Learning - Distance brings us closer

Learning - Distance brings us closer

When we began the distance learning in Dubai ,we had received few queries from IT professionals & teachers from various schools regarding the conduction of distance learning. How did you begin the teaching- learning activities? Which are the applications do you use? How were the responses from parents and teachers? Even teachers and students were curious about how things would shape up. So I thought to share video tutorials about few applications which will be useful for teachers and students.

That would help the teachers to develop professionally in the field of e-learning, video conferencing and live streaming with the students.

Here I would like to share those link.

Part-2

FREE online education resources

A non-exhaustive list that might help those affected by school closures due to coronavirus, compiled by home educators.
Feel free to share.

Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org
Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it's mostly common material.

BBC Learning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/
This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn
https://www.futurelearn.com
Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

First Online Class : Exciting beginning...endless possibilities!!!

Schools and universities are closed across the UAE for four weeks as a preventive measure to limit possible transmission of coronavirus. Today we  began our Virtual classes to the high school students and it was a new experience for all teachers and students without any technical glitches. Students were seated in their home infront of the Tab & laptops. Teachers were at school and taught them using Google Classroom, Zoom, Quzizz, edpuzzle and other Apps . I think this will be a transition period in the educational sector in which virtual classes will be futuristic way of learning preferred by many students because of flexibility, timing, convenience and potential for collaboration, not only with peers in school but also students globally. Les us see how will be the impact of the same.

Human Settlements have no Lables in Ar - UAE

This is a qurey to find out all places which do not have labels in Arabic

#no label
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?itemLabel_ar?itemDesc_ar
WHERE
{
  ?item wdt:P17 wd:Q878;
        wdt:P31 wd:Q486972.
  filter not exists {?item rdfs:label ?itemLabel_ar . filter(lang(?itemLabel_ar)="ar")}
  optional {?item schema:description ?itemDesc_ar . filter(lang(?itemDesc_ar)="ar")}
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

Find out Bus stops using Sophox

Here I was trying to find out  the bus stops near my locality using WD with the help of OSM.
Mr. Markus Göllnitz  has guided me to find it .
He has introduced for me https://sophox.org/ for the same.
He I just tried to find the bus stops near Sharjah Rollah Area. With radious 5 Km.

Here I have used longitude and latitude respectively.

(Long- 55.4040 space latitude 25.3440 ) First four letters after the points.
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#defaultView:Map
select ?station ?name ?coordinates ?rgb where {
  service wikibase:around {
    ?station osmm:loc ?location.
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:center "Point(55.4010 25.3449)"^^geo:wktLiteral; # use "[AUTO_COORDINATES]" for automatic coordinate detection
                    wikibase:radius "5". # measured in km