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Dear teachers, dear professors,
We are addressing you with an open invitation to rejoin an initiative that is important for the future of everyone.
In accordance with the implementation of online teaching, we invite you to make joint efforts to provide recorded video lessons for the teaching units for primary and secondary education planned for the period of January and February 2021.
In this joint initiative, we need your support, and for that purpose, we invite you to join with your recorded video lesson that will remain as a permanent video resource for future generations. All necessary information on how to record and send a video lesson can be found in the sections below in this public call.
With a sincere request for your commitment, for all the children who may greatly need these lessons.
Yours,
Aleksandar Lazovski,
Project Manager – SmartUp
Steps in the process on your part:
Detailed instructions for all these steps are prepared in the call below.
After sending the lesson, by:
- EDUINO – Checking video lessons according to minimum technical criteria
- BRO - Checking and verifying the content of the video lesson
- EDUINO - Publishing the video lesson in the weekly schedule on the website
Through the Bureau for Education Development, an official letter was sent to all principals of primary and secondary schools in the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia, explaining the guidelines for recording video lessons during January and February 2021. Namely, to optimize the process, the EDUINO team together with advisors from BRO prepared a public table where school principals can review which lessons are assigned for recording at your school and accordingly inform you, the teachers and professors in the schools, about recording the lessons. The steps you should follow next are:
Steps:
- Before recording the video lesson, please be sure to consult with your school principal and choose the teaching content assigned to your school. You can choose among the teaching units exclusively assigned to the school where you teach.
- Open the list of tables for secondary and primary education to access the teaching units (click here)
- Be sure to leave a comment in the field with the teaching unit for which you want to record a video lesson by entering your name, surname, and email address for contact.
→ Watch this 15-minute video where the entire process of selecting a teaching unit is explained from start to finish.
Watch this technical guide on how to leave a comment – ("Comment") on the table with teaching units
Mandatory: Watch the following four videos in the YouTube playlist where the main tools and the recording process are explained (left click on the green underlined words)
Mandatory: Open this document which contains all important documents and guidelines for recording the video lesson. Read the entire document carefully.
If needed: Look at the following document listing the most common technical problems and solutions
Optional: Check out some of the digital tools for which we have prepared video instructions and demonstrations, if you want to use an innovative tool during your video lesson (Kahoot, Quizlet, WordWall, Zoom)
We recommend: It would be good to record the video lesson in your school, using the teaching materials you have in your classroom, using the laptops and internet available at the school.
Technical support:
As technical support, the Ministry of Education and Science has tasked schools to provide initial technical support from an informatics teacher or a teacher experienced in preparing video lessons. This means that your school has such a person who will provide you with support. Consult with the principal to find out which person from your school will provide support if needed. However, if you have any uncertainties about the chosen lesson or if an error has been made, report it help@innovationlab.mk. Where the technical support team from Eduino working on video preparation will provide you with necessary support if the person from your school is not available.
Minimum configuration for recording a video lesson:
*If you are not sure, we recommend consulting with the IT person in your school before recording to avoid problems with the recording programme on your laptop/computer.
Windows:
- DirectX 10.1 compatible GPU
- Windows 7 SP1 or newer
macOS:
- Intel CPU (PPC is not supported)
- OpenGL 3.2 compatible GPU
- macOS 10.12 or newer
Mandatory: Open the appropriate form for submitting a video lesson
- Choose one of the three forms according to the appropriate education level for which your video lesson is made: http://eduino.innovationlab.mk/
Submission deadline:
- for video lessons from the 14th to 15th teaching week: 15.1.2021
- for video lessons from the 16th teaching week: 28.1.2021
- for video lessons from the 17th teaching week: 31.1.2021
- for video lessons from the 18th teaching week: 03.2.2021
- for video lessons from the 19th teaching week: 06.2.2021
*(with a focus on quickly preparing and sending the video lessons for the first 2 working weeks of January)
Certificate: All submitters of video lessons will receive a digital certificate issued by the Bureau for Education Development. Such certificates were also awarded to teachers and professors who sent video lessons to EDUINO in calls conducted in the previous school year.
Important/Note:
- Your video will be published after verification by an advisor from BRO If the video does not meet the technical and quality and content appropriateness requirements, you will be notified as soon as possible at your provided email address
- If the video does not meet the technical and quality and content appropriateness requirements, you will be notified as soon as possible at your provided email address
- According to the rules of the E-Classroom channel, we will not allow comments and likes on the videos, but you can post them on your own YouTube channel
- Your email address will be added to our subscriber list on MailChimp in order to inform you about new open calls and functionalities of EDUINO
Consent: By sending the video to the addresses in the above documents, you agree that the video will be posted on the EDUINO platform owned by the Bureau for Education Development. Specifically, the video will be posted in the E-Classroom section and on the appropriate YouTube channel. To make the video accessible to all students, access will be enabled to the entire public according to the YouTube terms of use which you can read here: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms Additionally, some of the video lessons will be broadcast through "Teaching on Television" on Macedonian Radio Television. Every working day starting at 08:30 and according to the set schedule of lessons, children from first to ninth grade will be able to follow the educational content from their screens, so that it is accessible to all children. The broadcast lessons are intended for primary education, in Macedonian and Albanian teaching languages.
Final words and motivation:
The goal of this initiative is to create a library of video lessons that we could share with students who would be unable to attend classes due to the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The recorded video lessons will be intended for teaching units for primary and secondary education, in the period of January and February 2021. All posted videos will constitute a database of ready materials of lasting value for our education system, and therefore we encourage you to prepare the videos carefully and with the aim to remain a permanent asset for all current and future students and teachers.
