Workshop on Educational Android App Development Toolkit
Workshop on Educational Android App Development Toolkit
New Delhi, 25/03/2015: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi hosted a workshop on Educational (Android) App Development Toolkit from 18-20 March, 2015 in collaboration with Kulachi Hansraj Model School (KHMS), New Delhi on behalf of Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada. Twenty five participants from 15 schools of Delhi and NCR attended the workshop. Dr. Ishan Abeywardena, Director, International Academic Relations Division, Open University of Sri Lanka facilitated this three days workshop.
The inaugural session of the workshop was started with a prayer. Ms. Sneh Verma, Principal, KHMS welcomed all the participants and thanked respective Principals of the schools for nominating the teachers to this workshop. . In her welcome address she said, “Educators all across the globe are collaboratively working for providing better education to students. Students are the future of this global world. We need to provide them ample opportunities for building different skills for their better life. COL/CEMCA has taken a great initiative for training teachers on creating Educational Android mobile apps for the enhancement of teaching and learning". Dr. Ramesh Sharma (Director, CEMCA) in his welcome address encouraged the participants for learning new ICT applications and integrating them in their teaching. He expressed gratitude to the school Principal Ms. Verma for accepting the proposal for hosting the workshop.
On Day one the technical sessions began by the expert Dr. Ishan by introducing the teachers with visual programming and MIT App inventor. Teachers created their App Inventor account and set up their Android devices for development and debugging. Teachers enjoyed using the basic components viz. Text to Speech App, Accelerometer App, Speech Recogniser App, Canvas App etc. On the Second Day of the workshop the participants learned various applications like Pet the Kitty, Dice rolling, swat mosquito, storyboard etc. Day three started with introducing some advance concepts like Built-in-blocks, functions and variables etc. Teachers learnt about Packaging and distribution and publishing an app on Google play store. On all the three days participants received hands-on-experience to develop educational android mobile apps for teaching and learning. In the valedictory session, certificates were distributed to the participants by Dr. Ramesh Sharma and Ms. Sneh Verma. Mrs Rashmi Kathuria, Mathematics Teacher at Kulachi Hansraj Model School was the local facilitator at the School. In the next phase of the workshop, the teachers who got trained in this workshop will conduct another workshop for students in developing educational apps in April 2015.
