'Capacity building and Web Based Teaching' in Ahlcon International School, Mayur Vihar, Delhi, India

ICT WORKSHOP

NAME- ICT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

VENUE – AHLCON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

DURATION: 4/05/2013 – 9/05/2013

RESOURCE PERSON – Mr. S C JOSHI

Objectives of the workshop – It was an endeavor into making all the teachers proficient in making optimal use of it in teaching – learning process.

1.      As we are dealing with 21s century learners who are Digital Natives and we teachers digital Immigrants we need to know about the 3R’s and the 7C’s which are as follows

2.      3R’S- Reading + Writing + Rithematic  (arithmetic)

3.      7C’S- Critical thinking& problem solving

4.      Creativity & Innovation

5.      Communication

6.      Collaboration & leadership

7.      Cross cultural understanding

8.      Career& learning self- reliance

9.      Computer& ICT literacy

10. And of all these 7cs computer literacy needs to be on the top to make teachers shift their roles to facilitators by creating comfortable learning environment for learners.

11.  As we are in the age of collaborative learning we need to have new pedagogic al approaches and for this we need to make use ICT tools to deliver the contents effectively.

12.  Flipping rote learning to experimentation and activity based learning.

13.  We need to enroll ourselves in virtual learning courses  like Mooc and Coursera (on line courses)

14.  Develop own blogs and web sites.

15.  We learnt  the following-

16.  Learning management system (LMS)-using software application for administration, documentation, training, reporting and delivery of education courses or training programs.

17.  We learnt how use the keys and functions of the computer and then made Document on Microsoft Word. Explored the various options on Home Page.

18.  We refreshed our knowledge of - select, highlight, change font, size cut , copy and paste, and undo a command.

19.  Learnt the use of thesaurus, margin, line spacing etc., making use of hyperlink, editing rows and columns making tables.

20. Use of bullets and numbering   

21.  Making Power Point Presentations-how to insert slides, use of text box, inserting, resizing images and making Master slide templates.

22. How to use blog for taking and inserting photographs.

23. How to use E-mail and internet, its general structure and creating an e-mail account, send e-mails and add attachments.

24. Introduction to SMART BOARDS, NOTEBOOK 11- Touch recognition

25. Use of finger, selecting pen and eraser use of slide bar, opening a new file etc.,

26. Working on smart board was a new and good experience.

The entire session was good. We learnt many new things and some knowledge was refreshed. In the end we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to honorable Principal Sir Mr. Ashok Kumar Pandey, esteemed Headmistress ma’am Ms Promela Mehta who gave us this wonderful opportunity to learn and grow. We are also thankful to our Resource person Mr. S C Joshi who had been very encouraging and patient with us and training and enlightening.

Thanking all once again.

Report (above) is based on the draft forwarded (on May 11' 13) by Ms. Promila Mehta, Headmistress  Ahlcon International School. I appreciate Ms. Mehta and Ms. Manju Garg (writing & editing) for the same.