Samruddhi Khandare

PCE, New Panvel

IITBombayX: FDP101x Foundation Program in ICT for Education

Course Journal

Week 3: 17th August to 27th August, 2017

In Week-3 we had Face to Face A-VIEW interaction at our respective RC (Remote Centre)

Pillai College of Engineering (PCE), New Panvel, Maharashtra. This session was conducted

for two days i.e. 19th August, 2017 and 20th August, 2017. The interaction took place with

approximately 170 Remote Centres and 7700 participants of FDP101X.

Session 1: 19th August, 2017: Four sessions were conducted on this day.

1. Introduction session by Prof. Phatak: Prof. Phatak explained about the course. The main

aim of the course is collective wisdom, collective passion and delivering the knowledge

through online.

2. Interaction with Prof. P Sunthar: Prof. P Sunthar explained about pro-active and timely

communication and the need of communication.

1. Sit in pairs

2. Write individual

3. Share with your peer

4. Remote Centre coordinator

5. User story

3. A-VIEW demonstration: Learnt how to login to A-VIEW IIT Bombay, with Mentees

Username and password.

4. Lab Assignment: The last session was the Lab Assignment and we were assigned to do

one lab activity with six questions based on interaction session.

Session 2: 20th August, 2017:

1. Interactive session on making the best use of FDP by Prof. Jayakrishnan: Main points

discussed in this session are as follows:

Providing additional courses in methodologies.

Activities like LbDs.

Practicing of the technology.

Teachers should move beyond domains and engage with another faculty, etc.

2. Interactive session on Visual Presentation Skills by Prof. Sameer Sahasrabudhe: A

review session on flipped class videos included:

Think-pair-share activity

Colour schemes

Colour guidelines

Typography

Typography guidelines

Common observations

Visual effects

Peer Assessment Activity

Rubric based peer evaluation etc.

3. Interactive session on queries and clarifications by Prof. Jayakrishnan: Prof

Jayakrishnan had clarified the doubts of participants of FDP101X related to Wordpress such

as; how to download videos in Wordpress, mentor, mentee allocations etc.

4. Lab Assignment : The last session was the Lab Assignment and we were assigned to do

one lab activity with five questions based on interaction session.

During these two sessions we clarified most of our doubts related to Wordpress, discussion

forums and also had a good interaction session with our peers.

Learning Experience Interaction 3

Discussion Forum Etiquettes: Focus Questions for Discussion

1. Can you identify the pedagogic feature that has been used in the animation video on Forum

Etiquettes?

Ans. The pedagogic feature that has been used in the animation video on Forum Etiquettes is

as follows:

a) Learning Dialogues (LeD) Activity: Watching the animated video of forum etiquettes.

b) Learning by doing (LbD) activity: They have used reflection spot that what we had

observed in LeDs to answer the Quiz i.e., thinking and answering the quiz while learning.

2. What is one new thing that you learnt about discussion forum etiquettes?

Ans. New things that I learnt about discussion forum etiquettes are as follows:

a) Use meaningful subject tile while posting information.

b) Do not shout in online discussion i.e. have a discussion in Professional manner.

c) Do not overuse emojis & emoticons in discussion.

d) Use the ‘granny test’ which means that while posting anything online use proper

words and appropriate pictures.

e) Do not argue with anyone and respect the decision of people involved in discussion.

f) Do not steal or use the information, images, videos etc. of others unless they give you

permission to use.

MOODLE in IIT Bombay

MOODLE is a popular Learning Management System used by several academic institutions

worldwide.

Following are the basic features offered by MOODLE to a teacher:

Course Setup

Editing Sections

Adding Resources

Creating Assignments

Creating Discussion Forums

Creating Quizzes in MOODLE.

Exploring course settings inside MOODLEIn this section we come across the editing option, how to edit whole section name, course

name, how to drag and drop, the topic format and weekly format, and roles - rename roles.

etc.. Logged in the demo Moodle course as a teacher and selected New Staff Induction and

observed the Editing settings.

LbD 3.1

Step 1:

Login into mount orange school

Step 2:

Select course “New staff induction”.

Step 3:

Click on edit button from setting icon.

Editing section in a CourseGo to demo Moodle course and login as teacher and select the course “New Staff Induction”

and turn “ON” the editing option. Try to add new sections with titles and later delete them.

Editing section:

Lbd 3.2

Step 1:

Login to the MOODLE as a teacher. Use username as “teacher” and password as “moodle”.

Step 2:

Select the course “New Staff Induction”.

Step 3:

Click on the settings button on the top right of the window and then select the option “Turn

Editing On”

Step 4:

Go to any one of the section and see the settings.

Step 5:

Add a new section and give it a meaningful title and description.

Step 6:

Once the new section is added we can find it into dashboard/my courses/induction.

Adding Resources in MOODLE

In this section we learnt how to upload a file in Moodle.

LbD 3.3

Step 1:

Login to the MOODLE as a teacher. Use username as “teacher” and password as “moodle”.

Step 2:

Select the course “New Staff Induction”.

Step 3:

Click on the settings button on the top right of the window and then select the option “Turn

Editing On”

Step 4:

Go to any one of the section and see the setting.

Step 5:

Add a new section titled “Course Journal” and give description as “Course Journal – Week

1”. Week 1 journal is added successfully.

Step 6:

Add another section titled “Course Journal” and give description as “Course Journal – Week

2”.

Week 2 journal is added successfully.

Step 7:

Adding two assignments to the week 2 course journal.

Creating Assignments in MOODLE

In this section we learnt how to give assignments, setting the time limit to solve the

assignment questions, how to grade the assignments and how to upload the assignments and

in which format.

LbD 3.4

Step 1:

Login to the MOODLE as a teacher. Use username as “teacher” and password as “moodle”.

Step 2:

Select the course “New Staff Induction”.

Step 3:

Click on the settings button on the top right of the window and then select the option “Turn

Editing On”

Step 4:

Go to the section titled “My Course Journal” created in previous LbD.

Step 5:

Add an assignment in this section asking students to upload their course journal. The

assignment should accept a single file upload and should have maximum 10 marks.

Step 6:

Click on “Add an activity or resource” and then click on “Assignment”.

Step 7:

After clicking on “Assignment”, click on “Add”.

Step 8:

Enter the assignment name and description and Upload assignment file. To restrict the

students to upload only one file; find the setting from SUBMISSION TYPES --- >

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF UPLOADED FILES = 1.

Find Grade settings and set maximum grade 10.

Discussion Forums in MOODLE

Discussion forum is an example of setting up Learner - Learner Interaction. In this session we

came to know about different blocks such as; search forum, latest news forum, upcoming

events and recent activities. In discussion forum students can get the questions, topics for

discussion and keep replying to the questions posted by other students.

LbD 3.5

Step 1:

Login to the MOODLE as a teacher. Use username as “teacher” and password as “moodle”.

Step 2:

Select the course “New Staff Induction”.

Step 3:

Click on the settings button on the top right of the window and then select the option “Turn

Editing On”

Step 4:

Go to the section titled “My Course Journal” created in previous LbD.

Step 5:

Add a new discussion forum in the section asking the students to discuss their course journal

writing experience.

Creating Quizes in MOODLE

We can give questions to the students through Moodle and evaluate them. While creating the

quizzes we can set time limit for solving them, grading system and feedback.

LbD 3.6

Step 1:

Login to the MOODLE as a teacher. Use username as “teacher” and password as “moodle”.

Step 2:

Select the course “New Staff Induction”.

Step 3:

Click on the settings button on the top right of the window and then select the option “Turn

Editing On”

Step 4:

Go to the section titled “My Course Journal” created in previous LbD.

Step 5:

Add a new quiz in the section which will test the student’s understanding about the need to

create a course journal.

Step 6:

Adding New Quiz:

Step 7:

Adding question type

Step 8:

Adding questions to quiz.

Step 9:

Adding options to multiple choice questions.

Step 10:

Adding True/False questions.

Step 10:

Preview of added questions.

Step 11:

Preview of quiz.

Resource Creation and Peer Review

I have gone through the learning dialogues and came to know about the Peer Review. Our

discussion forum in IITBombayX is the best example of Peer Review that I have observed.

Flipped Classroom Activity

Visual Presentation Skills

Visual presentation skills always follow the process of:

Planning: Planning involves techniques like brainstorming, discussions, analysing

and organising what content the teacher wants.

Execution: Execution means how to provide a particular flow of the whole

presentation by creating an outline, adding bulleted details and most importantly the

graphic support.

Impress: Impress means to create a presentation which has an appeal and involves the

things such as the colour schemes, choice of fonts, effects which are given out while

presenting the slide.

Graphics:

Using graphics is one of the important decisions for creating any presentation. It is always

better to know about the type of graphic which is to be used.

Types of Graphics:

There are mainly two types of graphics:

1. Static Graphics: Static Graphics include photographs or images, drawings,

illustrations, screenshots, etc.

2. Motion graphics or Videos: In motion graphics things are visible like animations,

simulations, video shot by cameras, etc.

Other types of Graphics:

1. Decorative Graphics: They are very easy. They are used to attract the attention of the

readers or the viewers. These are used only for aesthetic reason i.e. they are used only

for grabbing attention.

2. Photograph: It is the depiction of the realistic way in which the object is. The other

use of this type of graphic is a screenshot.

3. Mnemonic Graphic: It is a very peculiar type of graphic. It conveys content or an

idea to a visual form.

4. Organizational Graphics: It gives a qualitative relation between two entities within

a particular graphic. A map is a very good example of organizational graphic. For

example, how long is place A from place B can be easily told by looking at the map.

5. Graphs and pie charts: It gives a quantitative relation between two entities within a

particular graphic.

6. Transformational Graphic: Transformational graphics are ones that show movement

or changes over time. These types of visuals are particularly good for showing the

steps of a process or procedure. Designers often include transformational graphics as

part of an animation sequence or video.

7. Interpretive Graphic: In interpretive graphic the structure is depicted in a line art

format. Arrows and colours can used in explaining the process.