ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC:
CONCEPT OF E-RESOURCES, WEB RESOURCES, SOCIAL NETWORKING, EDUCATIONAL BLOGS,
E-JOURNALS, PODCASTING, E-LEARNING, M-LEARNING, WEB BASED LEARNING.
INTRODUCTION
An ectronic resource is any from these
resources as well, by employing a series of useful tools. Electronic resources
consist of data representing numbers, text, graphics, images, maps, moving
images, music, sounds, etc., and programs of instruction sets. Before the
development of computer and internet technology, printed version of resources
like books, journals, dictionaries, work books, etc played a significant role
in teaching and learning process. Therefore, of the different e-resources
knowledge, e-resources development and preservation of them has become the need
of this hour for teacher education. E‐resources
and e‐learning are increasingly
important to all aspects, and all levels of education
.
Five
Promising Uses of New Technology Of the many electronic teaching
techniques that instructors have found useful, we have chosen five that we
believe seem particularly likely to help significant numbers of teachers. All
of these techniques demand an investment of time if they are to succeed, and
your willingness to use them should be balanced carefully against other,
perhaps more important, teaching priorities. But for each technique, there are
both simple and complex ways of proceeding, and we will try to make clear the
respective advantages and disadvantages. The five ways in which we suggest
teachers consider using electronic resources involve tasks that you will
usually have to perform in any case. New technologies can help you perform them
better and more easily:
Administration: The routine administration
of courses (advertising a class, providing copies of the syllabus, assigning
discussion sections, and getting out course news) can be more efficiently
handled with a course home page, electronic discussion groups, and e-mail
lists. These tools can also dramatically improve the continuity and the
community aspects of courses, helping students to engage with and learn from
each other and even from people outside the course.
Readings/sources: The Web and CD-ROMs
provide a wider variety of secondary and primary sources (including visual and
audio sources) than has previously been available. With your guidance, your
students can now gain access to materials that were once accessible only to
experts because they were too cumbersome to reproduce for classroom use or too
expensive for students to purchase. By taking their own paths through these
sources, students can bring their own evidence and arguments into lectures and
discussion sections, as well as write on a wider range of research topics.
Papers/presentations: Rather than
performing assignments and taking exams from the teacher alone, students can
perform more independent exercises in publishing, exhibit building, or
assembling and presenting teaching units and other materials for their peers. A
web archive of several terms' work can make the course itself an ongoing and
collaborative intellectual construction.
Lectures:
A computer with presentation software can provide a single tool for augmenting
lectures with outlines, slides, statistical charts and tables, images, music,
and even video clips. In addition to printing them as handouts, you can save
in-class presentations in a webcompatible format for later review and
discussion.
Discussion: Electronic discussion tools
such as e-mail, conferencing software, and on-line chat services can seed
discussion questions before the class meets, draw out your shy students, and
follow up on discussions or questions on the reading between classes. For
courses without face-to-face discussion sections, these tools can bring the
course to life over great distances and help overcome scheduling difficulties.
WEB RESOURCES
A computer network of geographically distributed multiple
computers connected in a manner to enable meaningful transmission and exchange
of information among them. Sharing of information, sharing of resources (both
hardware and software) and sharing of processing load are some of the major
objectives of computer networks.
SOCIAL NETWORKING
Social networking is a web based services that allow
individual to create a public profile, to create a list of users with whom to
share connections, and view and cross the connections with in the system.
Social networking sites are varied and they incorporate new information and
communicate tools such as, mobile connectivity, photos/videos/sharing and
blogging social networking sites allow user to share ideas, pictures, posts,
activities ,events , and interests with people in their networks. The most
commonly used social networking services are:
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website
launched in February 4, 2004, operated and privately owned by facebook. Inc. As
of July 2011, facebook has more than 80 million active users. Faceboook was
founded by Mark Zukeberg at Harvard. Facebook has affected at social life and
activity of people in various ways. It allows users to continuously stay in
touch with friends and relatives wherever they are in the world as long as
there is access to internet. It can also unite people with common interest and
/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been to reunite tots f
family members and friends.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in
professional occupation. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003,
it was mainly used for professional networking. The site available in 20
languages, including English, French, German etc one purpose of the site is to
allow registered users to maintain a list of content details of people with
whom they have some level of relationship, called “Connections”. Users can
invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connections. However, if
the invitee selects ‘I don’t know’ or ‘spam’, this counts against the inviter.
If the inviter gets too many of such responses, the accounts may be restricted
or closed.
Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro blogging
service that enable its user to sent and red each other’s updates known as
tweets. Tweets are text based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the
authors profile page and delivered to other users –known as followers- who have
subscribed to them. The service is free over the internet, but using SMS may
incur phone service Provider fee. Since its creation in 2006 by Jacky Dorsey,
Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. In a recent survey
twitter ranked third most used social network.
Use of Twitter as an
Educational Tool
• Promote
digital literacy
• Support
liberal education
• Fosters
technological literacy
• Promotes
questioning and answering
• Helps
integrate technology into teaching and learning
• Provides
a method for instruction that uses technology
Use of Twitter to teachers
• Promote
participation
• Provide
reminders to students
• Provide
feedback immediately
• Foster
personalized updates
EDUCATIONAL BLOGS
A blog (web blog) is a type of website part of a web site.
Blogs usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary,
description of events, or other material such as graphics of video entries are
commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
Blogging is at of posting content on blog/posting comments on a someone
else’s blog. Blogging allows people to interact with each other. Blogging has
also become a popular search engine optimization tool.
Educational blogging is blogging by students,
teachers, administrators, industry experts, and other involved entities that
focus primarily on the educational process and educational interest. Blogs in Teaching and Learning
There are many way to use blogging in teaching and
learning. An existing blog can be used to provide information and insight. They
will provide examples to increase the quality of student’s blog entries.
Encourages the students to create a blog for others to reflect these
ideas.
➢ Activate
Motivate with blogs. Use a blog as a catalyst to generate interest in new
topic.
Help student see the excitement and energy that can be
found in a subject.
➢ Connect
Provide a context/establish a connection. Bring relevance to the discussion by
using a real world situation.
➢ Critique Critically evaluate an idea/ perspective by
using examples to support a position. Many of these examples can be found in
professional blogs.
➢ Deepen Add depth
to a learning situation by providing a detailed explanation, thoughtful
observation/new source that provide additional information/insight.
➢ Expand
Broaden thinking by providing an alternative perspective /different point of
view.
➢ Fresh look
Use blogs to provide current immediately relevant examples.
➢ primary
sources /data that can help and explain already presented.
➢ Launch
Look for blogs as a place for new innovative ideas. Be the first to present a
new idea rather than simply commending ob the work of others. Ask questions to
keep the new ideas going.
➢ Synthesizes Bring a
number of ideas together.
Importance of Blogs in
education
• Teacher related blogs
✓ Helps
to share useful information and tips among co – workers dispersing information
to student/keeping in context with parents and also to share ideas with one
another on what has worked with student and what has not.
✓ Helps
to communicate with one another regarding any issues in education that they may
be having including classroom management techniques and policies.
✓ Act
as a support system for teacher where they can access ideas, tools and gain
support and gain recognition from other professional in their field.
✓ Way
to communicate and enhance classroom instruction among their students. The
ability for both the teacher and the student to edit context allows for study
to take place outside the classroom environment
✓ Way
to post important information such as homework important data’s, missed
lessons, projects, discussions board, and other useful classroom information
that is a accessible by all. Student can access this information from home/
from any other computer that is connected to the internet.
• Student’s blog
✓ With
the use of blogs in the classroom, students learn from one another
and individually express themselves as well. In higher education, blogs are
often use as reflective journals.
✓ The
use of blogs in education gives students global perspectives. Teachers from
different states, countries and continents are able to collaborate on different
projects and learning.
✓ Learning
through blogs allows students to take control of their own learning and steer it to
their own needs. Children’s are
different, but a common thread of learning can unite them.
✓ The
use of the blogs in the classroom technological literacy in children that will
help them in adulthood.
• Parent’s blog
✓ Teacher
and parents can also use blogs in order to communicate with one another.
Information can be posted for parents on special event occurring in the
classroom such as field trips, celebrations and presentation.
✓ Blogging
is also a central tool for parents to find out daily assignment so that they
can check up on their children and classroom expectations. Having this class
clear and open communication between parents and students can ensure
success.
✓ Assisting
parents on what is developmentally appropriate for their children on a blog
could open communication and help parenting skill as well.
✓ A
teacher first priority is to educate their students, but educating and
communicating openly with parents through blogs is a helpful tool to keep lines
of communication opens between teacher and student families.
Electronic Journals (E- Journals)
Electronic journal
are also known as E-Journals. They are scholarly journals or intellectual
magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. Some electronic
journals are online only journals. Some are online version of printed journals
and some consist of the online equivalent of printed journals, but with
additional online only.
Most of
commercial journals are subscription based or allow pay per view access. Many
universities subscribe bulk to packages of electronic journals, so as to
provide access to them to their students and faculty. It is generally also
possible for individuals to purchase an annual subscription to a journal, via
the original publisher.
Advantages of E- Journals
➢ Speed Articles
can be put on the web as soon as they are ready without having to wait may be
months for a space in a journal issue. This means that the information is much
more up to date that can be achieved with paper.
➢ Easily searchable Search ability is one
of the core advantages of a digital format.
➢ Interactive Accessible
➢ Added value
➢ Inexpensive Flexibility
Disadvantage of electronic journals
✓ Difficulty in reading computer screen the main disadvantage of digital
information is the limitation of the computer monitor.
✓
Often not
included in indexing and abstracting services ✓ Authenticity
✓
Search
engine ignore PDF files
Podcasting
Podcasts are basically digital audio programs that can be
subscribed to and down loaded by listeners. In other words a podcast is a digital
audio recording, with or without images, which instruction can use to deliver
content to students in an easy asynchronous fashion. Once generated, podcasts
can be disseminated online through personal websites or podcasts directories.
Podcasting is
the ability to create or listen to audio or video content either live or
downloaded for later use. Podcasting involves the online publication of digital
files (audio, video other formats) within a channel to which others can
subscribe and obtain updates .The term ‘Podcasting’ was first mentioned by Ben
Hammersly in February 2004.
Benefits of podcasting in classroom
➢ Podcasting
gives educators on opportunity to bridge the traditional classroom setting with
progressive state of the art technologies. There are several advantages of
bringing podcasting into the classroom for lectures and student assignments.
These are Podcasting is an exciting and novel means for students to take a more
active role in their own learning experience. As student realizes their podcast
assignments may be published online with hundreds of potential listeners
through free podcast directories, their attention to the quality and detail of
their assignment may improve.
➢ Podcasting
is adaptable to the students learning needs. Students can access the material
whenever and as often as they would like, thereby reinforcing critical concepts
or details they may have missed in the original classroom lectures.
➢ Assignments
that require students to generate, edit and publish their ownpodcast
reinforce critical communication skill such as writing a script that will be
presented in a classroom.
E- Learning
E- Learning is the
delivery of learning; training or education program by electronic means-
learning involves the use of a computer or electronic device in some way to
provide training, education or learning material.
E-learning means
“the delivery of learning with the assistance of interactive, electronic
technology, whether offline or online”.
E- Learning is
essentially a computer and network enabled transfer of skills and knowledge-
learning application and process include:
➢ Web
based learning
➢ Computer
assisted learning
➢ Virtual
education opportunities
➢ Digital
collaboration
Characteristics of E- Learning
➢ Learning
is self paced and gives students a chance to speed up or slow down as
necessary Designed around the learner
➢ Enhances
computer and internet skills
➢ Foster
greater student/instructor contact
➢ Overall
student costs are frequently less
➢ Geographical
barriers are eliminated, opening up broader education options.
Disadvantages of E-learning
➢ Require
knowledge and skill
➢ Lack
of equipment
➢ Costly
➢ Feeling
of isolation
➢ Lack
of provision for teacher training programme
➢ Negative
attitude
➢ Adverse
effect on health
➢ Lack
of co-curricular activities
➢ Technical
defect
M-LEARNING
M-learning or mobile learning is the learning across
multiple contexts, through social and content interactions, using personal
electronic devices. It is defined as the “process of coming to know , and of being able to operate
successfully in , and across, new and ever changing contexts, including
learning for ,at and through work ,by means of mobile devices.
A form of distance
education , m-learning use mobile device educational technology at their time
convenience. M-learning technologies include handled computers ,MP3 players
,notebooks, mobile phones and tablets. It focuses on the mobility of learner
,interacting with portable technologies.
Using mobile
tools for creating learning aids and materials becomes an important part of
informal learning. M.learning is convenient. It is accessible from virtually
anywhere.
Features
➢ Relatively
inexpensive opportunities, as the cost of mobile devices are significantly less
than PCs and laptops
➢ Multimedia
content delivery and creation options
➢ Continuous
and situated learning support
➢ Decrease
in traing costs
➢ Potentially
a more rewarding learning experience
➢ New
opportunities for traditional educational instituitions
➢ Readily
available a /synchronous learning experience
Web based learning
It is often called
online learning or E-Learning because it include online course content. Web
based courses may also provide static pages such as printed courses materials.
One of the values of using the wed to access course material is they wed pages
may contain hyperlinks to the other parts of the web, thus enabling access to a
vast amount of web base information .A
“Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) OR Managed Learning
Environment is all in one teaching and learning software package.
Advantage of Web based learning
➢ Ability
to link resources in many different formats
➢ Efficient
way of delivering course material
➢ Resources
can be made available from any location at any time
➢ Encourages
more independent and active learning
➢ Provides
a useful source of supplementary material to conventional programmes.
Disadvantages of wed based learning
➢ Access
to appropriate computer equipment can be a problem for students
➢ The
necessary infrastructure must be available and affordable
➢ Information
can vary in quality and accuracy .So guidance and sign posting is
needed Student can feel isolated
➢ Learners
find it frustrating if they cannot access graphics, images, andvideo clips
because of poor equipment.
CONCLUSION
In a knowledge
driven economy, our human capital constitute a critical success factor .The
global view is that the school curriculum should equip student with the
abilities and attitude to become independent and lifelong learners to meet the
ever changing challenges in their future studies and careers and nature them to
become socially responsible citizens. Computer technology is becoming both more
useful and more cost effective for many fields of teaching. And yet only you,
the teacher, can determine whether these methods will prove effective in your
classroom. Whatever you decide, remember that technology complements, but does
not fundamentally alter, the elements of teaching.
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Book –The Methodology of Teaching Commerce- Prof. (Dr)
K.Sivarajan, Dr. Issac Paul, Dr.E.K.Lal
