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Course Journal of Milind S. Marathe
Foundation Program on ICT in Education
FDP101X
From 3rd
August, 2017 to 7th
September, 2017.
Week1:- 07-13 August, 2017
MOVING FROM PHYSICAL TO ONLINE CLASSROOMS
From Physical Classroom to Online Classroom
Tuesday, 8th
of August, 2017
Q. 1. Can you list one example of the interactions that happened between the three in a
normal classroom?
A1) In physical class room there are 3 basic elements namely The Learner, the content & the
Teacher. Teacher come prepared with content in mind, process of delivery pre-decided and
getting expected response from learner.
e.g. Teacher draw the diagram on black board and start discussion with learner about the
topic. He explains the operation related to the diagram already drawn. Then additional
information like related equations, graphs, are written on board and discussion resume. After
teacher completes the explanation then he shoots some questions to learner and expect
answer. If varied answers came from learners then teacher initiates discussion among
learners. Sometime instead of diagram on board teacher may use PPT, slides for the same.
Pedagogic Adaptations 1: Learning Dialogues(LeDs)
Q.2 What is the equivalent of such a video in a regular teaching-learning interaction
within your classroom?
A2) Instuctor in video is equivalent of teacher in physical classroom. Screen and information
on video is Contents and process in physical classroom. Learners are same in both.
Q.3) What additional features does the video provide you apart from the regular
information transmission of the content?
A3) a) Newness of the medium is very important and exciting feature b) Listening to the
video when I am( Learner) in fresh, receiving mood is possible. Otherwise I am (Learner)
forced to listen in class room even if I am tired, exhausted, not in mood. I can not turn-off
teacher to mute and re-play when needed. c) Capacity to full or part repeatability of the
“video instructor” if I (learner) could not understand the things in one go. d) neatness of
material, well-spaced, well-written, good diagrams in video along with the instructor. so
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overall an integrated view of instructor and its board writing. Thus good presentation. e) I can
control speed of instructor and can download text or transcript of what teacher is talking. So I
can get notes.
Pedagogic Adaptations 2: Learning by Doing activities (LbDs)
Q.4) What advantage do you see in answering the practice questions immediately after
watching LeDs?
A4) Advantage of answering practice problem immediately after LeDs a) Optimum span of
attention is utilised.After small interaction by teacher , learner get break from listening and
get involved in thinking . Active participation of learner is ensured. b) Concepts get settled
and crystalized in the mind and intellect before they become volatile. c) After answering I
always see the answer given by instructor which gives me more insight about the question.
Few hidden points become clear after reading the answer by instructor and I get idea of
correctness in its totality.
Pedagogic Adaptation 3: Learning Extension Service (LxT)
Wednesday, 09th
of August, 2017
Q.5) What is the function of assimilation quizzes?
A5) Function of Assimilation quizzes are to test how a learner has assimilated the concepts
explained in LeDs.
Pedagogic Adaptation 4: Learning Experience Interactions (LxI)
Q.6) What are the advantages of having such a structured group discussion?
A6) Advantages of structured discussion:- a) discussion is very much focused as specific
question is asked to initiate the discussion. b) Many new points will be surfaced as many
brains are involved in the discussion with their own innovative thinking. c) Attitude and
realisation is developed to have many shades to a question under discussion. Integrated all-
round understanding is develop d) But sometimes discussion doesn’t remain focused or very
less participation is observed in discussion, defeating the very purpose of it.
Self Exploration Resources:- What is ICT?: Prof. Prabhakar T. V.
Large data + Fast computation = Information Technology and (IT)
Wired /wireless communication + Fast computing to take action on communication or
request = Communication Technology (CT)
Blending of the two is ICT. Computers are very much required in this. The example of
buying cell phone was excellent. It made clear the complete process. Hardware required +
Internet + software involved . Their interdependence.
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Resource Creation 1: Course Journal
Thursday, 10th
of August, 2017
My key decisions about the process:-
a) I have selected my familiar document editor as Microsoft Word.
b) My outline of structure is a theme. I actually do not remember correctly the date and
time but now as it is mentioned that it is a must , I have tried to re-collect it and
mentioned. But I know that there can be 20 % error in day and time. I personally feel
that it is of secondary importance that on which date and at what time I wrote in
Course Journal but in next week I will surely keep the exact day and time information
whilre writing Course Journal.
As mentioned in the video I have written all answers to the questions posed by an Instructor
but did not ask reflective questions to myself. I wrote crucial points but did not categorically
written about my learning from this or any different idea that struck in my mind at that point
of time; it’s implications as whether it is feasible or not in present learning-teaching
environment. I will surely add these features from next week and will try to write “Good
Course Journal”.
Q.7) Write one advantage of writing a course journal
A7) Advantages of maintaining a course journal:- a) Evolution of concepts are sketched
when we write and re-visit the course journal. b) As the text is written at that point of time
and we are reading the course journal now , we can come to know how we were wrong or in-
complete in understanding and how our understanding got refined. c) Actually it is a good
document of our brain mapping related to crucial points of the contents of the course, our
understanding, our learning as we move ahead in the time, Our own ideas and their positive
and negative points and evolution of ours as time progresses.
Learning Extension Resource:-
Friday, 11th
of August, 2017
Yes.This is my first time in a MOOC, so as suggested by the course team I listened to this
TED talk by Anant Agarwal, the CEO of edX.
It was really excellent with disruptive ideas about education in today’s era. Education has not
changed in last 500 years. Now we should transform education in terms of Quality,
Accessibility through technology. Blended online and in-person Courses and Flipped class
rooms are the buzz words of this era. Young generation is tuned to technology and want to
learn through technology with their pace, their comfort able time and place. Learning by
teaching through discussion forum, gaming theory to build laboratories can be the aspects of
MOOCs.
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It was an awesome lecture. I will surely take his course on Circuits.
Dr. Deepak B Phatak's introduction video to learners of a faculty development
programme:-
Too many seekers of education, increase in GER, Skills are also required for problem solving
skills. Weightage for practical is very low. Content creation is required. On line tutorials and
tests are getting popularity. This is the central idea of MOOCs. Develop capability to learn on
one self. It is the skill of learning how to learn life-long.
Dr. Phatak emphasis the need of blended online and in-person course run by we the teachers
and that is the main objective of this FDP.
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Week2:- 14-20 August, 2017
Please note that now from this week, I am writing my Reflective thoughts, learning’s from
my experience in green colour.
(From experience and comments from peers about “Course Journal1” I decided to write my
“Course Journal 2” with some modifications. There was a comment in one video that you
must be able to write answers for graded questions from your course journal. So I tried to
write on note book as much as possible while listening to video lecture by using the facility of
rewind, pause and re-play, repeat for 2nd
time or some part for 3rd
time. Actually this is the
advantage of ICT in education.)
WEB PRESENCE FOR TEACHERS
Self- Exploration Resources
Tuesday, 15th
of August, 2017
Video by Prof. Geoffrey Challen, (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,
University at Buffalo):-
He explained “What is the Internet”.
Internet is basically a huge network of computers connected across the world bringing
billions of people online. Basic 3 levels of internet are
1) Physical level:- Huge computer network connected by wires for communication across
the globe.
2) Protocol level:- Protocols will help and co-operate to decide how 2 computers/more
computers, that are connected will communicate. They define set rules for this
communication between computers and networks in physical level.
3) People level: - It is very important what people are doing with it or working with it. How
they use physical level and their interconnectivity with protocols to exchange information,
contents, ideas and so on.
Video on “How the Internet actually works”, Internet Foundation, Sweden :-
Speed of internet is time taken to complete 5rounds around the earth per second. Information
sent on internet is digital and in form of 1s and 0s. Internet has servers. Servers have
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websites, data, contents, and are located anywhere in the world. All devices like computer,
servers even mobiles, have their own unique address which is used for unmistakable
communication. These addresses are called IP address and have a long numerical format,
which are complicated and difficult to read and remember. Hence computers translate the
number addresses to letter addresses. Addresses with letters are called domain name and
servers have this domain names. There are over 250 million domains names in the world. In
some domain name abbreviations in last two places indicate the country where the server
belongs to. e.g.= dot. in is for India, dot.se for Sweden. This abbreviation is called as Top
Level Domain.
Video on “Web Browsers” by Google:-
Web browser is the most important program on computer which is free. Web browser is
neither an operating system nor a search engine. Web browser is a program which allows the
users to visit websites. When web address in enter in the web browser, the corresponding
website and web pages is displayed. Chrome, Firefox, Internet explorer, Opera and Edge are
some of the browsers available.
Mentors’ Web Presence:-
List of mentors is provided along with their web profiles and I visited few of them. But at this
point of time I could not appreciate much about their web presence. Only what I could gather
is that they are top performers of the last course and they have prepared their website as a
part of the course. Website they prepared was neat and clean and I was inspired about can I
develop my Wordpress website of similar or even better quality? But I immediately realised
that I am a very slow learner in ICT and perhaps cannot build very good website.
Tools for website creation:-
Wednesday, 16th of August, 2017
Why a teacher should have a website? This question was answered in a very motivational
manner. It was said that “Like all others, we have consumed content, but as teaching
and research faculty we also need to create content which is to be used by others,
particularly our students.”
Contents such as CV, research work, publications, teaching material can be the contents of
the website. Websites can be: 1) Simple – they can contain few page, a very simple menu and
or blogs (periodic pages). 2) Multifunctional – structured content possible, Complex
interlinking of pages, blogs, possibility of interaction sessions, enrolment, payment of money
and so on. Wordpress for simple and Drupal for multifunction website is recommended. Both
are open source& free. 3 methods to download and install Wordpress: 1) Open source code 2)
Bitnami package 3) Direct development on wordpress.com .In the above first two methods,
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one has to download and install by himself but basic knowledge of Linux or Windows
operating system, web servers, databases is needed. The third method is quite easy but there
are limitations of storage and you are adhered to Wordpress domain. There is one more
method that is third part hosting but is costs according to their tariff plans. Then instructor
taught to create an account and setup a website in wordpress.com . I choose 20-16 theme. I
am not aware about this theme but I followed blindly the instructions and I was thrilled and
excited to create my first ever website “msmarathe.wordpress.com” . One problem was faced
by me here. There was no match between screen shots instructor was showing and what I was
getting. I struggled like anything to get wp-admin.
Basic Customisation in Wordpress:-
The website created was to customise the appearance of wordpress site now with using basic
configuration. A simple page containing default text is displayed on my website. It was told
that Basic customization is to be done through admin dashboard ( I struggled a lot to get this
dash board but without it I could customise some features.) Then I edited name, title or tag
line, logo, colour, background, font (not changed), header image of my website through edit
link in the customization option and published the same. Then I tried to play with Widgets
which are small application that runs within the website and simply displays text within it in
the side bar area.I added widgets consisting of the contact information widget with my
personal information & map. Slowly my confidence was built up that Yes, I can develop my
website in coming future.
Adding Basic Contents in Word press:-
Instructor explained 2 simple contents namely pages and blogs 1)Blog is a diary on the web
and is short form of Web-log. It has time bound releases, daily, weekly, monthly or even
occasionally un-periodic and can have commentaries, collection of pictures, reviews and so
on. Blog is added from add blog option and a blog consist of title and a body. Once the blog
is published it appears on the main page and gives an option to the users to comment. Blogs
can be categorized by adding hierarchical keywords or free text. Tags which are free text
categories, which can also be added to blogs and are useful in search strings.2) Page is
generic web-page and can appear in front page or menu items. page also has a title and a
body and can be added from add page option. It can be static which has no time bound and
can contain tables, lists, images, attachments and so on. They are typically static standard
web pages, arranged hierarchically and can have parent – child relationship. Slug is the text
which comes in your URL and gives a direct link to your web page from the browser.
Managing Contents in Wordpress:-
Thursday, 17th of August, 2017
Instructor told about how to manage various contents in the Wordpress namely Blogs , Pages
and Comments. Control panel is used for the same and for several other site level
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actions.After going to mysite go to wp-admin and we get a administrative user Dashboard.
Control panel has edit, quick edit, delete, filter, search to filter options, publish and un-
publish. By using edit or quick edit you can control the actions to be taken on any content.
e.g. For post, we can change from draft to publish option, make any post as sticky one,
which will be the top most post on the page, posts can be deleted or move to trash,
individually or in bulk and so on. The same above actions can be performed on pages also.
Advanced Customisation in Wordpress:-
Friday, 18th
of August, 2017
Instructor told about few configurations which are not there in the default profile and can be
done through the dashboard. He started narrating the procedure to add Media to the pages
e.g.pdf files or power point files.WP stores all the files that are uploaded in a special location
named as Media Library which is nothing but the repository. To add advanced features,
navigate to the page where it has to be added and select add media. Select the media to be
added and drag and drop on the page. Then by insert option the media is uploaded on the
corresponding page and after publishing the page, any user can see the media on the website.
But if website is having many pages then user may find it difficult to locate. So” Menu” is the
solution to this. Menu navigates users from home page to different pages of the website.
Menu can be controlled from the dashboard under appearance link. Menu contains list of
various pages also known as current menu structure and reordering of it is also possible.
But as I mentioned earlier I could not get wp-admin for almost 2 days and so I have not
experimented myself on this feature. But now I know the procedure and also know how to get
dashboard on my site and so I am sure that I will be able to do it.
USING DRUPAL TO CREATE A WEBSITE:-
Out of 63 videos asked to be listened I could listen first 10 and then only 12 & 18 which were
mandatory. The main reason is I was unable to understand Drupal from those videos. Few
things that I could get from the videos are as follows:-1)Drupal was founded in year 2000 by
Mr. Dries Buytaert and in 2015 Drupal 8 th version is running. It is CMS and each page was
its own file and there might be hundreds or thousands of such pages. It is open source and
free. It can be used freely to use, download, change and distribute.It is safe and secure,
mobile ready,very much useful for big projects and supported by huge community to help
you out. Every 3 % of websites are using Drupal and out of top 10000 websites 15 % are
using Drupal.
Face to face Interaction with Dr. D.B.Phatak:-
Saturday, 19th
August 2017
Inaugural talk of 2 days face to face interaction at Remote Centres was very inspirational as
usual. He informed that around 7700 teachers can collectively work in collaborative manner
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along with 185 associate teachers who were top 200 performers in last course and be the
“GURU” of modern era. Teacher’s role should now change from knowledge deliverers to
knowledge facilitators. Engaging students actively is very important for learning and it is
possible only if students apply mind + spend time on the topic. Otherwise learning will be
futile whatever may be the quality of material given.
In the session “ Web Presence for Faculty” instructor gave very good guideline to arrive at
destination and goal of the web presence. We answered 2 important questions as 1) who is
your audience? 2) What information do they seek? Detailed answer of these 2 questions will
give you sufficient information can be used in designing your website.
USER’s Story: - I am a ____________ (user ) and I want ____________ (this information)
so that I can achieve ____________. We must write this story as if we are user. Then
organise the information and construct a table with Title, Keywords, Abstract, images and
applicability. This tabular information will give us pre-requisite for putting the appropriate
material on website.
Then there was a demonstration of A-View interaction which is proposed with 185 associate
teachers and a group of 50 to 60 participants. Mentor and Mentee interaction will prove very
useful and targeted, meaningful discussions will be conducted. But there was lot of
disturbances in this session from technology point of view and so could not get much from
this.Idea of interacting with mentor by mentees is really bright and will prove very useful to
us. I as a participant is looking forward for this interaction .
It was told to undertake “Flipped Classroom Activity” by watching 2 videos developed by
Dr. S.S.Sahasrabuddhe on Visual Presentation Skills. Normal class room is teacher deliver
the material and students do assignments at home but in flipped class room teacher will ask to
see the video or learning material at home and will discuss key concepts, problems in the
class room.
Second day of Face to face Interaction:-
20th
August 2017
The day was started with discussions over the RCs about “How to make best use of this FDP”
. It went well but my observation is the discussion could not remain focused to the title as
there is very wide variety of participants. So out of one and a half hour discussion around 50
% was useful for me personally. But It is natural so I do not have complaint about it.
Visual Presentation Skills:- Dr. S.S.Sahasrabuddhe’s session was very enlightening and
interactive. I feel that concept of Flipped Classroom Activity proved to be very successful. As
I came prepared by listening to the 2 videos and making some notes of important points, the
class room discussion re-enforced the concepts and some minor details were revealed in the
interaction. I also visited Wordpress website of Dr. SSS and was very much inspired to
navigate through it.His website was his personality reflected in the website. I could
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appreciate that he must have followed Plan – Execute –Impress method which he mentioned
in his video with letter and spirit.
He explained how to do “ Peer Assessment Activity” with forming rubrics for the same and
weightage for various criteria.
Week3:- 21-27 August, 2017
It was told to undertake “Flipped Classroom Activity” by watching 2 videos developed by
Dr. S.S.Sahasrabuddhe on Visual Presentation Skills. Normal class room is teacher deliver
the material and students do assignments at home but in flipped class room, teacher will ask
to see the video or learning material at home and will discuss key concepts, problems in the
class room. I watched 2 videos by Dr. Sameer Sahasrabuddhe.
While preparing presentation 3 steps namely Plan- Execute- Impress should be followed.
Visual Presentation comes in end of 2nd
phase with graphic support and in last step where
various types of graphics are used. Note titled “Graphiucs for Learning 2011” by Clark and
Lyons was introduced by Dr.SSS for further reading. After graphics comes colours which
conveys mood, expression, conventional meaning. Thumb rules and general guidelines were
narrated for contrast, choice of colours, fonts with italics, bold,quote marks and so on. Create
a hand out and distribution of the same is very good practice. In conclusion Dr.SSS
emphasizes that Content and Form both things are very important. Inadequate attention to
either will end up with inefficient communication and excess attention will lead to chaos. So
fine balance should be achieved between form and function.
Let the Content choose the kind of Form is the moral of the whole story.
For me it was very inspirational session. Dr.SSS took me along with his presentation
without losing my attention for even seconds of time. He also told about what should be
on my website as it is also a visual presentation. Word-press website of Dr. SSS is
awesome. My reflection after the session was to develop a very good word-press website
for me.
Exploring MOODLE and MOODLE in IITB
MOODLE is a Learning Management System (LMS) and it is open source. It is very widely
used in many academic institutions and also extensively used in IITB. Prof. Uday Bhandarkar
explained through 6 videos about Exploring Course Settings inside MOODLE. He navigated
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all of us through Editing sections in course, adding resources, creating assignments,quizzes,
discussion forums in MOODLE.
For me to be frank with myself due to Ganesh Festival at my home I could not devote 6
to 8 hours for this week’s study. So I am very weak in understanding MOODLE . I
could not listen 37 videos mentioned in Learning Extension Resource.
Week4:- 28 August 2017 -03 September, 2017
Creating your own Video Resources
In this week the focus was on creating our own video resources using a methodology which is
known as “ Screencasting” or “Screen Recording”
Dr. Kannan Moudgalya talked about Open Educational Resources (OER). Various OERs are
available but Spoken Tutorial was considered for learning. Open the URL spoken-
tutorial.org which is the initiative of NMEICT, MHRD, government of India. Then I selected
title and language and I found that number of spoken tutorials are available. Play and ponder
with all possible spoken tutorials of our interest. It was amazing to note that there are tutorials
in 22 Indian languages available.
In next video by Dr. Kannan Moudgalya he gave brief ocerview of how to make such
tutorials? Spoken Tutorial Technology was the subject of discussion. Various software were
told which work on various platforms like windows or linux.
CamStudio an open source software available in windows explained. recordMy Desktop was
for Linux. Then Kazam
Softwares which are marked as GPL (general public license) can be used freely and modify
the program where as non GPL softwares mentioned as screencast-o-matic, Techsmith jing,
Techsmith Camsttia,Quicktime and many more are popular. Comparison of screen casting
software was done in the Wikipedia link very nicely.
Learning Extension Resources
As we were aware about and attempted screencasting , some simple but yet elegant
principles of Multimedia were explained so as to make our screencast better.
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People learn more deeply from Multi-media (MM) . Matt Gerberick and Prof. Richard E.
Mayer ( Chief contributor behind MM Principles, explained few basic principles of MM
namely Redundancy, Coherence and Spatial Contiguity.
1) Redundancy:- People learn more deeply from graphics and narration than from on-
screen text, graphics and narration individually.
2) Coherence:- People learn more deeply from a MM message when extraneous material
is excluded rather included. We should not go for too much load on the screen.
Human brain has very limited working memory and so if we put lot of material, detail
equations then human being can not concentrate and thus get distracted. So keep the
material relevant, simple.
3) Spatial Contiguity Principle:- People learn more deeply from MM when
corresponding pictures and words are posted near rather than posted far off on the
page or screen. Human being if forced to look back and forth for picture and text then
get distracted.
4) Segmentation:- Instead of making a video of full material of long duration
segmentation id to be done for good attention. Keep videos shorter 10 to 15 min
maximum.
It is not a methodology of teaching but the good design of instructional set with clear specific
learning objectives will make the learning. Mere good quality videos will not make learning.
Discussion Forum for Mentors and Mentees was good initiative.
Week5:- 04-10 September, 2017
Creative Commons Licenses
Tools for Smart Classrooms
Some open source tools were given under Learning Extension Resources like Open
Sankore for interactive white boards, Mediawiki for asynchronous collaborations
Github for collaborations particularly for teachers.
Following few are paid and proprietary tools named as ConceptBoard or Realtimeboard
for real time collaborations and Confluence as a team collaborations.
Summerizing FDP101X
Week No. Technology Activities and Learning
01 IITBombayX
Document Editors like MS
office, Libre office and Google
Doc
File Sharing Sites like Google
drive, drop box and one drive.
Familiarization of the course and Online
pedagogy. Concept of course journal and
sharing of it with the help of google drive.
Use discussion forum, peer review of course
jornal with specific parameters decided for
reviewing.
02 WordPress for simple and
Drupal for multifunctional
website.
Need of web presence of faculty for
knowledge creation was specified and
Familiarisation of Content Management
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System (CMS)
03 MOODLE Going beyond CMS we studied Learning
Management System (LMS)
04 A-View
Screen-o-matics
Learning A-V content creation using
screencasting. Mentor –Mentee Interaction for
doubt clearing
05 Resource Creation Assignment
My final reflection is this course gave me very good flavor and most importantly
confidence in how ICT can be used in Education. I could form wordpress website of
mine. Though it is very raw at this point of time, I will surely use it in my future. I could
prepare screencast. Though I could not follow 100 % procedure mentioned to create
website and video I can do it now.
It was a great learning experience!!!
Milind Marathe
A.P. Department of Electronics Engineering,
K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar, Mumbai 400077.