see it …. Take 20 minutes Work in groups & review Write recommendations, proposals, suggestion on cards

10. MOODLE Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. www.moodle.orgOpen Source pedagogical principleswww.moodle.org http://moodle.unep.ch

11. MOODLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT COURSES CALENDARS REFERENCE MATERIALS ASSIGNMENTS FORUMS CHATS And many other functions…

12. MOODLE Will transfer all Training Manual, National Manual and RAs Manual contents to Moodle Establish several topic-related forums Missions comments Lessons learned, etc. WORK IN GROUPS 20 mins –Write on cards: Proposed structure Proposed contents (not listed before) Other stuff, functionalities