THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The high school teachers in the state will be provided with the ICT Resource DVDs, prepared by IT@School project, as part of implementing a complete ICT-enabled educational system in the state, a statement from IT@School said.
The Resource DVD package will consist of separate DVDs for IT@School Edu-Ubuntu and other ICT Resource contents.
The Resource DVD is designed in such a way that it would not just benefit the teachers who handle ICT, but other subject teachers also who could make use of it in their respective subjects.
The Resource DVD is packed with several educational contents such as IT@School Edu-Ubuntu 10.04 Operating System, spreadsheet, presentation and database applications, DTP, graphics and imaging software, sound recording, video editing and animation packages.
The proprietary version of these softwares will have incurred a minimum cost of Rs 30,000 in terms of licence Fee, the statement said.
The second DVD in the package comprises a vast collection of software and modules required for educational activities.
The contents of this DVD include Geogebra, PhET, Odacity, OpenShot, Periodic table, Kalcium etc and also a bunch of collage pictures, which helps learning the ICT textbook etc.
Apart from this, the DVD also contains Open Office templates, Audio-Video files of various formats, e-textbooks, teacher’s handbook, training modules etc. Both the DVDs are designed for easy installation by the user.
The Resource DVD will be provided free to the Standard IX teachers during their ICT training sessions.
A total of 31,740 teachers from 2,670 high schools have already registered online for the training programme. As many as 6,800 teachers have been trained so far in as many as 260 training centres in the State.
ANTS- Animation Training for Students- the programme on animation movie making training for students, which was launched by IT@School Project last week has been a huge success.
Through the four-day training programme, students were equipped with unique animation movie making skills using Free Software, the press release said.