 Good morning and a warm welcome to the session today. So yesterday you saw the reason the rationale for this FDP and Prasapartak had actually given three critical points. One is about why we are conducting this FDP and why we need collaborations and what we expect remote centers to be in future. So the idea of remote center was explained by Prasapartak. He then provided you some instances some important what do you say considerations that you should make while you are doing a blended instruction or an online instruction typically and very specifically to with regards to the file names that you use when submissions of assignments or uploading of resources etc. The third and most important thing that Prasapartak told you is about how technology should be leveraged. Now we have lot of technologies that are in play while we are doing a faculty development program like this. So for example the A-View, the IIT Bombay X, you have your own so all of you create WordPress web pages and other things. So one important message that Prasapartak conveyed yesterday was that it is not the exact technology that is important but the way you use technology. Now all of us are learners in technology and you cannot have a complete understanding of technology unless and until you practice. Now when you practice you will face issues when you try to solve issues then only we will learn more about that technology. And so there were several people who had doubts regarding discussion forums, how to navigate in discussion forums and how to do different activities. So yesterday we had conducted at the end of the day we had conducted a group activity session. So this entire second half was devoted to a group activity session where they were given a scenario, a scenario of a large project like NPTEL approaching local institutions and asking them to use NPTEL resources in a more effective disseminate NPTEL resources in a more effective manner within the college and we had set up an activity for that. Now today we will start with the feedback of the activity. So what I will do right now is I will just quickly go to the yesterday's activity slide. So you had to do the following activity yesterday. As an individual you had to create one more page in your WordPress webpage. You had to publish LBDs and LXTs for the content discussed as blogs. So the content was basically NPTEL content. So there are NPTEL video resources available. You have to create learning by doing activities and learning extension resources for those particular what you say NPTEL resources. Now you had to link these blog posts into back into the menu NPTEL. Now this should be available in your individual WordPress webpage. Now as an RC what you had to do as an RC you had to create a webpage. It should have had three important pages. You can have so many pages but three important tabs were highlighted. One was the about RC page or a home page where description of the RC, important activities done by the RC etc. are mentioned. Then a link for participants. So all the participants who are available in that RC their web pages should be linked. So the participant name and we had asked you to write the domain of these participants. So participant name and the domain so that others would know which domain this participant is and they could do they could interact with these participants more meaningfully. And finally a plan of action. Now the plan of action is the steps to be done at the RC to disseminate the entire information that has been collected by you within this WordPress webpage. So let us look at what happened after that. So I gave you restructuring. So I had given you a Word document which you had to where you had to put your WordPress webpage link. So as I understand from my admin team around 98 remote centers had participated in yesterday's AVU interaction. And let us have a look at what happened. So this is the page that was shared with all of you. So these are list of RC web pages. Now the instruction was please copy paste the URL of RC's WordPress webpage below. So now let us look at the total number of WordPress web pages that we have received. So we have RC1225, 1016, GRI, VIT Pune, RCAP, RC1426, RC1131, RC1460, QSAT DCA, 1314. So let us have a look at total number of RC's. So some people have actually given the description the full details of the RC onto the right which is really good. So a total of 48 RC's had submitted their RC web pages. Now if you actually look at this. Now there are certain yellow ones over here and you could see that the course team have actually looked into a few of them and have given feedback. So the three yellow highlighted ones so not this one the three yellow high the two yellow highlighted over here they were individual WordPress web pages and not RC web pages. One has said that it is a great experience and it is really very innovative and the participant has shared her WordPress webpage but unfortunately the RC's webpage was not shared. So the feedback that we had given to that participant was we appreciate your feedback though this is a very good individual website unfortunately this is not a substitute for remote centers website which has a list of all participants and plan of action for integrating NPTEL videos. Now so which means that there was some issue in the transmission of information from our end to you yesterday afternoon. So we take it as that many of you had doubts many of you had did not really understand what was intended out of this particular activity. Now if you actually look at so I would just also comment about that plan of action. Now many people have either not given their plan of action or have misinterpreted it at some level. Now what was intended? So in plan of action what was intended was how will you disseminate? So for example so the instruction over there was steps to be done at RC to disseminate. So what you had to do as a group was to discuss various possible ways in which you as a group you as an institution that is a group of teachers will do dissemination of whatever you have created. Now all of you have created web pages. Now is creation of web pages alone sufficient for your students to actually get benefit out of it? No. You should have a plan of action. So just like how you do a teaching learning within your classroom you should have a plan of action as an institute to disseminate this information to the students. So how will the students come to know that there is a website that you have created for them? How will they know what is an LBD? How will they know what they have to do after LXT? So I will show you one so I will show you one exemplar that was created by Walchand Institute Solapur. So this is their WordPress website. So they have a home where they have talked about the institution. Then they have talked about some of the innovative activities that they have done in their about page and then they have created a list of their participants and their domain. Now when a user comes and sees this they know what exactly to look for. So home they know about that it is about Walchand, about RC, some of the innovative activities that have done at the RC, the list of participants. So now when they look at the list of participants each of their domain. So the first person is from mechanical engineering, second is from database, third is from computer science and engineering. So they have been very detailed. They have given a detailed list of participants and in a nice stable format. But what is more important is they have actually given the plan of action of how they are going to disseminate this information within the institute. So let us look at the plan of action that they have come up with. So first identification of NPTEL video for the topic, publish LBDs and LXTs on website. So that is the WordPress or on learning management system. They have a learning management system called Moodle. We will be discussing about LMSS in the next week of this FDP. Submission of LBD and LXT activities. This is to be done by the student. They will then evaluate the submissions and feedback to the students based on the evaluation and there would be an assignment based on the higher order thinking level. Now anybody who sees this as an institute, they know what they have to do within their institute. So if you are a teacher in Walchand, they know what they have to do when they have to disseminate NPTEL videos to the students. First they have to identify the video, then they have to create the LBDs and LXTs for that video. Then this has to be given to the students where they will submit the LBD and LXT activities. This is then evaluated by the teacher and a feedback is given to the students based on the evaluation and finally there will be a composite assignment based on the higher order thinking levels for that particular topic. So people who want to see the web page, you can actually go and look into RC1131.wordpress.com. You can actually look at their web page from this particular list that was given. They are in the number, RC1131, 7, number 7. They are at number 7 and they have, so this is one example. Now this is one exemplar that I have shown you. All each institute can have different plans of action. Need not be that it is done completely at top level from top to bottom. You may form groups within your institute. You may form smaller, let us say 2, 3 pairs and you start disseminating it within your classroom. You can create separate sessions where you disseminate it in the classroom. So there are various ways in which this could be done. But let me now track back a little and tell you why we have done this activity. Now first, so first and foremost what we wanted the main aim was that all of you, so within an RC you have all the participants coming and sitting together. Now this is the only time that you can get the benefit of peer interaction and this peer interaction will be benefited because you get to clear doubts that you have about the content. You get to understand what all has to be done about the activity. So lot of benefits are there for the peer interaction within an RC. But more importantly there was another rationale why we created this activity. Let us look at the activity in detail. So first we had asked an individual to create a page within their WordPress. All of you would have created a WordPress webpage by now and we had asked you to create another page or another menu bar, menu item within your WordPress webpage. Now this is actually application of the knowledge that you have learnt in the past two weeks. Now over here what you are getting the benefit is you have a lot of peers along with you when you are actually doing this activity. So suppose you have any doubt you can actually talk to your peer and get help or clarification from them and it is not limited to the peer within your remote center. You could actually interact with others who are present in other remote centers and get their feedback. So I got a message from one of the course coordinator where the course coordinator was telling me that they had actually gone and seen the WordPress web pages created by others in different RCs and had used that as an example for creating their own individual web page where they had to create the menu item NPTEL. Now this is exactly what we wanted. One is that you apply what you learned. Second you do peer interaction in case you while you are applying this particular learning and how will you transfer that to your students? See your students also require application of the knowledge that they learnt within a classroom setting where there are peers to help them and what you should do is provide a feedback to them at the end of the activity and you see I am giving you as an instructor I am actually giving you a feedback towards after you have done the first set of activity. Now let us look at the second aspect of it. The second was you had to publish learning by doing and learning extension resources for the content discussion. Now LBDs and LXTs were taught to you in the first week of this particular FDP. Now LBD means you create it is slightly more than a multiple choice question or an open-ended question. Learning by doing means the student will get time for practicing whatever they learnt from the videos or the learning dialogues. Along with practice what is more important is feedback. So the moment you create an LBD you should provide what kind of feedback are you going to give the student it should be a constructive feedback. It should be telling them how to move ahead from where they were to what they had to do. Now I will just so over here I at the start of the session I told you all of you had done different plans of action. Now I showed you what the plan of action meant and I showed you an example of how you can actually translate it. So this is exactly what the intent from doing this. So first is that whatever you learnt in the prior two weeks use the interaction session to apply it along with your peers that is the primary aim of the A-view session. You should apply along with peers so that you get feedback from the peers and the purpose of the instructor is at the end of the activity provide you a more generic feedback so that you can improve it the next time. Now as an RC what you had to do was ensure that you bring all these together again as an RC also you did the same activity. So you created a WordPress web page, you created three different items but what was more important was there was something more. So there was an unsupervised question where you had to create a plan of action and all we had asked you was steps to be done at an RC to disseminate whatever you have created. Now this is more at a create level in revised Bloom's taxonomy. So you had to think what all steps I will take you had to think how will I so I now that I have created a web page how should I now go ahead and disseminate it and for this you had to discuss again with your peers like what all could be the pros and cons now what would work suppose I do this how much it will so you had to evaluate each of your plans and finally come up with a consolidated plan. So you do analysis you do evaluation and finally you do a creation or synthesis activity and this is exactly what you should be doing in your own classrooms and we have the power of technology to enable or help you out in this activity. So I hope all of you would now be thinking about what did you do yesterday what was intended where am I lacking or where did I go wrong what all should have improved where all should I have given my own individual what do you say higher order thinking abilities to execute it more effectively. So there is an interesting question that is coming from RC1411. So the RC is asking in chat to do analysis or discussion all the fellow participants need to be conversant with it is it not so yes so the answer is both a yes and a no yes because yes all the participants should understand what was intended out of the activity but what is more important is within the classroom no because even if they do not know they should use that opportunity to discuss about it in more detail. Now all of you are participants from all of your teachers from the same remote center most of you so people who are from the same college they would know each other and there are new participants also. So this is exactly like your classroom so there are people there are groups who know each other really well there are some others who do who are not so it is like a first day of classroom where let us say lot of students come in some of them would be familiar with each other some of them would be would be seeing some others for the first time but essentially all of them bring in some knowledge so let us say all of the engineering students all of them with bring them bring with them some prior knowledge with the classroom with which they can discuss. Now as teachers each of us our idea or our ability should be to make sure that when all these people come together we make best use of that opportunity to make them discuss make them do activities together so that the collaborative collaboration among the among the learners would be higher. Now all that you need for to do that was let us say you do an activity so this activity is something that everyone knows creating a menu item in wordpress web page. So this is like you give them some new question or new activity based on their prior knowledge so think of the first day in a classroom all of you would have introduced yourself and after that teacher gives the first activity so the first activity would ideally be connected to rather than start of the lesson so they would actually look at what are the prerequisites for the lesson and see whether they have the prerequisites. So to ensure the prerequisites let us say we give an activity within the classroom and we are utilizing that activity to ensure that people discuss and people are at the same level by the end of the activity and this is what we have done in our activity yesterday and there is no problem so even if you are not able to complete the activity that was what you say that is not a problem for the instructor for the instructor what is important is that have you learnt how to do this activity more effectively. So there are no minus points for not completing or not submitting your wordpress web page there are no minus points for not coming up with a good plan of action there are no minus points for having a very different wordpress web page the idea is having done that now when the instructor gives feedback today are you able to understand or are you able to identify places where you need improvement are you able to identify what you should do now to better or effectively do the same activity and this is all the purpose of this aviu session is. So we have around 100, 120 remote centers associated with us in this particular FDP and for each aviu session so we have a weekend aviu session in this particular FDP and in the next subsequent FDP you will have a two weekend session so for each weekend session the idea is whether you are able to apply I mean go beyond basic application to more analysis evaluation and synthesis activities within the remote center along with your group and if there are issues we want each of you to discuss with each other come up with queries come up with questions for the instructor with which can actually help you out so that instructor can help you out the entire so instructor can help all the remote centers all the participants in all the remote centers more effectively so what I will do is there are so there are lot of questions which said that activity was confusing how to access wordpress for various activities so there are a mixed set of messages that are coming in and 1408 has asked plan of activities not clear and please discuss it again so rather than me discussing this I will what I will do is I will go to a floor transfer and I will give it to valchans solapur so RCE 1131 yeah valchand institute of solapur okay so what I give we have valchand institute of solapur over here and what I will ask them to explain is explain the plan of action to the entire group so rather than instructor saying what it was all about I want the participants to say what the plan of action is all about please go ahead RC 1131 the floor is yours you are not audible RC 1131 can you switch on the mic you are not audible yes go ahead we lost your audio RC 1131 unable to hear you can you check your audio once again so participants please wait why we are spending so much time in discussing this is because in the next session what you are going to do is one more level of application so we are going to give you a collaborative activity where each remote center will be in an ABO session with 10 to 11 other remote centers so we have grouped you into we have grouped you into 11 different separate groups and we will be transferring the control of ABO to the remote center so there won't be any IIT Bombay teacher who is present in that activity and it will be discussions between one center with other centers and there will be some structure for that activity that we will be explaining shortly but before that we will see whether RC 113 can has sorted out the issue so in the meanwhile I would request all RCs to actually look at the chat window there are a lot of questions that are coming up in the chat window so there are okay RC 1131 is asking for five minutes yes so what I would want each of you to do is there are some questions that are put up regarding creation of WordPress webpage addition of menu items there were clarity in the activity so there are a lot of questions that are coming in the chat window which I think many RCs have the expertise in answering so what I would request the RCs to do now is just have a look at the chat messages that are coming in and reply to them to those questions in the chat window itself so while replying please make sure that you address the RC who has asked the question RC 1359 please provide the link to the google docs so that they will be able to access the RC 1408 you have conducted in-house sessions that is really good yes please put that in the innovations that you have done not in plan of action plan of action is more about what you will do to disseminate the web pages that you have created these chat messages are also showing some of the innovative activities that RCs are doing at their end so we know that a lot of RCs are doing lot of good work so each of the RCs doing something very new and innovative for their own participants and this this is actually very important that others also come to know what you are doing within your remote center to make these kind of a view sessions more effective so like I told last year we had mentors from the RCs explaining how to do a view much more easily within their own remote centers so what you should do when you log into a view what are the different options how to raise questions etc so there is a question from RC 1411 shall we add discussion forums in wordpress like you do in your hybrid learning platform yes you please feel free so what you have to do is enable comments in the wordpress how to share wordpress web page with other RCs please refer the chat many RCs are responding with the google doc link whether peer interaction with participants need to be done within through the discussion forum it is good that if you do it within the discussion forum but if you have RCs participants in the same RC you can do it physically so there are reports like we have used social media like facebook and whatsapp yes you could use it make sure that others also you share so give a hashtag so that everybody can actually access that particular facebook post so why don't you use the hashtag hash fdp101x it is a unique hashtag and all the participants who are using facebook can now look into the messages related to fdp101x using this hashtag hash fdp101x there are also questions regarding creative commons license I will take up the issue of licensing etc at a later stage but if there are RCs who understand creative commons licensing please respond to RC1161 so there are some good questions that are coming up in RC1367 I mean different in the chat window and lot of other RCs are actually responding to that and I am really happy that RCs are now utilizing the affordance of the chat in a view to discuss their doubts and queries more frequently and one message for all RCs when you use technology something that I learnt just now is you need the instructor to first give a top down in what do you say address like this was not really done really well why don't you go ahead and use the technology so maybe one takeaway that I would suggest is why don't you do the first instance of usage of technology within the classroom where you encourage people to so let's say you have a classroom and you want to make students discuss in wordpress or in other mediums why don't you do it inside the classroom and see what the difference is so the question quality is also increasing so somebody had asked about how to post questions in the blog and now RC1278 is asking one level on top of it but can we mention directly mentioned questions in blog with multiple choice questions RC1364 want to know how to take create LBD so that they can take feedback from the learners and in fact a very good question from RC1140 so the question is is it not if everyone follow the same procedure then we will end up with killing creativity it is correct so the question is if I give standard instructions for all wouldn't everyone do it similarly and we wouldn't have any diverse answers or diverse solutions coming from the participants so the answer is yes and no yes because as if it is like a it's like we are not doing an assembly line process now each one of you would do something very differently and as an instructor you have to be very careful as to how much you are going to give details and how much you are going to leave it open ended now many people feel that so students many teachers so this is a regular complaint that I receive from teachers when they talk about their students today students require us to spoon feed them I mean they want all the answers they want all these things in detail given to them so there is there is a truth in having some structure and there is also the need for it to be sufficiently open ended specifically in higher education because in the higher education sector that is the only place where students are now being forced to think out of the box or they get the opportunity to be more creative with their learning now it should have been done right from their schooling where they should have had more of such collaborative activities more of these project activities more of these application activities but unfortunately many schools or many systems are not unable to do it and we are trying as teachers we are trying to ensure that you the teachers get empowered so as Prasafattak said we are not limiting to engineering we our wish is not to limit it at engineering education alone we want more teachers to benefit from these kind of activities and hence it is important that as teachers you also get a flavor of what it is to have open ended activities now there was some sufficient structure the structure was that each of you had to create wordpress webpage both individually and as an rc and you had to share the rc webpage in the google docs now this is the structure that we gave and we had left how you do this creation of webpage and and we had given only very top level instruction on what the webpage should contain the actual activity was to be done by the rc and the individual so we had given sufficient room for creativity within the answers but some amount of structure because without structure just giving leaving an activity to be open ended would create in a chaos particularly at scale so when you have a close to 3000 participants all of them doing open ended activities would create in lot of chaotic environment so you will have wordpress activity done here there somebody has done like this so it would be really hard to make sense of what the activity was and hence we had asked you to do it with some structure so rc 1131 are you ready audio we are able to see your video okay shastra university is asking rc 1140 is asking lot of good questions i will come back to you shastra university same questions there are some valid questions that you have asked please give some time for me to come back to you i will definitely answer the questions i have noted the questions okay rc 1131 are you able to come up with the audio have you checked the mic no no waltz in solapur i am unable to hear your voice at all please check your audio connections once so alternately what i would suggest you is can you create a two two slides on what you did what you understood from the activity and what you how you did the activity two slides with the essential information you can put that in your wordpress webpage and once you are done share that wordpress webpage with us that slide with us so that we will display it to the entire set of participants okay so i am unable to hear you so i will stop the interaction with you right now so there were two questions from rc 1140 regarding okay the question was if the graded activities are the same how to ensure that participants or students do not copy now if the graded activities are the same yes there is a threat that students can copy so for in fdp 101 there is going to be a summative assessment activity where we are going to give random questions to students so we are building a question bank and the technology of it bomb eggs actually helps us in giving random questions to the students so each student will see a different question and we are creating a big repository of questions from where you could get so out of the hundred questions any student can get any 10 out of them so that is one way in which through which you should leverage the use of technology so technology provides you a facility of randomizing questions and you should actually try to use it now we are not using that in knowledge quiz and assimilation quizzes because at that point it is only application of the knowledge that is more important so each week you have applied some you have learned something whether you are able to apply it that is more important and many a times the resource creation activity which is the higher order activity that we are going to create from Monday onwards that will actually tell us whether the faculty is able to actually apply whatever they have learned from the weeks before so activities like this each of you were asked to create web pages each of you were asked to create a menu item within the web page now those are instances where we are actually trying to judge whether you are able to do the prescribed activity correctly or not let me see whether there are some more questions so one more important thing is the next session that we are going to have we are going to have each of you log into an avu classroom so here we will try to see whether you are able to make sense of it are you are you able to do the interactions individually within the remote centers are you able to do lot of these collaborative activities without the supervision of the instructor that means us IIT Bombay are being present we are just leaving you there and we are trying to see whether you are able to do the interactions among yourself in a smaller group and see how much effective those are in the execution of this FDP so last time we had done a similar exercise where we had each mentor interact with 50 or 40 to 50 mentees together and these sessions were found to be very productive now here we are trying to do the same but with between remote centers I am looking into the questions so there are people who are actually talking about various features of WordPress and how you can effectively use it so some RC 1 to 2 5 is asking what is the advantage of WordPress over other free web creation web creation site so the major advantage is so I think RC 1 4 2 6 has responded that WordPress also allows for several widgets the just to add on to that answer most important reason why you should be using WordPress is because it is free and open source the open source feature of WordPress is why you should be using WordPress which means that you can actually make changes in the download the WordPress code make changes in the code and actually customize WordPress for your own need and they allow it to allow you as to do that that is one reason so many of the softwares that we are primarily using within this particular FDP they are free and open source like cam studio WordPress see IIT Bombay X and the IIT Bombay site which has both Drupal and OpenEDX then there is Moodle which is going to come next all these are open source softwares which means that there is also control to the user on how it looks okay so let me just do few interactions with RCs at this point so I hope so I will have RC 1 1 3 1 upload their slides in some time and I will describe that in a few moments so at this point I will take five questions from RC so people who have questions kindly raise your do a hand raise right now we will do a first come first serve answer the questions on a first come first serve basis and then we will give you instructions on what you have to do in the next session okay so I have RC 1402 Varthaman College of Engineering hello hello can you hear me sir yes can we add animations and simulations directly in WordPress okay so the question is can we add animations or simulations so you can add as long as it is present in another website you can add them if you are trying to upload it in WordPress dot com domain there are some restrictions to the size you can have only up to a 3 GB size as of now so if your simulations and animations are above that size limit you will not be able to upload them okay then size is the restriction yes oh thank you yeah yeah so next is RC 1063 dy party college of engineering and technology film three hello hello ma'am go ahead good morning a good morning myself Mrs. Mayura Kulkeny from MIT Academy of Engineering my question is in WordPress we are giving the questions which are the multiple choice questions right yes so if we have to give the descriptive questions or short answers so and when the students are giving the answers to these short answers how to evaluation because everyone giving the short answers in a different way the lengthy answers so how to evaluate the lengthy questions or short answer questions okay so the question that has been asked by Mayura ma'am from Mayuri ma'am from RC 1063 I think I had seen the same question from several other participants so I will do a general response to it the question was how to give questions and answers which are in descriptive in nature so multiple choice questions can be enabled through multiple ways like you could embed a google form or you could actually ask the question with the options in text format within the wordpress and but there are in engineering higher ed specifically you need open-ended answers short answers etc how to do those using WordPress now the answer to this is WordPress is a content management system it is not a learning management system and what you are trying to do are the learning activities now the learning activities to be present in a content management system you need to check whether there are plugins available for these kind of activities now this would convert a content management system to be a learning management system now in the upcoming week we are going to discuss learning management systems in detail but for each technology see the top level thing is that each technology has a purpose and the purpose of a technology like WordPress is to gather content and disseminate it more effectively or that is why it is called a content management system so the purpose of content management system is to you should understand what this technology is useful for and use it for that purpose primarily this is where its effectiveness increases now aviu is a virtual classroom software now within this virtual classroom you could do document sharing you could share animations you could do a chat you could ask queries hand raised etc but you cannot do a large-scale evaluation using aviu because this software is not meant for that you cannot have individual participant come in and write answers and teacher sit here and give marks directly through aviu there are there is no back end where they store marks they display the grades to the students etc so each technology has a primary purpose for which it has been built and when you look at these technologies you should actually identify what the primary purpose is and use it for the primary purpose alone so i hope i have made myself clear ma'am it's unthankly sir but again the thing is that when the students are starting or writing the short answers so i think according to me we can judge their thinking capabilities because in terms of multiple choice questions are what happens the students can easily see the others answers and they can easily attend the quiz or they can easily give the answers but in case of short answer what happened everyone will write in their own words and that way they can start thinking about that particular content that is what i think in this complete NPTEL video special yeah you are correct and you should be using a learning management system for doing this we are talking we are going to talk about Moodle in the fourth week so you could actually explore Moodle a lot more to create your short answer questions okay okay thank you so thank you very much okay so let me move to RC 1140 Shastra University hi mr. JK yeah hi we have a question your name sir i'm yeah i'm dr. Nataraja Pillai from Shastra University okay go ahead we have we have some question like is this ICT should be limited to some extent for example assume that if you have a 3000 students attending a same course all over India you see there is a difference between playing in the ground and a video game right yes so attending a teacher a teacher's class the teacher derive the particular equation we the teacher will tell you what step we need to follow and how you need to write right and how you need to solve some critical equations and all those things the teacher derive step by step there if you say in ICT at the end when we share some power point or PP I mean PDF even some cases where we have some audio video that is really not enough in my opinion and finally what happens is like you know we don't simply follow the content but also the professor by that way we missed that in ICT is it not okay so the question that has been raised by professor Natarajan from RC 1140 is should there be a limit to usage of ICT I mean he has given an analogy of playing a game actually on ground versus playing a game in a video game or in computer or things like that now there are certain things that the physical presence of a peer or an instructor in the classroom brings in in the learning process which the technology is unable to mimic so is it that we should limit the usage of ICT or is it that we should use ICT for a specific purpose alone now to answer this question let me just ask professor Natarajan so which game do you play sir do you play cricket or something like that football yeah kabaddi replay kabaddi okay so my question is have you seen the pro kabaddi league do you watch the pro kabaddi league yes yes okay so my question is after watching the pro kabaddi let's say a match in pro kabaddi league what all do you get about a team's performance how should let's say a radar strategy yeah strategy okay new techniques or something like that okay so you see new techniques and you see a lot of new things from the video so you are seeing a video right yes okay so the idea is that ICT has a purpose okay every technology has a purpose for which it is built now specifically learning technologies the purpose is to provide an instance or provide some different examples of various ways in which something could be done so for example the video the video as an ICT video or video game as an ICT is basically about how you can do a strategy in a very safe environment where you wouldn't be what you say physically injured while doing this you wouldn't be you wouldn't have to face injuries you wouldn't have to get what do you say harsh feedback from your friends or peers so there are certain things that so it is exactly like a lab environment okay so everybody knows what a lab environment is it is safe it is controlled it is very it is very much to the point there is a point why we do something in a lab now when we move from the safe environment to a real environment what you would need are these additional elements where that is where the pedagogy of the teacher and the collaboration from the peer is important now this is something that everyone should know the first week we talked about learning dialogues we talked about learning by doing activities we talked about learning experience interactions we talked about learning extensions now learning by doing is actually how to make video more useful for the learner now in a learning dialogue you watch a video then at some point a reflection spot question comes so this question will make the student thing now this is not is this is not done in a video this is done outside and the student uses another technology let's say a word editor to actually write the answer in their course journal then we had a learning experience interaction activity where this course journal was shared with others and they gave feedback on certain aspects about the course journal and you also had learning by doing activities immediately following the learning dialogue so whenever they learned something they did the practice then and there itself using some other activity here we use the multiple choice question ability of it bomb eggs to actually facilitate this particular practice so to answer the question should we limit the use of ict you already the ict by itself comes with certain limitations but what you should do is make sure that you maximize the usage within that limitation use it more effectively and this particular fdp series the fdp one is about introducing you to the technology and fdp two is about the pedagogies that you can use with these technology and even within fdp one we are trying to show you various pedagogies that you can use with various technologies now you saw how chat could be used within a view to discuss among participants you saw how wordpress pages could be used more effectively so the answer is so the short answer is should we limit the use of ict for me we should not limit the use of ict within a classroom but rather as a teacher we should know what the limitations of the ict are and use it accordingly hope I have made myself clear yeah is it is it not like for ict you say that for example thousand students attend the same course for example okay so here you see you replace you know you have only one teacher instead of 15 teacher okay I am really worried about the future generation where in our generation we have seen both classroom and the video classes and all those things okay what happened if there is after two generation the students believe only the ict and only the visual presentation at all it becomes a really big problem you know okay so this question is the fear of what do you say will teachers be completely replaced and will the future be that only ict comes now I think the fear is misplaced if you actually look at this particular fdp itself why are we doing it in a blended fashion so we are doing it in a blended fashion because we require that human presence at each place so I mean individually you cannot reach to 3000 people at the same time but what it would require is actually 3000 course coordinators 3000 avu coordinators sorry 100 avu coordinators and 100 course coordinators to facilitate this particular technology so that 3000 people benefit so if you believe I mean from what I have seen till now each technology it replaces certain rudimentary functions that a teacher needed to do a lot more so for example when video comes the teacher actually conserves or saves time of not requiring to repeat the same lecture 100 times rather the teacher can use the same video in 100 classes and teacher can spend that time in understanding what the queries of the students are and making certain pedagogic strategies to ensure that more students learn from the same resource and this is true of any digital technology any digital technology any job not just teaching learning the technology is replacing certain rudimentary functions of that particular job but it is also providing need for certain other things to happen around it so when a teacher stops lecturing the teacher has to spend more time creating meaningful questions and meaningful activities now don't you think that you would need more than 15 teachers to actually do this and this is what all this fdp is about how would you reposition yourself from being a sage on the stage to an effective facilitator yeah i think this is really very interesting you know to see all the you know teachers from all over the cities and interacting and all these things are really nice with this technology i really agree and also we also use the video lectures and all those things in the class but my only way is like you know in future if you have a auditorium in a university you will have a thousand students and all attend to the same course and simple that's it you need to have so your fear is misplaced i mean let me assure you that you're so all the teachers who worry about that the teachers you do not require teachers when technology comes in please note that your fears are misplaced because the more technology comes in the more there is requirement of teachers because you need a teacher to clearly give you the correct feedback now subjective feedbacks so each of you how will you you cannot have multiple choice questions to grade everyone you need more creative activities you where you need to factor in the variations and other things so the job of a teacher would it is only that you will just shift from being a sage on the stage to a facilitator where you could do a lot more things than what you could do at this moment okay so let me now move to the next remote center so this is RC 1367 Sen Vincent College Nagpur hello hello hello hello hello hello sir yeah sir can you introduce yourself sir yeah i'm dr limayam professor of electronics in saint vincenzo college of engineering okay okay professor vincenzo when i add two photographs on the page by ad media they are appearing one below the other okay i want them to appear side by side otherwise a lot of space is getting wasted to the right of the photograph okay how to do that okay uh what is your second question and uh second question is i do not want the blog to come on the homepage i should be able to get it through menu okay uh so this is a wordpress related query so the query is that when you upload images they are not aligned they uh you want it to be aligned side by side and you do not want it to be one below the other and the second question is you do not want the blogs to be at the homepage now uh to answer the first question how do you how do you set up the alignment i think when you go to the html editor uh you can use certain html tags or basically you do a page alignment uh within the html editor to actually do this side by side uh i uh have a faint idea but what i would request all rc's all participants in the rc's see the question is uh somebody is uploading two photographs into wordpress webpage and uh the person wants it to be side by side i know that alignment would take care of it but i don't exactly remember how you do the alignment what i would request all participants in all rc's is if you have done this recently can you kindly post it in the chat so that uh professor could actually benefit from it and regarding your second question serve blogs from the menu uh you can go to your dashboard by writing your url that is whatever is dot wordpress.com slash wp admin you will go to the dashboard and once you select blogs you can uncheck do not appear in home page so you can actually select the appropriate page that you want as home by selecting that page and uh selecting that as home page uh please be uh please do look out for the chat answers that are coming because i i expect lot more uh people to answer your question through chat okay uh the last two questions uh this is from rc 1407 uh army institute of technology maharashtra kune hello hello good morning sir good morning uh i'm dr sandita jada from a it my question is regarding the content curation okay uh in uh content curation uh you told that uh we can organize uh the uh as per the topic we can collect the videos or material and uh uh can publish it yes so uh yeah regarding that if there are uh NPTEL videos some are very lengthy so can we modify them and insert in between uh say our video and that is first one uh is there any copyright issue with that and second is uh can we insert the date and time uh for the newly created video and can we publish it officially can insert good questions uh let yeah let me just uh so process hangita had two questions regarding content curation process so very specific question is uh NPTEL videos are slightly longer and requires lot more time to be invested so can she break it up add her own videos uh make it shorter along with adding her own videos can be and also uh when they create these new videos can these be published uh in youtube or other uh places what are the copyright issues that uh she has to look for uh okay so the answer to this question is um i believe most of the NPTEL videos are now in open source uh that means they allow if they are in creative commons so any video that is in creative commons which says reuse allowed you can take and you can make modifications because that is uh that is exactly what this open source or creative commons is all about so any video with the creative commons licensing you can do all that uh what you had asked just now and it can be republished also but uh specifically uh you should look at what kind of creative commons licensing has been applied now in this week uh along with screen casting we had actually shared some initial information about creative commons licensing what is cc by uh so there is a very open license called cc zero which means that you can use it as you want and basic then you have cc by s a which means that whatever you create you have to put it in uh you have to share it in creative commons alone then there is cc by nc you cannot use it for commercial purposes nd that is no derivatives so you cannot have any derivative derivatives coming out of it so it should be used in a whole and there is a mixture of these licenses that are also used uh please refer to the creative the section on creative commons licensing in it bombay x uh what we will try to do is uh i'll ask the course to use to add more information about creative commons licensing in the upcoming week so that you will have most uh all the participants will get more clarity about creative commons licensing uh again um all uh participants who are in other rc's if you have answers to uh the question regarding creative commons please post them in chat or you can visit rc 1407's website and give a comment to them uh in the wordpress website okay one yeah so let me now go to the next rc uh rc 123 uh rbs engineering technical campus agra hello hello uh good morning sir good morning my name is sanjay tiwari from rbs etc agra okay so my question is uh about wordpress for wordpress software okay so once i uh created my web address in wordpress so if i wanted to change my web address so what is the processor okay uh so this is again a generic question uh that many people i saw this question i saw this question being asked uh in uh discussion forums also so the question is you have created a wordpress domain page uh which uh you want to change the name now how do you do it now you can do this from your dashboard go to your wordpress dot you log into your wordpress site and after that you uh add the following to your domains url so let's say your wordpress name uh web page name is sanjaytiwari dot wordpress dot com log into it and then sanjaytiwari dot wordpress dot com slash wp admin now this is your admin dashboard go to this admin dashboard and look for domains in the left so there you can uh see an option how to change the domain and you can give the new domain name as long as it is not taken okay okay sir thank you yeah okay so uh that is uh the uh i would stop the interaction now because we would need uh i would need to explain uh the next sessions activity to all of you and i will also look at whether rc one one three one has shared their uh powerpoint slide with us by by this time so what i am going to do now is what you are going to do in the next session so in the next two sessions that is starting from 11 30 till 3 30 what you are going to do is you are going to interact using a view with other remote centers now for this we have set up a view classrooms uh today with the groups uh with a specific set of groups uh you will see once you log out of this particular session uh out of this classroom in your a view dashboard you will see specific groups that are coming in yeah or in the class in the section called class you will see uh each of your classrooms listed you can go into the classroom just like how you go to this uh reach the test class the fdp class the same process go into the classroom one of you one of the remote center would be the teacher in that the others would be participants and what i would want you to discuss is what worked for you in yesterday's group activity so as a an entire remote center you should present what you did yesterday to the other remote center and you should take up one question from another remote center so each each of you would get 10 minutes for uh presentation and answering one question so this is uh and uh each classroom you will have a main uh remote center who would be assigned as a teacher the teacher should ensure that you hand over the uh presenter access to the rc who is presenting so i'll just uh i'll just uh have a look at uh so what i'll do is i'll share the groups with you uh in a slide just now on second so we have a remote center wise grouping that we have uh prepared best of share and this particular slide is shown uh right now so uh what do you see is this is group number one uh rc 1316 is that has a teacher role in it and all other rcs are in student role uh the second group is uh the teacher role is for rc 1012 and all others have student roles uh rc 1058 is the teacher in the third group this is the fourth group with rc 1098 if you see the username is the same username that you're using for entering the fdp class uh remote center 1100 is the fifth one rc 1108 is the sixth seventh rc 1153 rc 1131 is in group eight rc 1225 is in group nine rc 1299 is in group 10 and you have the 11th group which is rc 1353 now as soon as you log out from the fdp class the same class would be visible in your avu class today so you can log into that classroom and start interacting with other rcs and most important is what you should discuss now this is a group activity uh we will be sharing that particular ppt slide now with everyone please wait for the complete instructions so the instruction for the group activity is each rc will get 10 minutes for presenting what they did yesterday and they should take one question from the other rcs so each rc should be doing a presentation let's say about five to six minutes and they should answer one other question from another rc who in that particular group what should they present to the other rcs how they did the activities yesterday what they understood from the activity so the activity is your creating rc webpage as well as creating individual web pages for NPTEL so the instruction is you should be presenting to other rcs what you understood from yesterday's activities and how you did yesterday's activity now each rc then can have a generic question regarding the presentation or a generic question regarding the content of the fdp till now to this presenting rc now each rc will get 10 minutes and you have how many maximum of 10 rcs in in a group so around 100 minutes which requires which means that it is slightly more than 1 hour 45 minutes so this we are giving you time from 11 30 till 3 30 to do this activity and what do we expect you to do at the end of this presentation you should have a list of questions that you have answered and you should have an understanding of what happened yesterday and how you could have done it more effectively now I have now uploaded the pdf of the groups in these slides right now you can download the slides from a view using the download option right click and download the slides from there but what is important is you interact now I know that in a typical a view it will take so that it will have some issues of connectivity connections how it comes together etc so maybe 100 minutes may not be sufficient so that is why we have given two sessions completely dedicated to this activity so from 11 30 till 3 30 you will be doing connecting to the your new classroom and you will be presenting to each other what you have done at each remote center so the IIT Bombay team will not be coming into any remote any of those classroom but rather we are having taking screenshots of what is happening in each classroom just to see how active each of you were now one thing for all participants what you have to look out for us if you have certain specific questions to the RC on how they have done the word press creation and if there are any technical doubts this is the time that you should be using to get your doubts clarified so as the group if you have completed your presentations the remaining time till 3 30 you can devote in raising specific questions and finding answers and at the end of it if you have some unanswered questions please bring them to the final session where we will do the final feedback so we will have our final session from 4 o'clock to 5 30 where we will be doing a floor transfer to each RCs understanding what happened and if there are certain questions that are there we will be taking that up and our TAs will be answering those questions in the coming days and we will be putting them up in IIT Bombay so I hope okay so there are questions from the remote centers so the question from Dronacharya RC 1316 Dronacharya college who is a teacher in this particular thing see the role of teacher is to be the main person who will be the who will be transferring control to different RCs now an A view works in a teacher student mode so teacher has the control of A view always and the teacher has to transfer the control to the student when they are presenting now we have selected these remote centers based on their star ratings and their quality of A view in our previous faculty development programs so we expect that as A view coordinators and S course coordinators you will be knowing how to transfer control to how to operate A view effectively for giving presentation time to the other remote centers so your role is so you yourself has to present it and you should also transfer control to others for presentation and as a teacher one more important role as a group you should very much limit yourself to 10 minutes you should do the presentation within 10 minutes and you should be very strict on the time okay where shall we so there are questions on where shall we find questions so the questions will be asked by the remote centers to you so let me repeat the instructions once more step one you will close this classroom at 11 o'clock and you will see a list of groups classes according to the list that we have given over here so you have to enter that particular classroom at 11 30 the teacher has to start the presentation so the presentation is about what you did in your remote center yesterday afternoon and you should detail out what always in which you tried collaboration at the end of your presentation you should take one question from another RC now how will other RCs ask question they should use hand raise they should use hand raise option and the teacher should select the appropriate they should the teacher can select the appropriate RC and yeah so for example I have so I am an avu teacher now so you what you are seeing right now is the teacher IIT Bombay and a lot of students out there now when you enter your classroom you will see similarly a teacher and each of you will enter that classroom as student now the teacher role is played by me over here now what I will do is I will go to the first student who has given a hand raise so whenever a student raises a hand I will see a red question mark in my teacher interface now as a teacher interface what you have to do is right click on it and start interaction the same should be done by the teacher when the teacher finishes the presentation and when they have to transfer the control to the student by making them a presenter so right click start interaction so now go to the video wall now you will see what you are seeing right now is RC 1316 RC 1135 now this is each RC will be able to connect to you and their video will be present in the video wall so all RCs what you have to do is the teachers of each group will now transfer this control and give time for the RCs to present so the entire presentation and answering the questions should be done in 10 minutes so supposing that you are so the by presentation what we mean is you have to describe what you have done you do not have to upload any file so by presentation what we mean is face to face presentation so the course coordinator and the group of teachers within the RC should tell the other so that is as in speech they should tell the other RCs what they have done for yesterday's activity and at the end of their presentation they should take questions from other RCs about the activities that they have done so you have to do a oral presentation to other RCs and each RC who is viewing this presentation at the end of the presentation should use the hand raised button to ask questions to the RC first about the presentation and if time permits you should ask questions regarding content of the FDP the username and passwords for you is the same as that you use for entering the FDP class so there are no change all you are doing right now is you are doing a breakout session where each student in the class they are moving out of this classroom and assembling in a different virtual classroom in a view now there will be a maximum of 10 to 11 students or class RCs in a single classroom virtual classroom so we have set up the groups like that each RC gets 10 minutes presentation time within this 10 minutes they will do the oral presentation of what they have done in their RC yesterday and what challenges did they face at the end of the presentation they will take up questions from other RCs and try to answer them and all this within 10 minutes if it is okay why would you set up a poll so what we are going to do now is I am going to start a poll right now have you understood the instructions have you understood the instructions that we gave regarding the group activity yes yes and no so I see a lot of people have started answering in the chat so what I have done right now is in a view I have created a poll so just look at your a view settings a pop up would be coming now please respond to that okay I believe most of you have understood the instructions 70 people are saying yes there are six people who are saying no so out of the total 97 remote centers we see that 87 people have understood the instruction there are nine people who are having doubts I would request those nine people to stay back where I will respond to their I will respond to their queries so not all 97 remote centers have responded so all the remote centers who have understood the instructions can log out from this classroom and all those remote centers who did not understand the instruction please stay back in this classroom for five more minutes I will be explaining the process once more to all of you hello hello hello those who understood please log out of a view classroom now please log out of this classroom and join your assigned group it will appear after you log in it will appear that group one group two group three that it will appear like that please enter that group so all the RCs we request you all of you who have understood the activity please log out and log into your proper group who have not understood please stay back so people who have questions the RCs who have not understood what they have to do please stay back in this classroom you have to log out from a view again log into a view and you will see a different class there you will see a group one group two group three like that class over in a view after you log in again how to log out just close a view and then log in again just close a view and then log in again then you will see a different class you just have to close your a view again log in with your user ID and password and you will see another class by name of group one group two or group three group four according to whatever group you are in and you have to do you have to follow the same procedure that you follow to log into IITB classroom you will have to start your video you will have to select your microphone and video settings and then that way you can interact with the other RC that is there in the session so after so the next session from IIT Bombay will start at 4 o'clock so after the 330 to 4 break we will start the final session at 4 o'clock okay so for all the participants who are staying back with us let me repeat the instructions once more step one that you have to do is you have to log out from the a view class that you are in right now this you can do by closing the a view and then logging in again now step two when you log in again you will see different classrooms with the name group one group two group three etc the group details the remote center details are provided in the slides over here now if you want contact numbers from the other remote centers you can go to the NMAIC website where the remote center the course coordinators remote center details etc are provided in it if you look at this FDP session and look into the number of remote centers it is available over there now when you log in the first so we have identified 10 different people who will have a teacher group now to start any classroom you would need a teacher now this teacher is one of the remote center now the first presentation will be done by this remote center where they will explain what they did yesterday afternoon where they were supposed to do a collaborative activity now after presenting what they did what challenges they faced and what they learned out of it each remote center can then ask a question to this particular teacher they will answer one of those questions and if time permits they will they will answer another so the total time for presentation and answering questions is 10 minutes now once the 10 minute is over this remote center now should transfer the video control to another remote center the next remote center will do the same thing so they will present what they did yesterday and then they will answer the questions that are raised by other remote centers now this similarly so each remote center will get 10 minutes each and you will have at the end of almost 100 minutes that is close to one and a half one hour one hour 45 minutes all the remote centers will complete presenting complete their presentations and Q&As now if there is sufficient time till 3 30 then what you can also do is ask questions to other remote centers regarding content of this FDP what they whether they have doubt or whether they have some clarifications required they can ask other remote centers and at 3 30 you can break you can go for tea and at 4 o'clock we will restart the session from IIT Bombay so you should re-log into the FDP class at 4 o'clock from 4 to 5 30 the instructors from IIT Bombay will give feedback to about what this activity was all about what they observed what was seen and we will do a floor transfer to different RCs and see what kind of feedback each RC had to say okay so is it clear to all RCs who are now logged in what you have to do just can you respond in the chat whether it is clear if it is clear please log out from this particular class and re-log in into your new class so all the instructions are over and you can actually tell this if there are certain doubt you can clarify it in the new class so I see there are around 30 more remote centers who are still connected remote centers kindly note this is a time that you will have to log out from this classroom and at 11 30 all your classrooms will be enabled RC 1229 just refer the document that has been shared with you down you can download the document by right clicking it so whatever is the group number that is given against your RC's name so RC 1229 you are in group six so I will be moving out from this in five minutes time please log out and join your respective classrooms the classes start from 11 30 RC 1218 please log out from your current review session and log into your new classroom RC 1218 Bunsell Institute of Engineering and Technology Lucknow Bunsell Institute please log out of this classroom and enter your proper classroom Ajay Kumar Garg 1361 you are still logged in in the classroom 1361 Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College you are still logged in in the same classroom 1444 Babuji Institute you are still logged in in the same classroom please log out of the classroom and enter your new classroom just close the class just close a view and then I enter in their group whichever you are in RC 1444 Babuji Institute of Technology you can close this a view and join your new classrooms RC 1229 Sardar Sardar Patel RC 1229 Sardar Patel Institute you are still in the same classroom you are still in the same FDP classroom you have to log out of the current FDP classroom and log into group six