My Learning Diary Day 16: January 31, 2023

 

Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Plagiarism were the topics which that taken up by Mr Rupak Chakravorty today. Intellectual property is an expression that encompasses both industrial property and works protected by the Copyright Law. Intellectual Property Rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds.  They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for certain period of time.  

There are two types of Intellectual Property: 

(i)  Industrial Property which includes Patents for inventions, individual designs, trademarks and                 geographical indications

(ii) Copyright and related rights cover  literary, artistic and scientific works, including                                 performance and broadcasts

Patent is an exclusive rights granted to an invention. 

Trademark is a sign capable of being represented graphically and which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking.

Geographical indications possess quality, reputation or characteristics that are essentially attributable to that place of origin. 

Copyright or author's right is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have in their literary, artistic and scientific works.   

The other topic discussed was Creative Commons. Six core CC license combinations were also discussed.  

Vocational courses were also discussed. It was quite an interesting class.  Course coordinator suggested important  chrome extensions named Wordtune an Screencastify.

There were some demo presentations. All were wonderful. I gained some ideas from them also like human library, Regional Language collection development, etc.

My Learning diary Day 15: January 30, 2023

Book Clubs are advocated by New Education Policy 2020 in school and public libraries.  Therefore it is the demand of our profession that we have to pay more emphasis on formation and functioning of Book Clubs.  This was the topic taken up by Mr. Saini.  He talked about need, formation, requirement, activities, etc. of the Book Club and I understood the topic well.

Since technology is moving at a fast pace we have to get themselves well acquainted with technology.  Our next session was on new trends in libraries.  I learned web 2.0/3.0, social media and its application in libraries, virtual reference service, RSS, semantic web, 3D web, media centric web, the pervasive web, cloud computing, QR codes, big data, etc.

My fellow participants actively delivered their demo presentations.  They were too good.  We also geared up to prepare our Reading List for Teachers. Last date for submission is 2nd Feb 2023.

Fingers crossed for my tomorrow's presentation... 

My Learning Diary Day 14: January 29, 2023

 

We are here to connect ourselves with new technology and updates. In this connection we had a session on Artificial Intelligence.  Again Mr. Puneet delivered wonderful lecture on AI. In fact rather delivered, I should say that  he presented some software that uses AI technology and are very useful in writing blogs, citing texts from the books, writing speech etc. To name a few are - Talk to Books, Google Scholar, Copy.ai, Tome, DALL.E, Chat GPT, etc. 

We should not only do our work but should also do marketing of the work. To reach our work towards students, parents and other stakeholders we can take help of social media. In this connection Facebook page, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram were discussed.  

I understood that before using these social media platforms we should first know the target audience and then decide the platform and publication periodicity. 

My Learning Diary day 13: January 28, 2023

 

It was our excursion day today therefore no regular classes were there.  It was a nicely organised trip by course coordinator and excursion committee.  In the morning we headed towards Rock garden which was followed by Bird park, Sukhna Lake and Rose Garden. At our last destination we had our lunch.  It was a bright sunny day and we enjoyed weather also. I created memories which I will cherish forever in my mind.

My Learning Diary day 12: January 27, 2023

 

Today it was my group's turn to conduct morning assembly.  Post assembly there was a session on Flagship programms of KVS.  It was really a great session blended with personal experiences of  Mr Jugal Kishore AC, Chandigarh region.  Some of the Flagship programmes of the KVS for elementary educaion are- Balvatika, Anandvaar, FLN.  Other programmes are Jigyasa, Tarunotsav, Swasth Bachche, Swasth Bharat, Putokapahar, Bhasha Sangam, Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat. 

There was live screening of "Pariksha pe charcha" programme. Today we are through mid test. There was a hands on session on Blogger and Wakelet: Virtual Library. 

Looking forward for tomorrow's excursion...

My learning diary day 11: January 26, 2023

 

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

After Republic day celebrations, Inclusive education was the topic we studied in the morning.  I understood the concept, learning disorders, how to identify learning difficulties, types of learning disabilities and disabilities.

Post lunch Book Creator was taught by Ms Jyoti one of the participant and she did justice. I also created flip books using FLIPHTML. It had certain demerits, anyways I will create digital book using Book Creator.  Day was concluded by hands on session.

My Learning Diary Day 10: January 25, 2023

Day was started by some learning along with activities.  Generally we all know what is effective communication and what are the barriers to information.  But in this session we practically dealt with the situation.  

Situation was like resource person whispered something in the ear of first person in English. Now that person have to pass it to another and so on.  Finally last person have to write what she heard.  It was very funny that wrong message was conveyed and that too in Hindi.  This game is called Chinese Whisper.

This is an example of communication barrier.  In my school I am going to conduct this activity.  One new Acronym SOLER picked from this session. Session was good.

There was another session on sexual harassment of women at work place : Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act 2013.  This Act came into existence after Bhanwari Devi Case.  VISHAKHA NGO stood by Bhanwari Devi. 

I understood what is sexual harassment, who is employer, what are the circumstances that lead to sexual harassment, Internal audit committee, Local complaint committee, timeline, confidentiality, conciliation , etc. 

It was the day when participants have to present the topics pre assigned to them and they presented wonderfully.  

Looking forward for Republic day celebrations...

  

My Learning diary day 9: January 24, 2023

 

In the present scenario one can consult information from a number of Open Educational Resources.  I remember one advertisement of Abhishek Bachchan with catchline "what an idea sir ji."

Open Educational Resources are as name indicates are open to all with some conditions imposed upon end user. 

I understood about 5 R Activities  in context of  OER- Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute. We were taught about creative commons followed by some examples of National and International initiatives.

 National OER may include

NROER

E-Pathshala

National Digital Library of India

Egyankosh- IGNOU

SWAYAM

SWAYAMPRABHA

E-PG Pathshala for spoken tutorial

Virtual Labs

Shodhganga

VIDWAN

NLIST- Repository of Journals

e-yantra- Robotics outreach program 

Quantum and Nano Computing 

Diksha

NISHTHA

Global Initiatives may include

OER Commons

MERLOT

Wikiversity

Open Text Book Library

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Open Knowledge Repository

Pub Med (PMC)

We also understood about Life skills.  There are 10 core Life Skills provided by WHO. Then FLIPS was discussed in class. The 21 century life skills (FLIPS) are: 

Flexibility

Leadership

Initiative

Productivity

Social Skills   

There were presentations from participant's side and all presented them in beautiful way.

Good luck to me for tomorrow's test...

 

My Learning diary day 8: January 23, 2023

 

It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.  Punjab University Library visit took me down the memory lane.  I visited here as a young girl who was pursuing her diploma in Library & Information Science.   I don't even remember anything about the library, but to visit library after so long was a wonderful experience. The Library building is centrally air-conditioned and equipped with computer and communication network and houses more than eight lac volumes and has a seating accommodation of 500 readers. SLIM21 Library Management Software is used.  

Prefix to this visit, Mr Neeraj deputy librarian from Panjab University took a session on planning and creation of digital library.  He emphasized on the need assessment first. He discussed the basic components of digital library and suggested some open source Digital Library Applications like E Print, D Space and Green stone. 

NCPCR and POCSO Act were discussed by Mr Upadyaya.  It is very disheartening to listen about crime against the children.  I wish almighty to make this planet safe for children so that there is no need of these acts.  May be some day but in present scenario these Acts are a must.

NCPCR is a National level agency under the Ministry of woman and Child Development set up on 6th March, 2007.  

Protection of children from sexual offences (POCSO) act came into force in the 19th June 2012 and got implemented on 14th November 2012.  There are 21 categories of sexual abuse.  This Act is gender neutral.  E Baal Nidaan , E box for POCSO, SAMVEDNA, Baal Swaraj, Ghar; Go Home and Re-Unite, Quick Response Cell (QRC) are online complaint management system for children.

To supplement this during our visit to university mid way some people performed Nukkad Natak on the occasion of National Girl Child Day (23rd January), under District Child Protection Unit Chandigarh.  

On this note I will repeat: Beti Bacho, Beti Padhao

My Learning diary day 7: January 22, 2023

The day was started by understanding security tips by an IT expert. I come to know that how to understand the authenticity of the website. We have to first see the HTTPS secure tags then we have to look domain. For eg. .edu, .gov, .com.org, .net ,.io are some secure domains. Before opening hyperlink we should first check the top level and then last level of extension. Browser should always be updated. Under manage your account in gmail we can do some settings to make our account more secure. I also come to know one website to determine whether the link is secure or not, namely https://transparencyreport.google.com/ and one website to know whether our account's security is compromised or not namely https://haveibeenpwned.com/. I got some clarification on Librarian's diary. One best application I learnt today is Canva. I prepared a story using CANVA. 

Looking forward for Punjab University Trip...

My Learning Diary day 5: January 20, 2023

 

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the Library."

When library is such an important thing so as the librarian.  What strategies we should design so that we can improve reading habits among students was discussed in detail today.  Most of the strategies I am utilizing and got some new ideas as well.  

To know about oneself is a part of personality development.  It is true that without understanding who am I, we cannot develop our personality. Our thoughts and words become our personality, our action become our habits, our habits become our character and our character become our destiny, so true.  So we should mind our negative thoughts.  

Wakelet a content curation tool was also introduced. It is a free platform that allows us and our students to save organize, present and share content from across the web. It may be Videos, articles, blog, tweets, docs, podcasts and more.

I am planning to use Wakelet as tool to organize some collection according to some events like Republic day, Independence day or like.

My Learning Diary day 6: January 21, 2023

Today it was group E's turn of assembly.  I am in group E, therefore I was also part of assembly team.  Preparation of video presentation was Md Shafi's responsibility and he presented it in a beautiful manner.  I have decided to learn the application from himself. I was also impressed by Archna Srivstava's presentation, it was wonderful.  My role was to present vote of thanks.  This was indeed a good platform to extend my gratitude to my Gurus.

I scored 80% marks in test.  I loved to write Libarians's role and responsibilities using Padlet link.  It is a good tool and can be used with students during online classes when I am conducting an activity with students. 

All of us know the role and responsibilities of the librarian but the way of teaching was so impressive that I have to think again. I also enjoyed the session on Mental well being of students and teachers.  We have to learn stress management for our mental well being.

I also understood that how to design a library newsletter using MS Publisher.  I have also used it earlier, to create Library newsletter. I have planned to create my own Library's Newsletter during ISC. 

A meeting of editorial committee was conducted to design a roadmap. Since I am a part of editorial committee so, I also joined the meeting along with fellow members. 

I have to complete many assignments right now. Let us see to what extent it is fulfilled...

My Learning Diary day 4: January 19, 2023

 

                                                                                                                                                                            "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know"  Albert Einstein

I was floating in the ocean of knowledge and off course I took advantage of this also. So today's take away are basically Linktree and Soundcloud.  However I feel that in Soundcloud it is bit difficult to choose correct audio because there are some bogus sound tracks also.  Selection is pretty time taking.  Today I have planned to update my blog also, though I do not have sufficient pictures in hand but let us see up to what extent I can do this. During NEP session I figured out that most of the activities we are doing for our clientele presently and with some added activities we can meet the expectations of NEP.  Our terminology should also 

Let us see what I grab tomorrow...

My Learning Diary day 3: January 18, 2023

 At my school everyday I analyze myself  what I have done today. If work done meets my expectations, I feel content but in case I am not able to achieve my that particular day's goal, I feel uneasy.  I think we all are better Judge of our own work. Similarly here during in-service course everyday at the end of all the sessions, I introspect myself that what I have gained today.

In this connection today we were taught how to create a blog in WordPress.  Though I have already created my digital portfolio in blogger still it was a good experience to learn a new platform. I remember there was a time when I was struggling to create a blog but now I am familiar with two platforms, courtesy teachers.   I am not proficient in creating blog in blogger may be because of less interest in technology however I learnt the creation in online session and then by hit and trial I made that presentable. 

Talking about the present scenario, today, I got the answer of one of my question which was bothering me. The question belongs to blogger's blog. I was not sure when to create pages and when to create a post. Today I understood that when our information is static then we should create a page and if our information is dynamic we should create a post. How simple it is.  

Let us see what new I am going to achieve tomorrow...

 

My Learning Diary day 2: January 17, 2023

 

It is said that Intellectual  growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.  I think this is the reason why we are here away from our homes. To empower ourselves with knowledge.  First day I got clear idea about that why should I make digital portfolio though how part was also explained but as Tom Colicchio said  "recipe tell you nothing, learning techniques is the key"  today we got hands on experience on how to do it. As compared to previous day, I feel more content.

Slowly and steadily I am on the way to empower myself with knowledge...

My Learning Diary day 1: January 16, 2023

16th January was the first day of my 2nd in-service course.  As soon as I got the information about my in-service course at ZIET Chandigarh, I started recollecting memories of my first in-service course which was held in 2014 at Gwalior. Time really flies and looking down at the memory lane, I recalled some of the sessions done at Gwalior and according to that I started assuming the activities and programme which are going to be done at ZIET Chandigarh.

First day of the course was started with mixed bag of feelings -what we are going to learn in all those 21 days? will I be able to absorb each and everything taught over there? will I perform as per the expectation of the teachers over there etc. 

But putting full stop on all these speculations, I have fasten seat belt and ready to fly...