 So, good afternoon. From today onwards, we start working as teams for many of our activities. Of course, all individuals are expected to go through the course material and do the quizzes, online quizzes individually, but there will be several activities which will be done by groups of people. You remember the brochure itself had said that you will have to do a team submission at the end of the online portion of them. Well, today we will talk briefly about the teamwork and the kind of teams that need to be formulated for our FDP. First, let us look at some very generic things about the teamwork. All of them are known to us, so it is just a recapitulation. First and foremost, usually done by a group of people who could be members of a family or a class of students or even staff members in a section of an office. Please note the differences. The collaborative work is facilitated when a class of students meets. For example, in asynchronous activities such as a lecture in the class, there could be collaboration through asynchronous mechanism such as collaboration through emails. The nature of collaborative work could be either prescriptive or voluntary. Whether done in asynchronous mode or asynchronous mode, it is important to understand whether the work is prescriptive or the work is voluntary. So, let us just understand what these two things mean. For example, staff members working together in a section of an office. Can we say that they collaborate voluntarily? Well, in any collaboration there is always an element of voluntary nature of a human being, but often such collaboration is prescribed by the need of the organiser. So, staff of a section in an office will collaborate also because not just because they are volunteering to work together, but also because they are required to do so. A class of students on the other hand may work together or may not work together. There may be groups and subgroups formed who may discuss a particular problem, but when a teacher is enforcing a common synchronous event such as a discussion in the class, then everybody is required to participate in it. Similarly, if you take educational activities whenever there is a team assignment, the team of members is supposed to work together and that is part prescriptive, part voluntary. For example, we often ask our students to form teams. Now, this part is voluntary. So, they decide which are the people who are like minded or who can work together to form a team. However, once a team is formed the teacher will say alright this team shall do this activity. This is the kind of nature of the collaborative work that happens in any organiser. Towards the end of this FDP, we are going to talk about building and nurturing collaborative community which is a much larger vision and much larger thing, but as a precursor to that and of course as a requirement of this FDP, we are saying that we will start doing teamwork right from now. So, let us look at what is required to be done as far as this FDP is concerned. First and foremost all of you participating from an RC are required to form teams. A team to comprise 2 to 4 participants. So, there can be 3 participants, but there should not be more than 4 participants and there should not be less than 2 participants and more importantly that teams must be of those participants which are participating from a given RC. That means membership of the team across remote centres is not permitted as far as this FDP is concerned. I would like in fact the first lab session today to be spent on A the team formation and B the work that has to be done by the team. This work will be related to the Moodle thing that you have done. There is a site called demo.net on which each individual can practice. I believe we had given this identity of the URL to people and many people would have practiced it. The difference is that in today's lab session you have to work in teams. So, if there is a team of 3 people for example, all 3 people should work together. In the first session they should work together to do the prescribed assignment on paper. In the second session they should use demo.net and establish whatever is to be required to be done and do that as team work. Let me explain the composition of team in some more details. First of all each team has to have a team leader. This will not be imposed by the FDP or workshop coordinator, but the 2, 3 or 4 people who come together have to choose a leader from amongst themselves. Ideally the team formation should be such that these team members should be able to meet at least occasionally or once in a while physically together for brief meeting. Of course, there is not a compulsory thing that all people must belong to the same city or same institution. If they are from different cities or different institutions they can collaborate only using asynchronous mechanisms such as emails. We will prescribe the collaborative mechanism in more details tomorrow when I meet you again. The team to conclude is expected to interact in face to face meetings such as the occasion of this face to face interaction. For example, and they must also use other asynchronous mechanism. There could be a shared server or emails etcetera. What is most important is a team is collectively responsible for the activities that are done by all members of the team. So, team leader as the representative of the team will be doing single submissions. The first submission to be done by team leader is the membership of the team itself. For example, if I am chosen or elected as a team leader by a team of 4 people then the first thing I must inform the FDP coordinators which is my workshop coordinator is that look I am so and so this is my email ID and I have with me these 3 other colleagues or members. So, 4 of us form the team and I am the team leader. Now, this prescription of in what format you should prescribe or you should give the information about your team will be put up on the on the moodle which you can look at when you go to the site in the afternoon. But what is most important is that the exercises that will have to be done by the team have to be done collaboratively. I will have a lot more to speak on on the collaboration tomorrow. So, I have one more slide to show these teams which are formed are not arbitrarily formed. These teams shall work not only for the assignment or the lab work today. They will also work for all such team assignments in the coming weeks of this FDP including the final submission that has to be made. So, please remember this team formation is an important activity and once you form a team that team remains the team for rest of the FDP including the final submission. Now, obviously the activities that people will do will pertain to some domain. As all of you are aware in the first 4 weeks you already identified domains of work. Now, these domains are the fields of education that we talk of have been listed they are listed further in the next slide. So, these are the domains that have been written here. Please see that the domains numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 have already been listed earlier. We have added one more domain here which is code numbered 0 which is educational technology. Why we have added this? There may be some teams which instead of working on a specific area of engineering or science or architecture or any such specific domain they might work they might wish to work generically on use of educational technology. It could be related to pedagogy, it could be related to any educational technology activity. If they wish to do that then they should identify themselves as working for domain code 0. You may choose any domain for the activity today that need not necessarily remain your domain for the other team activities. However, we would prefer that you and your team sticks to a particular domain for rest of the work so that you can collaboratively work together. To conclude in the first session in the lab session today you have to spend some time in deciding on team membership. I must advise you on one possible problem. I understand that some of our colleagues are not able to attend the session today many of them have indicated so by email. However, I presume that these participants who are not able to attend are well known to at least several other participants in the group that is working at a particular remote center. I will therefore suggest that the team formation should include in even those people who are today not present for some reason or the other. If a particular person is absent of course that we will know from the attendance that is submitted by the workshop coordinator, but the team formation as far as possible should include these people. In the exceptional case where nobody is familiar with a person who is missing such a person who is missing the session today or even tomorrow is required to interact with the workshop coordinator and get oneself enrolled as part of one of the teams. The team leaders therefore, should be open to have one or two additions to their team. To this extent to retain the flexibility I would suggest that the initial team formation should not exceed three people wherever feasible. Of course, I leave it to your own discussions that will happen in the first part of the lab session today. So, to recapitulate firstly you will form teams. Secondly, you will identify the domain in which the teams are going to work now and subsequent. The second part of the lab session requires you to work collectively on a link that has been given for the Moodle Lord demo. In the first session you have to actually set up a quiz that assignment is being uploaded. So, all of you can read that when you log in for your lab session. Basically, we want you to create a multiple choice quiz in a particular domain that you have chosen for your team. This work has to be done jointly. Please note setting up multiple choice questions to test the thinking and understanding of a student is not an easy job and that is why I want you to spend time working on paper and working collaboratively. So, if I am a member of the team of three persons for example, and we have chosen the domain computer science or we have chosen the domain of electronics which is part of the electrical and allied fields. Then three of us will sit together and decide what should be the specific topic on which we should set this quiz. Then after choosing that topic we should do a paper design. Each one can contribute one or two questions and we should actually come up with a set of questions which will comprise the final quiz. Once we do this paper work in the second lab session we have to work collectively. We might be working on different machines if we want to, but finally the team leader should ensure that all questions that you have decided in the quiz are put together on the demo.net thing and you just take one screenshot of the final quiz. That screenshot will be uploaded only by the team leader. One more submission that has to be done is that the team leader is required to submit to the workshop coordinator. The members of the team giving certain details which shall be outlined. The format will be outlined. All of you are required to fill up in that format and the workshop coordinators are requested to upload that format for their entire remote center inclusive of all participants by the end of the day today along with the attendance submission that they do. So, all the best for this beginning of a very serious collaborative activity. There is just two points that I would like to mention. Number one, instructions for labs have been uploaded on the Moodle. So, when you assemble after the lunch please go through those instructions and work accordingly. Second, an excel file to be uploaded by the remote center coordinator or the workshop coordinator will also be available on Moodle. So, workshop coordinator has to download that file. All other participants should see that file because that is the format in which they have to give the submission. Please note that you have to give specifically the domain number that is the code number. You do not have to write the discipline name in details because this codification has now been standardized. Please also note that such codification is an extensible codification because tomorrow there might be more domains. Second and most important point please note that there are sub domains in each of these. Now, these sub domains have not yet been standardized, but someday we will have to provide a codification for the sub domain. Now, you will choose a specific sub domain today which you will just incorporate as one in piece of information and keep it with yourself. We will collect the list of such domains independently from you through a separate mechanism. You do not worry about the sub domains now, but please decide on that sub domain because the quiz that you will formulate for example will necessarily be part of sub domain. To give an example, suppose I have chosen computer science as my topic and my team is going to set let us say a quiz questions on some simple programming commands such as assignment or some programming feature such as sequence of commands, conditional execution and iteration. Now, these are commonly referred to as simple control structures in which case my sub domain will become simple control structures in programming. Now, this is not an identified one in my list here. So, obviously this will have to be named by the team as a separate input whenever you set up a quiz you can put that in your title and that will be automatically captured in your screenshot. So, please go ahead enjoy your lunch and please start working collaboratively. I will once again repeat a first part of the lab you have to first identify your friends and forms into teams. Teams must not be more than 4 must not be less than 2. Each team has to select a team leader. This information has to be independently submitted in the form of an excel sheet which the workshop coordinator or remote center coordinator will collect and then will upload. Second this team in the first half itself should immediately start working on a selected sub domain which they themselves will select and formulate a quiz jointly. In the second lab session, this jointly formulated quiz will then be set up on the demo dot net for which instructions have already been given. So, I am requesting my colleagues to upload these instructions on the AVU interface also. So, that the this could be downloaded even later at any point. Thank you so much. See you tomorrow.