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Best Use of Social Media in Education

Digital Learning World Education Summit Awards 2012

A collaboration of JNV Vijayanagram, Navodaya Vidhyalaya Sangathan &

INTEL

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Background & Mandate of JNVs

• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) established by the Government of India to provide learning opportunities to many 1st generation learners from for rural and backward districts to support the Inclusion, Equity and Excellence goals of MHRD.

• Its significance lies in the selection of talented rural children as the target group and the attempt to provide them with quality education comparable to the best in a residential school system, without regard to their family's socio-economic condition.

• Navodaya is the only scheme providing quality education to students from the rural areas and weaker sections of the society with a 75% reservation of seats for students from rural .areas, 1/3 seats for girls, and reservation for SC and ST students in proportion to their population in the district.

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Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya’s across India

GOI has setup 593 JNVs across India, providing the schools with the latest infrastructure and learning support to empower students to excel in the global competition.

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Genesis of ICT Initiatives in JNVs • The National Policy on Education 1986, as modified in 1992, stressed

upon employing educational technology to improve the quality of education.

• The policy statement led to two major centrally sponsored schemes, Educational Technology (ET) and Computer Literacy and Studies in Schools (CLASS) paving the way for a more comprehensive centrally sponsored scheme – Information and Communication Technology @ Schools in 2004.

• Educational technology also found a significant place in another scheme on up gradation of science education. The significant role of ICT in school education been highlighted in the National Curriculum Framework 2005 (NCF) 2005.

Aligning with these National Goals & Policies; JNVs embarked upon the ICT journey in late 90s

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Goals - NVS & Intel Education Partnership

• Understanding the need to prepare the students for the competitive 21st century Intel and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti joined hands in the year 1999 to support NVS vision of nurturing schools of excellence by sharing innovative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) integration models.

• Support the vision of NVS for institutionalizing JNVs as Pace Setting institutions through their community outreach programs.

• Support the vision of NVS for Schools of Excellence (JNV Smart Schools) by sharing innovative ICT integration usage models under the Intel® Teach program.

Intel Partnership with NVS

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Intel® TeachProgram Launched :with JNV Manpur and JNV Rangareddy

20002000

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Project expanded in all JNVs

Collaborated with Smart Schools’ Project.

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•Intel® Teach Skills for Success Launched•ICT Teachers Trained

20082008

20012001 20062006

Intel® Teach Program and NVS Over 6,000 teachers trained across 507 JNVs under Intel® Teach Program

480 Principals oriented Piloted Teach Essentials Online Course Provided Curriculum Support and launched Skills for Success Course

for ICT Teachers One-to-One Computing Piloted at JNV, Mothuka Computer lab set up for Professional Development of Teachers at JNV,

Jaffarpurkalan, Delhi There has been 8 winners from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas at IRIS

National Fair to date

Joint Publication of PBL Booklet Over 30,000 learners impactedComputer Lab set up at JNV, Jaffarpurkalan

• 460 Principals Oriented• Over 40,000 Learners impacted• Kaushik Srivatsan from JNV Mandya – ISEF Winner

20072007

3300 Teachers Trained

Enhancement WorkshopsJoint Contest Launched

20042004

•Intel® Teach Essentials Online Launched •Lavanya, student from JNV Mandya - ISEFwinners• Over 10,000 Learners Trained• Report on impact on Pace Setting initiatives launched• Piloted 1-1 Computing at JNV Mothuka

20052005

•Intel® Learn Program aligned with MHRD’s Pace Setting Program Launched •Trained Teachers from 101 VSAT Schools •Vakeel Ahmed & Amandeep - ISEF winners

20092009

20102010

• MoU renewed on 12 April 2010 • PBA Elements Course launched

20112011

• Essentials Course v10.1 course launched

JNV Vijayanagram

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Background & ICT Initiatives

• JNV Vijayanagaram is a part of the JNV system located in a remote corner in the state of Andhra Pradhesh with total enrollment of over 445 students from Grades 6th -12th

• Before 1999, the school had no exposure to ICT in academics or administration. In 1999 some computers were provided for the administrative use and in the year 1999 the staff were trained by Intel under “Intel Teach” Program.

• So far 480 principals and over 6000 teachers have been trained on the effective usage of Information and Communication Technology Tool under Intel Teach program

• They are now able to guide and mentor their students to be successful in the information age

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JNV Vijayanagram Vision

In Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, all out efforts are made to develop competencies among students in scholastic and non-scholastic areas of education which leads to effective personality development of each child.

To provide good quality modern education-including a strong component of inculcation of values, awareness of the environment, adventure activities and physical education – to the talented children predominantly from the rural areas.

To provide facilities, at a suitable stage, for instruction through a common medium viz., Hindi and English all over the country.

Offer a common core-curriculum of ensuring comparability in standards and to facilitate and understanding of the common and composite heritage of our people

To progressively bring students from one part of the country to another in each school to promote national integration and enrich the social content.

To serve as a focal point for improvement in quality of school education through training of teachers in live situations and sharing of experience and facilities.

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ICT Infrastructure at JNV VijayanagramComputer and Peripherals Information

Computer Lab 40 (V-Sat connectivity for Internet)

Library 03

Admin and Accounts 05 (Principal 1, Vice Principal 1, Office 3)

Staff Room 03

Smart Class 01 (equipped with LCD, Laptop with 7.1

channel sound system)

Laptops 05

Printers10 (Dotmatrix-03; Lazer-06, Xerox cum

printer-1)

Scanner 04

CD Writers 52

LCD Projector 02

Web Cam 11

Digital Camera 02

Video Camera 01

JNV Vijaynagram Technology Vision Plan

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Student Access to Computers

Student: Computer Ratio = 8:1

At JNV, Vijayanagram, students have full access to the computer lab on all weekdays.

Students are utilizing the facility of Podcasting after the school hours and get their doubts cleared by email or Vroom discussion.

Opening Hours: General Computer Lab for Year 2011Time Schedule

Computer Lab Mon - Fri Sunday & Public Holidays Computer Lab1 8.00 am to 9.00 pm 3.00 pm to 5.00 pmComputer Lab2 7.30 am to 8.00pm 10.00am to 12.00 pm

The schedule for students to access the computers

Student Access Data

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Teacher and Administrative Staff Access to ICT Tools

Teacher : Computer ratio in school is 1:2

Teachers use LAN provided by school to access information besides 15 teachers have their personal laptops, using Wi-Fi network to access the internet

Use of internet in creating lesson plans and providing methodological assistance in the form of Ask an Expert - http://www.classroom.com/community/experts/Lesson Plans - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Collaborative Lesson Archive - http://zubov.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/

Admin Staff: computer Ratio = 1:1

The Administrative staff access computers for daily routine activities of functioning of Vidyalaya for Maintaining records, accounts, fee etc. The NVS Head Office issues all directives, circulars, announcements at

http://navodaya.nic.in/welcome%20sbs.htm

Teacher Access Data

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School WebsiteJNV Vijayanagram has it’s own website comprising important information for all stakeholder’s with URL - http://jnvVijayanagram.in

Features on website to obtain feedback from stakeholders through :

NVS Grievance Cell - Teachers, students and other concerned persons can email their grievances/suggestions/feedbacks/comments at nvshqr_grievance@rediffmail.com

Provision to directly write to the Principal at school’s email ID

School also has a official Facebook account.

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Project Title

Use of Social media In Education

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Aim of Social Media in Education

• To focus on the strong potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and create innovative learning environment for differently able students

• Through ICT help most students to break down barriers to learning, thus increasing their school achievement, together with their autonomy, willingness and self esteem

• To provide wide-ranging support for communication, assisting many learners to engage with learning and help to overcome the barriers that lead to under-achievement and educational exclusion

• To integrate collaborative learning in 21st century at global perspective

• To reach out to the community and develop interesting teaching learning experience.

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Educational Goals

• Use Technology as tool to acquire knowledge and usher personal and social change

• Help students become iKids and truly global citizens.

• Inducting new social communities to the classroom through use of recently developed Web 2.0 tools such as Jott, Twitter, YouTube (there is also TeacherTube, SchoolTube, and StudentTube), Diigo, Google Earth, and many more.

• Support collaborative learning - link learners to various information sources and increase motivation

• Students address real-world issues, from the environment to poverty.

Mission Statement

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Brief Description of the initiativesVIRTUAL ROOM -LEARNCENTRAL SPONSORED BY Black Board

•A virtual classroom allows learners to attend a class from anywhere in the world and aims to provides a learning experience that is similar to a real classroom.

•This year, for the first time, we are running a biology class with no physical classroom, The students meet with teacher online, at mutually suitable time in the evening using a 03 seat Learncentral sponsored by Elluminate room and where they share asynchronously on a group discussion forum its free.

Students attending virtual online class after the school hours

Biology Teacher conducting virtual online class

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Benefits of V Room• Removal of geographical barriers (Anywhere learning)

• Sessions can be recorded

• Quicker to organize, One to one communication

• The students are very enthusiastic – passionate

• Meetings are recorded for us – so if a student doesn’t understand something we talk about she/he can go back later and “re-live” that part of the class.

• Teaching this way de-specifies our work hours. I teach a few hours online in the evening

About Elluminate: V-Roomhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4I-tN5UO4

V-Room by Elluminatehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_GBHxymDeY

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Podcasting : For Physically and Visually challenged studentsIn JNV Vijayanagram Podcasting is introduced for online and offline m-learning tool for especially visually and physically challenged students.

Y. Lokesh, VII Class (visually challenged), he is from a rural village named Narava. He has 100+ eye sight. He has to undergo monthly check up for his eyesight and should change frequently the spectacles. He is unable to read the text book, cannot copy the text written by teacher on black Board. We have developed audio lessons in difficult topics where there is a necessity. He downloads to mp3 player and listen during the off periods. Now he is competing with his students and doing well in exams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3VmL1YxXo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NY_KiBRPY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHiBV9hwnbw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgVJ65yeY2Q&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgtGCCw14qo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

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Wiki-Centric Extended Class RoomStudents of Class X and XII were keen to share their knowledge with the teacher but numerous constraints, such as time, number of students and assignments, have limited the dept and quality of the interaction between students and teachers. As a result, a Wiki was created to address this issue. This provided extra opportunities for students to post and edit their work-lessons, links, Handouts, presentations, videos, games-and collaborate online, thus allowing the teacher and fellow students to provide comments and feedback. The students were divided into four groups; Q for asking questions; A for answering questions; E for enhancing/adding to A’s Group answer and P for paraphrasing and summing up E’s. The groupings were changed for each activity to ensure that the students have a chance to take on a different role

http://scienceandtechnology4you.pbworks.com

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Teaching On Blogboard• NVS Hyderabad, Region has created subject blog

where our Biology Teacher maintains Biology Blog. This blog has supplemented collaboration.

• It contains visual resources such as slide shows, animations, podcasts and photo stories.

• The students were able to visualize through Google docs and spreadsheets, they could print assignments, assessments and lesson summaries and through the audio notice board, they could communicate with each other after school.

• Quizzes and puzzles included in the blog also kept the students up to date about key dates and events and enable them to have fun as they learned

• http://nvshydbiology.blogspot.in/ 

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FACEBOOK AS A CLASSROOM TOOL• JNV Vijayanagram is utilizing facebook as a tool for students to work

together in conducting research on class projects, share links, news, photos, ideas, opinions and blogs

• Students join or create their own communities of interest to share ideas about education practice, research or issues.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002167556683

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• Our school-based discussion board was visited regularly by some of the most academic and enthusiastic students but only occasionally by others. The Facebook Group is quite different. It’s visited regularly, even by students who rarely visited our school discussion board. The reason for this is quite obvious. Less academically inclined students are often the ones who spend the MOST time of an evening socialising on Facebook! When they see that little red notification flag appear – they are just one click away from reading and ‘liking’ what they read.

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Using Google Docs.

Apart from usual MS Office tools (word processing, multimedia, spreadsheets) teachers and students are proactively using Internet as a tool to enhance teaching and learning

• At JNV Vijayanagram Students and teachers are actively using web 2.0 tools. Google docs and spreadsheets to publish announcements about upcoming assignments and to monitor student progress via an interactive process.

• Students find that Google Docs help them stay organized and keep on top of their assignments. They never have to remember to save their work; it happens automatically.

• Through the revisions history, a student can see clearly who contributed to what assignment and when; if a student says he or she worked on a given project over the last two weeks, it will be documented (no more "dog ate my homework" excuses)

• It's easy to collaborate online with fellow students, even when they aren't in the same place, and they can get feedback easily from teachers, peers and enter updates anytime from anywhere. They can go back to the revisions history to see how their assignment has evolved.

• Teachers upload their lesson plan, teaching diary, minutes of meetings, assignments and questions papers and share with their peers.

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Online sharing with Google docs

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OFFLINE ‘ eXe ‘LEARNING MATERIALSSince most of the time students cannot sit on internet systems/some may not have connectivity at Dormitories the use of offline tool became critical.

Using and open source e-learning XHTML editor (eXe), a stand-alone folder is generated on various topics and copied in computers.

•The course material has animations, images, quizzes, MCQs for self assessment and assignments and summarized through mind maps.

•These materials are useful in delivering a time consuming component of the lessons effectively.

•The materials are also uploaded to the school’s network which can be accessed easily at any time.

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ePals - COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

• ePals, the leading provider of school-safe collaborative learning products for K-12 students, teachers and parents, has been dedicated to helping learners from around the world connect and interact with each other online in a safe, educational environment.

• ePals connects teachers, students, parents and educators from around the world, enabling them to communicate and collaborate on academic and cultural projects and establish international friendships

Twitter for professional development By becoming a regular user of Twitter, and through reading other educators’ blogs using Feedly or Google Reader – makes professional development available to teachers anytime, anywhere.

Educators often talk about the value of authentic audience. The network that we have built through using Twitter has contributed to the authentic, and global audience that enhances students’ learning experiences.

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ICT MANUAL

Mr. R.V.Raghavendra Rao, PGT Biology of JNV Vijayanagram has been chosen for NCERT funded project, for developing an Online Manual for Integrating Web 2.0 Technology in Education and OER and Free and open source software for education.

http://ictmanual.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=59

The Manual is the result of an NCERT funded project conceived and implemented by M.U.Paily (Ph.D) for NCERT.

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The project is innovative because….

• The students are very enthusiastic learners –in their feelings about how the class compares to their traditional classes.

• All our meetings are recorded for us – so if a student doesn’t understand something we talk about s/he can go back later and “re-live” that part of the class – something that is not practicable in a traditional class (without quite a bit of extra effort to arrange).

• The Virtual Classroom provides an efficient and scalable tool for conducting attention testing.

• Podcast helped a lot to the VHP, PHP students to understand the concepts and perform well in examination. This minimized the discrimination with others. It has inculcated the Self and independent learning at their own pace.

• On-line learning can challenge students to learn new skills and ways of studying and learning

• Students are able to collaborate with other school students, teachers and subject experts to share the knowledge.

• Teachers are also collaborating with others for professional developmentInnovative

Teaching and Assesments

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Key challenges faced during implementation Teachers and students need to become familiar with the tools

Time dependency for Live Sessions and Technical Limitations

Infrastructure for the participants PC needs to be prepared

During Online Classroom Session unless everyone has fast Internet, things slow down if everyone turns on their webcam at once. It works fairly well though with a small number of webcams. But after initial introductions, we have found that we tend to just turn the webcams off, unless teacher need to show them something, or use hand gestures in an explanation.

Not being able to see each other all the time or move around the room using body language, requires a new skill set – and a different teaching style, on the part of a teacher.

Preparation (on teacher’s part) needs to be more thorough, and is a little more time consuming than for a traditional class

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Strategies to Overcome these Challenges

JNV Vijayanagram will continue to support its growth in the use of technology on the campus by:

Continuing to upgrade and enhance its hardware, software and network capabilities

Offering and assisting teachers in the use and integration of technology into the Class room curriculum

Creating awareness to teachers, students and community the use of technology for 21st century.

Promote "high-tech" skills in teachers, but rather to encourage widespread adoption of easy-to-use technologies that are 'high-concept' and have the power to transform classroom interaction.

Using digital communication for better collaboration with other teachers and students at International level.

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Outcomes/Achievements of the project

Award for Best usage of ICT in Education (2010) : A joint Initiative of NVS and Intel

Reaching out to the Community

Presenting 1:1 learning to Hon’ble Minister MHRD Sh Kapil Sibbal and UNESO Representatives

Community Inititatives Intel -NVS Joint Contest on “Best Social Impact of

Project on Community Development”

Award Overview

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Feedback/Testimonials

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Success Stories Our school is situated at Kiltampalem which is the remotest corner of the Vijayanagram district, we are leaving no stone unturned in implementing as well as imparting ICT in academic, administrative and community activities with the limited paraphernalia available in this school.

Teachers and Students actively participate in various ICT based competitions conducted by Microsoft, Intel, TCS and Infosys

Our school has the distinction of organizing 15th State Level Science Congress; cluster level Games and sports, workshops in Hindi Raja Bhasha. It has won the Laurels from the participants for its meticulous planning and effective use of technology.

In NVS and Intel Excellence in Education Awards, Mr. R.V.Raghavednra Rao was adjudged best teacher in 2007 for “Stop AIDS and keep the promise” as well as Microsoft Innovative Teachers Leadership Award 2007.

To witness our Vidyalaya ICT activity a five member committee has visited from Netherlands which was jointly conducted by Logica CMG and Comet Media.

Thank You

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