COURSE JOURNALCourse: FDP 101X Foundation Program in ICT for Education (IITBX)

User Name: iryan07Designation: Assistant Professor

College: Jahangirabad Institute of Technology, Barabanki

Week 1 – Moving from Physical to Online Classrooms

1. Course Entry Survey: Date: 21/09/2018 Time: 3:00 P.M.

Describe the importance of this course and behaviour of audience. Demonstrate various ICT devices and applications useful in teaching-learning. Develop awareness towards ethical practices for use of ICT in education. Requirements of audience and also provides reasons for joining this FDP.

2. Introduction to FDP: IIT Bombay has specially designed a Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended learning" to enhance the quality of education. Based on the inputs of the participants and course team, we had designed this course as a two-part FDP so as to focus on both the Technology and Pedagogy. The first course under this FDP, with a focus on technology, is titled “Foundation Program in ICT for Education” and is designed as a Blended/Hybrid MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) – FDP101x.

3. From Physical Classrooms to Online Classrooms: Date:22/09/2018 Time:11:00A.M.a) Physical Classroom 3 major components

Teacher Learner Content

Role of Teacher- Learner Explanation based on slides Questionnaire session addressing in the classroom

Role of Teacher- Content Explaining slides

Role of Learner-Content Problems solving

List out various interactions between above 3 components?My answer

1. Teacher teaches topic to learners.2. Teacher gives instruction through some slide presentation to learners.3. Learners can ask some query regarding content to teachers.4. Teacher can solve the learner’s doubt.

b) Online setting – Learner centric Three components

Facilitators Learners Content

Facilitators can use various features available in the learning platform to ensure that all these interactions happen in an online setting.

1. Role of Facilitator- Learner2. Role of Facilitator- 3. Role of Learner-Content

Outcomes1. Videos2. Problems3. Discuss

4. Pedagogic Adaptation LeD, LbD, LxT, and LxI: Date: 23/09/2018 Time: 3:00P.M.Led1.2 :First Pedagogic feature :Learning Dialogue (LeD):1. What is the equivalent of instructor videos in a physical classroom? Ans: Teacher taking lecture to students

2. What additional features does the video provide in an online setting?Ans: a. Play or pause button

b. Rewind professor talkc. Move to any portion for better clarification

Reflection Activity – Reflection spot – to Think and Write

LeD 1.3:Second Pedagogic feature:Learning –by-Doing Activities (LbDs) Various interactions in teaching learning Environment Pedagogy modification of LeD Practice problem

1. What advantage do you see in answering practise question immediately after LeD videos? Ans: Recalling the concepts

Learner– provides detailed feedback about the concept

Learner-centric: Each learner gets an opportunity to answer this question and gets a detailed feedback

LeD 1.4:Third Pedagogic feature : Learning –Extension Resource (LxT):LxT meant for extending your learning.Advance resources that help you going deep in a particular content.

LxT – videos, links to web pages, research paper, documents etc LxT – extending your learning on what you have already learnt + Assimilation queries

(graded)

Reflection Activity – Reflection spot – to Think and Write1. Function of Assimilation quizzes (AQ)a. Recall the conceptb. Refresh key points

LeD 1.5: Fourth Pedagogic feature: Learning –Experience Interactions (LxIs) Date: 24/09/2018 Time:7:00P.M.Structured discussions – Focused question to all learners suggest specific pointReflection Spot1. Advantages of having a structured group discussion?

a. Students share their ideas about particular topicb. Students can recall that teacher taught

Online program – LxIs (Learners want to exchange their own experiences) Focused Discussion

Specific InstructionGraded

Reflection quiz Outcome: Exposure to content + Collaboration

5. Basics of ICT by Prof T.V.Prabakar1. What is ICT?Ans: IT (Large data storage + fast computation) + Communication Technology ( wired / Wireless)2. What is the Hardware involved?Ans: Desktop, Internet (Hub, Switches, Router), Server (Data canter, cloud)3. What is the software involved? Ans: Applications, Browser, Server

6. Course Journal - (Write down your thoughts and experience)

Date: 24/09/2018 Time: 11:00P.M.LeD 1.6 Maintaining course journal = My view

Good way of memorize the concept easily Recollect the key points easily Easy to share our ideas with others

1. Process (Writer – Disciplined manner of learners reflections)2. Record – Process of thinking

LeD 1.7 Creating a course journal Process of creating course journal1. Select a familiar document editor2. Create an outline structure (Temporal/ Thematic approach)3. Record time of entries (Text, image etc)

7.Learning Extension Resource :Week 1 Anant Agarwal TED Talk: Why MOOC? Summary1. Blended learning pilot2. Self pacing3. Active/ Instant feedback4. Gamification5. Peer learning6. Reimaging education as e-spaces/ tablets/digital document Deepak B.Phatak – FDPICT001x S001 Introduction Summary1. ICT in education

Content creation Delivery Online tutorial Online test

2. MOOC Coursera, edx, COL, Udacity, NPTEL, IITBombayX, MooKit

3. Drawback Lack of human touch Inability to access descriptive responses Absence of practical component

8. After learning these entire concepts I try to solve the graded activity questions. Post my interaction and commented on post of others.

COURSE JOURNALCourse: FDP 101X Foundation Program in ICT for Education (IITBX)

User Name: SanaZebaDesignation: Assistant Professor

College: Jahangirabad Institute of Technology, Barabanki

Week 2– Web presence for teachers

THE INTERNET:

The tangible physical system that was made to move information.

Internet shifts binary information and information is made of bits i.e.0’s and 1’s. 0 represent off and 1 represent off.

Wires Cables wifi

SOME INTERNET PROTOCOL:

HTTP: Stands for hyper text transfer protocol .It is used to communicate between web browsers and services.

HTML: Stands for hyper text markup language .It tells the web browser that how to make the web page.

URL: Stands for uniform resource locator and it is the address of any resource that we look for an internet.

Example: http://google.com

WEB PRESENCE FOR FACULTY

1) Simple website setup : Uses wordpress and it has few pages or menus and blogs Consumption to creation CV Research work

(i) Topics and summary

(ii)Publications

(iii) Internship

(iv)Group members

Teaching material

Blog

2) Multifunctional website : Uses drupal Pages with structured content. Pages linked to each other. Conference website

TOOLS FOR WEB CREATION:

LeD 2.1 video explained about various tools for a teacher to create content for students.

BASICS CUSTOMIZATION IN WORDPRESS

STEPS:

Login your website my site customise wp admin admin dashboard change title and tagline of

my site add logo change background color change font add widget (small applications like

calendar, text widget, search widget).

ADDING BASIC CONTENT IN WORDPRESS:

BLOG:

Weblog become blog i.e. Diary

Periodic or occasional essays.

Categorised by date of release and keywords

PAGE: Generic webpage can contain any other object such as tables, lists, images, attachments slug: text which comes in my URL (chilambuchelvip.wordpress.com/ research- area)

Dashboard:chilambuchelvip.wordpress.com/wp-admin.

To create blog post:

choose a title (often a draft title)

typein your thoughts and attach media

(preview) publish

3) Added features

(i) Categorised blog

(ii) Control visibility.

(iii) Quick draft from dashboard

To create a page:

About page: research topic, teaching information, general information organize Pages: hierarchical (parent – child)

MANAGING CONTENT IN WORDPRESS

1. Manage your content

2. Blogs

3. Media

4. Pages

5. Comment

Manage content

control panel edit quick edit delete select and filter list search to filter

ADVANCED CUSTOMISATION IN WORDPRESS

Default profile

Add media

Go to my site

Wpadmin

Pdf file

Add research pdf file

LEARNING EXTENSION RESOURCE:

In this the video is about multifunctional website Drupal which is an open source database.

Flexible, mobile ready, fantastic for big projects, friendly social and searchable, safe and secure.

If you need more, there’s more.

PlanExecuteImpress

COURSE JOURNALCourse: FDP 101X Foundation Program in ICT for Education (IITBX)

User Name: SanaZebaDesignation: Assistant Professor

College: Jahangirabad Institute of Technology, Barabanki

Week-3 Creating Your Own Video Resource

Module 1: Visual Presentation Skills 1 Reflection Spot:

Assume that you are planning to create a slide with your subject content and uploaded it to your WordPress website. You are creating this as an open educational resource (OER) so that everyone can access and use it. What visual parameters will you take care of during your slide design so that your website visitors find it easier to understand?

Ans: I firstly take the content and manage its according to the hierarchy. Then I decide design of power presentation in which I insert title , flow of discussion, and contents during which I take care of font size , colures, hyperlinks to embed videos and other features of power point presentation.

Preparing visual presentations involves three processes as follows:

Different graphics are used to represent different types of contents.

Module 2: Visual Presentation Skills 2

Guidelines for using graphicsFact: - Representational; Concept: - Organizational; principle: - Multimedia Dynamic Visual; Process: - Organization /Interpretive; Procedure: - Dynamic visual

Color & typography How to use effectivelyUsing different Color & fontsGeneral rule of thumb

Color SchemesColour: - Mood, Expressions, Convention, Meaning Colour guidelines:-

More Contrast: - More Readability

Dim lit room: - White text and black

Bright room: - Black text on White

Vivid / pale colors: - less readability

Color Scheme to suit your topic

General Guidelines: Not more than 6 Pt. /on a Slide, not more than 6 words in each

Creative Commons LicensingCC: - Creative Commons

Is a way that offers public licensee for doing this

Is a way to give permission to everyone, to freely use your work Many

sites use this license and Makes us all more free to create

Reflection Spot: Given that you know how to design visuals from the previous learning dialogue, what do you think are the considerations you have to make when using fonts and colors in slide design? How many font types, font sizes and colors will you use in the design of your slides?

Ans: Not more than 6 fonts and the size is depend on hierarchy of concept Write your responses to above questions in your course journal. I will use more contrast and color Scheme to suit the topic.

Software:

Screencast S/w GNU (GPL)Comes under copyleft

The following non-GPL soft wares are also popularly used.1. Screencast-O-Matic2. Techsmith Jing (for Windows and OSX)3. Techsmith Camtasia (for Windows)4. Quicktime (for OSX)

COURSE JOURNALCourse: FDP 101X Foundation Program in ICT for Education (IITBX)

User Name: SanaZebaDesignation: Assistant Professor

College: Jahangirabad Institute of Technology, Barabanki

Week-4 Learning Management System

1. Exploring Moodle as a Student:

Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with

a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. It

is a popular and open source LMS. Steps to access Moodle was discussed in the this week

Step 1: Access the MOODLE Demo Site

http://school.demo.moodle.net/login/index.php Step 2: Login to the site using the

following credentials

Username: student

Password: moodle

Step 3: Select the course "Digital Literacy" from the courses givenStep 4: Do all the activities in the course and experience the various type of learning features

available in MOODLE. To go through the activity "Forum etiquette"

2. Learning Experience

Interaction Rules of Forum

etiquette:

Use reflection spots and learning dialogues

Use of all capitals or upper case letters appears as if you are shouting, so don’t use all

capital letter in discussion forum

Be discerning with emojis and emoticons as over-use of them is inappropriate.

Use meaningful subject title.

Always use the Granny test when anything is posting in discussion forum

Respect moderator or facilitator. Respect their decisions at all times.

Always ask for permission before re-using.

LbD 4.1: MOODLE in IIT Bombay

Prof. Upendra Bhandarkar from Mechanical Engineering department of IIT Bombay

Course Setup,

Editing Sections,

Adding Resources,

Creating Assignments,

Creating Discussion Forums

Creating Quizzes in MOODLE.

LbD 4.2 Exploring Course settings in Moodle:There is editing option in the administration section using which changes can be made to

courses that are added to moodle.

When the editing option is turned on,

Information can be added to each section

Add activity or resources to section (by using + button) and hide some information or

resources.

Edit section name

While we select the edit setting option from course administration then, we can change the

section name, change the name of the given course, have short names for the courses, assign

courses to some category and ID number.

The summary or description about the course can be added/edited and also files (giving

description of course) can be added to summary tab.

There is option to enter information to course in course format

Weekly format: Topics -date wise which were covered in a week

Topic format: Lectures under each topic.

Upload files and set upload limit

Guest access can be selected for restricted communities

Role renaming: Allows renaming of roles depends on the subject being added.

LbD 4.3 Editing Sections in a CourseUsing editing option in administration section, we can edit the sections which are added to

the course. By using the editing option we can:

Modify the section name

Add new section name

Depending on the course format, topics covered can be given in weekly format or as per

the topic

Add/Edit the content in the summary

The content which is added can be formatted: can bold it, italicize it, choose different font

size for it, Underline it, Use Subscript, Use Superscript, add equations using equation

editor, add symbol, create tables

Grading of the assignment can be done online and can have due dates for submission.

LbD 4.4 Creating assignments in Moodle

This video explains the process of creating assignments of a course using Moodle.

To add an assignment, turn on the editing option link in administration section.

Select add an activity or resource link

Select assignment and click on add

Allocate a name and add a suitable description to it

Using the availability option, a starting date and due date for submission can be uploaded.

There is an option to choose how assignment can be uploaded: File submission or online

text.

There is a notification option, if selected then facilitator will get a notification whenever

students submit their assignments.

LbD 4.5 Discussion forums in Moodle On the right side of Moodle’s dashboard, there are different blocks like a search forum,

latest news forum, upcoming events and recent activity.

To start a discussion, click on add a new topic link, in latest news forum

A new window titled as news forum will open up in which subject and message about

topic to be added to the forum needs to be entered and then it can be posted to the forum.

Students can reply to the post and the facilitator has the option to see the original message

as well as the replies of the students.

The students can initiate a discussion themselves and the facilitator can reply to the same.

LbD 4.6 Creating Quizzes in Moodle

To add quiz again, turn on the editing option link in the administration section.

Select Add an activity or resource link

Select quiz option and then click on add

Assign a name and description about quiz.

Can enable/disenable the appearance of description of quiz on course page of Moodle.

Using timing option: Facilitator can set deadlines for answering the quiz ( i.e set the

opening and closing days of quiz) and set a time limit for answering the quiz.

Using grade option: Facilitator can allow the quiz to be attempted once or multiple times

by learner.

Layout and question behavior options allows the questions to be shuffled or randomly

selected from the question bank for the quiz.

Can choose kind of questions like multiple choice, true or false

Feedback: Deferred feedback with Certainty-Based Marking (CBM)

Extra restrictions on attempt: If a student has missed the quiz, then and extra attempt can

be given by providing a password to ensure that the attempt is made by that person.

Overall feedback can be given to the students.

Once quiz is set up it can be edited.

Using Edit quiz option: we can add new questions to quiz or can add a question from a

question bank.

COURSE JOURNALCourse: FDP 101X Foundation Program in ICT for Education (IITBX)

User Name: SanaZebaDesignation: Assistant Professor

College: Jahangirabad Institute of Technology, Barabanki

Week-5 Putting it All Together

● Learning Extension Resources

Open Source Tools for Smart ClassroomsOpen Source applications for Smart Classrooms - Open Board,

Mediawiki, Github.

Proprietary applications are Concept Board and Confluence.

● Understanding the Learning Purpose of Activities

Two Resource Learning Activity is given regarding course journal and screencast video.

● About Learning Experience Interaction in Week 5

Learning Experience Interaction 5

FOCUS QUESTIONQ1. Among the various technologies that you have been exposed to, which will be an easier

technology to integrate into your classroom immediately (current academic semester/next academic

semester).

A1: As I have practiced and done each activities as given to us. In my next semester I would like

to use wordpress and screencast because it is very easy to use and the softwaress are user

friendly to as

I found that Moodle is helpful for course designing and to take graded activities and instant

evaluation of the course content.

Q2. What challenges do you expect while integrating this technology into your classroom?

A2: I faced difficulty in each task and learned with difficulties and explore the technologies by

using it. Difficulties like manage voice tone on screencast, use of the software of

sreencasting, wordpress is more or alike the general gmail account.

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