List_of_topics_for_presentations

There is a long chapter on operating systems (OS) in Grade 10 ICT. Make a poster listing and explaining three functions of an OS taking Linux as an example. The Linux machine you used to make those examples is available for the visitors to try out (with your help).

How to make presentations with the Open Source office program LibreOffice [edit]

Text book: ICT Grade 10 English > Chapter 8. Electronic Presentations

Make some interesting presentation with LibreOffice and auto-run them on screen. The poster shows the steps of you you made them.

A spread-sheet application with the Open Source office program LibreOffice [edit]

Mark sheets and finding who has completed a course successfully can get quite complicated in an mostly on-line course. We have solved that problem for an intensive on-line workshop. Here is the result and how we did it.

EduNET recently ran such an intensive workshop and its data is available for this example.

The winners of our digital graphics competition [edit]

Text book: ICT Grade 11 English > Chapter 4.1. Digital Graphics

Conduct a digital graphics competition among Grade 11/12 students. They are expected to create their work in the Open Source graphics program GIMP as explained in Chapter 4.1 of the text book. Select the winners and make a poster out them. Below each of them there should be a self-portrait (maybe again processed in Gimp) of the makers and their impressions on the making process.

We programmed a robot! [edit]

Program a "robot" like blinking lights. Ideally it should be a device like Micro Bit, Arduino, etc. Failing that run a simulation in the computer. Important thing is you can show the program (you wrote) and explain how it works.

Crack the Caesar's Code [edit]

You ask the participants to encrypt a secret using the Caesar's code. It just shift the letters in a message by a fixed number. For instance, with a shift of 3, the word "HELLO" would be encoded as "KHOOR" (H becomes K, E becomes H, L becomes O, and O becomes R). You make a stencil to help in the process.

You type the encoded message to you code cracking program and disclose them the original message.

DebianEdu: A version of Linux specially made for schools [edit]

Select some useful programs in the Linux version DebianEdu and present them to the participants. Here too, you need to make a poster out of the selection and have examples to show and explain to the visitors. EduNET provides two large iMac computers and a old (slow) laptop running DebianEdu.

Ref. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/

Green computing - with Linux [edit]

By installing Linux you can give a new life to old computers. We will be having at least two iMacs, from 2011 and 2013 and a 32 bit laptop from ???? installed Linux to demonstrate.

https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-linux-reduces-ewaste/

https://www.makeuseof.com/green-computing/

Get control over the computing you do with Open Source Software [edit]

Why Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is essential in education. And make a list of available FOSS alternatives to proprietary applications.

An off-line learning management system [edit]

Learning management systems (LMS) are inherently web-based. So an "off-line LMS" sounds wrong. Still the MoodleBox software turns a cigarette packet size Raspberry Pi micro-computer in to a LMS which you can place in your classroom!

EduNET can provide you one. You ask the visitors to visit the LMS and help. The visitors don't even need a laptop, they can visit it on their smartphones!

Ref. https://moodlebox.net/

සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ඉගෙනුම් වේදිකා සඳහා අධ්‍යාපනික සජීවිකරණ නිර්මාණය කිරීම. (Creating educational animations for learning platforms in Sinhala) [edit]

There is an Open Source technology called H5P which allows the non-programmer to create animations. It was specially made for education in mind. There are many free samples on the Web. You select a few and translate them to Sinhala and show others how you have done it.

Note: Your animations could run in the MoodleBox of the previous project.

Ref. https://h5p.org/

"Making of" the homepage of our "IT Day" [edit]

EduNET can give you an fresh WordPress site, like https://it-day.edunet.lk/. You add content for it to be the homepage for the IT Day. Again explain in a poster how you did it and explain to the visitors.

Ref.

We are running an artificial intelligence (AI) provider in the classroom! [edit]

There is an Open Source AI provider called Ollama which you can run on any computer. The latest version of the learning management system Moodle has the ability to talk to a local AI server. We have installed both on a Raspberry Pi micro-server called MoodleBox. We demonstrate its function "live".

Ref. https://ollama.org/

https://moodlebox.net/

Making teaching videos on your laptop - with OBS [edit]

Demonstrate how to make a low price video studio for making teaching videos with the Open Source program Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)