Methodology
The training course will include presentations and practical sessions (workshops) on WWW and educational uses for teachers and history-of-science museums, archives, and science centres’ staff; the role and resources of museums, archives, and science centres; strategies for searching information online; introduction to the concept of learning objects; introduction to learning repositories; introduction to preparing, uploading and sharing learning resources; introduction to metadata, educational metadata, and metadata-based searching; presentation of popular social tools and scenarios for their use in the classroom; pedagogical strategies and best practices for using digital teaching & learning resources in the classroom; and hands-on session working on resources related to science (use of LEARNINGwithATLAS@CERN and COSMOS).
The educators will be given the tools that will allow them to design educational pathways on digital content resources (i.e. specimens) from the collections of the museums and arcives; they will be able to select an educational pathway of interest, and then navigating through digital specimens, either within the collection of a particular museum or through different collections of various museums.
The training course comprises 15 hours of lectures and demonstrations, and 10 hour of hands-on workshops. The lectures and the demonstrations of the training course will be held in an auditorium equipped with a data projector and a laptop, whereas, the workshops will be held in a multimedia laboratory where each participant will have direct access to a PC and will carry out planned exercises.
A visit to the Skinakas Observatory will introduce the participants to the scientists’ use of the telescopes, in-situ.