Wikimedia training at Seedac College of Arts and Science

We are excited to announce that we recently held a successful Wikipedia editing training workshop for graduate students at Seedac College of Arts and Science, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad,Kerala. The session was inaugurated by the college director, Mr. Shabeer, and was attended by 20 enthusiastic students. The workshop provided valuable hands-on experience for the participants, who learned how to edit and create Wikipedia articles. We believe that empowering students with the skills to contribute to the world's largest online encyclopedia is an important step in fostering digital literacy and promoting knowledge sharing. We are grateful to all the participants and the college leadership for their support of this important initiative.

The event page is given here

Effective Question preparation- MCQ

1. Can we see the MCQ is defective ?

MCQ has 2 parts.

1 Stem ( question part)

2 Alternatives ( options)

Plausible distractors

https://testing.byu.edu/handbooks/14%20Rules%20for%20Writing%20Multiple-Choice%20Questions.pdf 

Refer to the incorrect  / inferior alternatives

Identify commons errors of student thinking or application.

Principles of MCQ construction

1. The stem should be meaningful - https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/writing-good-multiple-choice-test-questions/

Uses of assessment data to improve learning

always keep learning it keeps you young - Patty Berg

Useful websites

Edpuzzle.com

https://edpuzzle.com/ 

https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/3-great-alternatives-to-zaption

https://get.plickers.com/

https://www.tes.com/lessons/dashboard

https://ed.ted.com/

http://www.classtools.net/  ( https://www.classtools.net/SMS/ )

https://quizlet.com/latest  ( First let them read the glossary , then using quizlet you can shows flashcards )

Planning and implementing effective lessons

Planning and implementing effective lessons

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Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional- Roger Crawford.

What will students learn? Planning.

Topic & Sub topic:

Too much? Too less?

Have they learnt this before?

What is the new learning here?

How do you know?

A lightning talk on Wikipedia at PMSM

A lightning talk was organised by PMSM students who study for journalism . There was a short presentation on wikipedia .Mr.Kamarudhin Elankur welcomed the function.

Wikimedia workshop 2019 - Bukhari College

It is immense pleasure to find out time to organise and lead wikimedia workshops for students and teachers in India. This year we organise a one day workshop at Kondotty Bukhari College .The workshop will be covered major Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes etc. The expecting participants are graduate students at the same college. This event is organized by Wikimedians of Kerala in associations with the Bukhari College Kondotty. 

I have created its event page. It is available here

• Introduction to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• How to edit in Wikipedia
• Create a new article in Wikipedia
• Introduction to Wikisource
• Add content in Wikisource
• Introduction to Commons
• How to add photographs into commons
• Licenses of Photographs and Articles
• Introduction to Wiktionary, Wikiquote
• Introduction to Wikidata

After the programme.

Departmental Feedback session - Term 1

CBSE Workshop

A training session was conducted by principal forum of CBSE in UAE at Habitat School

Almost all – 90%

most 75%- 90 %

Large majority – 61- 74 %

Minority – 50% t…

Attainment for good rating. ( Expectations )

The majority of students achieve above CBSE and International standard.

ASSET, IBT .. progress. - Majority. If it is more than 75% then it is outstanding.

We need to have 3 years of data of this.

Progress

It is important than attainment.

Entry Level test ( ELT / Baseline tests ) then Pts result – comparison.

40 minutes class – Beginning og the class what was students level,

after the class what is the level.

In a class room there will be minimum 4 groups.

Low achiever, middle achiever, high achiever and Special Education Needs (SEND).

These all groups should get progress after the class.

Participation in Second Academic Retreat

Theme: To Remain Where We Are, We need to Run Fast. Are we doing that?
On the 2nd of June 2018, the Corporate Academic Division of my school organized a follow up session of the Academic Retreat that was earlier held on 2 May 2018. The venue was the school auditorium. The session started at 10 am and ended by 2: 15 pm.
The objective of the session was to refine academic processes, set quality milestones, review existing performance, knowing that self-assessment and setting milestones is the key to organizational success.
Method: Was Introspective, Interactive, Intensive supported by online live questionnaire and live analysis
Some of the sessions included were,
1. Review of School leadership vision
2. Review of challenges in front
3. Review Actions points of first academic retreat
4. Review of works assigned to the teacher and quality of teaching
5. Communication
6. MOE Inspection
7. Review of basic academic administration
8. Grade 10 Result Analysis

TCI Workshop by Dr. Thomas Abraham

Trainer : Dr. Thomas Abraham

Class Audio is available here Part- I

Part -2

 Celebration of Diversity

TCI Workshop

Founder - Ruth Charlotte Cohn

Ruth Charlotte Cohn (born August 27, 1912 in Berline was a psychotherapist, educator, and poet. She is best known as the creator of a method for learning in groups called Theme Centered Interaction (TCI).

Structure and Method

1. Input 2. Reflective Silence 3. Journaling 4. Interaction

Introductory Remark

1. One Prayer 2. Five Wishes 3. Opportunities

Prayer

The song I came to sing!

- Rabindranath Tagore

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;
only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.
The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor;
but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.
I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.
-Rabindranath Tagore in the Gitanjali

My 5 Wishes

• Tp Workshop (Turning Point )
• 2 / 3 Article
• Share at home
• I would like to come for next
• Quotation

Teacher is a person is more important than Teacher as a Resource Person

Where am I ?

Where do I want to be ?

What are my first steps ?

We have three powers

1. Qualification ( Professional Power)
2. Positional Power
3. Personal Power

• It is very important
• We remember the persons on the basis of this
• Eg : APJ Kalam

WHERE IN LIVES MY PERSONAL POWER ?

THHE KEYWORD OF HABITAT ?

Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970 

To retain in your position , you have to be constantly updating.

Learning Journaling

Record your Personal growth

Thoma's Book – Footprints of my personal growth.

The World that stays closest to my heart.

My Mother

How did I become who I am today ?

By Nature

By Nurture

Write a person who influenced you that person that I am

“Father “

The Teacher Who influenced me most while in School

Hareesh

I have only Myself

I have only this life on earth

The Future generation & Teachers

What will be the role of teachers in future ? Can we call them teachers ? Now most of the educators tell that we can call them "facilitator".
Currently there are a lots of changes in educational sector.

We can see it in different ways. Method of Teaching, Learning Activities, Evaluation etc. Again there are many changes is going to happen in the filed of education. One of them will be Google Class Room.

Today we had an opportunity to participate in a workshop which was conducted by brams along with Google on “Innovate Education with Google” at Duabi. The event highlighted on creating awareness on Google for Education among teachers. There were around 30 teachers from various educational institutes around UAE.
I think our next main changes in innovative education will be Google class room with Google Apps. Teachers / Institutions can't limit our students thoughts and knowledge.

According to Google, more than 50 million number of students and teachers who use Google Apps for Education around the globe. Bogdan Copil lead a good workshop. 

Google Apps is an online solution that bridges the divide between learning at home or at school. It offers the opportunity for collaboration to happen in real time, irrespective of physical or digital location.

During this days some of my colleagues asked me-
Then What will be the role of teachers in future ? Can we call them teachers ? As a result of a lots of changes in educational sector the teacher name has replaced to facilitator .

Equipping this generation of learners with modern tools makes sense. This is why many schools are adopting Google Apps for Education, an extraordinary platform for the 21st Century.

The Event Page  

IGNITING STUDENT MINDS

Yesterday evening at Hotel Grant Plaza auditorium ,Dubai ,we could attend to participate in a Teachers workshop which was organised by P. M Foundation in association with Gulf Madhyamam. Dr. APM Muahammed Haneesh gave a inspirational lecture on “Igniting Student Minds”.

 Students , Parents and Teachers jointly partipated in this session.

How can we ignite the students mind ?

There are number of students in our school with different talents . Unfortunately teachers are worried about their much documentation works and lack of time . Due to this teaching becoming mechanical. In this context how can they inspire and trigger out the curiosity of students? Shared by some teachers who attended this workshop.

Haneesh quoted the story of AlbertEinstein. His teachers reported that he was mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.”Einstein was regarded as the greatest intellectual mind of our time.

Students as well as parents also had to share a lots of things. They commented on Who is a good Teacher?

Some important points I have noted in this lecture are following.

• Provide more opportunity
• Students come to class room with great expectation
• Motivate independent inquiry
• Forums are to be formed
• Beyond the class room we need forum. Eg: Reading club,Astronomy club
• Do we have opportunity to meet the students future plan ?
• If there is a extra ordinary students, how can we ignite them ?
• Tell them to read deeply
• Give them gentle words ( Support)
• Teachers shoud be “friend, Philosopher and Guide”
• A good teacher hungry to be succeeded
• Good rapport and relation like triangular . Students- Parent – Teacher

 His talk was truly inspirational to us. The valuable thoughts shared by them were fully imbibed the minds of students, parents as well as teachers. Many valuable thoughts shared by him.