OPEN DESK TEACHER’S TOOLKIT FOR E-CLASSROOM John J. Macasio

The classroom teacher, who lives and works

in today's interactive and connected world,

is always challenged to embrace the

“experience of understanding” facilitated

through the use of interactive gadgets,

creativity application, and collaborative

technologies.”

Relevance and effectivity of any teacher

begin by “being in the digital space” meant

for 21st century citizen. They have to realize

the value of teaching and learning within the

“e” condition of today’s society.

“e” condition is where learners get oriented

in using computer, Internet, mobile and

social media to fulfill their needs to be

entertained, informed, connected and

recognized. To become active, creative and

productive.

The importance of remembered lesson;

performance in examination; and observed

roles for students are getting better with

“technology enriched experiences” that

build the essential skills of collaboration,

communication, critical thinking, creative

problem solving, and self directed learning.

The “technology-mediated presentation,

activity, references and assessment” make

better the capability of the classroom

teachers to bring attentive interest, real-

word situation, time extension, delivery

enrichment, lesson remediation and

interactive engagement in the way learners

acquire, create, remember, share and apply

knowledge.

The emerging Internet based communication

and collaboration platforms make better the

means of the classroom teachers to engage

in the social dialogue that educates the

senses, and bring the positive habits

supportive of community building.

Most classroom teachers will agree on the

need to be relevant, meaningful, effective

and enjoying in the 21st century classroom

of interactivity, creativity and connectivity.

However, the motivation is enabled by

building the resource and capacity of all

teachers to initiate, learn and sustain the

practice of teaching with interactive

technologies.

The enablement speaks of education ready

and open to use F-framework, T=technology,

and C=content that will guide all teachers to

create, maintain and improve the 21st

century classroom of interactivity, creativity

and connectivity.

F = framework speaks of definitive

principles, methods and results that supports

effective teaching and learning with

interactive learning technologies to take a

shape inside the classroom

T = technology speaks of technology

solution standards, configuration and

infrastructure to compose the hardware,

software, network and skills to compose the

environment or platform of technology

enabled interactive learning.

C = content speaks of knowledge and

medium to acquire, create, manipulate,

share, re-use to construct and apply

understanding.

OPEN DESK TEACHER’S TOOLKIT FOR E-CLASSROOM John J. Macasio

OPENDESK TOOLKIT is no locked-in

aggregation of framework, technology

and content to build capabilities of

teachers to align the use of interactive

learning technologies in teaching and

learning.

The Open Digital Education Solution

Toolkit for Teachers (OPENDESK

TOOLKIT) has began in 2004 to attract

teachers and administrators attention to

the availability of free to install education

software and re-usable digital content in

basic education.

The aggregated framework, technology

and content is offered as start-up

resource to build competencies and

content to realize and sustain purposive

improvement of teaching and learning

through the use of open standards and

global benchmark on digital content.

It gives attention to education-ready

software and multimedia content that

match the understanding and

performance defined in the learning

competency published by the

Department of Education.

The version 1 of OPENDESK is shared

freely for the use of the Technical

Services Office of the Department of

Education to provide digital content in

DepEd computerization program. It is

also given freely to teachers who

attended school-based training on ICT

sponsored by service providers and

education organization.

The shared framework, technology and

content are not meant to be prescriptive,

but facilitative in placing into the hand of

every teachers the ready-to-use and

open tools to design, plan, implement

and evaluate learning with interactive

technologies.

The OPENDESK TOOLKIT project

searches, reviews and promotes digital

application and content that placed

among its condition of use the terms –

free, open, sharable, distributable, fully

functional, and agree on global standards

of user experience.

The Open Digital Education Solution

Toolkit for Teachers version 2 contains

the following digital tools:

1. Digital Whiteboard

2. Presentation Maker

3. Activity Creator

4. Study Helper

5. Cyber Safety

6. Internet Interactivity

The toolkit is made available through the

Laptop for Teachers Program, and School

Improvement Projects of selected

Service Providers.

OPEN DESK TEACHER’S TOOLKIT FOR E-CLASSROOM John J. Macasio

The software stacks enable the teachers

to create learning presentation with an

interactive whiteboard, compose

multimedia storyboard, and produce

simple video, sound and image learning

objects.

DIGITAL WHITEBOARD

Basic Tasks:

• Hand write, draw objects and save

content on the digital whiteboard

• Post picture, documents, video, web

content, record sound, animation , e-

book

• Show computer desktop and open

interactive program and digital files in

the whiteboard

• Annotate or highlight presented

object or written ideas

• Create learning presentation from

posted digital images, video,

document, animation, presentation,

sound, scribbled word, drawn ideas

• Record the learning dialogue, and

replay the saved product of class

interaction

Software List:

1. WallCraft Classic Whiteboard

2. Sankore Universal Digital Board

3. GeoEnzo Math Digital Board

4. Overmars Drawing for Children

5. DMCox Musical Digital Board

PRESENTATION MAKER

Basic Tasks:

• Create lesson story board and produce

the multimedia presentation

• Produce presentation video and

picture slideshow

• Perform sound recording, video

editing

• Create and publish e-book from

document files of instructional

materials

• Perform image and screen capturing

and editing

• Re-use shared video, images,

animation, and documents from

public repositories and publishing site

to create learning presentation of

specific lesson.

• Use file viewers to open different

multimedia files of learning objects.

Software List:

1. Presentation Tube

2. Ffdiaporama Slide Show

3. Audacity Sound Recorder

4. Avidemux Video Editor

5. PhotoScape Image Editor

6. Camstudio Sceen Video Maker

7. Koyote Audio Video Tools

8. Sourceforge PDF Creator

9. eCub E-book Maker

OPEN DESK TEACHER’S TOOLKIT FOR E-CLASSROOM John J. Macasio

The software stacks enable the teachers

to create computer based activities, read

and compose e-books, and review lesson

with study helper.

ACTIVITY CREATOR

Basic Tasks:

• Generate and print activity worksheet

• Create computer based test for

student’s self administered quiz

• Use flash card making program to

create and guide practice and drill

exercises

• Construct activities using different

kinds of puzzle and maze generating

program

• Perform writing composition and

desktop publishing

• Perform data capture, calculation and

analysis

• Compose web pages and perform

collaborative web based publishing

• Produce multimedia products

integrating sound, video, images and

text

Software List:

1. Ikodeko Worksheet Maker

2. Quiz Faber

3. Eclipse Crossword Maker

4. Anki Flash Card Maker

5. Memory Lifter Flash Card

6. Vocabulary Builder

7. Calibre E-book Manager

8. Rednotebook Journal

9. Kompozer Web Page Maker

10. MyPaint

11. Paint.Net

REDNOTEBOOK JOURN

STUDY HELPER

• Install, run, review, and re-use

educational software

• Align the use of digital learning

objects to the knowledge and skills

objectives of the lesson

• Guide the students on how to use

computer based learning resources

for self-directed learning

• Use computer based exercises to

enforce analytical and problem solving

skills

• Use computer to perform modeling

and simulation of learned concepts

• Use computer based reference like

dictionary, thesaurus, calculator, atlas,

bible, etc..

• Use e-books, download and store e-

book in the reading devices

Software List

1. Sage Publishing Dictionary

2. Artha Thesaurus

3. Kalkules Calculator

4. Seterra Geography

5. E-Sword Bible

6. Math Study Helper

7. Science Study Helpet

OPEN DESK TEACHER’S TOOLKIT FOR E-CLASSROOM John J. Macasio

The software stacks enable the teachers

to secure the computer from unwanted

program, and to gain access to the

Internet based information and

application.

CYBER SAFETY

Basic Tasks:

• View and control in several ways other

computers in the classroom

• Control the allowed web sites to be

accessed in the classroom

• Encrypt the data on the storage

devices to prevent unauthorized use

• Configure and activate the computer

firewall

• Scan and remove virus in the system

and data files

• Scan and remove malware and other

spying program

• Removes unused files and invalid

registry, Internet history and

unwanted cookies.

• Disable startup program that are

suspicious to be doing back door

processing

• Prevent key logger to steal typed

information in the running application

• Perform back up of data files and file

encryption

Software List:

1. iTalc Class Manager

2. Clamwin Antivirus

3. SpyBot Anti Malware

4. True Crypt

5. 7Zip File Compressor

6. Fcleaner Unwanted File Cleaner

7. Anti Keylogger Scrambler

INTERNET INTERACTIVITY

Basic Tasks:

• Install, configure and use an Internet

browser

• Search the Internet and open web

based application and digital files.

• Install, configure and use an e-mail

client to retrieve, compose. send and

store e-mil messages

• Install communication clients for

Internet based messaging and video

conferencing

• Install, configure and use application

plugged-in to view Internet based files

and to run Interactive programs.

• Locate and use knowledge-based and

interactive learning sites in the

Internet

Software List:

1. Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser

2. Thunderbird E-mail Client

3. Gmail Desktop Application

4. File Viewers

OPEN DESK TEACHER’S TOOLKIT FOR E-CLASSROOM

For project information and school-based training

requirement contact:

JOHN J. MACASIO

johnmacasio@onecitizen.net

+63-917-329-7993

www.aralanetdesk.com