n Wednesday, May 20, at 1400 UTC – TALIN hostsed Dr. Dilip Barad who had agreed to talk with us on how he had conducted one of his recent remote hands-on workshop. Here is how Dilip Barad characterised his experience of remotely conducting the online hands-on workshop that he would be talking about: It was quite a unique experiment with a few interesting learning experiences. The workshop was hosted from Bhavnagar, Gujarat (Western India) for the participants 2000 km down south in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. We worked on Google Meet platform. All participants were women teachers of Under Grades and above.

2. Experience Sharing
On Conducting Online Remote
Hands-on Workshop
Dilip Barad
M K Bhavnagar University
Gujarat, India
dilipbarad@gmail.com

4. The
Resource Person
and
the
Participants

5. The Participants

6. •Objective
•Literature Review
•Methodology
•Learning Outcome
•Experience of Resource Person
•Feedback by Participants
•Prof. Mahesh Jivani – Sharing experience
•Vote of Thanks

7. Objectives: eFDP
• To train Under Grades & Post Grades Teachers > Higher Education >
to use Digital Platform for Online Remote Teaching (ORT)
• To orient as learner & train as teacher
• To make them ready to take online remote classes, as early as
possible > ERT – Emergency Remote Teaching
• Narrow down to single digital platform rather than talking about
innumerable platform that teachers are confused

8. Literature review
• S. Mikawa, P. Basu, K. Okawa and J. Murai, "An Asia-Wide Realtime
Distributed Hands-On Workshop," 2007 International Symposium on
Applications and the Internet Workshops, Hiroshima, 2007, pp. 41-41,
doi: 10.1109/SAINT-W.2007.22.
http://www.waseda.jp/DLI2008/program/proceedings/pdf/session5-
2.pdf
• Alvensleben, Laila von. Remote Workshops: Collaboration done
Virtually. Hanno.co. April 2016. https://hanno.co/blog/remote-
workshops/

9. Methodology
• Face to face Model
• Used two devices > one to see RP’s screen + another to work on
• A mobile phone and laptop > the interface are different and it is
necessary to train teachers for both interface
• Split screen on laptop can be an idea for ORT but we wanted training
on both platforms
• Participating teachers were to be trained as both the learner as well
as teacher

10. Face to Face Workshop Model > Better
alternative . . . .
• Synchronous visual collaboration encourages teamwork
• To recreate a sense of progressing together, ‘Mural can be used to
explore different themes and made everyone share their vision, both
visually and verbally.
• Mural - MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration >
mural.co
• (Ref: hanno.co & lingos.org)
•Shared Google Doc or Sheet

11. •25 Participants – 3 Dropouts =
•20/22 completed all tasks
•Learning Outcome . . . >

12. Topic App / Site Success Rate
1. eGroup Google Groups 100%
2. Web Conferencing for Online Teaching Google Meet 100%
3. Digital Teaching Platform Google Classroom
3.1 Joining & Creating the class 100%
3.2 Sharing material 100%
3.3 Creating Online Quiz 90%
3.4 Assigning Activities 100%
3.5 Sharing Video Recourses 100%
3.6 Sharing resources from Drive 100%
3.7 Taking Online Test 90%
3.8 Submitting Written Assignment 80%

13. Experience of Resource Person
•For teachers #digital is the part of skill set > an additional
skill but almost absolute one in recent time.
•the only sure way to teach skills is to make people 'do it'.
Without 'doing', skills can never be mastered. The more
we #practice, the more we master the skills.
•Hands-on Practice > even in real life situation is
exhausting
•Learners are of mixed ability >
•Techno-friendly & Techno-phobic

14. •In this #remote_teaching or
say #remote_workshop, all the learners
are in their homes, learning as an
isolated learner. . .
•And it is tough beyond imagination to
keep the entire class move on shoulder
to shoulder, all together.

15. What worked in this remotely handled hands-
on workshop for faculty development?
1. We planned that all participants will work with two devices.
2. The participants shall have a mobile phone as well as a
laptop or PC.
3. Needless to say, hi-speed internet and basic ICT skills (or
keep a family member around who is good in ICT)
4. #Google_Meet - As we were to work
on #Google #Classroom, we used Google #Meet which is
hassle-free and does not require new login id or password.
No need to remember a few more IDs and passwords.

16. •It is less tiring to move around the lab / class and
conduct workshop. It is extremely exhausting to
remotely conduct workshop.
•Sitting in one place, one position constantly
peeping in the tiny camera and speaking with
nobody, no faces to see, no eye contact with
learners to get a nod, no body gestures to reply
our non-question questions ~ is very exhausting.
•Lots of Patience is required. . .

17. What I was not able to do . . . .
• Rubric in Google Classroom for Written Assignment
and Oral Presentations > A few slow learners.
• ‘Import’ grades from Quiz Assignment > G-suit
Feature
• ‘Originality Check’ > G-suit Feature
• Google Meet connect > G-suit Feature
• Google Meet Features > Time constraint

18. Written Feedback by Participants
• Focusing on slow Learners with the help of technology is possible
• An insight of the probable difficulties that could be encountered during the
process.
• Since it was a large group, each person had different queries....so sometimes
it took a really long time to move from one step to another. 3 hours at a time
was a little stretched for everyone, including the resource person. could be
made into one hour sessions lasting for 6 days (in future)
• I hope educational institution understands the need of laptop for all teachers
in present world and considers sponsoring them like how they do it IT
companies.
• The 2 Day eFDP has given me confidence to teach and conduct classes
through the digital device.
• Learned to use technology in the class of mixed abilities > peer learning

19. Feedback by Participants
• Dr. Sanghamitra
• Dr. Vanitha R
• Dr. Annie Raphael
• Dr. Chandreyee
• Dr. Baisakhi Mukherjee
• Dr. Jenefer Joseph

20. Prof. Mahesh Jivani – Experience Sharing
•Vote of Thanks