IT@School Project
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| Abbreviation | IT@School |
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| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | Government Agency |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India |
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Executive Director
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K.Anvar Sadath |
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Parent organization
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Department of General and Higher Education (Kerala) |
| Affiliations | VICTERS |
| Website | itschool.gov.in |
The IT@School Project, is an information technology project under the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala in India. Launched in 2001, the Project has remodeled conventional teaching methodologies in classrooms through the use of IT. The project is being implemented in over 12,000 schools in the state of Kerala, and also in schools in Mahé, Lakshadweep and the Middle East which follow the state syllabus. An estimated 5 million students and 200,000 teachers are now part of this project, which has a network of 160 "master trainers" and 5600 school IT co-ordinators statewide, who are school teachers themselves. The project also conducts specialized training for visually challenged teachers in that state. The project functions on a free software platform.
IT@School is the nodal agency for implementing the EDUSAT network, and runs an exclusive channel for education called VICTERS (Versatile ICT Enabled Resource for Students), which is aired from 6am to 11pm. India's epoch making first broadband network on EDUSAT for schools, "VICTERS" inaugurated by A P J Abdul Kalam, the president of India, on 28 July 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram. VICTERS offers interactive virtual classrooms that enable the school students as well as the teachers to directly communicate with the subject experts and educationists. It also ensures the dissemination of high quality education to the students and teachers from the original source. Various programmes telecast through VICTERS are as follows;
The project provided training in animated movie making entirely based on free and open source software such as KToon, Gimp, OpenShot Video Editor and Audacity.
IT@School GNU/Linux is a Debian based GNU/Linux distribution that was created for the IT@School project to impart ICT education in public schools in the state. The distribution was originally developed by SPACE and is currently being maintained by the internal team at IT@School project.
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