IITBombayX: FDP101x Foundation Program in ICT

for Education [Part I]

COURSE JOURNAL

A.NARMADHA DEVI
LECTURER(SELECTION GRADE)
WOMENS’ POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE
PONDICHERRY

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CONTENTS
WEEK 1
1.0 Moving from physical class room to online class room
LeD1.1
LeD1.2 learning dialogues
LeD1.3 learning by doing activities
LeD1.4 learning extension resources
LeD1.5 learning experience Interactions
LeD1.6 About a course journal
LeD1.7 Your course Journal
Basics of ICT

WEEK 2

2.0 What is internet?

How internet works?
Some Internet Protocols
Led 2.1: Tools for website creation
LeD 2.2: Customizing Wordpress
LeD 2.3: Adding Basic Content in Wordpress
LeD 2.4: Managing content in Wordpress
LeD 2.5: Advanced Configuration in Wordpress
Creating Website using DRUPAL

WEEK 3

3.0 LeD 3.1: Visual presentation 1

Visual presentation 2
LeD 3.2: Creative commons licensing
LeD 3.3: Spoken tutorial Project
LeD 3.4: Creating spoken tutorials
Multimedia principles
LeD 3.5: Peer review process in IITBombayX
LeD 3.6: Example of Peer review in IITBombayX

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WEEK 1
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DATE: 8.03.2018, Thursday
TIME: 4.00pm

Introduction to FDP

From the introduction, I was able to understand the need for such a FDP for
teachers. As he rightly pointed that role of teachers are changing due to advent of digital
age. Traditional method takes lot of time in preparing and delivering. Since we are in era
of internet technology, knowledge can be also being accessed from other resources like
YouTube, online tutorials, Government sponsored education platforms, and so on. So
students need not depend only on class room lectures. The very purpose of first FDP is
to introduce the learners i.e., teachers to incorporate the latest technologies in their
teaching .So that learning will be hybrid –means combining both tradition method plus
technology. This will facilitate the maximization of learning of students. In current
scenario this hybridization is a needful to make the teaching environment live and joyful.

Maintaining Academic ethics and integrity

Practicing high standards of academic ethics during the conduct FDPs are
important. . The three important points or pillars of behavior that should be followed
throughout the conduct of FDP pointed by principal investigator namely

 Respect for intellectual property rights

 Citing the sources of information and

 To individually and collectively prepare open resources for learning

community and released under creative commons license

Having discussed about the need of such FDPs for teachers to use technology to
facilitate hybrid learning and concern about maintaining academic ethics now the
learning objectives; are identifying various ICT devices and applications , making best
use of them in teaching- learning and awareness towards ethical practices in
education.

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DATE: 9.3.2018 Friday
TIME: 3pm

1.0 Moving from physical class room to online class room:

LeD1.1:

A physical class room teaching environment and online teaching environment is

discussed.

In a physical class room, there are three basic elements-the learner, the content
and the teacher. The teacher here uses various tools to interact with learners and the
content.

Question Can you list the various interactions between these three components
in a physical class room?

Answer :

 Teacher giving lecture ( interaction between teacher and content)

 Discussion about a topic ( interaction between teacher and learner)

 Solving a problem ( interaction between student and content)

 Group discussion among students (( interaction between learner and learner)

Further moving to online scenario the three elements remain the same .But now the
teacher becomes facilitator using all features available in learning platform.

So here,

 Interaction with contents and facilitator------ preparing course material videos,

slides, practice problems.

 Interaction with contents and students ---------- accessing the course materials,
by watching videos, solving problems.

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  Interaction with facilitator and learner and Interaction with learner and learner-----
through discussion forum.

So in a online teaching, three features emerge for an instructor----videos, problems,

discussion forums and it is more learner centric.

LeD 1.2: Learning dialogues

The main feature is REFLECTION SPOT

Ask a question, pause the video, think and write the answer in the course journal. So
the main of reflection spots are to engage each and every participant to actively
participate in learning activity.

 In a physical class room, teacher is delivering the content.

 In online classroom video is the equivalent to teacher lecturing.

But video provides additional features like replay, pausing as required, volume
adjustment, speed adjustments

DATE: 10.03.2018 Saturday

TIME: 10 am

LeD 1.3: Learning by doing activities

Multiple choice questions immediately after the content

Reflection question: What advantage do you see in answering these questions

immediately after watching LeDs?

 reinforcing the concepts

 familiarize the concepts
 feedback about the content in the video
 get the level of understanding about the content

In a physical class room very few get the opportunity to raise questions and get
answers from the teacher.

In online class rooms every participant getting opportunity to answer the questions.

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LeD 1.4: Learning extension resources

Using external resources to go further depth in the content already known using videos,
links, webpage, documents, research papers along with assimilation quizzes (graded
activity)

Reflection question: Can you think about assimilation quizzes?

Answer: To check whether we have understood the main concept from the content or
resources.

DATE: 12.3.18
TIME: 4pm

LeD 1.5: Learning experience Interactions

Reflection question: Advantage of having such a structured group discussion with a

focus question and specific instructions.

Answer:

 Engaging the entire learners

 Discussion does not deviate from question
 Focused in core subject

In online environment the learning experience interactions consists of structured and a

focus discussion having specific instructions on what to discuss and how to discuss
followed by a graded reflection quiz.

The quiz will be based on the discussions with in the forum

Advantages of FDP:

 Sharing of experiences between the participants

 Promoting collaboration between the learners

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Maintaining a course journal

LeD 1.6: About a course journal

A continued series of writings made by learner in response to their interactions

with the course content. So it is both a process and a record.

Process--- it forces one to say what he knows in a disciplined manner

Record----Provides an opportunity to examine and recap the content and reflections

Course may include descriptions about various content, activities that one has come
across in this course.

LeD 1.7: Your course Journal

 Select an document editor like word/notepad

 Create outline structure (i.e.,)week/day/modules/topic wise
 Entry in the journal should have a date and time .Can also include pictures, some
embed videos

DATE: 12.3.18 Monday

TIME: 4pm

Basics of ICT

Information technology and communication technology put together forms the basis of
ICT

Information technology -------large data storage plus fast computations

Communication technology-- fast computations plus wired/wireless message

So ICT is basically information processing using electronic communication devices and

software to convert, store, transmit, protect and retrieve information from anywhere,
anytime.

Visited the link mention to further explore the basics of ICT

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WEEK 2
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DATE: 16.03.2018 Friday
TIME: 8.00pm

What is internet?
Reflection spot: Do you know what Internet is? Do you know how it works?
The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of
computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if
they have permission, get information from any other com

How internet works?

Reflection spot: Do you know how information travels from your computer to other
networks?

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 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.

DATE: 17.03.2018 Saturday

TIME: 11.00 am

Some Internet Protocols

Reflection spot: 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.

Led 2.1: Tools for website creation

Various options are available to setup a simple website for teaching and research
faculty, as teaching and research faculty one also need to create content which is to be

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used by others, particularly our students. Some of them could be our curriculum vitae,
or be topics, publications.
Websites can be broadly classified as simple and multifunctional. Simple
websites are something like which have just a few pages and a very simple menu, it
could also have periodic pages which are also known as blogs. On the other hand,
multifunctional websites are pages with much deeper structured content. For example,
list of publications, each publication has got multiple fields like the title, author, journal,
year etc. called as a structure to content. A more complex example would be
department websites. A still complex website is what can be a conference website
where there is not only information passed on but there is also an interaction from the
user. So these are what are called as a multifunctional website, so there are simple
website and multifunctional website. So use Word press for simple websites and Drupal
for multifunctional websites. Both of them are open source and are freely available.

DATE: 19.03.2018 Monday

TIME: 9.00 pm

LeD2.2: Customizing Wordpress

Login to the site created, on the left-hand side go to my sites there is a text
widget which allows you to add something there that and there is a search, there is a
menu - Home, About, Contact. So very simple page has already been set up by default.
For basic customizations, one can find that link either on the right-hand side bottom
here or you could go to my site and wp admin. So this is what is called as an admin
dashboard. This dashboard will be visiting very often in these sessions. This section on
the left is called as a control panel, which is got various action items that one can use to
change the site. Customize the site. So click on customize on the right bottom So if I
want to change the name of this site to something else I use this edit link here and I can
say Faculty Profile Example. One can add a logo, we can select files from our desktop,
drag and drop it here and it will be there.
To change some other colors here again, go to customize on the bottom right to
change the backgrounds some color palettes are already there, we can choose them
and then you save and publish. So that is saved now. One can customize the website

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by clicking on customize in the right bottom here and we can change the title, colors,
fonts, header image, menus, widgets and how our front page must appear.

DATE: 20.03.2018 Tuesday

TIME: 9.00 pm

LeD 2.3: Adding Basic Content in Wordpress.

Wordpress by default provides two simple content types. They are the blog and
the page. Blog is a short form for web-log. Web-log essentially is like your diary on the
web. It could be a commentary; it could be a collection of pictures or any other review
and so on. What distinguishes a blog from a page is that a blog is periodic or
occasionally unpatriotic, but it is a time bound release, so every month you could have a
blog, every day you could have a blog and so on. Usually they are categorized by the
date of release and keywords. Whereas a page is a generic web-page that you all are
familiar with. It could be a static page; there is nothing time bound to it. And it could
appear in the front page or in the menu items and so on. Pages can have other objects
in it such as tables, lists, images, attachments and so on.

How to create a simple blog

To create a blog go to this top left corner and a menu pops up and has all these
actions. Here, add a blog post to add a new blog and add pages to add new pages. A
blog has a title and a body. First we need to choose a title, it could be a draft title, it
need not be the final title and then type in thoughts in the body and attach media as
well. Then choose a blog title, we can preview how this looks. Similarly, we could add
another post. Publish this, and done. So this is how to create a blog, choose a title, type
in your thoughts, preview if required and then publish.

LeD 2.4: Managing content in Wordpress

Control panel allows managing blogs, media, pages comments and so on and
several other site level actions. Go to My Site and go to WP Admin .So this WP Admin
or Wordpress admin is by default leading you to what is known as a dashboard. This is
the administrative user dashboard.

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 This dashboard gives lot of statistics here and lot of links here with which can
take action on website. This interface allows you much more complicated interactions
with the website.
So this is the administrative dashboard. So posts can be managed using control
panel. We can do a similar thing for pages as well. There is edit, quick edit, delete, filter
and search to filter.

DATE: 21.03.2018 Wednesday

TIME: 9.30pm

LeD 2.5: Advanced Configuration in WordPress.

It’s about a few configurations which are not there in the default profile and has
to be done through the dashboard. To add media to the pages, go to Wordpress site,
then go to my site and go to the admin dashboard that is WP admin.This is the admin
dashboard.
To add some pdf files or PowerPoint files to my pages. Go to pages, under
research areas, add a pdf file, and say edit. So this is the research area page and to
this page, we want to add some media.
So just place a cursor somewhere there and say add media. So currently, we are
in media library. So, wordpress stores all the files that we uploaded in a special location
called as media library. So this library currently is empty, but once we have uploaded
we have files at a later time.

DATE: 22.03.2018 Thursday

TIME: 9.00 pm

Creating website using Drupal

Both wordpress and drupal are content management systems. From the videos I
could observe that creating website using wordpress is simple and easy compared to
drupal.Drupal is bit complex but more secured compared to wordpress.Wordpress is
more popular and nearly 27% of population use wordpress platform to create websites.

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WEEK 3
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DATE: 23.03.2018 Friday
TIME: 8.00 pm

LeD 3.1: Visual presentation 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?

1. Colours effects in the slides

2. Font size and types

3. Embedding graphics in the slides

Visual presentation 2

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 colours will you use in the design
of your slides?

 Maximum I would choose two fonts one for main heading and another for body
 There Font sizes. One main heading, another for side heading and last for body
of the text
 One colour for background preferably white, black colour for text and another
colour for bullets to make my slides impressive.

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DATE: 26.03.18 Monday
TIME: 9.00 pm

LeD 3.2: Creative commons licensing

When sharing our resources to other people through the Internet or when we use
readymade contents from the Internet, we always have to think of licenses. That is, the
owner of the content and the way we can use such contents. Creative Commons (CC)
is one way that offers public license that allows you to set the way you want other
people to use your content (open educational resources) and how the already available
contents can be used by others.

DATE: 27.03.18 Tuesday

TIME: 8.00 pm

LeD 3.3: Spoken tutorial Project

How to create spoken tutorials? Prof. Kannan Moudgalya explains how Spoken Tutorial
Project at IIT Bombay utilizes the video creation process.

 It is a project that consists of open educational resources available under the

Creative Commons.
 Contains software training and creation and many more
 License under CC by-SA
 On top two important menu bars. first bar contains topics and second contains
the language
 To create a tutorial then record the tutorial
 There are about 5600 tutorials in all 22 Indian languages
 One can use the resource by Side –by-side method
 We can listen to the command, pause, and then try out. If it does not work we
can rewind listen and tryout again and again

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 LeD 3.4: Creating spoken tutorials

 Focus is on a topic called 'Spoken Tutorial Technology'. CamStudio is open

source software that is available for windows. This tutorial explains how one can
use CamStudio to create a spoken tutorial.
 Next tutorial uses software called recordMyDesktop.RecordMyDesktop is
software available on Linux systems but lately, using recording software called
‘Kazam’, Which can be used to produce videos of slide presentations with a
sound narration.
 Next tutorial talks about dubbing a spoken tutorial using Movie Maker, in the
Windows system, editing it in movie maker and dubbing it on Linux. There is
excellent software called OpenShot, for editing on linux. This tutorial doesn't have
a voice, but it explains if we go through this the main page of our website .Here
under the creation tab there is a link called 'Creation Process. ‘It has information
on creating spoken tutorials.
 The processes involved in creating a spoken tutorial are to create checklist first,
satisfy the requirements in a checklist and then there is a learning activity and
then outline for the whole series of spoken tutorials and then we write the script.
So that script undergoes admin check, novice and domain expert check and then
we go for video recording.
 Timed script is useful if we want to dub the spoken part from one language to
another How much what to cover in each tutorial? It is about ten minutes long.
So we need to decide how much to cover in each tutorial.
 Spoken tutorials are based on demonstration, for example, 75% of every tutorial
is devoted to demonstrations that learner has to reproduce, since the learners
learn on their own that is through self-learning

Other Software Tools

There are many software packages to create our own open educational
resources.
 The softwares marked with GPL (GNU General Public License) allowing users to
freely distribute and modify the original program.

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  Screencast-o-matic,Techsmith (for Windows and OSX),Techsmith Camstatia (for
Windows),Quicktime (for OSX) are popularly used non-GPL softwares

DATE: 28.03.2018 Wednesday

TIME: 7.00 pm

Multimedia Principles
The three multimedia principles discussed are
 Redundancy principle which says people learn deeply from graphics and
narration than from graphics, narration and on –screen text.
 Coherence principle which says people learn deeply from a multimedia message
when extraneous material are excluded
 Spatial contiguity principle is which says people learn deeply from a multimedia
message when corresponding words and pictures are placed near than far away
from the page.

Date: 30.03.2018 Friday

TIME: 7.00 pm

LeD 3.5: Peer review process in IIT BombayX

The need and significance of Peer Review is discussed, since peer review is a
common practice for building quality resources and is extensively used in scientific
publications.

One advantage of the process of peer review for both the reviewer and the reviewee is
that the reviewer gets a very clear idea about the concept

This LeD explains the process of peer review in an online course offered in a learning
platform like IITBombayX Every peer review process goes through four phases.

 Submission phase: Submitting Answers to the question shown by the course

facilitator
 Allocation phase: The learning platform will randomize these submissions and
then assign it to these learners, after submission phase is over

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  Review phase Learner will be allotted with a submission of another to learner in
his peer group.review.Initially a sample training will be provided for us so as how
to review the submission based on a given criteria which has been set by the
course facilitator in the platform, to help you in the learning the facilitator will also
provide an example submission in the platform. Then the actual review will be
resuming.
 Consolidation phase. In this, the system will retrieve all the reviewed submissions
and show it back to the corresponding learner.

LeD 3.6: Example of Peer review in IITBombayx

More in depth insight about the four phases on peer view carried out in
IITBombayX platform is discussed with an example.

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