Learning4Content/Workshops/Face-to-Face schedule/L4C68/Workshop Report

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Report of Workshop on WikiEducator
3- 5 September 2010


Facilitators: Dr. Savithri Singh and Dr. Ravi Toteja
Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi)


List of the Participants:

LAST NAME
FIRST NAME
GENDER
ORGANIZATION
Singh Dr. Savithri Female Acharya Narendra Dev College
Toteja Dr. Ravi Male Acharya Narendra Dev College
Sharma Prachi Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Gupta Anchul Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Pandey Dr.Vinod kumar Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Bansal Prachi Female Teerthankar Mahaveer University
Agarwal Mini Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
kumar Rajeev Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Verma Pradeep Kumar Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Rana Er.Deepa Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Kumari Er. Santosh Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Agarwal Anuj Kumar Male Teerthankar Mahaveer University
Chaudhary Anshu Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Varshney Dr. Pragati Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Jain Dr. V.P. Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Agrawal Navin Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Rehani Divya Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Mishra Vivek Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Munder Archana Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Khurana Darshan Singh Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Singh Shikha Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Verma Vikas Kumar Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Prajapati Divya Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Rao Ila Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Singh Abnish Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Goyal Tanu Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Sharma Vivek Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Nigam Amit Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Kumar Dr. Navneet Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Bainola Pradeep Kumar Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Rawat Vijendra Singh Rawat Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Gola Kamal Kumar Male Teerthanker Mahaveer University
Agrawal Meenu Female Teerthanker Mahaveer University

Day One: 3 September, 2010

The workshop was inaugurated by Professor K.K Pande, Director, College of Engineering, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad. The welcome address was given by Mr. Anchul Gupta, Head, Department of Computer Sciences. This was followed by introduction of the candidates.


The facilitator of the workshop Dr. Savithri Singh, Principal, Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) introduced the candidates to the world of Open Educational Resources, OER. In her talk she emphasized on the advantages of using FOSS over proprietary software. She also talked about copyrights and how to use various licenses in OERs.


She along with the another facilitator Dr Ravi Toteja, Assistant Professor in Zoology, Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) then introduced the candidates to wikieducator, a platform for creating contents. The participants were given hands on training to create an account in www.wikieducator.org and to create their own user page in wikieducator. Editing and formatting of contents using wiki syntax as well as using wiki toolbar were explained to the participants. In addition to this they were instructed on how to create subpages, external links and internal links.


Day Two: 4 September, 2010

Second day of the workshop started with an interactive session in which various doubts of the participants were cleared by the facilitators of the workshop. All the participants had got the welcome note for joining the wiki community from various registered wiki members. It was then demonstrated how to upload, edit, place and resize the images on wikieducator. Later on it was also described how to create an image gallery and infopersonal box on the user page.


Number of candidates had doubts on how safe their pages are on wiki? The doubts got cleared when they were introduced to one of the powerful tool of the wiki and that is how to access history and use of revert back feature. They were instructed on how to make tables using wiki syntax as well as using rich text.


Day Three: 5 September, 2010

On third day of the workshop participants were happy to see the Apprentice I certificates on their user pages. Participants were given hands on to upload media files, video, audio on Kaltura in wiki. They were also explained the advantage of using open office and its use in converting .doc file to .pdf file. They were amused with this and everyone uploaded .doc file using OOO converter of wiki, and pdf file on their user pages. Use of pedagogical templates was also explained.


Participants were given some time to incorporate everything which have been explained to them all through the workshop. Later on all participants presented their user page and many of them had made their pages very innovatively.


The workshop concluded with the Vote of Thanks by Mr, Amit Nigam, Convenor of the workshop.