An Event: "ICT Endeavour in Ahlcon: Getting Ready for 2020 Classrooms"

27 August 2013

Excitement was at its pinnacle! The atmosphere was clogged up with an unusual anxiety, the anxiety of the execution of the event ‘ICT Endeavour in Ahlcon: Getting Ready for 2020 Classrooms’ of the ICT leadership program in Ahlcon. 

With the technology sky rocketing day by day with the calendars witnessing ewer and newer days and with the scientists outsmarting them day by day, we can’t afford to stay behind, can’t we miss the wave of change. The day started off with the ICT participants completely engrossed in the preparation of the event of the program, where the students of the programme would be battling and competing against each other to clinch the awards title.

The mission was to develop innovative and skillful learners who can contribute to the betterment of the society. The clock had struck 1 pm and the competition began spreading its essence, the students of the senior section hurriedly bustled in the auditorium and geared up to witness such an intoxicating and provocative event. The competition was graced with the presence of our honorable Principal Mr. Ashok K Pandey and Senior Section In-charge Ms. Sangita Maliwal.

In future, by the year 2020, the classrooms and the teaching systems will be nothing like we have them now. Instead of having proper classes students will be given a list of topics which they will have to research and master, and teach it to the others. To get acquainted with this system, we, group of 30-35 students were allotted different “Tech Tools” to explore by our mentor Mr. S.C. Joshi. A total of 7 groups participated in the ICT leadership event. The competition progressed with the presentation of the participating groups who employed the new tech tool known as “Prezi” which is presentation software which allows the user to showcase their ideas on a virtual canvas.

All the students battled out and presented their tools in front of all 9^th and 10^th  students, where they were judged on their overall presentation in 5 different categories by esteemed judges  Ms. Sunita Rajiv and Ms. Urvashi Agarwal. Event started off with remarkable compeering of  Devpriya Pathak and Atishay Garg. Towards the end, a two and a half minutes long movie was projected on the large white screen which depicted the journey of the programme till now. The movie was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience. The program finally came to an end with the Principal’s opinions and the comments on the whole event.

The participants backstage had all their fingers crossed and anxiously waited to know who had grabbed the first position. Seconds ticked by and so did the heartbeats. The results had arrived. Diksha and Sanya had presented their tool “Popplet” and won the first prize for the same. Karan and Rachit had presented their tool “Quizlet” and won second prize. Kirti and Dhruv presented their tool “EDMODO” and got third prize. Winners were elated and ecstatic about their positions. The Principal Sir appreciated the hard work of the students a lot and advised to use all those tools in our daily life. The programme went exactly the way it was planned and conceptualized. This was not the end but the beginning of a new journey in Ahlcon.

Quizlet by ICT Leaders at Ahlcon

July 30th and August 2nd 2013

Today the program began with the presentation of Sania Dua. Her tech tool was “Quizlet”. She had prepared a Microsoft Office Presentation on her tech tool. Each slide of her presentation contained valuable information and details on how to use tech tool quizlet and what are the components of it. After her presentation, Mr. S C Joshi suggested that there should be no slide reading and more enhancements have to be done with the presentations. The next presentation was given by Anudish Jain and Shubham Bal on their tech tool “Windows Movie Maker”.

The most surprising thing about their presentation was that they explained it using “Prezi”.Their presentation was attractive and good. They had also prepared a video using the tech tool.  After the presentation, Mr Joshi asked for suggestions from students. Then a student advised that they should have used more details in the information section. Mr. Joshi also suggested that they could have made the video informative and attractive.

At the end of program Mr. Joshi told that presentations of students will be graded in the competition in terms of ten parameters which means the competition is going to be interesting. 

Presentation of Tools “Toondoo” And “Pizap”

          July 16th & 19th 2013

         The program began with the marvelous presentation of Shreya and Disha. Their tech tool was “Toondoo”. They explained the tool with the help of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation. This tool is used to create cartoons. These cartoons are then compiled to form a comic story or any animation. Toondoo can also be used to make a book. They showed us by giving examples of books made by other people on the site. They described the tool well step by step. Mr. S C Joshi, our teacher was very happy with the presentation and the research done by them .At the end, sir asked the students for suggestions and compliments. The suggestion given to them was that they could have used more examples of tools in their presentation

          The second presentation was given by Harshil and Dikshant. Their tech tool was “Pizap”. They also used Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation to describe their tool. They demonstrated step by step how to go to Pizap site created an account and explained the tool. They told the students that the tool can be used to edit photos online with a variety of tools and dialogue bubbles. They had researched well on the topic and also had prepared a script. They received a compliment that they have researched well and they have given lots of informations on their tool. They were surprised by a question that Adobe Photoshop also does the work of Pizap and without internet so what is the difference between them. They gave the answer that in Pizap one can use dialogue bubble or smiley or templates but in Photoshop one can not use them. 

      Today’s session was ended up with interesting and beautiful presentations and each student enjoyed watching these presentations. Atishay Garg has shown his phenomenon talent by making cover page for future magazine/newsletter that was really good and he displayed his qualities as an active ICT leader and hard work. By whole of meandering experiences students tend to improve every time.

21st Century ICT Leadership Program: Presentations on More Tech Tools

July 9 & 12' 2013

       Today the meet began with the presentation of Diksha. Her tech tool was “Popplet”. With a great and powerful voice, she described step by step all about her tech tool. She explained that Popplet is used to create web charts which can be made of different colors. The topic of her presentation was “High Definition”. 

      Keerthi was the second presenter and his tech tool was “Pizap.” Description was well said and interestingly he used “Edmodo” to describe it. That was inspiring for students, which showed a value to learn and adapt new things from the environment.He had made a collage on “pizap.” He demonstrated “Pizap” with the help of power point and he had a great presentation and showed new quality of learning new things and adapting at.Media coverage (photographers) were doing their job really well as we could see their activeness during the presentations. 

     Third presentation, was by Devpriya and Urshita and their tech tool was “Prezi.” They also started their presentation on power point on ‘Compassion’ after words they showed same presentation on Prezi and Compared the transitions and animation of both tools, work and time taken to make a prezi too , they also asked students for their feedbacks, as everybody was impressed by the two, most of the students voted Prezi. Students were amused by the facts and everybody showed eagerness to learn more about it and students told they will use this tool at home and for other school projects too, as being a 21^st century learner means to learn and adapt new things. Devpriya explained every bit of it, and even showed almost every feature on the tool which made presentation more interesting and informative. After that Mr. Joshi asked students to ask at least two questions from each of the presentation and to have one comment, and students used their courage and intelligence to ask these questions, and indeed important questions were asked and that proved they are leaders. The day’s ICT program ended well, with quality time and I believe this made everybody’s day.

                12th July session was filled with a lots of tit bits that Mr. S C Joshi had to share with us. Shreya and Disha submitted a report on their tech tool. Shreya and Disha have set a bench mark with their tremendous efforts.  Bhavy Seti and Atmesh also gave their report. Both of their efforts were commendable and highly appreciated by all the leaders with special comments by mentor of the program Mr. S. C Joshi.  Everyone was eager to come and showcase their presentation on their tech tools. In this session we got to know about the things we have to remember for the second round of presentation and these were noted by all the student leaders with great attention. We went through a number of cover pages customized by our student leaders. Atishay Garg and Devnaman gave a presentation on SCREENER online software to create videos.