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(Submitted as part of coursework in FDP101x)

This course journal is a record of my experience with the Blended MOOC FDP101x and

reflections based on it

Assistant Professor

Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere,Tal-Mangaon,Dist-Raigad,Maharashtra India.

Email-vjkadam@dbatu.ac.in www.vjkadam.wordpress.com

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LED 1.1

Q Various interactions between three components teacher, content and learner A Teachers prepare ppts, videos and interact with contents.

Students interact with teacher by asking questions and learning Students interact with content by solving quizzes and problems.

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LED 1.2 Q What is the equivalent of such a video in a regular teaching-learning interaction within your

classroom?

A Physical Teaching in front of the learners Q What additional features does the video provide you apart from the regular information

transmission of the content?

A Pause option Resume option Restart option Seek Forward -backward Dialogue Reading

LED 1.3 Q What advantage do you see in answering these questions immediately after watching LeDs? A Better Understanding

Answer giving pressure Enough time to think Enough time to give Answer Very useful to slow learners

LED 1.4

Q The function of assimilation quizzes? A Revision of the key concepts

Grading our understanding

LED 1.6

Q One advantage of course journals:- A Recording activities and answers

Objectives and goals:-

On Web presence of faculty

Create free websites (Wordpress.com and drupal)

1. Self-Exploration Resources

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A: Basic information provided by video from Geoffrey Challen (Assistant

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo) where

he tries to explain what the Internet is.

B. Working of Internet- video from Internet Foundation in Sweden

C. What is web browser? Video by google.

D. Journal papers

1. Leah M. Herner-Patnode, & Hea-Jin Lee. (2009). A Capstone Experience for Preservice

Teachers: Building a Web-Based Portfolio. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 12(2),

101-110. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/jeductechsoci.12.2.101

2. Gathercoal, P., Love, D., Bryde, B., & McKean, G. (2002). On implementing Web-based

electronic portfolios. Educause Quarterly, 25(2), 29-37.

3. Milman, N. B. (2005). Web-based digital teaching portfolios: Fostering reflection

and technology competence inpreservice teacher education students. Journal of

Technology and Teacher Education, 13(3), 373.

2. Mentor’s web presence:

URL of some of the mentor’s web profile

They will have the tag "Community TA".

Sl No Mentor Web Profile

1 A.M.Abirami https://abiramitceit.wordpress.com/

2 Adil Bilakhia https://adilbilautomation.wordpress.com/fdp/

3. Tools for web creation:

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WordPress is a free and open-source content management system

(CMS).

Best for Simple website

Drupal is best for Multifunction website

How to create Simple website

4.BasicCustomization in Wordpress

In this section I learned to customise the appearance of Wordpress site that we have created using some basic configuration.

Concept of Admin Dashboard

A widget is a small application that runs within your website.

change the title, colours, fonts, header image, menus, widgets and how front page must appear.

5.Adding Content in Wordpress

In this section I learned

Enable comments

Main content types

Blogs (Create first post)

Pages (Create first Page)

6. Managing Content in Wordpress

This session gives knowledge related to management of various contents e.g. blogs,

pages and comments.

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7.Advanced Customization in Wordpress

In this session we learned how to add, delete videos and images , Menus etc.

7. Learning Experience Interaction-2

Advantages of “Web Presence" –

students can get contents anytime 24 hours –

students can access contains from their mobile devices –

Easily accessible to modify and edit previous contents –

Fast delivery of academic notifications –

it will save papers. –

no need to carry heavy books

Limitations of “Web Presence" –

face to face interaction missing - Battery backup and UPS required

internet connectivity required

it supports only multiple options types questions

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8. Learning Extension Resources

Recommended Videos (Watched)

Drupal is open source Content management framework written in PHP.

Uploaded Course Journal for week 2

Objectives and Goals:-

Study of LMS i.e. Learning Management Systems. e.g.

www.iitbombayx.in

Outcome:-

In this Week, We explored features of demo Moodle course.

http://school.demo.moodle.net

Main Concept:-

Moodle.net website provides free courses and content shared by Moodle users.

Learning Experience Interaction 3

Forum netiquette

Q1: Can you identify the pedagogic feature that has been used in the animation video on Forum

Etiquettes?

1. Reflection Sports

2. LeD

3. LbD

4. Quiz

Q2: What is one new thing that you learnt about discussion forum etiquettes?

1. Avoid all capital letters and all small letters.

2. Properly use smiles.

3. Avoid copyright violation.

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Bhandarkar Mechanical Engineering,IIT Bombay explained following moodle activities with

help of various videos.

Editing Sections in a Course

Adding Resources in Moodle

Creating Assignments in Moodle

Discussion Forums in Moodle

Creating Quizzes in MOODLE

Flipped Classroom Activity

Video by Prof. Sameer Sahasrabudhe (Dept of CSE, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076 INDIA)

His wordpress website is very nice. https://ssameers.wordpress.com/

Visual Presentation: - The visual aspects of that to make presentation more engaging and

interesting. This is explained by Prof. Sameer Sahasrabudhe. He explained Planning techniques

like brainstorming, discussions, analysing and organizing. He also explained the concept of

Execution (outline, Graphics and bulleted details) and Impress (typo, visual animation effects,

color combinations etc.)

LED 3.6

Advantages of peer review for reviewer and reviewee?

Reviewee-Getting Feedback

Reviewer-Getting New knowledge

Uploaded Course Journal for week 3

Spoken Tutorial: Creating a Video Open Education Resource

Goal:-creating Video recourses

Software:-Screen Casting

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Speaker:- Prof Kahhan Moudgalya (IIT Bombay)

We learned OER

Khan Academy, NPTEL, OCW, MOOCs,edX

http://spoken-tutorial.org (IIT spoken tutorial Project)

The initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity

National Mission on Education through (ICT),

By the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.

22 languages

We Solved LBD 4.1, LBD 4.2

SCREEN RECORDING USING CAMSTUDIO

Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen

and record a video file

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU / linux

OpenShot is a free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Creation Process

Resource Creation in various local languages

Please see my video to show how to create simple wordpress blog in Marathi.

Link:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7fQe0ZU_A8&feature=youtu.be

Guidelines followed:-

1. Guidelines of screen cast software

2. Proper audio video setting

3. Proper recording software

Problem faced:-

1. Script preparation

2. Sound level

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Multimedia Principles

Speaker:-Matt Gerberick.

Redundancy, Coherence and spatial contiguity principles

https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivetheorymmlearning/home

Interview with Prof .Richard E Mayer

Video 1:- “How might we best design video to achieve its learning objectives in a higher

education settings”

Video 2:- “what do teachers or lectures need to know in order to be able to use video

and/or multimedia effectively”

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Video 3:- “How should we produce video in order to increase the odds of it achieving its

learning objectives for those who is it”

Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2011). E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven

Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning (3rd ed.). San

Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.

Mentor-Mentee Discussions

Interaction between mentors and mentees

We used discussion forum to interact, raise queries, get clarification

Mentor-Mentee Interactions through A-VIEW

Our Mentor Prof. Prerna Sharma

A-View Download link http://www.nmeict.iitb.ac.in/nmeict/empteachers/downloads.php

Learning Experience Interaction 5

Technologies that will be an easy technology to integrate into my classroom immediately

are

1. word press as content management System (I already started it)

2. Google doc as it is very easy to share and edit

3. Screen casting (Creating our own video lectures)

Challenges I expect while integrating these technologies into my classroom are

1. It requires extra time to create new recourses

2. Robust Internet Facility