Teacher training - Primary school

1. Teacher training - Primary school
2. Fronter - a first meeting
   1. Metaphors in Fronter
   2. Logging on
3. My Today Page
4. Where do we write in Fronter - the built in text editor
5. Create a new room
6. Room
7. The room is ready
8. Case study: Working with Unit 4 - Autobiography
9. Case study - From Pages to Learning paths
10. Booking a resource
11. Parent / Carer Login
12. Handy Hints
13. Version control

Metaphors in Fronter

Fronter is a virtual school with different corridors and rooms. In each of the rooms there is a furnishing. This illustrates what we mean by such a school:

In this school you will find 4 corridors: corridors for Information rooms, corridors for classrooms, group rooms and corridor for project rooms. From each of these corridors you have access to the different rooms that are attached to each corridor:

From the corridor of Information rooms you will have access to rooms of the following kind:

• Shared information for students/pupils and staff
• The Personnel room
• Student/pupil information
• Library
• Students'/pupils' Council
• Caretaker

From corridor for classrooms you will have access to rooms of this kind:

• 1A
• 3C
• 1ENGD
• 1TYBA
• 2FY1
• 2GYMC
• 3ENV2
• 3RELB
• 2ECOM412

The corresponding structure in your own installation may have been built up slightly differently, but you will no doubt recognise the system. The principle is to have some corridors for the different rooms so that you can easily find your way around the system.

It is recommend that you create a corridor specifically for shared rooms created manually such as shared information to students/pupils, Personnel rooms, Student/pupil council etc. Furthermore all classrooms can be attached to the same corridor - classroom, subject room will you find in the corridor subject room, while all group rooms have their own corridor etc.

Corridors and structures for each institution are created by whoever has the administrative rights in Fronter. The layout depends on several things: whether there are many study directions and departments, whether some teaching takes place outside the main campus, different groups of subjects within various subject areas etc, whether to make a structure for teams, departments etc.

There is no right or wrong way to create the structure of an institution - local considerations must be taken into account. In this introductory user guide we will assume that a simple structure like the one shown above is already in place.

Hint!

And now it is time to enter Fronter to see how the virtual school can look like.