After much deliberation, came out with this post where i want to share about what a novice/ upcoming e-teacher should know. While working on CII-Shiksha Project (www.shikshaindia.org), came out with this term e-teacher. A very basic explanation of the term is "any teacher with working knowledge about various useful and appropriate e-tools (electronic-tools) and capable of transacting teaching-learning in a more effective manner".
The effectiveness aspect is brought in by exposing the teachers to a plethora of e-tools. Under the CII-Shiksha E-teaching workshops, a variety of open source / free tools are delivered to teachers. Most of these teachers, being new to the actual concept of e-teaching/ e-learning find hard to cope with the quantity and variety of tools being delivered to them.
It was during one such e-teaching workshop that the idea cropped to make the things/ technology simpler for teachers. Why not deliver small utilities rather than a comprehensive software. Though a comprehensive software may be a good choice in the long run but the first stpes should always be made simpler. After all, teachers need self-confidence to tread further on this road to e-teaching. This idea prompted to replace big and comprehensive softwares like Irfan View with tools like pixresizer or shell extension.
In the first phase, the teachers would be better off being taught/ delivered the easy-to-use and accomplish tools/ utilities and once they get comfortable using it to their advantage, they can move on to playing around with detail/ comprehensive tools.
The effectiveness aspect is brought in by exposing the teachers to a plethora of e-tools. Under the CII-Shiksha E-teaching workshops, a variety of open source / free tools are delivered to teachers. Most of these teachers, being new to the actual concept of e-teaching/ e-learning find hard to cope with the quantity and variety of tools being delivered to them.
It was during one such e-teaching workshop that the idea cropped to make the things/ technology simpler for teachers. Why not deliver small utilities rather than a comprehensive software. Though a comprehensive software may be a good choice in the long run but the first stpes should always be made simpler. After all, teachers need self-confidence to tread further on this road to e-teaching. This idea prompted to replace big and comprehensive softwares like Irfan View with tools like pixresizer or shell extension.
In the first phase, the teachers would be better off being taught/ delivered the easy-to-use and accomplish tools/ utilities and once they get comfortable using it to their advantage, they can move on to playing around with detail/ comprehensive tools.
E-teaching is nothing but "teaching simplified through technology"
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