ICT Textbook
Please refer to the Document Details section at the
end for more information.
Goals
- Teach ICT basics to Tanzanian teacher college students.
- Multi-platform; examples in MS Windows & Solaris, MS Office &
OpenOffice.
- Allowance is made for varying resources, e.g. power outages and intermittent internet.
- Accomodate students beginning with no knowledge of computers.
- Students who progress far enough can receive recognized third-party
certification (ICDL, Cisco).
Details
- Content is coordinated with recognized curricula:
- Module content is available on-line for further reading & reference by
students.
- Hands-on exercises for students to do after class to reinforce learning.
- Automated (on-line) testing after each module. Students take exams outside of
class, after additional study and exercises. Students who do not
pass the exam can be directed to further study and tutoring.
- Limit class size to one or two students per computer, so experience is
hands-on.
To Do
- Continue formulation/development of modules.
- Tune module content to class time.
- Compare MS Windows to Linux, MS Office to OpenOffice, generate examples in each for every item.
- Compare carefully to ministry, ICDL, and Cisco syllabii, adding references and catch-all sections for complete coverage.
- Consider design of modules for low-resource circumstances (e.g. only a few computers, no electricity).
- Construct scheme of work for course.
Modules
Word Processing: Term Paper
Word Processing: CV
Concepts
Version
This is version 0.06 of this document set, updated 22 May 2007. The latest
version of this document can be found at
http://www.redoubt.com/tzict/textbook.
A zip archive containing all pages is available at
http://www.redoubt.com/tzict/textbook/textbook.zip.
Update History
| Date |
Name |
Details |
| 22 May 2007 |
Albert Lingelbach |
Aggregate content for ease of printing & varying class progress.
Remove dependencies graph.
Add/update Basics content.
Validate HTML/CSS via
W3C markup validation.
|
| 22 Mar 2007 |
Albert Lingelbach |
Add/update goals for all modules.
Redo graph. Re-group content for Basics, Word Processing.
Write database 1 & 2.
Improve/fix browser-dependent bug in teacher note script.
Miscellaneous updates.
|
| 19 Nov 2006 |
Albert Lingelbach |
Add dynamic content including standard header, refine content. |
| 01 Oct 2006 |
Albert Lingelbach |
Break into separate files, add style sheet. |
| 29 Sep 2006 |
Albert Lingelbach |
Convert to HTML. |
| 28 Sep 2006 |
Albert Lingelbach |
Creation. |
Contributors
| Name |
E-Mail |
| Aaron Scott |
aarondscott gmail com |
| Albert Lingelbach |
alingelb at yahoo dot com |
Reviewers
| Elias Msambila |
emsambila@yahoo.com |
Please send feedback to alingelb at yahoo dot com