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Course Overview Week 1, Moving from Physical to Online Classrooms Week 2, Web Presence for Teachers Week 3, Learning Management Systems Week 4, Creating your own Video Resources Week 5, Putting it all together

Week 1 was an introductory week where learners have been familiarized with the format of the course, and the basic pedagogy and how various features of IITBombayX can be used for achieving this. Week 2 was focused on web presence of the faculty. The larger goal was to familiarize learners with the content management systems that are available online and the technology of WordPress was discussed in detail. Along with this, learners have been introduced to another technology - Drupal, that is increasingly becoming a popular choice for creation of multifunctional websites.

Week 3 focused on learning management which goes beyond mere content management. And learners learnt the MOODLE, an open source Learning Management Systems. Week 4 focused on a tool for audio-video content creation - Camstudio for screen casting. The practice activity in Week 4 focused on creating a screencast in learners own vernacular language and 2 session of mentor-mentee interactions through A-VIEW.

Week 5:The final week was focused on the application of the skills that have learnt during the past four weeks. Thus, if we try to summarize the learning purposes and technologies that learners were exposed to in this FDP till now, we will get this detailed list.

Self-Exploration Resources What is Internet? Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo) defines the Internet at three distinct levels: 1. Level 1– The Internet is a network that interconnects billions of people online. 2. Level 2 – The Internet is a set of protocols to make successful communication between all the nodes, routers, gateways, etc. 3. Level 3 – The Internet is all about connecting people around the globe for sharing of their content, media, instant messages, etc.

The Internet – How it Works! Video from Hasse Nilsson, Internet Foundation in Sweden explains “How internet Works?” Internet has been around us in the form of various electronic gadgets like desktop computer, laptops, mobile, tab, etc. Internet is largest network of cables and computers which exists all over the globe. Using it, we can transmit and receive information in the form of ones and zeros. • Web Pages and Websites Web browser is the most important software on our computer because every web page(s) can be accessed/ run through it.

Difference between webpage, website, web server, and search engine? 1. Web Page is a document which is displayed in a web browser. 2. Website is a collection of web pages that are connected together. 3. Web Server is computer that hosts a website on the internet. 4. Search Engine is a website that helps you find other web pages.

Tools for Website Creation Simple Website: 1. It has a simple menu and few pages. 2. Can be created using WordPress. • Multifunctional websites: 1. It has more pages with much deeper structured content. 2. Can be created using Drupal.

How to create simple website using WordPress 1. Go to website 2. Click Create the website 3. Choose the theme 4. Set the domain name 5. Create Username & Password for admin account 6. Click create

Customization in WordPress Steps to follow: 1. Login to WordPress 2. Go to My Site 3. Click customize on the right bottom 4. We can do the basic configurations like setting up the Title, Tagline, Logo, etc. or update it. 5. We can add widgets to website. Widget is a small application that runs in the website (like google map, twitter feeds, etc.)

Adding Content in WordPress Two main content types are 1. Blogs Blogs is a short form of web log. It is periodic content based on time. It is categorized by date of publish and keywords. 2. Page It is static page.

How to create a blog? 1. Go to admin panel. 2. Click on blog and add new blog 3. Give title and content for a blog 4. Click publish or automatically it will be saved as a draft for further modification

How to create a page 1. Go to admin panel. 2. Click on page and add new page 3. Add the content 4. Click publish

Drupal Drupal is open source and free Content Management System (CMS), developed by Dries Buytaert in 2000. It supports thousands of add-on features made up of PHP, Ajax and JavaScript. • Basic Page in Drupal 1. The basic page in Drupal is created by clicking add content and then selecting basic page. 2. Basic page has title, body, tags and images. 3. Each basic page has a Node ID and are not promoted to the front page by default, so it has a menu link.

MOODLE MOODLE is a popular Learning Management System (LMS) used by several academic institutions worldwide. Following are some of the basic features offered by MOODLE to a teacher: 1. Course Setup 2. Editing Sections 3. Adding Resources 4. Creating Assignments 5. Creating Discussion Forums 6. Creating Quizzes in MOODLE

Spoken Tutorial: Creating a Video Open Education Resource • Features of Spoken Tutorial 1. It teaches open source software through audio-video tutorials 2. License - CC BY-SA, Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 3. Available in all various Indian languages 4. Uses Side-by-side method

Some of the softwares used for making spoken tutorials are as follows, Screencasting 1. CamStudio (for Windows - open source software) 2. RecordmyDesktop (for Linux open - source software) 3. Kazam (for Linux) Editing 1. MovieMaker (for Windows) 2. OpenShot (for Linux)

What are the processes involved in creating a spoken tutorial? 1. Write the script 2. The script should First pass to the novice before its acceptance for recording 3. Record Timed script 4. Tutorial should be of less than 10 minutes The following non-GPL softwares are popularly used for Screencasting, 1. Screencast-o-matic 2. Techsmith Jing (for Windows and OSX) 3. Techsmith Camstatia (for Windows) 4. Quicktime (for OSX)

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Tools for Smart Classrooms Free and open source 1. Open Sankore for Interactive Whiteboards 2. Mediawiki for asynchronous collaborations 3. Github for collaborations particularly useful for CS Teachers Paid/ proprietary applications 1. ConceptBoard or Realtimeboard for realtime collaborations 2. Confluence by Atlassian as a team collaboration software