CONSOLIDATED COURSE JOURNAL

FDP101X - FOUNDATION

PROGRAM IN ICT FOR

EDUCATION

SUBMITTED BY

C.Rajanandhini

PMIST

VALLAM

ORGANISER: IITBOMBAYX

1135 Periyar Maniammai University, Vallam - Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WEEK 1

Sl.No.

CONTENTS

Page

No.

1. Introduction about FDP

3

2.

LeD 1.1 – Moving from Physical classrooms to

5

Online classrooms

3. Pedagogic Adaptations: (LeDs, LbDs, LxTs and LxIs) 6

4. Self exploration Resources – Basics of ICT

9

5. Maintaining a course journal

9

6. Learning Experience Interaction 1

10

7. Learning Extension Resource

10

8. Conclusion

11

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1. INTRODUTION ABOUT FDP: Important Points on Discussion:

Now a days great access to knowledge in the digital form.

The learning of a student depends upon how much active time student spends in training

Transformation of Teachers from Information provider to learning Facilitators

Two FDPs designed by IIT Bombay provides training to impart quality education to students FDP101x - use of Technology to facilitate Hybrid Learning

FDP201X – Pedagogy for Online and Blended or Hybrid Teaching learning process

These two FDPs comes under T10KT project and conducted under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching.

Maintaining Academic Ethics and Integrity:

3 Key points discussed to maintain Highest level of ethical standards: Respecting for intellectual property rights.

Citing the source from which the information is gathered.

Encourage ourselves individually and collectively to prepare open Educational resources and contribute to learning community.

Breach of Conduct:

Copying answers from another person

Keeping a Proxy to attend the program or Absentees claiming the attendance

Copying material from web or another assignment and posting the same.

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Course Learning Objectives:

Identifying various ICT devices and applications useful in teaching-learning process

Develop awareness towards ethical practices for use of ICT in education

Make use of best practices for information dissemination using ICT

Grading Policy:

100% of total score from Six Graded Activities.

1. KQs (30% weightage) correspond to the basic content

2. AQs (30% weightage) from Learning Extension resources correspond

to the additional resources

3. RQs (30% weightage) from Discussion forum correspond to interaction with peers

4. RCAs (30% weightage) using ICT Applications correspond to

the application of knowledge 5. Lab Assignments [LAs] (10%) 6. Final Summative Assessment [SA] (25%)

Passing criteria - 50% of the total mark of the course

10-03-2018 Week 1: Moving from Physical to Online Classrooms:

Learning Objective:

The objective of week 1 course syllabus is to adapt various

Pedagogical features while integrating ICT - the teaching-learning

interactions to improve the quality of education while moving from a

physical classroom setup to an online learning platform.

2. LED 1.1 - From Physical Classrooms to Online Classrooms: Important Points on Discussion:

To have effective Online Teaching Learning Experience, Pedagogic features need to be adapted.

Physical Class room – the Learner, the content and the teacher

While moving from Physical to Online class room, all the three remains Same but Teacher will become facilitator who now uses various features available in learning platform to interact with learner in online mode.

Three platform features emerge for an online instructor – Videos, Quiz/Problems and Discussion forum.

Facilitator should ensure that Learner is completely engaged through various interactions

Reflection Questions to ponder:

1. Question - Can you list one example of the interactions that happened between these three in a normal classroom? Ans: While discussing with slides or videos,

Learner - Learner interaction Teacher giving tasks to group of

students to discuss among themselves

Learner - Teacher interaction Answering queries of students

Learner - Content interaction Solving a problem given by teacher

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3. Pedagogic Adaptations: (LeDs, LbDs, LxTs and LxIs):

3.1: LeDs(Learning Dialogues): Important Points on Discussion:

Learning Dialogue (LeD) is the first Pedagogic feature.

Physical Class room – the Learner, the content and the teacher

Videos can have several features such as pause, replay, forward backward, timed transcript etc.,

Reflection spots are added in the videos to avoid watching passive videos

Reflection spot is followed by detailed answer by facilitator.

Reflection Questions to Answer: 1.Question - What is the equivalent of such a video in a regular teaching-learning interaction within your classroom?

Ans: Lecturing of Teacher in the classroom.

2. Question - What additional features does the video provide you apart from the regular information transmission of the content?

Ans: Various controls in the video such as forward, backward, pause etc.,

3.2: LbDs (Learning by Doing activities):

Important Points on Discussion:

Learning by Doing activities (LbD) is the second Pedagogic feature.

Learning by Doing activities reinforce and familiarize concepts Learned.

Learning process becomes learner-centric since it enables all the students to participate.

Reflection Questions to Answer:

1.Question - What advantage do you see in answering these questions immediately after watching LeDs?

Ans: Rethinking and strengthening the concepts learned.

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3.3: LxIs(Learning Experience Interactions):

Important Points on Discussion:

Learning Experience Interactions (LxIs) is the Third Pedagogic feature.

Learning Experience Interactions consist of a focus discussion having specific instructions on what to discuss and how to discuss.

Reflection Quiz from Discussion forum enables varying teaching learning aspects.

Reflection Questions to Answer:

1.Question – Can you think of advantages of having such a structured group discussion?

Ans: Exchange of Ideas between students for the focussed question.

3.4: LxTs(Learning Extension Resources): Important Points on Discussion:

Learning Extension Resources (LxTs) is the fourth Pedagogic feature.

Extending the learning process by going through additional resources either from webpages, documents, videos and Research papers.

Assimilation quizzes – Tests whether the learners have understood the key concepts.

Reflection Questions to ponder:

1.Question – Can you think about the function of Assimilation quiz?

Ans: Tests whether a learner has understood the concepts.

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4. Self Exploration Resources – Basics of ICT:

Important Points on Discussion:

What is ICT (Information Communication Technology)

Computer + Communication technology to provide Large storage and Fast computation in wired and wireless communication means.

Explained typical ICT application of buying a mobile phone from e-commerce site.

Mobile App or Browser Hubs/switches/Router Server

5. Maintaining a Course Journal: Important Points on Discussion:

Course journal is a critical resource having both process and record

Process – course journal should be written in a disciplined manner

Journal implies our thoughts and experiences about the course

The ultimate goal - to tell others what we know, what we understood, what we think, and what we believe in the clearest possible terms.

A course journal includes

1. Description about content 2. Activities done during the course 3. Learner reflections on the content 4. Contains Time Stamp and Date 5. Emotions and understanding of them 6. Conclusions or inferences may be included

Reflection Questions to ponder:

1. Question - Take a minute or two and start reading your course journal

right from the beginning. Reflect on what you have written, and now

see if you are able to recollect the content that were discussed in the

respective learning dialogue. Ans: In my course journal, I have written the following 1. Introduction about FDP 2. Grading policy

3. Week 1 course concepts such as LeDs, LbDs, LxTs, LxIs, Basics of ICT

and creation of course journal. 4. Reflection activity questions

With regard to recollection of the concepts learned, I do feel that I learnt the concepts from the course journal.

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6. Learning Experience Interaction 1:

Important Points on Discussion:

Asked to keep post in Discussion forum

Discussion Forum - Focussed and Structured – Learning Experience Interaction

Posted my answer and discussed with Peers in the DF

7. Learning Extension Resource: Important Points on Discussion:

First video describes about the history of technology of Education. ICT in Education is recognised as one of the themes of Sustainability Development goals by United Nations.

TED talk by Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX – Emphasizes the need of

hour for the transformation of Physical class room teaching to

Online Teaching. In his talk, he insisted that current generation can easily cope up

with the online classroom method since they all are familiar with the recent technologies.

Online courses can be accessed by several students. Discussion forum can be created to get solutions for the problems.

Second video by Padmashree Dr.Deepak B Phatak discusses about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and its advantage of increasing number of learners and hence productivity of the course.

MOOC too has disadvantages such as lack of human touch, inability to access descriptive responses and Hands on session with equipment’s.

Project page of Katy Jordan analysed data from MOOCs and explored completion rates.

8. CONCLUSION:

Week 1 of this course on “Foundation in ICT for Education” has

provided valuable information to the Teachers to opt for Online based Teaching learning process.

Online based Teaching learning process has wide benefits in achieving the best quality of education with the recent development in Information and Communication technologies by adapting various pedagogical features such as LeDs, LbDs, LxTs and LxIs.

Hybrid or Blended method of Teaching learning process involving both Online based Teaching and Face to Face interactions can be the best choice to achieve higher level of success in improving the quality of education.

Altogether, first week of training has achieved success in creating awareness about online based teaching process with ICT tools. Discussion forum and Quizzes are really interesting facets and was a wonderful experience to exchange and obtain more information. I would take this key moment to thank Resource persons and Peers for sharing your excellent knowledge in LeDs and DF.

***** Thanks IITBombay & Everyone****

What is internet?

Internet is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication

facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication

protocols.

Uses of Internet:

1. Electronic mail

2. Research.

3. Downloading files.

4. Discussion groups.

5. Interactive games.

6. Education and self-improvement.

7. Friendship and dating.

8. Electronic newspapers and magazines.

9. Job-hunting.

10. Shopping.

Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol

suite for relaying packets across network boundaries. Its routing function

enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet.

IP has the task of delivering packets from the source host to the destination host solely based

on the IP addresses in the packet headers.

How Information Travels on the Internet

Data travels across the internet in packets. Each packet can carry a maximum of 1,500 bytes.

Around these packets is a wrapper with a header and a footer. The information contained in

the wrapper tells computers what kind of data is in the packet, how it fits together with

other data, where the data came from and the data's final destination.

When you send an e-mail to someone, the message breaks up into packets that travel across

the network. Different packets from the same message don't have to follow the same path.

That's part of what makes the Internet so robust and fast. Packets will travel from one

machine to another until they reach their destination. As the packets arrive, the computer

receiving the data assembles the packets like a puzzle, recreating the message

Tools for website creation

This session deals with creating websites for teaching faculty and the importance of this in

collaborating with students. Where websites can be classified into two ways

Simple Websites : Which deals with creating simple pages.

Multifunctional Websites : Which contains many pages with much deeper structured

content.

WordPress

WordPress.com takes care of all that by hosting the site for you. You don’t have to manage a

web server, pay for hosting or download software, however, ads are shown on your site.

Basic Customisation in WordPress and Managing Content in Word Press

This session is an introductory for creating website using WordPress. In this we come across

with a concept of customizing the appearance of word press website. We can set menu

actions using admin dashboard when once we have done with signup process. We can

customize our site by adding Names, Tag lines and images. We can add widgets into our sites

in order to provide it more effective. Widgets are special things which add special features

and attractions to website. Once we have done with customizing the site, we need to publish

in order to the site to effect the changes which are done.

Adding Content in WordPress

In this session we come across adding content in the form of pages and blog;

Page: It is a generic web page, which can be static. Pages can have tables, lists, images,

attachments and so on.

Blog: It is a form of web-log which acts as diary on the web. It can be collection contents,

links and pictures.

This session gives an idea of creating the blog and page along with few appearance

customization guidelines.

Advanced Customization in WordPress

In this session we come across with the concept of adding advanced features to the blog.

Along with it provides few guidelines in uploading the content to the blog and maintaining

it as well.

Drupal

Pages with structured content : Publications which have multiple fields, title, author,

journal etc,

Pages linked to each other : Research topic, Publication, people worked on it.

Conference websites : Registration, Abstract submission, Fee Payment

WEEK -3

Visual presentation skills-1

For visual presentation Open Educational Resource(OER) will be used.

The parameters used are,

Planning , Execution & Impressing:

– brainstorming, discussion, analysing , organising, flow of the whole presentation,

bulleted details and graphic support, colour schemes, fonts, effects.

Types of graphics:

Graphics can be anything from static pictures, to animation, or video, but they should

always be relevant to the words on the page.

Decorative Graphics serve to decorate the age without enhancing the message of the lesson

and can often be a distraction to learners.

Representational graphics portray a single lament such as a photo along with a caption

explaining the photo.

Relational graphics portray a quantitative relationship among two or more variables.

Organizational graphics depict the relations among elements.

Transformational graphics depict changes in time and space.

Visual Presentation Skills-2

➢ GREEN DOTS on guideline slides.

➢ Colour is used for presentation to communicate a mood and to give the conventional

meanings.

➢ Basic thump rule will be used for colour scheam.

➢ Guidelines will be used for presentation:

a. Use minimum fonts – not more than two.

b. Use font options to emphasis – one font is advisable, two can be used rarely.

c. Use alignment feature – Left is preferred.

d. Use grid for aligning the content.

Spoken Tutorial Technology

➢ open source screen casting software for windows is camstudio .

➢ open source screen casting software for Linux is Record my desktop.

➢ KAZAM – screen recording software. It is used to produce videos of slide presentation

with a sound narration.

➢ For editing the video in windows, we use movie maker.

➢ For editing the video in Linux, we use openshot software

Other software for OES( Open Educational resources)

Screen casting software used to record activities on the computer screen. This software

is commonly used for desktop recording, game play recording and video editing.

Resource content from web page https://en.wikipedia.org

Various screen casting sofwares are,

Free software license

➢ Active presenter free edition

➢ BB Flashback Express

➢ Capture Fox

➢ Grabilla

➢ Hyper cam

➢ Jing, etc,.

GPL softwares

The software is allowing users to freely distribute and use.

➢ Camtasia

➢ Record my desktop

➢ Virtual dub

➢ VLC media player

Non GPL softwares

➢ Screen cast -o- matic

➢ Techsmith jing

➢ Techsmith Camtasia

➢ Quicktime

The features of Camtasia screen casting software which I have

used in my video

Features Availability Description

Audio Yes It supports recording audio

commentary on the video.

Entire desktop Yes It can record the entire desktop.

Open GL Yes To render the digital image.

Editing Yes We can cropping, Trimming or

splitting.

Output .camrec

AVI

The file format in which the

software saves the final video.

Multimedia Principles

Multimedia principles help learners to learn better when they are using different learning

materials.

The Multimedia principle is a theory studied in depth by Richard Mayer that states words and

graphics are more conducive to learning, rather than just text or graphics alone. The theory is based on

the idea that learners learn better when they engage in relevant cognitive pressing such as attending to

the relevant material in the lesson, mentally organizing the material into a coherent cognitive

representation and mentally integrating the material with their existingknowledge.(Mayer 154) His

study also shows that learners may engage in less in-depth learning with just text alone, not connecting

what they have read with new or prior knowledge.

Contiguity Principle

The contiguity principle as stated implies that just words need to be aligned, however audio

should also be aligned temporally with graphics that correspond with the audio. One example is

that when a graphic includes a diagram which has parts indicated by text, the text should be physically

near the corresponding parts of the diagram (Clark & Mayer, 2011).

For instance, Moreno and Mayer (1999) found that students learned better when text and

animations were placed close to one another than when these were placed far from each other.

Redundancy Principle

The redundancy principle states that learners can learn better just with animation and

narration. The visual text information, which is presented simultaneously to the verbal

information, becomes a redundant material. Eliminating redundant material, avoiding narration and

"identical" text will be a good way to let learners learn well.

Learners can choose the format depended on their learning preferences. But this learning styles

hypothesis normally is not established. Clark and Mayer (2011) described

several potential problems.

• Learners may attract by printed words and may pay less attention to the accompanying

graphics.

• Learners may experience cognitive overload in the visual channel during a fast pace

multimedia presentation which has redundant on-screen text.

• Learners may try to compare the different formats.

Special Situations for the Redundancy Principle

There are a few special situations where using redundant text is acceptable and even

suggested.

There is a complete absence of any onscreen pictorial information.

• There has enough time to process the pictorial presentation.

• The related audio might be difficult for the learner to understand--as with foreign

language learning or certain auditory learning disabilities. The visual text will be helpful

for learners to understand.

Coherence Principle

According to Clark and Mayer (2011) in the book “E-Learning and the Science of

Instruction”,the Coherence Principle states that all unnecessary information in multimedia

messages should be eliminated, such as sound, images and words as they may decrease the

learning. As by adding interesting but irrelevant materials to e-learning courses may distract the learner.

The three Coherence Principles which instruction designers should follow:

1. Avoid e-lessons with Extraneous Audio

▪ According to the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia, the capacity of human memory is very limited.

▪ It predicts that adults will learn more deeply from multimedia.

▪ Presentations which do not contain extraneous sound. However, music can be used at

the beginning

▪ of the course to make the learner focus on the course and right and wrong sounds can also be used in internal assessments.

2. Avoid e-lessons with Extraneous Graphocs:

This principle states that adult learners may want to mental structures or images of

course content as they read the content on-screen. An image placed in the course

should complement learner's

thinking processes and not distract learners.

3. Avoid e-lessons with Extraneous words:

This principle states that simple, basic and concise on-screen text helps learning.

Therefore,

we should avoid using long phrases and sentences and instead help the learner by using sounds

sparingly, adding complementary images and simple and concise on-screen content.

Applying the coherence principle will make course effective and concise.

CREATIVE COMMONS(CC)

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that

enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an

author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have

created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-

commercial uses of their own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's

work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are

specified in the license by which the author distributes the work.

Creative commons are set of licenses that enables lawful collaboration to do things like

copy, share and remix.

Creative commons make us all more free to create, copy, share, and remix free media on

Wikimedia commons.

TYPES OS LICENSES:

RIGHT DESCRIPTION

BY- attribution Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and

make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the

author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by

these.

SA – share alike Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical

("not more restrictive") to the license that governs the original work.

Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with

compatible but more restrictive license clauses, e.g. CC BY to CC BY-

NC.)

NC- Non-commercial Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and

make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-

commercial purposes.

ND - No Derivative Works Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim

copies of the work, not derivative works and remixes based on it.

Attributes of CC:

➢ CC BY

➢ CC BY-SA

➢ CC BY –ND

➢ CC BY- NC

➢ CC BY-NC-SA

➢ CC BY-NC- ND

For my YouTube video the licensing attribute is CC BY.

Resource Creation Activity

Resource Creation Assignments (RCA) are intended to assess the higher order thinking

skills of the learner. In a resource creation, the analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills will be

checking.

Peer Review

Peer review is one mechanism that is employed in such massive courses to assess such

huge number of subjective assignments.

Peer Review Process: What, Why and How

Need and significance of peer review

Peer review is a common practice for building quality resources and in extensively used in

scientific publications.

Best practices for good peer review

➢ Provide clear instructions during the review

➢ Explain the criteria used for reviewing

➢ Provide training to students to do peer review

➢ Ask detailed comment while reviewing

Can you tell one advantage of the process of peer review for both the reviewer and the reviewee?

My answer: teaching- learning takes place here. Based on the review we can improve the quality of

submission. Self-assessment also takes place here.

Facilitator answer:

To a reviewee, we can get feedback from multiple people.

To a reviewer, this process helps in giving knowledge about constructing good feedback. By reviewing

multiple submission, the reviewer also gets more clarity about the various criteria that was used for

creating good submission.

Four phases of peer review

1. Submission phase

2. Allocation phase

3. Review phase

4. Consolidation phase