Self graded quiz using Google forms

Dear educators

We are all facing challenges raised by COVID-19. Schools and higher education institutions are facing unprecedented needs to close their physical classrooms and  millions of students lose access to learning.

We as an educators are trying our best to keep our classrooms connected, so that learning doesn’t stop.Many of us are exploring remote learning technologies to connect to students like Zoom meeting , Google classroom, Microsoft teams etc.and even What’s app . Many educators are making video lectures to be shared with their students.

I am sharing a tool (Google Forms) which will help you to know the understanding level of students after they watch your video. It can be given as an assignment to students after you complete a particular chapter or topic.

This tool will help your students to prepare for objective type questions like Fill in the blanks , MCQ’s , True/False , Matching etc.

You can watch the video to learn the step by step instructions to make and use this tool in your teaching .

I hope ,you will find this useful.Thanks .

Making of online flyer

Dear educators

Today I want to share with you an easy way of making online flyers.

Flyers can be used for variety of purposes in education .

I used it to share the link of resources which I used in my workshops with particiapnts .Having a link of an online flyer particiapnts are relieved of work of noting down of things during workshop. Also they can refer to it any time in future .

Click the link below to see the Flyer made by me :
https://www.smore.com/9s1cz

Making of flyer is very easy .
Just open :https://www.smore.com
Create your free account and simple drag and drop will help you create beautiful flyer .
Check the video below for step by step tutorial

I will wait for your ideas as to how to use this in different ways in education .

Using infographics in education

Infographics are representations of information or data in a graphic format designed to make that information easier to understand.

Human brain is divided in two halves –the left brain and right brain. Left brain works logically and analytically whereas Right brain works on creativity. If we convert information in graphics creatively, it is easily understood and retained by students as more of right brain is regulated.

Click the picture below to see fabulous animated infographic that explains the 13 reasons why your brain craves infographics

There are lot of free online tools available for creating info-graphics which can be used .

1. Snappa – My favourite
2. Venngage
3. Piktochart
4. Easelly
5. Infogram
6. Canva (My favorite)

Check this video tutorial for step by step instructions to use Canva

Check My Presentation on Infographics at NYSCATE ,2019 at New York

Check few infographics made by me

Also click on picture below to see Infographic of Story of Ola Cabs made by me

Learn to Unlearn

Dear educators It is very important for us to change with changing times.Check this interesting and thought provoking article " Learn to Unlearn" from "The Hindu" newspaper

Please go through this extract first

A few years ago, I had an opportunity to interact with a group of school teachers. A few had over 25 years, some over 10 years, and the rest had 5-10 years of experience. When I asked them, “Do you teach various subjects (courses) the way you were taught by your teachers about 20 years, 10 years or five years ago?”, some nodded their heads and gave an affirmative answer.

Click here  to read entire article 

Background removal from picture

Hello friends

I regularly make PowerPoint presentations related to my subject and also for workshops I take .
I faced problem inserting images with colored backgrounds as backgrounds are visible if I am putting that picture on another picture.
Check the example below

Check this video below to learn that how easily you can we remove background from pictures using Power Point.

How to record computer screen

Hello friends

If you want to make tutorial videos by recording your computer screen, it is very easy .This is called as Screencasting. This enables you to record what is happening on your monitor with or without audio narration.

There are lot of free software available online like

1.       LightShot

2.       Web Pagescreen Capture

3.       Snaplr

4.       Screenr

5.       Screencast-O-Matic

6.       MicrosoftExpression Encoder etc.

I have tried most of them but I really like MicrosoftExpression Encoder the most.

Check this tutorial video.

Click link below to download this software

CLICK HERE

I will soon post my tutorial video made using this software.

Do share your feedback or queries.

Happy Screencasting !!!!

Solving pen drive issues

Hello everyone 

We all use pen drive to save our files or carry it with files to be shown on some other computer.
Lately I was facing a typical problem with my pen drive.
 When I insert this pen drive in any computer, it shows the occupying space. But when I open it .it shows it is empty. I have very important data in that and had to recover that data.

Thank fully, I found solution on you tube and fixed my pen drive. Very easy method.

Watch this video