Brainstorming on Training Materials to share

[Lize De Clercq]

I am posting this contribution because I need your input and feedback. As you might now, I am the Content Facilitator of this website and not really a telecentre manager, operator or trainer like most of you - and I have some difficulties in understanding which kind of materials could be classified and shared under the Training materials collection of the Resource Centre I recently created.

I understand different types of training materials are involved in a telecentre, according to the targeted learner: train the users materials, train the trainers materials and even train the operators/managers materials. Then I understand there are differences in formats: guides, e-learning programs, multimedia kits.

Can you explain me what kind of materials you are using at your centres, so I can start to get a clue on this? Maybe shortly describing me what your materials are used for and even send me some links to it if available?

That would be so kind and helpful from all of you:)

[Konrad Karpieszuk]

Mwiriwe (kinyarwanda lang: hello) Lize

As You maybe heard from Pawel, in Bialystok (SPEK/IOB) we teach basing on MS Digital Literacy (of course on cuted version since we train people only one week)

http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giv...

you can find on MS site also other languages

Now I am in rwanadan telecentre where i teach also on base of dig lit, but i prepare also for every lesson my own presentation in power point (do you now that you inspired me to do this? when you was in our city at spring). here i train ten days, 3 hours daily. first three lesson are about computer basics, next two about word, next two about excel, and next two about power point. last lesson is always diffrenent, but then i try to teach them how to use help files in windows and programs, that they will be able teach theirselfs when they will go to schools (i teach primary school teachers). i don't teach other things, even so important as internet, 'cause of simple reason: we don;t have internet in telecentre.

thos presentations i will publish somewhere, but when i will be back in poland. here i have gprs modem connecition with speed of ~2kbs and every presentation has over 1MB

btw. i found great tool to create animated tutorials from screen animations
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

after instalation i really suggest to open first Help > tutorial 1 and next tutorial 2. after less than half hour of watching i start to add this into my power point presentation.

[David Banes]

I guess I am also interested to know how centres make materials accessible to users with a disability or limiting condition - when you are using "off the shelf" materials do you specify accessibility as a requirement, and when designing your own courseware how do you make sure that your tutors make it as accessible as possible - be fascinated to know

David