Bhavya Rajan
IInd Semester B. Ed.
Option: Physical Science
Reg. No.
CONCEPT OF
E-RESOURCES
In the past
decade there have clearly been significant moves from paper-based to net based
electronic knowledge for teacher education.
This knowledge got from a physical world to a virtual world by many ways
like create, store and access to manage e-resources. Electronic resources consist of data
representing numbers, text, graphics, images, maps, moving images, music,
sounds, etc, and programs of instruction sets.
TYPES OF E-RESOURCES
Generally,
e-resources in Teacher Education, classified into two major areas viz.(1)
Online e-resources and (@) Offline e-resources.
Online
e-resources are e-books: e-journals, e-mails, e-library e-forum, e-learning
e-shops, e-dictionaries etc. This can be
available in a three types of matter. Freely available resource contents
(Websites), licensed resources, and onsite resources.
Offline
e-resources are CD ROM based e-resources: OFFline e-books: Offline
e-dictionaries: MS Office applications(documents, spreadsheets, power points)
Training software; e-promptor; resources from mobile devices and secondary
storage devices.
SOCIAL NETWORKING
A social
networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations
among people who for example share interests, activities, backgrounds or real
life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each
user (often profile), his social links, and a variety of addition services.
Social networking is web-based services that allow individuals to create a
public profile, create a list of users with whom to share connection and view
and cross the connections within the system. Most social network services are
web-based and provide means of users to interact over to Internet, such as
e-mail and instant messaging. Social networking sites are varied and they
incorporate new information and communication tools such as, mobile
connectivity, photo/video/sharing and blogging. Online community services are
sometime considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense,
social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas
only community service are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users
to share ideas, pictures posts, activities, events, and interests with people
in their network.
I. FACE BOOK
Face book is
an online social networking service. It names comes from a colloquialism for
the directory given to students at some American Universities. Face book not
allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered
user of the website. Users must register before using the site, after which
they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange
messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile.
Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by
workplace, school or college or other characteristics, and categorize their
friends into lists such as “People From Work’’ or “Close Friends’’. As of
September 2012, Face book has over one billion active users, of which
approximately 9% are fake. Face book has about 180 petabytes of data per year
and grows by over half a petabytes every 24 hours. Face book has affected the
social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on
many mobile devices, Face book allows users to continuously stay in touch with
friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as
long as there is access to the Internet.
II. LINKEDIN
One purpose
of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details
of the people with whom they have some level of relationship, called
‘Connections’. Users can invite anyone to become a connection.
This list of connections can then be
used in a number of ways:
(i) A
contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, the
connections of each of their connections and also the connections of
second-degree connections. This can be used to gain an introduction to someone
a person wishes to know through a mutual contact.
(ii) Users
can not upload their resume any more. This was a feature but became redundant
in late 2012.
(iii) It
can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by
someone in one’s contact network.
(iv) Employers
can list jobs and search for potential candidates.
(v) Job
seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their
existing contacts can introduce them.
(vi) Users
can post their own photos and view photos of others to aid in identification.
(vii) Users
can now follow different companies and can receive notifications about the new
joining and offers available.
(viii) Users can save jobs that they would like to apply for.
(ix) Users
can “like” and “congratulate” each other’s updates and new employments.
(x) Users
can see who has visited their profile page.
III. TWITTER
Twitter is an
online social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and
read “tweets” which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered
users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.
Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.
Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City,
Boston, San Antonio and Detroit.
ELECTRONIC LEARNING
(E-LEARNING)
E-learning is
the delivery of a learning, training or education program by electronic means.
E-learning involves the use of a computer or electronic device in some way to
provide training educational or learning material.
E-learning
refers to the use of internet or wireless technologies to deliver a broad array
of training solutions. E-learners access the learning from computers via the
internet or an intranet, or through a hand held device like a palm pilot.
E-learning is
the computer and network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge. E-learning
applications and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning,
virtual education opportunities and digital collaboration. Content is delivered
via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and
CD-ROM. It can be self-paced or instructor-led and includes media in the form
of text, image, animation, streaming video and audio.
BENEFITS OF
E-LEARNING
Some of the
more obvious benefits of e-learning include consistency of content, ease of
customization, learner control, and reduction or elimination of travel costs to
attend learning events. Consistency of content is achieved by the same learning
being made available to anyone, anywhere, anytime with no degradation to the
quality or effectiveness of the content or presentation.
BASIC ELEMENTS OF
E-LEARNING
Regardless of
e-learning form and type of place where it is implemented (school, university,
company, or organization), it should always consist of two basic elements:-
FIRST ELEMENT: TEACHING – that leads to getting new or improving existing knowledge,
skills or professional competencies is e-learning’s main goal and
characteristic. This basic goal may be reached by use of various technologies.
SECOND ELEMENT: TECHNOLOGY – if e-learning is to perform its tasks properly, it has to
be based on tested and reliable solutions. Use of IT, especially computers and
internet, makes it easy to organize distance learning available for students in
place and time of their own choice.
EDUCATIONAL BLOG
Blog
A blog is a
type of website or part of a website.
Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of
commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics of vider
entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
Most blogs
are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each
other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes
them from other websites.
A typical
blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages and other media
related to this page. The ability of
readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of
blog.
Most blogs
are primarily textual, although some focus on art, photographs, (photo blog)
videos (video blog), music (MP3 blog) blogging and audio (podcasting)
Micro
blogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts
The term “webblog” was coined by John
Barger on 17 December 1997. The short
form “blog” was coined by Peter Merholz.
Types of blog
1. Personal
blogs
2. Corporate
or organizational blogs
3. By
genre: Travel blogs
4. By
medium type: Blog
5. By
device.
Blogging is
an act of posting content on a blog (a Web or online journal) posting comments
on a someone else’s blog. Blogging
allows people to interact with each other.
Blogging has also become popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool
because search engine like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently
updated with content/visitor comments.
Importance of teacher related blogs
Help to share useful information and tips among co-workers
Help to communicate with one another
Act as a support system for teachers
Recognized as useful tools in education system.
Way to communicate and enhance classroom instruction among students
Increase exposure to other students.
Way to post important information’s such as homework projects etc.
Student’s blogs
Students can also the blog to ask each other’s questions regarding a
missed assignment lesson for during group projects and it also gives students
an opportunity to collaborate on poetry, various writing assignments / readings.
It allows the students who are shy, reserved in class to voice their opinions
and have insight with a different approach.
Students express themselves. In higher education, blogs are often used as
reflective journals.
The use of blogs in education gives students a global perspective. Teachers from different state, countries and
continents are able to collaborate on different projects and learning.
Learning through blogs allows students to take control of their own
learning and steer it to their own needs.
Students are able to see that opinions and even strategies vary based on
location and culture.
Children are different, but a common thread of learning can unite
them. The use of blogs in the classroom
embeds technological literacy in children that will help them in adulthood.
CONCLUSION
Teacher
education academics have indicated continuous use of e-resources. My
recommendation for teacher educators is to improve the ICT s resources. Then only the today’s teachers are to be a
future e-teacher for future generation community. Teaching is a serious task; indeed a noble
profession.
REFERENCES
PN Publications SURE success series
www.answers.com
Modern trend in educational practices by TK Mathew.
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