 Welcome back everyone, so I hope all of you have been sufficiently motivated by now and you would have understood the significance of this FDP and specifically following conventions and due dates in this particular faculty development program. Now one major query that we are receiving continuously through discussion forum through chat and even in a view is about due dates of assignments. So we understand that many of you have registered on 15th and you have not got sufficient time to complete the activity on 22nd. So point number one the due dates for the activities for the week one activity was extended when we had extended the registration to 15th and we had extended the due date of activities to 22nd. So we had actually increased the number of days to 7 more days precisely to capture sorry 4 more days to capture those people who were unable to start off at the same pace as others. Now we understand that in synchronizing this activity there are going to be lot of problems but it is also important to respect and maintain the due dates otherwise we will have to I mean every week someone or the other some other calamity would occur and there would be request for due dates. So it is a standard policy for all FDPs from here onwards that the due dates will not be extended rather you will be provided an option. So we will be taking only the best we will be removing out one test which has the lowest mark. So for example in the week one we had 3 graded activities a knowledge quiz, a reflection quiz and an assimilation quiz. Now what we are going to do when we consider your marks for final grading is that there will be a total of 5 knowledge quizzes, 5 reflection quizzes, 5 assimilation quizzes and 3 sorry 2 resource creation assignments in this particular FDP. So for the knowledge quizzes, reflection quizzes and assimilation quizzes we will be considering the best 4 marks out of the total 5 that you have attempted which would mean that people who have had low marks or 0 marks or did not were not able to attempt the knowledge the graded activities in week one you need not worry you can continue attempting the week 2 and week 3 graded activity week 2, week 3, week 4 and week 5 graded activities and still get benefited from the total grading policy. We are doing this because specifically because of the issue of synchronizing submissions and ensuring that people move from FDP 101 to FDP 201 in stipulated amount of time. So the FDP 201 is a linked FDP wherein people who score more than 50 percentage in FDP 1 will move towards FDP 201. And as Professor Fatak said for genuine cases we do have options where we may give them additional examinations or additional some kind of mechanisms like that to ensure that all of them have a fair chance. So let me start this session. This session is about the group activity that you will be doing both you have been doing group activities in the IIT Bombay X but you will also specifically do group activities during synchronous session throughout this FDP. So this is about a generic why these group activities are important and we will be explaining the group activity that you have to do at the remote center and what is going to happen tomorrow of this particular group activity. So there are lot of collaborative activities in this FDP and why is, why are collaborative activities important. So we all know that in higher education higher order thinking is required where you have to make the learners do explicit higher order thinking like evaluation, critical analysis, creation of new designs, so the group projects etc. Now in this FDP all of you are in the role of learners. So it is important that in the faculty development program you also do higher order thinking yourself. Now to do that we are having two levels of implementing these higher order thinking. For individual learners you will be doing resource creation assignments starting from this Monday. So there will be a particular activity that which requires you to create some resource. So all of you would have created course journals. Many of you have started creating the course outline, a course outline slide and you would have uploaded it in the discussion forum and have gotten feedbacks. So this is exactly how the higher order thinking will be evaluated that is through peer review. Now we will be giving you explicit mechanisms through which you can do the peer review. We will make you do these peer review more than once to ensure that you get sufficient training before you start your actual peer review. So there are two LEDs corresponding to peer review in IIT Bombay in the week three content. Make sure that you go through those peer review videos before starting with the process of peer review or before starting with the process of resource creation assignment. Now this is about individual learners. Now how will collaboration happen within an RC? Now all of you are assembling at a single place. So within a single RC you will have like 10 to 100 teachers assembling in a single place. Now this is the best place where you can do a lot more collaborative activities. And that is what exactly what we will do in the A-view sessions both today afternoon and tomorrow. So a major time will be spent on doing collaborative activity and you will be presenting your collaborative activity to others through A-view presentation. So each of you will be grouped. So what we are going to do is so we have close to 120 odd remote centers we are now grouping them into we have created 11 groups so roughly 10 to 11 participants 10 to 11 remote centers in a group and what we are going to make you do is you will do a group activity today and tomorrow you will present this group activity to others in your group. There will be a peer review happening from others and all these will be collected and we will give you a final feedback at the end of the day. A little bit more about group activities first at an individual level. You all know that collaboration is required at every juncture in our life and specifically for professional education employers be it government be it colleges be it companies all of them are looking at team skills of learners who are coming out. So similarly within the college the college is also looking at team skills of the faculty. So the collaborative skills that they possess why because when you are collaborating with a peer one plus one always makes something greater than two and it is in this regard I have the first activity which is actually an activity where you have to post your answers through chat. What I will do is I will just look into the chat as soon as so what you have to do is identify places within this FDP where you were required to collaborate with your peers. So think of what happened over the past two weeks where was a peer support or peer collaboration required and how did you do it through which mechanism did you do it was it that you talk to your colleague from your college or was it that you used some features of the platform to ensure that collaboration happened. So I will give you a minute to answer this question. So for people who are not able to hear please look into this question. I see that many remote centers are actually helping out others on the technical issues of a view. So for people who are having difficulties do a refresh another 30 seconds more please post your answers in the a view chat. So I see a lot of posts where people have said how they have collaborated. The major answer as you see in the chat is discussion forum but interestingly there are others also like the course journal somebody has said about the wordpress blogs through which they have shared information. So somebody would have gone on and commented in the post etc. All these are valid. So there are whatsapp there is also personal chat that has happened. So specifically all these answers are correct but most importantly what I wanted to focus was the pedagogy or it is not just the discussion forum that made you do this. It is the pedagogy of discussion forum or the pedagogy that we have followed in the course that has actually made you do this. It is called learning experience interaction. So there is a focus question for which an individual will post then they are instructed to go and visit their peers post and comment on it and finally answer a reflection quiz. Now this could be done through discussion forum it could be done using their wordpress blogs or we could actually ask them personally do this within the center. So it is the pedagogy of learning experience interaction that is more important. The modality through which it may be achieved is either discussion forum, blogs, whatsapp chats or personal chats it is the sharing of information. Now an important feature of discussion forum because you will be knowing a lot. So you have been posting a lot in discussion forum and there have been some excellent posts. So right from the technology list that have been populated so that I saw that somebody there is a big discussion thread 87 people have commented on that thread. There are others with 30 to 35 discussions average in every week. So it is important for us to understand how you can navigate. So just like what professor Patek said he said what is in a name. So my question is what is there in a discussion forum? How will you effectively utilize it is very important. Now I will show you some ways in which you should be using discussion forum. Now the discussion forum has a very organized structure. So you will have lot of categories. So if you click on all topics in your IIT Bombay X discussion tab. So you will see all topics and it will show you a drop down. So it will have all discussions posts I am following general LXIs. So all the LXIs are coming as structured and you have some more categories coming in. And there is also a specific category for queries. Now this structure has been very carefully created. Now all the learning experience interactions where there is a focus question and some very specific instructions on how you should collaborate they all come under LXI. And each week will have a minimum one LXI. Some weeks will have two LXIs also. Now all these comes under LXI and each week's LXI number is given over here. So for example in week one the LXI the first LXI was technology that you are using and the second LXI was about the course journal that you will have to share. In week two it was about how to use wordpress for a specific particular task. In the third week we have two more LXIs where in the first one we had to share our visual presentation skills task where we asked you to create a course overview and certain slides on it. And the second LXI is about doing a screencast in your own language and uploading into YouTube. And you should share the YouTube link to in the discussion forum and specifically comment on the challenges that you faced and some of the ways in which you try to reduce the challenges. There is also another category called queries. So if you have some query regarding your regarding the FDP or regarding the content of the FDP or the process of the FDP you should use the queries tab the queries category to post your question and how do you do it. So whenever you click add post you will see question and discussion. So if you have a question you should select question and if you have a discussion you should select discussion. Now if there are some targeted questions there will be topic area and if there are queries you should select queries and post it in that topic area. So this is what you will see when you click on add post in the discussion forum. So what I will do is I will just share the screen with you once and I will show you what happens in the actual discussion forum. So let me log into the IIT Bombay X course. So all of you would be logging into an IIT Bombay X portal like this and you will be selecting your course and this is where you will see the discussion tab. So you see all the structures that I talked it is coming over here. So currently the mentorship is not active. So this year we are trying out the course coordinators and using the peer group within the remote center to actually see what is going to happen. We may add mentors in the second FDP where we will initiate mentorship discussions. But what is more important is when you add a post so many of you would be using this or you would be directly doing it from the course. So when if you have a general post or a query that you have to ask go to discussion forum click on add a post and this is what you will see. So if you have a question you could post select the question tab you should put it under the category queries and then you should ask okay my query you could type the description of the query let us say due date of assignments then you should go to the post and type your question. So you will have to be very careful of this on how you use the topic area. So I see a lot of people posting in across different category. So somebody who has a query they would have posted it in the LXI. Now organizing stuff organizing your posts or organizing your files is equally important as naming your files okay. So similarly organizing your posts or organizing your discussions is equally important in a discussion forum to ensure that they are searchable and they are noticeable. So all these queries will come under so as an instructor our TA group what we are going to do is we go to this all topics and select all the queries and see there is a question that has come up on active learning. So we will select that and you see that somebody has posted a question on active learning and people have responded. So we have a few community TAs who are supporting us so there is a TA group over here who will be supporting you throughout this FDP. So they will be either denoted as community TAs or staff and you will see their posts coming in the discussion forum as answers to the questions that you are asked. So basically we look at what the question is and our community TAs will first focus on the queries tab to see whether there are any questions posed by participants and it does not stop you stop other participants from posting answers to the queries. So I see somebody else has answered to this query and what we will do the course TA will do is if somebody has not responded they will add their answer and if somebody has already responded they will mark at as an answer and maybe provide additional explanations if needed. So this is an important process that you should be understanding on how to post accurately in the discussion forum so that you get the necessary replies either from your peer or from the course team. Now let me tell you a little bit about the structure of a discussion forum thread. Now there will be a post so for example this main post is called a thread. So there will be lot of discussion forum thread so a discussion forum is made up of lot of threads which has a first level reply so when you click add a response you are actually responding to the original post in the thread and there is a second level so a comment on the reply so there are three levels of information first one thread second one reply and third one comment. So if you have to respond to the main question in the thread always select add a response and if you want to respond to a comment what you should do is below the reply you will see add a comment. So you will have to use this add a comment to respond to this original response which was provided by someone else. Now the next question is just by doing this is it sufficient? Suppose you visit this discussion post and you like this post how can you increase the visibility of the post beyond just commenting so we had asked each one of you to go and visit three of your peers and you would have done that and you would have liked some of the posts. So how can you actually go through the post suppose you like some of the posts how can you make its visibility more have anyone can anyone discuss within your RC and post this questions answer through chat. So I know that many of you will have some issues in traversing the discussion forum this session is specifically this part of the section is specifically for addressing this particular issue of traversing discussion forum voting up vote follow the posts through report so following the posts so answers are coming through chat so if you actually look into the chat you will see lot of remote centres posting on it yes follow posts voting ratings okay so the common answers that I see is voting following commenting highlighting so the answer is very simple if it is a thread you will have to up vote or follow it so your answers are correct so some people are using another functionality called report now report is for actually reporting some offensive use of language or some incorrect posts etc. Now use report only if the original poster the post in the discussion thread is offensive abusive or those kind of that violates basic discussion forum etiquettes so use report only then otherwise all you have to do is use the up vote and follow now I will show you how you can actually see so if you actually do up vote so on the right hand side of the discussion forum you can see three different ways in which you can sort the post so one is by most votes so if you click on this you can see post which has got more upwards so for example somebody has up voted four upwards have come for this particular post question on active learning. Now let me go to all discussions and see which all posts have more that seems to be a technical error but essentially the idea is that by looking into this most activity you can actually look at posts that have been voted higher by the participants in the FDP. Now there are certain questions on how do you search for specific posts now for that what you have to do is there is a search bar on the right hand side top right hand side of the discussion forum and let us say I have to look at my posts then what you have to do is let us say you have your user name for me the user name is J.K. Madatil I click on search and all the posts that I am involved in will come on to the left hand side now today this interface is having some trouble may be network connectivity is slightly lower here but essentially when you give your user name over here you can actually see it additionally what you can also do is click on posts I am following now this also shows you the various posts that you have so for example these are posts that I am following now if I click on this as follow it will automatically come over here so whenever you want to do an up vote you can you can do an up vote and you can actually do a follow it and all the posts that you mark a star it will come on this particular left hand side when you click on all the posts that you are following so whenever you like a post wherever you want to follow discussions make sure that you click on follow and then select them in posts I am following so some of the common challenges that are some of the common challenges that we see in discussion forum are let us say feeling of isolation so some people have put up posts but nobody has responded to it now it may be because they are using different what do you say different sorting criteria but when somebody else comes all these sorting criterias and the ways in which you put up the select the categories will actually have a bearing on whether your post is visited or not now as a principle our TA team is actually going to go through all the posts which has least amount of activity and we will be starting responding to all those people and people who are having still difficulty in finding own posts make sure you go and click on post I am following or in the search bar type your username that is good enough you will see all the posts that are done by you or all the places where you have even commented now another important problem is incorrect structuring so when you actually post many people incorrectly put it in a different category now you would have understood by now that that category is also very important for us to actually sort out what has happened and also for your peers to respond to you because they will be coming and looking through the category and finding your posts so make sure that whenever you post you post it in the appropriate category where this where it is meant now for posting in the LXI use the discussion add discussion within the course where to add the post because it will automatically go to that category for posting general posts as well as queries use the discussion forum tab and click on add post and select the appropriate topic area that is either general or queries to appropriately classify your the category of the post that you are making now let me explain the group activity that you have to do for today afternoon and we will later discuss what you have to do tomorrow morning so the group activity that you have to do today afternoon is consider this scenario so I hope everyone is familiar with the national program on technology enhanced learning or NPTEL where videos from reputed institutes like IITs, IISC, ISR etc are being created and there are courses that are being floated by NPTEL now assume that NPTEL have decided to encourage local institutions let's say remote centers like you in the process of content curation now what is content curation content curation means that all these content are available and you will pick and choose appropriate portion of this content that has to be locally consumed so for example I am a computer science teacher in an institute institute in some remote area now I will look into all the computer science videos posted by NPTEL now I will select those NPTEL videos that are required for my topic and for my students now this is one level of content curation where you search and select additionally what I am going to do is let's say the explanation of given in the video might not be sufficient so what I will do is on top of it I will add my own explanation or let's say I give my students some directions as to how to view this video so for example if it is a 50 minute long video and there are like three or four concepts that I want them to learn I would describe that video by saying that okay for understanding concept one watch the video from 5 minute to 10 minute let's say for doing a practice problem make sure that you do the practice copy the practice problem that is being done in the video at 12th minute so these are ways in which I am going to curate content so the content is already available you are just making searching and finding it and making slight modifications so that it becomes locally consumed so why is it important it is important because it will enable teachers from local institutions so it will enable teachers in a whole to better integrate these contents which are available in the open so suppose I want to use so what in effect if you have an NPTEL video from an IIT professor and I am actually using it in my classroom it is in effect you are actually providing access to your students to an IIT professors lectures so they are actually learning from IIT professors so there will be activities there will be but this is not sufficient that is why it is important that you give the value addition so you as a teacher who knows the students from your college gives a value addition by giving your own examples or giving your own explanations on top of what has already been said to simplify the content to the students or give them more practice so this is what and this is what the scenario is the scenario is that NPTEL believes in content curation by local institution so that the NPTEL videos are better integrated in teaching learning practice now to do this in a better manner they consulted the course team so that is us and we had following four recommendations so let us look at the recommendations that we gave so the proposed solution that we gave to NPTEL team is each institution local institution should create a web page for itself where they will publish explanation of LEDs for each of the NPTEL videos that is being used in a mix of English and vernacular language so what they want is not just the NPTEL video videos you should value add it using explanation learning dialogues now what are learning dialogues learning dialogues are short videos where you give explanation and there is a reflection spot in between where you make the learner think about the content that was being said so all of you so one suggestion that we gave to the NPTEL team is make sure that it is there are additional learning dialogues that local teachers create but it is not just that alone is not sufficient make sure that these local teachers create it in a vernacular language plus English so it should be a mixture of vernacular language and English so it is essentially like how you do teaching learning within your classroom you don't just use English alone to better explain the concept you may use your local vernacular language isn't it so we are also suggesting the same thing the second solution that we had was give make the local institution do sufficient create sufficient LBD activities and publish it in the WordPress webpage so that students will get practice so for each video you should have sufficient number of learning by doing activities which will ensure that students will get practice as well as feedback the third solution is initiate LXI or learning experience interactions by providing a focused question for discussion and the final solution that we provided to NPTEL was provide sufficient LXTs additional resources along with assimilation quizzes now this is very important it is not just sufficient to give a list of references or additional resources it is also important that you give a final assimilation or assimilation quiz or quiz an assessment activity to see whether the students have gone through the content or have assimilated the important content that was meant from that particular list of additional resources so what is the group activity for you so today what you have to do is you have to do two things one as an RC and another as an individual so first I will explain the individual part now by this time all of you would have created your own WordPress webpage okay now what I want you to do is add a new menu bar and the menu bars title is NPTEL and you should identify NPTEL videos from your domain so you should identify videos that are available in NPTEL that is useful in your domain once you have identified the videos you should publish LBDs and LXTs for the content discussed in the video as blogs in your WordPress webpage now this should not be a separate page rather they should be posted as blogs what you have to do then is give a link to this blog post under the NPTEL page so the new page that you create there will be a new tab in your WordPress webpage titled NPTEL and that tab will contain a link to the blog posts that you have created in your WordPress webpage what I will do is if people have question I will be answering them shortly after this after explaining this let me now explain what you have to do as an RC now all of you I hope have understood what you have to do as an individual what you have to do as an RC is create a WordPress webpage for the RC and this should have three important pages the first page is an about page of an RC where you describe what which one this RC is what all activities do they do what all kind of domains I mean at brief description about the remote center when they joined IIT Bombay street and getty project as an RC some highlights some important things that you have done as an RC so for example you saw Professor Fartek talking to Cochin University today morning so one they joined just recently but one important thing that they have done as an RC is that they have now set up a team of student volunteers in their college for assisting the ABU support staff so in the previous FDP there are lot of RCs have done similar efforts where the faculty mentors from that particular RC gave training to the different members in the RC on how to operate ABU so we had close to 174 mentors and many mentors had actually given a separate session on how to use ABU both as a learner and as well as a teacher there are other RCs like Walchand where they have gone beyond so they have published many of their best practices in their college web page so Walchand college in Solapur they have shown as a web page where they have uploaded all their flip classroom practices so they have created a manual on how to shoot flip classroom videos what they have created a process on what to do they have a review process there are a lot of things that each RCs are doing individually and more importantly there are also RCs who are supporting students neighboring schools and colleges in doing lot of individual efforts so we remember around two to three RCs we had a separate course for school teachers a pedagogy course for school teachers and few of the remote centers had actually provided a lab their college computer lab for these school teachers because these school teachers did not have access to good laboratory they did not have access to good computers so every Saturday they allowed these school teachers to come to this college and do the course sitting over there now these are some important what do you say some innovative things that each RC has done so all these should be documented and disseminated to many others so this is why you should have an about RC page which briefly describes your remote center it describes innovative practices that you have done both within the college and within the neighborhood around your college and you should have a page the RC page also should have a tab which says participants and it should have the web links it should have a link to all the web pages of participants from that remote center the third page that is required is plan of action the plan of action is now that all the individuals within the remote center would have created identified LBDs and LXTs and they would have published in their blogs now this plan of action should explain the steps that are going to be done at the RC to disseminate it further so what all things will you do so will you conduct special classes so will you make students so one session every week where they access these web pages and do all the LBDs and LXTs now there are questions that are coming how to link individual participant link a participant page etc I will not be answering those questions because now you have a lot of people within the same remote center or your peers within the IT Bombay scores who have done a lot of these so I will first transfer this responsibility to your peers who should be now thinking about how to do all these and for this we are giving you a full half day so within that half day you should be discussing with your colleagues within your RC and across RC so you could use their blog pages so go to the discussion forum see where which all pages they are using what I will do in addition is okay let me try this out I will see whether it is possible but I will try to share a common spreadsheet so what every RC should do now is create a WordPress webpage immediately and what I will do is I will ask give you a shared document shared document where you can upload give this link to everyone so so that one RC can talk to another RC through WordPress web pages okay so I will share that document with you in in a short while and in the meanwhile what I will do is I will look at questions that has been asked by participants how to link blog spots with menu every blog page is actually a web page link so you know how to embed a link if not please ask your colleagues from your RC or other RC again how to link individual participant to RC every participant has a web page and web page linking embedding a link is not a difficult task hyperlinking is not a difficult task there is a question from RC 1127 can we use Google site to publish our web page ideally I mean any web page is fine but since we are discussing about WordPress I would prefer you to use WordPress because it will give more familiarity for people to use WordPress more often and WordPress is a free and open source software you can actually download WordPress and install it locally so your data privacy and other related issues you can take care of it at I mean you can control it to a certain extent when you are doing when you are doing Google sites the data is actually gone going outside it is not in your control so I would prefer a WordPress ideally WordPress downloaded in your own website but as far as possible try to use WordPress what I will do now is I will just transfer so if there are questions regarding the activity today the activity that you have to do today please do a hand raise now in the next 10 minutes for the next 10 minutes I will be answering this these queries and at around 1240 Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudde would be coming in so the visual presentation activity that you had shared it was originally designed by Dr. Sahasrabudde and he will be discussing with you about presentations so things to note in presentation in terms of when you are creating a website because tomorrow you are going to share this website to others and you will also have to look at how you give information to others that is important so now I will first go to RC 1007 Amritha Engineering College the problem is I am the only participant from my centre so I don't have any peer here to discuss okay so can I help me find a group I am not able to find that in the discussion yeah yeah ma'am first rule of AVU interaction kindly introduce yourself so that I everyone knows who you are yes I am Preeta Mehman and my area is psychology okay so the question from RC 1007 this is a very curious I mean I think many people will have a similar issues so at two levels one the issue has two levels one she is the only participant from that RC and second her domain is psychology and she does not find a peer from that particular domain in the discussion forum so what I would ask Professor Preeta is you know how to create WordPress webpage right yes created a simple one already created great so what you can do is additionally what you should do is create a WordPress webpage for the RC 1007 use another email ID generic email ID and create a WordPress webpage for the institution and what we are going to do is we are going to collect all the remote centers WordPress webpage IDs and we are going to publish it for everyone so that one remote center can go and visit somebody else and you can actually look at the participants so one additional information that I can giving you right now is so whenever a remote center creates a participant list also mentioned the domain from where that participant is so what happens is when another remote center actually comes and looks at your remote center webpage they will be able to identify the domains from which all the participants are and will be able to connect to individual participants who are from the same domain okay thank you okay so what I would want all participants is to along with the the remote center is to ensure that you also mentioned the domain of the participant from your remote center so I hope this solves the problem that you have yes and additionally for participants who are from psychology or any related domain please make sure that you identify the user in the discussion forum search for the keyword psychology she would have added her domain as psychology in the discussion forum so there is another question from RC 1045 RC 1045 Savita Engineering College I am unable to view your video I will come back to you make sure that your video is there RC 1029 Terna Engineering College Nerul so whenever you ask question make sure that you introduce yourself first hello sir hello ma'am hello sir I am Shubhangi Verukar from KC College of Engineering good morning good afternoon sir okay sorry good afternoon yes please go ahead please ask your question okay sir actually first question I understood that we have to create NPTEL main second one is that after identifying that video we have to post LBD and LXT questions only correct within that same page so you will have to create LBD questions and you will have to identify LXT resources see LXT is learning extensions which means it is both resources additional resources as well as questions pertaining to these additional resources simple questions assimilation questions pertaining to these additional resources so for example if you find another video or if you find another PDF or a research paper related to the same topic that should be posted as LXTs okay means under the NPTEL menu head we will write down we will put a scroll arrow so that there we will get this option like that we have to create no so under LXT under the NPTEL menu you will provide links to the LXT blog post and LBD blog post so every WordPress webpage you create you have an option of blogs right yes so you will first create the blogs for LXTs and LBDs okay so you will create a blog for your LBD yes and a blog for your LXT okay now you will have to link these blog posts in in the NPTEL WordPress web in the NPTEL page you again I am having one doubt when I have created my WordPress at that time as we were not aware earlier I have created two two and three contact pages in WordPress and I want to remove it but I was unable to remove it you can go to your WordPress webpage the WordPress website slash WP admin and you can do editing you can actually do it delete a post or delete a page all those features are there in it okay WP hyphen admin WP WordPress WP hyphen admin okay thank you sir actually I was trying from themes and customization so I was not getting answer no no no so you have to go to this so this is the dashboard WordPress dashboard the WordPress dashboard is your WordPress webpage once you log in that WordPress webpage website URL slash WP admin yes thank you sir yeah so what I also want you to do is once you have understood this make sure that you disseminate it to the entire group within your RC okay okay let me now move to the next RC which is Phinolex academy RC 1005 sorry 100165 hello can you yes yes so very important question the question sir may I know your name okay and which domain are you from which domain which subject are you teaching okay you are from computer science domain and within MCA what subjects are you teaching okay so you are actually teaching operating systems and database right so how you are teaching operating systems and database right okay so professor Rahul from RC 1065 has raised a valid question what if NPTEL does not have videos pertaining to my domain now in this case you can use any educational video which has a CC by SA or a creative commons license allowed YouTube also has a listing of videos if you actually go to the license in YouTube you will see whether it is under creative commons or not so you can actually use any creative commons video that you see in YouTube also yeah let's go to the next RC 1406 sorry RC 1408 Malabhumi Institute of Technology West Bengal RC 1408 I am not able to hear you can you check your mic check whether the audio connections have been made to the PC where a view is being done 1408 you are not audible please check your mic and mic settings no sir you are not audible 1063 Dr. D. Y. Patil yeah RC 1063 Dr. D. Y. Patil hello hello sir just yeah hello sir good morning sir this is professor B. Patil yeah I want to ask one question about the how do we explain the numericals using powerpoint presentations as far as mechanical engineering is concerned are there are many subjects in engineering where we have to explain our thoughts using the numericals and illustrations is it what is the better way to describe these numericals using the powerpoint presentations so numericals you have you can actually type it through the equations and the other plugin that is available in Microsoft word sorry Microsoft PowerPoint or you can use symbols so Microsoft PowerPoint also has a functionality called symbols which you can use in PowerPoint slides please switch on the mic please I am not able to hear the I am not able to hear you hello is it okay sir yeah yeah now it is okay now it is okay please go ahead yes sir I in the morning session you have explained that in the search in the discussion form forum in the search if we write the ID our ID then all the posts mailed by all the posts posted by that particular learner we are visible you said yes but even for some user IDs when we type in the search forum we are not getting we are getting a message that no no matches found now this is curious I mean if that person has posted anything are you searching it under a specific category I mean you will have to select all discussions and then search for the post search for the user ID ensure that you are clicking on all discussions so all discussions so go to the go to the all discussions category click on it and then search for the user ID okay sir I have not tried that I will do that yeah but almost all discussions I have posted one one post so at least one should be visible no if some some some category is open then you know each and every category I have posted so it should be visible at least one should be visible yes it should it will be visible in that if you have actually initiated a thread it will be actually be visible now if you are responded with a reply or a comment it may not be directly visible but posts by so and so user so you will see a black message in black background under the search the posts by the username in that particular what do you say under the search bar the in under the categories I have to check sir again yeah I like these queries I have posted in the query forum also yeah so I have responded to a few of those in the discussion forum no reply from the staff actually so that now I am not clear so I have seen few posts in so few queries in the queries under the queries where if you have posted under queries I have answered it everything which has posted under the category queries I have answered it with a screenshot so I doubt whether my id is it visible to you people also or not yes it but that question is not there in the queries no I have posted it under queries only okay let me just yeah I will I will check to it and I will ensure that the TA's TA and the core staff respond to it immediate question sir I have another query I have another query that sir you told that we have to post our assignments in the particular category yes what if already posted assignments if we have not posted in a particular query a particular category so should we have to upload them again no no no no no no so our TA team is now in the painful process going to do the painful process of categorizing earlier posts but from here onwards you will have to post it in the appropriate category okay okay thank you very much yeah so let's let's go to another remote center RC 1045 Savita Engineering College good afternoon sir good afternoon I am professor Gandhi from Savita Engineering College 1045 RC good afternoon sir I really appreciate IDB for giving this opportunity to learn really 150 of my faculty colleagues with commitment are here yeah listening to your program thank you now here when hybrid learning when you talk about besides face to face we are also talking about digital digital besides text another most important thing is video so we have been trying to videograph our own lectures and upload it of course there's a space problem we'll have to do some campus here so many other software usage and all was there now can you just tell you something about how to promote our video once you produce how to promote our videos through internet can you just let us know so that our faculty members you can benefit out of it okay thank you so this question is about how to promote your video there are specific so let me give three simple shortcuts one is upload it in youtube second give meaningful headings and titles third keywords the keywords are very important yeah so when you upload it in youtube ensure that you are uploading it in your channel so for example if Savita Engineering College creates a youtube channel of its own and uploads their video that will have more visibility because then you can give the channel id to everyone and promote it yeah so one is create youtube channel and upload it in youtube you can also do playlists so for example if there are 10 videos from the same subject you can create a playlist for the subject second is give meaningful titles now to promote these it is important that you give accurate titles because people search for titles so for example if there is a key concept in the video give that in the title ensure that so for example operating systems you are using data structures you are looking at cues as one of the data structure ensure that all these feature in your youtube video title third whenever you create or upload a video it always asked for additional keywords give as many keywords as possible now this is what Prasad Patak also meant by metadata more metadata that your video has better is it to search as well as promote now promotion you can use any of the social networking channels you can use facebook you can promote it through your own whatsapp groups google mail groups institute mail groups etc thank you thank you professor yeah for further details we will join a group discussion yeah sure sure please go ahead and do the activities what i have so i will take one question and i will from rc1445 and before answering further questions i will all pass on the rc1445 you have a question good afternoon sir good afternoon this is Murali from 1445 sir good afternoon professor murli tell me first of all thank you for the fruitful session you delivered in the morning yeah my question is actually you gave an assignment individually for as an rc and as an individual notice yes my question is regarding as an rc so what is the things to be included under plan of action okay so this question is from murli professor murli from rc1445 what all should be included in plan of action now i have keeping it open ended purposefully because if i tell you a structure all of you will have the same answer but essentially the plan of action should ensure that there are concrete steps that you have listed out to ensure that most of your students would go and visit your webpage so dissemination of content to promote and to give out the content to different different students each institute will use different different techniques now this is actually like a real group project a real life project suppose you had to promote the same NPTEL videos within your college what will you do this is a real life so what people say there should be a real life application to the project this is the real life application and i want you to answer what all things will you include in plan of action i am actually looking at the various ways in which you will say what all things i will do and each institute will have a different idea and these different ideas are what we need and that is why this assignment is kept so that is why this assignment is sufficiently open ended see the instructions are very specific so what is required is been specified but we have not given any structure so for example even in your course journal we did not say what is a good course journal we just said that course journal is it should be a process there should be a starting time whenever you record you should note the date and time and you can write your course journal as you wish so all these activities are actually making you for making you to do higher order thinking evaluate what all plans of action would work in your college evaluate why your students analyze your students what is most interesting for them when will they listen to you when will they be motivated to come and visit your webpage you should be giving us these answers rather than i telling you this is how you do it because there is no one correct answer president murli i hope you understood the activity i can't get you sir you you understood the answer right ah yes yes actually for example through some special classes you can able to make the student to visit their webpage like that yes you can you can no issues so the plan of action should come from you rather than i telling this is the plan of action i have just stated a problem and i have said two ways in which this problem could be solved now as a remote center it is up to you to tell me how you are planning to do the solving of the problem and this is why it is a group activity it is there could be multiple ways in which you would you can do it and within an rc i want all of you to discuss various strategies through which you could actually do this and identify one best strategy yes yes yes okay yeah uh so before uh uh proceeding to the next interaction i will have uh dr samir sir join me because we are talking of uh visual presentation of information in terms of webpage as well so you would have all of you would have listened to his lectures on visual presentation skills where he talked of slides now this is another entity webpage is another entity through which you are actually visually presenting the information so i will have dr samir sir they give you some guidelines on uh how to do your web pages make it more effective make information transmission more easier uh within this particular project activity so over to dr samir so do not worry if you have any questions uh we are uh what you can do is you can use the question tab you can post your questions what we will do is over the next one hour we will answer your questions and we will be uploading that in the iit bomb x webpage iit bomb x course page as answers to the questions okay and we will also share the document that has been currently uploaded in the course handouts so you can download it from there yeah uh good afternoon to all of you i i can i was uh witnessing some interactions and i was also uh happy to see these groups assembled at various places in the true spirit of blended mode uh i hope people who are listening to the questions are making notes of the answers given so that their own queries will be sorted with that the uh particular activity of the webpage uh and what uh jai krishnan just now said that it requires some kind of application level thinking so a lot of websites and web pages are enabled with templates and it's only a matter of choosing the right template when it comes to creating a webpage however template also gives you choices to customize and that's where a lot of people either forget or they are unable to make the right choices by which you can see a website having too many pictures located at such positions where when we want to actually read something we can't see anything and we just see a big picture completely on the website and such uh what i call is that non-user friendly websites is a very common site now um given the given the one point that uh all of you are not web designers there is a huge chance of such things happening so we thought we will just take few queries about the problems you face in that and also give some guidelines so that you all are um at least aware of the hiccups which can come in between so i was going through some of the core journal pages and some block pages what people have done and it's a interesting effort i i know that many of you have done this for the first time in your life so there are double jumps there it's about writing plus creating so i can understand the hiccups however i have some observations to make for example many of you think of the contactors page as a landing page where people can talk to you and you are providing the contacts now there are various ways of sharing that for example you can give your uh contact numbers and address and all that or email address whatever but the people have tried creating a form by which you can type in your the the visitor to your website can contact you by sending a message this is a very good way of uh what you can say non-intrusive contact where you are not bothered by some phone calls but the visitor gets a chance to talk to you the issue here from the visual design perspective is that many of you wanted to give some kind of a visual appeal to the page and in the course of that i see whenever i click on that contact page i see a big picture of a person holding a telephone or something which is hogging almost 75 percent of the screen and somewhere down below there is a uh form which has your name and your query and then submit button now the problem is that the uh when you do such a design you have to ensure that people have come here for a particular task and if that task is not seen there they may go back and you are losing the opportunity of interaction so your visual design always have to solve the purpose of the visitor or the user so my point is that when you create a design please sit back and try to look at it from the visitor's perspective once again before if you were the user and you were the visitor of this website and you come to such a website where you have a button called contact us the immediate thing you would like to do is insert some content and try to contact that person but in case you see some kind of a big picture there which is having no relevance on that and that is where i have explained in my video this kind of a graphic is called decorative graphic which will just take you away from the content but not support you in actually interacting but there are many such things which you yourself can start finding out i think i will just announce at this point that if you have a query on this you can either send it on text in a chat or you can raise the hand which i would like to take as some of the queries but okay i think some things are already popping up how can we create a web page name of our own choice in wordpress okay so this is slightly related to the ip the way wordpress so wordpress by the way is again the same thing like gmail or a proprietary entity so they will definitely have their own clauses so they will give you options that is where you see people are not able to get the names they want to end that wordpress.com will always be attached at the end so that you can't help it can you add time transcript to current videos so time transcripts you can you will have to use appropriate software or you will have to give timings see it is a feature of the open edx or iot bombayx of having time transcripts it will not be possible in other players if the transfer youtube also has time transcripts but it has to be inserted you have to manually use the timings when you actually insert such kind of time transcripts there are certain softwares but it is paid and it is not completely free i saw some query now which is from one four no in the question mark no in the users list this one one four zero six one four two six rc one four two six integral college integral university Lucknow hello hello good afternoon sir good afternoon first of all thank you from our university yeah you are audible for providing us with such a beautiful opportunity so we can learn a lot sir my question is i want to ask as we know between traditional teaching and this teaching through icity or using computers of these technology the very important difference is that this using technology is very costly so i want to ask that it's a phase where we are changing we have not yet changed completely and we have not yet moved completely to the icity phase so i want to ask whatever investment we are doing in by for these processes so what are the what is the likely time when we can get the return properly because if i'm saying that recorded lectures are very much useful we can use it for future reference this is the main advantage but as the things are changing rapidly so to what extent that recorded lectures are also need to be updated so i want to ask it up to what level up to what time we can get the proper return of these investment we are doing ma'am can you tell me your name sir divya panjwani okay so professor divya has a question about where till what time you can expect returns now professor divya can i ask you one more question now i hope you you have students in your classroom right so my question is when can you expect a return from a student once you start providing knowledge to him it's in a whole ministry is there ministry of hr dc so human development it's a continuous process okay there is not a particular time but still i want i want to ask related with the financial cost see education is not a process where you put in money and you expect returns it will take time it will take a lot of time so technologies are changing so i mean we are of a philosophy where we strictly do not go into returns of education i mean returns of investment returns of investment is in a process which is a business where you treat commodities where you utilize commodities etc for a very specific purpose which is let's say utilitarian purpose but education is not a utilitarian purpose and you cannot i mean it is our philosophy that you cannot give connotations like return of investment on technology that you spend return of investment about the technology that you put it depends on multiple factors so how how things are yeah i think you also answered it in your answer to jai krishna's question so you said that it is a human resource development activity and it is perpetual so we are just extrapolating it right now on our side to the human resource which is teachers so in case it is in your case it is students but in our case it is teachers and exactly the same way ministry of hrd has given this task that okay if you want to upgrade the faculty of the country what are the majors of doing it and the government is investing in such initiatives with a return on investment thinking that the quality of faculty will increase because of this exercise because they believe in this they are pumping in money into this and we see the results when the faculty develop faculty actually starts utilizing new techniques of teaching in their own classrooms so this is this is kind of the same same answer what you just gave for the students applies here that is one and second like why i agree what jai krishna was saying that it is it is not a business model here at all and that is the reason we are releasing everything in open source but yes governments can afford to do that probably my businessman cannot afford to do that and then you have that is why you have people like by juice and you have so many online teaching mechanisms where they'll say they'll you take one week for free and if you want a entire semester then you have to pay for it and that's where their return starts so it's a there are two complete different places i think government has to have this people centric approach where they take taxes from people and they give something back in some form this is one form of it one suggestion sir because we have not yet reached to the level of uploading the videos like sir is since day one we are going through the videos of sir so we are not yet been taught up to that level so whenever we'll be going to that level one suggestion is there that apart from using hard skills some soft skills like how to give a lecture that thing should also be given importance along with using technology because at one level if a teacher has understood properly how that person has to use the technology because in that in higher education every course is not providing like what we are having in this b8 course yeah how teachers should be trained so those soft skills should be given little bit more importance also along with teaching up to that level and yeah so yeah thank you for that comment so i completely appreciate that comment and i really value it because the comment was that along with video creation so this week we are you are actually going to do video creation using your own computers and in that one important we have started with visual presentation because you will be doing creating slides and doing a screencast of those slides that is why we have given focus on visual presentation because that is one important skill that you would require while creating videos the additional point that ma'am mentioned right now was you should also look at soft skills that are required for a teacher like presence and other things i will try to get some guidelines or at least additional videos which actually talks of how to do good videos video recording how should you present yourself etc in as additional lxts or learning extensions within the course in two to three days times yeah i think it is very valid point and we will definitely take note of that in fact is visual presentation skills two set of lectures was part of the same initiative and you can see that there are there is a need for giving such things so thank you very much can we now go to wal chan right yeah yeah we will go to wal chan institute you can see sunita madam there also good afternoon good afternoon i'm professor lobo from wal chan institute of technology going as a participant for this particular workshop and i'm highly delighted that after almost 29 years we are having such a course which we had to embed active teaching and now active teaching with ict it's really a great experience that we are having doing the three weeks assignments and having a discussion forum to discuss all these things i truly believe that in this 30 years something called as embedded teaching was really necessary to make things in the classroom very interesting and to draw the attention of students now we come across a particular situation that you are teaching us the best visual presentation activities and creation of the videos of our own and the experience has really made us to use this particular session at very miniature level in our classrooms before but really learn the technical depth in this particular workshop so i congratulate iit bombay for having such a session and where we teachers who have crossed 50 years of age still feel things interesting for our remaining career in life thank you thank you for the comment professor lobo we'll now so two important things the person who started the session from our side he is much more motivated about technology than any one of us so i still see professor Deepak Phattak working with new technologies looking at how technologies work and that has been an inspiration for each and every one of us and that is also one reason that we feel that this this will transcend age this course will transcend age domain or any such kind of criteria that we set across in standard teaching learning practice so thank you professor lobo we'll have time for just one more query right now for all the institutions who have queries regarding the word webpage activity the group activity please do not worry what we are going to do is we are going to share a google document with all of you where you can first you have to do is create your own rc wordpress webpage i mean it could be a plain web page no need of three three four menus as of now just give the link of the wordpress webpage and ensure that there is the list of participants and their domains are listed in your wordpress webpage so that others can connect to you and each of you can discuss through the comment feature in wordpress so there are a lot of queries by participants on how to link web pages how to link blogs etc i know that there are a lot of participants in amongst you who know the answers what i want is let the each of these rcs should discuss these questions among themselves and if they are not able to find answer they should now message the other rcs through the web pages and discuss these questions now that is posted and posted in the discussion forum also under queries so if you go to discussion forum click on queries post this question in the discussion forum and people who know the answer please go ahead and answer it i will just use one last college this is rc 1398 ssp m college of engineering okay we can't see you and we can't hear you yeah okay now we got it yeah rc 1398 uh rc 1398 i'm i'm unable to hear you can you speak slightly louder professor i'm not able to hear your voice uh can you do one thing can you present the content as a blog uh okay so the question uh from uh rc 1398 is uh uh when you create a blog what should what videos what should we discuss now uh the idea is that there are a lot of NPTEL videos available so first you have to find an NPTEL video in your own domain so if you do not have an NPTEL video in your domain identify any video which is in creative commons okay so this video you have to search and find now the activity is not to create your own video the activity is to create lbd's and lxt's lbd is learning by doing activity and lxt is learning extensions with assimilation quiz so you have to put lbd's and lxt's in your blog so i hope i have answered your query what i'll do to each rc right now is i'll share the google doc link once i've created it that link will be uploaded in iit bombay x website under week three you can go and edit that particular google doc and upload your rc webpage link yeah i think uh we are uh i think that can take this particular steps i have only two points to share especially in the website design aspect the first and important point uh you should have a story or the steps in which the visitor should read your website so if you feel that the visitor should see my heading first or the title of my blog first then that should be so prominent that the visitor will not miss it out if you feel that my first post would be the most important thing that they should read then that should be going on remember the visitors mostly in india read from left to right and top to bottom i'm saying that because there if you talk about arabic web pages then it would be the other way around but yeah in english and other indian languages mostly except urdu we have left to right and top to bottom so remember this rule and whatever you post in your web page has to have this process people are definitely going to start from left top and then come to right bottom now in case you design your things in such a way that there is some huge attractive point at the center of the web page then it is most likely that people will not read whatever was written at the top so uh remember that the learners will have or the visitors will definitely go from top to bottom and left to right that is number one number two is that when you are posting on the discussion forum the links of your web pages i see a lot of people writing comments like very good effort very good design very good excellent and all the other things which is not actually helping you to understand the kind of effort you have put in so what is the effect of that i suggest when you put that thing you put a pointed question itself in the discussion forum so here is the website link and then you again put in the second line you say that what is your comment about the photos i have used which other photos i could have used can you see the content clearly is the font readable such kind of questions you can ask instead of just posting the link so you'll get some constructive feedback instead of just excellent and very good and all that thing which is good which as a creator i feel very nice when people appreciate my efforts but in case you want to do it better my suggestion is that ask a corollary to that posting saying that comment on xyz that xyz is quite uh variable so you don't have to worry about that and the third part which uh which we saw when the queries were coming in and i agree with jai krishnan that for most of the queries you will have answers within yourselves or the rc next to you probably so when i remember during my phd i was planning to type it out in latik and i did not know latik i think the first or third meeting i met my guide and i said i am not able to get this function it is not getting uh in the format i want to and my guide told me samir i am here to tell you how to write your thesis but it doesn't mean that you should ask me about indentation and alignment and all that that is your problem go out and search and come back with that document that's all i want i'm not going to take a class on latik now and that actually opened my eyes because if i have the time with my guide prime time with my guide where i can discuss my content i can discuss my direction of the thesis the flow of the thesis the statistics and i waste it in asking the question of okay how to do this command in latik then i think i am making a mistake uh i would like to request all of you that this interaction session again which professor fatigue has been repeating time and again is not only about all of you talking to us it is also about all of you talking to each other and across each other so utilize this time and these days to spend time with each other and get knowledge from each other about things which you don't know so there would be definitely people and in fact some of you may have students who have this knowledge also and it is no harm in getting them uh involved for asking such questions probably you will have one of the best websites because of the collective knowledge you have there rather than samir doing a website on his own it's always better that i do it with the best practices available and learning from the people who are doing it so i think these are the three points i wanted to emphasize by the time i am speaking this jai krishna has already created the discussion i suppose yeah so what i'm going to do is yeah so related to rc web pages the web page list is a discussion forum thread now so you have to start posting that in in this thread now that would be one place where you will have all the web pages seen there and i suppose that would be an interesting thread to see right so we have we have it already if there is any question pertaining directly to the visual design you can still mail us because now we will not have time for any interaction but you can mail us and as i said you have to extrapolate this knowledge of visual presentation to presentations like slide presentations or even web pages because the knowledge remains the same i will now just stop here yeah so what i'm going to do is so if you actually look into the discussion forum i have uploaded the rc web page sharing document i am also going to post it in this chat please share your rc web pages in this particular link it's bit.ly slash rcwp underscore fdp101 and it has also been uploaded in the discussion forum i have posted that in the chat now if you actually look at all discussions or the general discussion you can see that it has been posted at the top and just so if you actually look at general this has been uploaded right on top and it has been a pinned post so you don't have to respond back to this particular post that is fine reply is also fine but ensure that all of you access this particular document and you upload your what do you say the rc's web page link so if you actually click on this what you will see is google doc and suppose this is your rc you will have to yeah so rc125.wordpress.com somebody's so the rc125 is already created it once you create it please press enter so that the others can go ahead and write below you so one more thing is they are hyperlinking it pretty good this will enable them to click and then directly go to the rc125 i'll just quickly go to rc125's web page this is from rcbms college oh this was their previous years fdp thing this is really good i mean you have initially found out where you had so people who have asked so they have a tab for innovations so they are posting about it they have a home page last year we had an activity in rc where they had put up answers so any questions that were asked in previous fdp you can find all those answers here oh it's a excel sheet they have created an excel sheet with all the answers see these are ways in which you can actually find out so any queries and other things that people have asked they have put it up as an excel yeah so there are lot of things over there there are questions that are being asked so many questions about future content in this fdp is also being there in this particular page there is an about page there is a contact page so what you have to do is you have to add one NPTEL page in addition to the ones that are existing so that others can go and look at your videos and you will be presenting this to your colleagues tomorrow so that is it from iit bombay for today please join us tomorrow please join us tomorrow morning at 9 30 we will be joining you tomorrow morning at 9 30 what we will also do is we will be monitoring the discussion forum that is there and also all all the document that we have uploaded so we will be providing occasional feedback to the comments so we will use google's comments and other features to give you feedback as well as also tell you more about if there are any major queries but primarily we want all rcs to discuss with each other in case of queries and within an rc each of you will have to discuss with others the number does not matter all whatever be the number this is a single group activity of the rc so whether it is one person or hundred person all of them have to be equally involved in this particular rc activity because your rc's webpage will contain your wordpress webpage link also so that is all from it bombay for today so in the afternoon what you will be doing is you will be doing the group activity of creating the wordpress webpage and allocating individually doing it in your own wordpress webpage and as a group you will be discussing about what is the best plan of action within your rc for disseminating whatever you have created so additionally what I would want what I will do is I will enable download of this particular document from avu so you can okay so I have enabled download of this document from the avu I will also upload this in iit bombay x under course handouts so wish you all a great group discussion time make sure that you complete this activity because tomorrow we will start with presentation of this particular activity across rc's thank you and please do this from 2 o'clock or 2 30 to 5 30 within your rc no so you do not need to be online in avu to do this activity because this is an independent activity that you have to do we will be monitoring the iit bombay x discussion forums and the google doc page to check for a major queries or concerns from your site if we see that no rc has not responded we will respond to you in the discussion forum itself so any queries you can post in the discussion forum okay thank you all over and out and I thank the workshop team and the studio team who have been patiently here till 1 30 without forgetting their lunch go ahead have your lunch we will see you tomorrow exactly at 9 30 remote center coordinators please connect to the avu right from 9 o'clock so that we will start the session exactly at 9 30 thank you