As a ClassDojo Ambassador

Today I had received an official mail from ClassDojo which tells that i have been selected as ClassDojo Ambassador at United Arab Emirate.It is so excited. Now I look forward to a wonderful school year with ClassDojo team.

Responsibilities and opportunities:

- Moderate Country-specific facebook group, regularly posting and keeping all members engaged

- Represent ClassDojo at education events when possible, including local training sessions or conferences

- Attend 2 ClassDojo virtual trainings per year to maintain top notch product knowledge :)

- Connect regularly with the ClassDojo Community Team within facebook group and over email

I have been received a new ClassDojo Ambassador Badge, as part of this.

One of my main responsibility as an Ambassador will be supporting and collaborating with teachers in this Community. It will be a great platform for discussing and sharing new ideas with other eminent teachers and educators around the globe. 

Thanks Class Dojo team who gave such a wonderful opportunity to me in IT enabled education.

Effective Teaching - Training

Today we had a good teaching training Programme at Habitat School.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar lead an intersting and motivation session. He is one of the famous trainer in UAE. Training was almost activity oriented. Topic was “Effective Teaching”

Date : 22/9/2016

Time : 2 PM to 4.20 PM

Venue : Habitat School Auditorium

Its lecture notes are following.

I am learner

1. I am a learner to learn is to change.

Our statement

Learning is a weapon which can change the world

2. Every Experience teaches me something

Our statement

Learn something from Everything

3. Every person I meet in my journey of life gives me lesson.

Our statement

Learning never ends

Theme – 2

Anybody would blossom if the atmosphere is suitable

Our statement

Environment has a key role in the development

Have a mind to explore various possibilities of the immediate surroundings

Our statement

We need to use whatever is available in that environment

See What is there rather than what is not there

Our statement

Find out and use what is available there .

Theme- 3

Activities

Pre Active	Inter Active	Post Active
Planning	Class Room interactive	Learning outcome

Class Room

What are the things are happening in our Class Room ? Can you list out

We listed like following. Later the discussion was on the basis of this points.

• Instruction
• Questions
• Presentation
• Using Learning Aids
• Jocks & Fun
• Appreciation etc

How can we ask question ?

How can I get answer from students ?

Before that , What are the purpose of asking question.

• To check realise or not
• To get attention
• To make them think about
• To motivate students
• To ensure pupil participation
• make more interactive
• to share different ideas.

Effective Questions

( Time was limit, We stopped writing )

Instruction

Simple, Clear, Precise, Effective </font>

From San Francisco to Ajman

Today we are happy.
We got a prize from USA.
Finally Class Dojo team has been sent a Poster as prize to me. Considering my mentor status and training programme.


 This is my prize and thing which I received from USA through postal service. My colleagues also amazed .
You got prize form USA !!! 😆
My colleague Mr. Shareef and students Amir and Ridwan assisted to paste this poster on our school news board .So they also joined to pose this photo.
Thanks Danise Olague.

Class Dojo Tutorail - How to Change images

This is a small video tutorial which explain the steps to change the images of students.

Class Dojo Training - Dojo Sir,, Dojo Sir,

Last few years I was observing and asking to different teachers on Class Management. I searched and read different kinds of printed books as well as E books from google to know more about Class Management. When I decided to fly to UAE my old collegues shared that, Out side of India, the class management will be very difficulty.

That was almost correct. Here in our schools there are multinational students. :-)

Especially Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, lNigeria etc. Everyone has their own distinctive culture. So I started to find an ICT based solution for class dojo. At last I reached in Class Dojo and Kyambu. I did not use Kyambu yet. It is also almost same. So as a pilot project I used Class Dojo.

During this time one of my close friend Mr. Noufal & Shafeeq also asked. What is it? I explained and they were thrilled to use. The very next day other five teachers also started under my school.Everyone was very happy. Because it worked very well.

My students even they were in grade 10 , accepted this in a good spirit. At last they named me Dojo Sir and my colleagues mocked at me as “Dojo Akbar”

When awarding points to groups, students quickly sharpened up their behavior and displayed teamwork! They hold each other accountable to make sure their group is behaved and on task. This makes my class room e much easier. Earliear I was giving points for their discipline, Oral test, Quiz, Note book completion as House wise.

To get students even more engaged with ClassDojo, I gave a cerficate monthly. At the end of each month , I would view reports and reward the team that earned the most points with either a technology party

I wished to spread this App to all my collegues. But I did not share this to anyone. In 2016 Augest 21 we came from our kerala after enjoying two months vacation. We had training programme until 28^th Augest. Once My Supervisor Mr. Vijesh told me to explain this Class Dojo to Prinicpal. I tried to introduce this Dojo to our honourable Principal named Mrs.Jisha Jayan. She was also thrilled and requested me to familiarize CD to all my colleagues. So we gathered at auditorium.

Somebody were scratching in their head. Does he bring another head ache for us. So I started my training in this contest. At last many teachers asked many doubts . It was amazing experience. Many teachers created new ID the same day. Now it has been covered more that 75.

PPT File 

Wikimedia in Education - WikiConference India 2016

I am happy to write this blog post. Participating in an international conference for Wikipedians is a wonderful experience. It is more rewarding when the conference is for Wikimedians to discuss and contribute new ideas related to wikimedia and other free open source. 

 I got scholarship to participate in WikiConference India 2016 Which held at Chandigarh group of College, Punjab. It was held on Aug 5,6,7. During this day I had a presentation on the topic Wikimediaas disciplinaryproject.
It was my first experience in my life as attending a national conference. Members from Bangladesh, Nepal, Israel, USA etc were participated in this conference.

ml.wiki Community participants with WMF

Executive Director Katherine Maher

I could build good friendship with many wikipedians from different parts of India. Currently they share many tips and new ideas with us. We were 14 members who represented from Malayalam Wikipedia. Active Wikipedian Vishwan was our team leader. He opened outer world of wiki to us.

On the first day, we began by an inauguration ceremony. Following to that there was a Punjabi traditional cultural programme was there. It was amazing.

There were sessions on hack thone, Wikidata, Wikipedia Asian month, Wiki source and School wiki, Taking Better Photographs Postcard Guide, many

other topics which dealt outreach in Wikiprojects.

All most all every session was a new learning experience. Mean while there was a edit a thone competition. It was a tight competition to create more article in regional language about Punjab. During the conference days at midnight we were spending time to write maximum article from our Hotel. I had written around 100 article during these days. At last we got third prize in edit thon. English & Telungu wikipedia achieved first and second prize respectively. 

I would like to express my sincere thanks to CIS and Wik conference organising committee for granting me scholarship to attend my first Wiki India conference .

After the wiki conference we moved to Delhi and visited many important historical places and captured hundreds of photos which will upload to wiki commons in very soon days. 
 

WikiConference India 2016/Report/Akbarali

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2016

Dojo certificate before summer vacation