African Storybook remains your reading partner during the worldwide collective pause. We bring you multilingual picture storybooks for children's reading pleasure.
Last week we brought you Activity 2which was about the African Storybook Reader Appand the access it gives you to our extensive library of picture storybooks. You can access African Storybook resources for your children using your mobile phone or tablet. This week for Activity 3 we look at different types of African Storybook Guides, which will help you to navigate our platforms and use our resources successfully.
Quick Facts | African Storybook Guides
The African Storybook website has three types of Guidesand these are Video Guides, How to Guides and In-depth Guides
The Guides help the user to use the website optimally, discover resources available and explore the use of the picture storybooks
The Guides are easily available when you click the HELP section on the website
Activity 3:
Explore the African Storybook Reader Guides
African Storybook has offered workshops for teachers, student teachers in colleges and universities, early childhood development educators, and community librarians. We have captured our experience and that of our partners in a series of African Storybook Guides. Below is information on the guides we have produced and we hope you take the time to explore them in detail.
Remember that the activities and resources in the guides are designed to help you explore the growing African Storybook website collection of storybooks, with your children in mind.
Resources for Teachers:
Understanding Open Education Resources (OER)
Need to know more about Open Educational Resources (OER)?
There is currently a lot of buzz about OER. Educators being compelled by the argument for using existing OER and releasing their own materials with an open licence.
As a result, the number of resources being shared under an open licence has increased exponentially. In May 2017, Creative Commons estimated that there were 1.4 billion open resources. But, what exactly are OER and do they live up to the hype? Download the Understanding OER Guide below.
About OER Africa
OER Africa was established in 2008 with a vision to support the emergence of:
Vibrant and sustainable African education systems and institutions that play a critical role in building and sustaining African societies and economies through free and open development and sharing of common intellectual capital.
