Coursera_Introductory Physics I with Laboratory

The course 'Introductory Physics I with Laboratory' by Michael F. Schatz from Georgia Institute of Technology will be offered free of charge to everyone on the Coursera platform.

Its aim to understand and to predict motion in the real world using a small set of powerful fundamental principles. The laboratories are the backbone of this course, providing opportunities (1) to observe and to analyze motion in our own surroundings, (2) to apply fundamental principles to build explanations of the motion, and (3) to evaluate, in a constructively critical way, our own measurements and models, as well as the measurements and models of our course peers. Other course elements (lecture videos with “clicker” questions, homework) support and extend the physics explored in the laboratories.

Participants who satisfactorily complete the course will be eligible for six (6) Continuing Education Units from the American Association of Physics Teachers. 

This is also a good opportunity to teachers to learn new methods of teaching 'Physics', I joined...

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Create your Own Online Course (MOOC)

Many teachers enthusiastic to create their own MOOC (mass open online courses) to teach the kids. Here are few websites FREE to go ahead with.

Versal is a simple publishing platform with facility to add everything to develop a course. Add text, videos, images, quizzes and interactive learning gadgets and bring your expertise to life. To use one need not have any technical knowledge. This is a big advantage for teachers with enthusiasm to build courses online.

The Versal Foundation offers grants in two categories: Transformative education and Foundational education. Grants range depending on the scope of your course, length (one hour at a minimum), what it will take to build it, and its power to help people.  

Course builder : by ‘Google’ contains software and instructions for presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and assessments.It also contains instructions for using other Google products to create a  course community and to evaluate the effectiveness of your course. To use Course Builder one should have some familiarity with HTML and JavaScript

web sites for grammar and spell check

Here are few FREE web sites for grammar and spell check in English.

1. paperrater 

2. online grammar check  

3. spell check 

Helping Students with FA and FC Using EdTech

Generally, many of students have few learning gaps and teachers know it well where they are lagging behind. With in school hours it is not possible to fill these gaps or to couch extra hours for slow learners. There are many ‘free’ tech tools available to help students without much difficulty and with little efforts on the part of teachers. Here I would like to suggest using ‘flipped class’ (FC) methods combined with “formative assessment’ (FA).  Before going to elaborate on technology side, let us recap these two methods.

An assessment is knows as formative if and only if it forms subsequent learning. This is also known as ‘assessment as learning’.  The point here to note is how the assessment outcomes are helping students to learn. The present day practices of small tests and class room verbal questions, even though termed as formative assessments, they are not helping learner with further learning process, so they cannot be considers as ‘formative learning’. Without feedback for further learning process, the assessment is only a compliance task, instead of learning activity.

There are few misconceptions on ‘Flipped classes’, like replacing teachers with videos, students learning independently. Actually, it is students taking responsibility of their learning and every student get personalised guidance from teachers.

Complete article in EdTechReview

Few More Online Resources

1. Extra Education:

This is amazingly great website for teachers and students with a collection of online resources.  Let me congratulate Mr N.J. Sharma and his team for the remarkable efforts to collect all important resources from the internet and keep them at a single point for teachers and students. Many number of them are very much suitable for flipped learning. it will be a great help if the resources are  arranged by subject wise as soon as possible ( i am informed on this)......

2. For Educators - NASA Science:

The NASA Science Education Program sponsors educational activities at all levels of education to provide opportunities for learners to investigate their world and universe using unique NASA resources.

3. Free Physics Notes For Secondary School: 

Dedicated to help students excel in physics by giving notes, motivation and resources especially for secondary school students

4. Education Videos: 

 Science Videos,Interesting Fun Facts, ,Powerpoint presentations, Quiz,Questions,

5. 3 Trustable Search Engines for your Kids

The search engines are designed to search all kinds of information regardless of the user age group who may be a kid, teenager, adult or elder. So it’s nearly impossible to trace different users to restrict to some particular access of information. And so even with many top search engines provided with parental control options are not 100% safe. A kid of today’s generation needs access to right information, and that’s the reason behind the development of search engine for kids.

KIDREX :

Kidsclick:

Quinturakids :

6. SchoolsWorld  

multimedia platform, providing innovative and informative content for everyone involved with or wanting to be involved in schools. Besides all the content from Teachers TV, there is something for everyone: videos, interactive games, work sheets, fact sheets, information and latest education news.

7. https://www.videoclass.com/

8. Science Animation:

9. Interactive Science Simulations

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET™ project at the University of Colorado.

10. A Visual Guide ToEvery Single Learning Theory

This concept map is elaborate and downright incredible. Robert Millwood built this behemoth and you should be sure to head over to his site to thank him and learn more about the Holistic Approach to Technology Enhanced Learning (HoTEL). In any case, this detailed analysis and chart of every single learning theory is worth zooming in and studying.

11. FreePowerpoint Presentations for teachers: 

Free Teaching Resources PowerPoint Presentations free to download. Free PowerPoint Presentations for biology, chemistry, physics, English, maths, history, geography and........Of course, not all are that great...but many are... 

Few online videos

Today students are internet enthusiastic.

Watching videos and playing games are part of their day to day activities.

Teachers can use many online resources to improve students understanding; even they can implement ‘flipped learning’ method too.

Online resources are very useful for slow learners to catch up and fill up learning gaps.

Of course, all students may not have access to internet.

However, these web sites are good sources, at least for teachers.

1. You tube for schools:

‘YouTube for Schools’ bring the power of video to your classrooms free of charge.

We can access thousands of free, high-quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled 

2. You tube for teachers:

This channel of your tube helps teachers to influence, engage and inspire students.

3. youtubedocumentaries:

A large collection of documentaries, motivate students to recognise why they have to understand basic concepts clearly. 

4. National Geography videos:

In addition to wonderful videos we can find good number of other resources too.

5. TED Education:
Engaging videos on TDE-ED help teachers to engage students and to customise lessons.

6. TED videos:

 Distinguished personalities from different fields bring their visions and missions on ted talks. NO doubt these videos provoke students naturally embedded sprites to achieve....
watch this video from TED.....

 7. Neo-K12

This site contains educational videos complied from different website which are very popular.


Few more links sent by Mr.Utkarsh Lokesh Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Eduvative Technologies LLP/EdTechReview

8. 22 Best Online Resources for Free Educational Videos 
http://edtechreview.in/index.php/news/news/e-learning/170-free-online-educational-videos-resources 

9. Must Read: Free Learning Websites for all 21st Century Learners 
http://edtechreview.in/index.php/news/news/e-learning/200-free-21st-century-learning-sites

10. Flipped Classroom Report 
http://edtechreview.in/index.php/research/66-reports/309-flipped-classroom-report



May i request you to add few more sites so that i will add them to this 

TED Education Wants Your Help Bringing Cool Science to the Classroom

TED education invites all educators to participate in developing educational videos.

As per the news report, any one who like to share can send lesson plans to TED-Ed.

The notification of TED-ED
"One of our goals is to make the TED-Ed video library as engaging, thorough, and robust as possible. From the broadest of categories to the most specific of minutiae, if there is any topic you would like TED-Ed to develop new videos and animation for, please let us know through our lesson suggestion form."

please read complete article using the link TED Education wants help.

How to Help Students with Online Resources:

Online Resources for Teaching and Learning

In continuation to my previous article “How to help students with online resources”, I would like to present few more resources for teachers and students.
please read rest of the article in 'EdTechReview'

Online Resources for Teaching and Learning

PDC for teachers

Course Era; well know for offering FREE online courses from top university professionals.

It announced to launch courses in teacher professional development category.

The blog post of 'Course Era' indicates, seven leading schools of education have joined this initiative, including

The College of Education, University of Washington;

Curry School of Education, University of Virginia;

Johns Hopkins University School of Education;

Match Education’s Sposato Graduate School of Education;

Peabody College of Education and Human Development,

Vanderbilt University; Relay Graduate School of Education;

University of California, Irvine Extension.

Get benefited as they have a good number of courses.