User:Gita Mathur/Botany Teaching and Research Pages





Today is: 27, August 2024

AWARD FOR TEACHING  Gita receiving Distinguished Teacher Award of University of Delhi, India, for Excellence in Teaching from Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009.




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=Collaboration=  All those interested in Biology, Ecology, Biodiversity and Environmental Studies are welcome to contribute on these pages. --Gita_ Mathur 05:21, 27 August 2009 (UTC) 
 * Click here to see the list of my WikiEducator friends/ who sent me their greetings on this special Award.

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=My Botany Friends and Students on WikiEducator=

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Add your name here:

A. FACULTY


 * Dr. Geeta Mehta
 * Dr. Kiran Prabha
 * Dr. Priyanka Kapoor

B. STUDENTS


 * 1) Shalinee Bhardwaj
 * 2) Amanpreet Kaur
 * 3) Deepa Balagopal
 * 4) Payal Khullar

=Botany=



Botany, plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between the different groups.

Scope and Importance of Botany
As with other life forms in biology, plant life can be studied from different perspectives, from the molecular, genetic and biochemical level through organelles, cells, tissues, organs, individuals, plant populations, and communities of plants. At each of these levels a botanist might be concerned with the classification (taxonomy), structure (anatomy and morphology), or function (physiology) of plant life.



The Plant World is very fascinating 

Important Technical Term in Botany
Click here to see and also add... Botany Technical Terms

 Darwin in INDIA 

A cake cut at Sophia College in Mumbai.  The Event was organised by a WikiEducator Dr. Arunan, a teacher of the college.See User:Arunan

Gargi College Botanical Society(GCBS)

 *  Inter College Festival of GCBS called Ficus 2008 was held on December 12, 2008 in Department of Botany, Gargi College  ALL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF BOTANY PARTICIPATED  This was the time to enjoy the subject. Various competitions included: Botanical Photography, Botanical Salad Making, Botanical Rangoli, Best out of Botanical Waste, Slogan Writing and many more. For more details and for registration email to: gcbsonline@gmail.com

Anthesis
Students write on topics of interest ranging from Botany and Biotechnology to Environmental Sciences. This provides a forum to the young Botanists to write good technical papers and articles. 
 * <FONT COLOR="Green">Annual Botanical Publication of GCBS is called "Anthesis"

The following FIVE Volumes of "Anthesis" have been publishes so far:

Click here to see photos in 'Anthesis 2007'

/Letter for Shruti Nayak/

=Teaching= Interesting Quote: <FONT COLOR="Brown">Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.-Albert Camus<FONT COLOR="Green">

| Click here for a collaborative source for Science, especially Genetics.



Study Skills

 * It is essential for every student to develop Study Skills. For guidance Click on Study Skills
 * Discover your Learning Style

<FONT COLOR="Black">I have been teaching Botany to undergraduates for more than twenty five years. I have seen a sea change in the approach and perspectives in both teaching and learning. Click on this link to read about - User:Gita_Mathur/Teaching and Learning-My Experiences of three decades

<FONT COLOR="Brown">Some useful pages for a Botanist are: <Br>


 * Cell Biology and Genetics Click Here


 * | Essentials-of-Genetics - A good free ebook for Genetics


 * Diversity of Microbes & Cryptogams Click Here


 * Diversity of Seed Plants & their Systematics Click Here


 * Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Click Here


 * Structure, Development and Reproduction in Flowering Plants Click Here

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Ecology
Ecological Footprint How do we effect the Ecology of the World we live in? To know about your Ecological Footprint click on this link | Click here and | here



Ecology and Environment Hub
Education on Ecology and Environment is essential for every learner and Educator. Thus hub will be a place for all Ecologists to contribute and for all learners to be benefited. EnvironEd is a useful page on WikiEducator.

This HUB is under Development. Add your suggestions and comments--Gita Mathur 05:13, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

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Members of Ecology and Environment Workgroup
This Workgroup will collaboratively develop technical content and case studies for teaching & learning related to Ecology and Environment. This hub will be moved to a new wikipage when we are ready with the details. All interested wikifriends are welcome to jointly develop the headings and content on this hub. <Br> Add your name and Signature here (add --~ ) if you would like to be a member of the Ecology and Environment Workgroup.


 * (For detailed instructions on how to add or personalize your wiki-signature see help page Signature)


 * 1) Dr. Gita Mathur--Gita Mathur 06:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Dr. Anubha Das--Yanubha 13:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Dr. Poonam Sharma --poonam sharma
 * 4) Amanpreet Kaur--Amanpreet kaur 13:41, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 5) Deepa Balagopal--Deepa Balagopal 17:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 6) Shalinee Bhardwaj --Shalinee Bhardwaj 06:22, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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<font color="Teal"> Discussion </font color="Teal">
 * Dear WikiFriends, it is nice to see all of you here. Please add your suggestions here & feel free to add content to above pages. You may like to add more topics.....go ahead & get a feel of collaborative content development.--Gita Mathur 06:34, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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Botanical Excursions
As a part of Biodiversity curriculum for Second year B.Sc. Honours in Botany, college Students of various colleges of Delhi University go for a Botanical Excursion. I am starting this hub for all to add their experiences of the Current year and previous experiences. This will help both students and teachers to decide about future excursions and also help in plant identification. Let us all share & develop this collaboratively.

Bryophyta Hub

 * Liverworts of India


 * Mosses of India

Pteridophyta Hub
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Economic Botany

 * Economic Botany - For the following topics in Economic Botany Click Here


 * Beverages


 * Fibres, Rubber, Firewood, Timber and Bamboos


 * Medicinal Plants


 * Origin and Introduction of Crop Plants, Cereals and Pulses


 * Potato, Sugarcane and Vegetable Oils


 * Spices

Also see my video on 'Black Pepper' on this page. Shows how Black Peppers start as Green, changing to brown, red and finally black!

Click on this link to see some photographs clicked by Shalinee Bhardwaj


 * Click on this link for book by Crispeels and Sadava

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=Research= If you are interested in doing Research, Click on this Research link & read. My Research studies have been on four lines:
 * M.Sc. Thesis on Phenolics in Antigonon leptopus
 * Ph.D. Thesis on Flower colour changes in Lantana camara
 * Post-Doctoral Research Project on Reproductive Bilology of Solanum melomgena
 * Post-Doctoral Research Project on Impact of Environmental Changes on Plants in Delhi.



Antigonon leptopus
Research Thesis<Br> M.Sc. – 1976 University of Delhi<Br> Title:Physio-Chemical Studies on Phenolic Constituents of Seeds of Antigonon leptopus

Lantana camara
Research Thesis <Br> Ph.D. – 1983 University of Delhi<Br> Title: Flower Colour Changes and Pollination in Lantana camara

Post Doctoral Research
Set up a Botany Research Laboratory in Gargi College, University of Delhi.<Br> This research was carried out in the new Laboratory.


 * 'Reproductive Biology of Eggplant – Solanum melongena' as a research project awarded to me by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, 1996 to 2000.

<FONT COLOR="Maroon"> Shalinee Bhardwaj was my Botany undergrad student in Gargi College. After finishing Post-graduation in Botany from DU, she worked in my research project on Eggplant, Solanum melongena. Later, she was also a faculty of the Education department of my college. Her clicked photos above show her deep involvement with eggplants. </FONT COLOR="Maroon">

Post Doctoral Research
Botany research Laboratory, Gargi College, University of Delhi.


 * Studies on Effect of Environmental Changes on Selected Herbaceous Plants of Delhi, as a research project awarded jointly to Dr. Gita Mathur & Dr. Bharati Bhattacharyya by University Grants Commission, Government of India, 2001 to 2003.

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=Innovations in Teaching=

Teaching is not just a profession, it is a passion for many of us.

My Videos
User:Gita_Mathur/Click here to see my Videos

<FONT COLOR="Maroon"> You can see the following Videos:

Gita Mathur_1
<Br> This has slides of the F2F L4C Workshop I attended.

Gita Mathur_2
<Br> Slides of Green and Red Black Peppers.<Br> <FONT COLOR="Purple"> Note about this video: --><Br> <FONT COLOR="Green">'Black Pepper' is cultivated in Kerala, a State in the Southern part of India. The pictures in this Video are of Fresh Black peppers which were brought to me yesterday by my Undergraduate Student Drishya Nair. These pictures have been clicked by me today (Dec. 2, 2008). Young Peppers are green, become dark, then red with maturation. (Note these 'Stages of Development' in the pictures.) These are then harvested and cured to get the commercial Black Pepper used as a spice the world over. My students are very enthusiastic young Botanists! Thanks Drishya.<FONT COLOR="Black"> <Br> <kaltura-widget kalturaid='yy115lzce2' size='L' align='L'/>

Gita Mathur_3
<Br> Bryophyllum Red Flowers - Short clip of a film recorded by me.

Gita Mathur_4
<Br>  WikiEducator Page - a small film recorded by me for learning to upload a video on my page.

eL4C15 On-Line Workshop Nov.24-Dec.5, 2008
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More Botanical ones to be added soon.

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Study Groups
On-line learning is becoming very popular now. <Br> Register on the site of | WiZiQ and see the recordings of some useful lessons. <Br> Meet me there.

Emailing useful materials - Interlinking Classroom and Web for Teaching
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 * I take the email ID's of all my students and make class-wise mailing groups.
 * For every class I ask one student to be my "Email Contact" who ensures that everyone is getting the mails and tells me about change/addition of email ID from that class
 * I send every class group, the syllabus, before starting of the new session in the college.
 * Next, I mail a list of readings relevant to their course to be studied.
 * I send paper-wise book lists for reading.
 * I also send a soft copy of list of Botany Books in the college library and their location on the Gargi College library shelves.
 * This also includes the number of copies of the books available in the Reference section and the Issue sections.
 * As all my students do not have access to internet at home, I give out prints which they can photocopy. Some take copes from their friends.
 * Where ever possible and relevant, I email reading materials which students can printout and bring to the class. I ensure that I send this well in advance.
 * In Botany there are long Botanical names which students tend to copy from the classroom board making spelling mistakes. Sending them the list of names which would be used in the coming lecture solves this problem.For example Potato is Solanum tuberosum to Botanists.
 * My main focus is on two lines
 * 1) Using the technological advancements in everyday, classroom education.
 * 2) Keeping a balance of Chalkboard teaching and internet usage. There can never be any method better than the Chalkboard / Whiteboard approach. The reason for this, in my opinion is that this method makes every lesson highly customized for that batch of students.

use of photographs
<FONT COLOR="Teal"> These are Photographs of Tissue Culture Experiments done in Gargi College by III year students of B.Sc. Honours in Botany. <FONT COLOR="Green">

photomicroscopy


<FONT COLOR="Brown"> Cells of Onion Root Tip showing Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase & Telophase. STAGES OF CELL DIVISION - MITOSIS. <FONT COLOR="Green">





Scanning Electron Microscope pictures: click here and click here
 * Click on the links below to see the fascinating world of a Botanist.

=My Slide Presentations=

Learning to upload a presentation
<FONT COLOR="Maroon"> [[Media:Learning to upload a presentation Gita_Mathur.swf|Learning to upload a presentation made in open office]] <Br.> Click on the link here and follow the steps in the presentation for uploading a presentation on WikiEducator.<Br.>This is for Open Source systems only. <FONT COLOR="Green">

Learning to use a computer
<FONT COLOR="Maroon"> [[Media:Learning to use a computer.swf|Learning to use a computer]]<Br.>This presentation is for those who are totally new to computers. Ask them to see this presentation and become users. <FONT COLOR="Green">

Reference Cards for use in Face-to-Face Learning-for-Content Workshops
[[Media:WikiEducator-Gargi_2009_Reference_Cards.swf|WikiEducator-Gargi_2009_Reference_Cards]]<Br.> <FONT COLOR="Maroon"> This presentation is a slide show for Newbies and for those who want to revise or practice WikiEducator Skills. <FONT COLOR="Green">

Presentation slides - WikiEducator in Linux Delhi Meet
<FONT COLOR="Brown"> Developing Open Educational Resources: WikiEducator-Gargi 2009 – A Step Forward </FONT COLOR="Brown">
 * Presentation Slides of Gita-Promila Freed.in Talk are at this link. [[Media:Gita-Promila_Freed.in_Talk.swf‎]]

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Talk by Two WikiEducators of Gargi College at a meet:<Br.> Freed.in – Getting There Together,<Br.> held on Feb.20-21, 2009 at Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus, New Delhi. <Br.>

Focus Area: Unfettered access to knowledge, especially for Education<Br.> <FONT COLOR="Green">

Title: Developing Open Educational Resources: WikiEducator-Gargi 2009 – A Step Forward<Br.>

Dr. Gita Mathur and Dr. Promila Kumar<Br.>

Gargi College(University of Delhi), Siri Fort Road, New Delhi – 110049.<Br.>

/Quiz Time/
Dear Students and friends, click on this link & try out my quiz.