1. Best Use of Social Media in
Education
Digital Learning World Education Summit Awards
2012
A collaboration of JNV Vijayanagram,
Navodaya Vidhyalaya Sangathan &
INTEL

2. B ackground & Mandate of J NVs
• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) established by the Government of India to
provide learning opportunities to many 1st generation learners from for rural and
backward districts to support the Inclusion, Equity and Excellence goals of MHRD.
• Its significance lies in the selection of talented rural children as the target group and
the attempt to provide them with quality education comparable to the best in a
residential school system, without regard to their family's socio-economic condition.
• Navodaya is the only scheme providing quality education to students from the rural
areas and weaker sections of the society with a 75% reservation of seats for students
from rural .areas, 1/3 seats for girls, and reservation for SC and ST students in
proportion to their population in the district.
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3. J awahar Navodaya Vidyalaya’s acros s India
GOI has setup 593 JNVs
across India, providing
the schools with the
latest infrastructure and
learning support to
empower students to
excel in the global
competition.
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4. G enes is of IC T Initiatives in J NVs
• The National Policy on Education 1986, as modified in 1992, stressed
upon employing educational technology to improve the quality of
education.
• The policy statement led to two major centrally sponsored schemes,
Educational Technology (ET) and Computer Literacy and Studies in
Schools (CLASS) paving the way for a more comprehensive centrally
sponsored scheme – Information and Communication Technology @
Schools in 2004.
• Educational technology also found a significant place in another
scheme on up gradation of science education. The significant role of
ICT in school education been highlighted in the National Curriculum
Framework 2005 (NCF) 2005.
Aligning with these National Goals & Policies; JNVs embarked upon
the ICT journey in late 90s
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5. IC T Initiatives at J NVs
• Navodaya Vdyalaya Samiti gives utmost importance to Computer Aided Education in
JNVs.
• JNVs are well equipped with needed hardware and software in the recent past.
• Training is imparted to all the members of staff in general and to teaching faculty in
particular.
• Round the clock internet connection through VSAT connectivity is extended in a phased
way.
• To facilitate classroom transaction more effectively and viably, e-contents are being
developed by majority of JNVs.
• More than 200 websites are opened by the JNVs so far. By and large Teachers and
Students are using Information & Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning
Processes very enthusiastically.
• As on date, 593 JNVs are covered under the program and provided with computers,
accessories and a computer teacher to ensure Computer Education program go on
successfully in these JNVs. Computer, pupil ration in NVS is 1 : 12
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6. G oals - NVS & Intel E duc ation Partners hip
• Understanding the need to prepare the students for the competitive 21st
century Intel and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti joined hands in the year 1999
to support NVS vision of nurturing schools of excellence by sharing
innovative Information & Communication Technology (ICT) integration
models.
• Support the vision of NVS for institutionalizing JNVs as Pace Setting
institutions through their community outreach programs.
• Support the vision of NVS for Schools of Excellence (JNV Smart Schools) by
sharing innovative ICT integration usage models under the Intel® Teach
program.
Intel Partnership
with NVS
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7. Intel® Teach Program and NVS
 O ve r 6,000 te ach e rs traine d acros s 507 JN Vs u nd e r Inte l® Te ach P rogram
 480 Princip als orie nte d
 Pilote d Te ach E s s e ntials O nline C ou rs e
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 Provid e d C u rricu lu m S u p p ort and lau nch e d S kills for S u cce s s C ou rs e for IC T
Te ach e rs
 O ne -to-O ne C om p u ting P ilote d at JN V, M oth u ka
 C om p u te r lab s e t u p for P rofe s s ional D e ve lop m e nt of Te ach e rs at JN V, 201 0
• E s s e ntials C ou rs e
Jaffarp u rkalan, D e lh i v1 0.1 cou rs e
 Th e re h as b e e n 8 winne rs from Jawah ar N avod aya Vid yalayas at IR IS N ational lau nch e d
2009
F air to d ate
• M oU re ne we d on
2008 1 2 Ap ril 201 0
• PBA E le m e nts
2000 2007 C ou rs e lau nch e d
• 460 Princip als
2001 2002 2006
2003 2004 2005 O rie nte d
• O ve r 40,000
Le arne rs im p acte d
• Kau s h ik S rivats an
from JN V Mand ya –
Inte l® Te ach IS E F Winne r
Program •Inte l® Te ach S kills for
Lau nch e d : S u cce s s Lau nch e d
3300 T e ach e rs •Inte l® T e ach E s s e ntials Joint Pu b lication of
with JN V Traine d •IC T Te ach e rs Traine d O nline Lau nch e d
PBL Bookle t
M anp u r and
•Lavanya, s tu d e nt from O ve r 30,000 le arne rs
JN V •Inte l® Le arn Program JN V M and ya - im p acte d
R angare d d y aligne d with MH R D ’s IS E F winne rs C om p u te r Lab s e t u p
Pace S e tting Program
• O ve r 1 0,000 Le arne rs at JN V, Jaffarp u rkalan
C ollab orate d with S m art Lau nch e d
Traine d
•Traine d T e ach e rs from
Proj ct e xp and e d S ch ools ’ Proj ct.
e e E nh ance m e nt 1 01 VS AT S ch ools • R e p ort on im p act on Pace
in all JN Vs S e tting initiative s lau nch e d
Works h op s •Vake e l Ah m e d &
7 Joint C onte s t
Lau nch e d
Am and e e p - IS E F
winne rs
• Pilote d 1 -1 C om p u ting at
JN V M oth u ka
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8. JNV Vijayanagram
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9. Background & ICT Initiatives
• JNV Vijayanagaram is a part of the JNV system located in a
remote corner in the state of Andhra Pradhesh with total
enrollment of over 445 students from Grades 6th -12th
• Before 1999, the school had no exposure to ICT in academics or
administration. In 1999 some computers were provided for the
administrative use and in the year 1999 the staff were trained
by Intel under “Intel Teach” Program.
• So far 480 principals and over 6000 teachers have been trained
on the effective usage of Information and Communication
Technology Tool under Intel Teach program
• They are now able to guide and mentor their students to be
successful in the information age
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10. JNV Vijayanagram Vision
In Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, all out efforts are made to develop competencies
among students in scholastic and non-scholastic areas of education which leads to
effective personality development of each child.
 To provide good quality modern education-including a strong component of
inculcation of values, awareness of the environment, adventure activities and
physical education – to the talented children predominantly from the rural areas.
 To provide facilities, at a suitable stage, for instruction through a common medium
viz., Hindi and English all over the country.
 Offer a common core-curriculum of ensuring comparability in standards and to
facilitate and understanding of the common and composite heritage of our people
 To progressively bring students from one part of the country to another in each
school to promote national integration and enrich the social content.
 To serve as a focal point for improvement in quality of school education through
training of teachers in live situations and sharing of experience and facilities.
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11. ICT Infrastructure at JNV Vijayanagram
Computer and Peripherals Information
Computer Lab 40 (V-Sat connectivity for Internet)
Library 03
Admin and Accounts 05 (Principal 1, Vice Principal 1, Office 3)
Staff Room 03
01 (equipped with LCD, Laptop with 7.1
Smart Class channel sound system) JNV Vijaynagram
Laptops 05 Technology Vision Plan
10 (Dotmatrix-03; Lazer-06, Xerox cum
Printers printer-1)
Scanner 04
CD Writers 52
LCD Projector 02
Web Cam 11
Digital Camera 02
Video Camera 01
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12. Student Access to Computers
At JNV, Vijayanagram, students have full access
to the computer lab on all weekdays.
Students are utilizing the facility of Podcasting
after the school hours and get their doubts
cleared by email or Vroom discussion.
Student: Computer Ratio = 8:1
Student Access
Data
The schedule for students to access the computers
Opening Hours: General Computer Lab for Year 2011
Time Schedule
Computer Lab Mon - Fri Sunday & Public Holidays
Computer Lab1 8.00 am to 9.00 pm 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Computer Lab2 7.30 am to 8.00pm 10.00am to 12.00 pm
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13. Teacher and A dminis trative S taff A cces s to IC T Tools
Teachers use LAN provided by school to access information besides 15 teachers have
their personal laptops, using Wi-Fi network to access the internet
Use of internet in creating lesson plans and providing methodological assistance in the
form of
Ask an Expert - http://www.classroom.com/community/experts/
Lesson Plans - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Collaborative Lesson Archive - http://zubov.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/
Teacher Access
Teacher : Computer ratio in school is 1:2 Data
Admin Staff: computer Ratio = 1:1
The Administrative staff access computers for
daily routine activities of functioning of
Vidyalaya for Maintaining records, accounts,
fee etc. The NVS Head Office issues all
directives, circulars, announcements at
http://navodaya.nic.in/welcome%20sbs.htm
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14. School Website
JNV Vijayanagram has it’s own website comprising important
information for all stakeholder’s with URL - http://jnvVijayanagram.in
Features on website to obtain feedback from stakeholders through :
NVS Grievance Cell - Teachers, students and other concerned persons can email
their grievances/suggestions/feedbacks/comments at
nvshqr_grievance@rediffmail.com
Provision to directly write to the Principal at school’s email ID
School also has a official Facebook account.
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15. Project Title
Us e of S ocial media In E ducation
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16. A im of S ocial Media in E duc ation
• To focus on the strong potential of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) and create innovative learning environment for
differently able students
• Through ICT help most students to break down barriers to learning, thus
increasing their school achievement, together with their autonomy,
willingness and self esteem
• To provide wide-ranging support for communication, assisting many
learners to engage with learning and help to overcome the barriers that
lead to under-achievement and educational exclusion
• To integrate collaborative learning in 21st century at global perspective
• To reach out to the community and develop interesting teaching learning
experience.
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17. Educational Goals Mission
Statement
• Use Technology as tool to acquire knowledge and usher personal and social
change
• Help students become iKids and truly global citizens.
• Inducting new social communities to the classroom through use of recently
developed Web 2.0 tools such as Jott, Twitter, YouTube (there is also
TeacherTube, SchoolTube, and StudentTube), Diigo, Google Earth, and many
more.
• Support collaborative learning - link learners to various information sources
and increase motivation
• Students address real-world issues, from the environment to poverty.
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18. B rief Des cription of the initiatives
VIRTUAL ROOM -LEARNCENTRAL SPONSORED BY Black Board
•A virtual classroom allows learners to attend a class from anywhere in the world
and aims to provides a learning experience that is similar to a real classroom.
•This year, for the first time, we are running a biology class with no physical
classroom, The students meet with teacher online, at mutually suitable time in
the evening using a 03 seat Learncentral sponsored by Elluminate room and
where they share asynchronously on a group discussion forum its free.
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19. B enefits of V Room
• Removal of geographical barriers (Anywhere learning)
• Sessions can be recorded
• Quicker to organize, One to one communication
• The students are very enthusiastic – passionate
• Meetings are recorded for us – so if a student doesn’t understand
something we talk about she/he can go back later and “re-live” that part of
the class.
• Teaching this way de-specifies our work hours. I teach a few hours online in
the evening
About Elluminate: V-Room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4I-tN5UO4
V-Room by Elluminate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_GBHxymDeY
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20. Podc as ting : For Phys ically and Vis ually challenged
s tudents
In JNV Vijayanagram Podcasting is introduced for online and offline m-
learning tool for especially visually and physically challenged students.
Y. Lokesh, VII Class (visually challenged), he is from a
rural village named Narava. He has 100+ eye sight. He
has to undergo monthly check up for his eyesight and
should change frequently the spectacles. He is unable
to read the text book, cannot copy the text written by
teacher on black Board. We have developed audio
lessons in difficult topics where there is a necessity.
He downloads to mp3 player and listen during the off
periods. Now he is competing with his students and
doing well in exams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3VmL1YxXo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NY_KiBRPY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHiBV9hwnbw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgVJ65yeY2Q&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgtGCCw14qo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
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21. Wiki-C entric E xtended C las s Room
Students of Class X and XII were keen to share their knowledge with the
teacher but numerous constraints, such as time, number of students and
assignments, have limited the dept and quality of the interaction between
students and teachers. As a result, a Wiki was created to address this issue.
This provided extra opportunities for students to post and edit their work-
lessons, links, Handouts, presentations, videos, games-and collaborate online,
thus allowing the teacher and fellow students to provide comments and
feedback. The students were divided into four groups; Q for asking questions;
A for answering questions; E for enhancing/adding to A’s Group answer and P
for paraphrasing and summing up E’s. The groupings were changed for each
activity to ensure that the students have a chance to take on a different role
http://scienceandtechnology4you.pbworks.com
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22. Teaching On B logboard
• NVS Hyderabad, Region has created subject blog
where our Biology Teacher maintains Biology Blog.
This blog has supplemented collaboration.
• It contains visual resources such as slide shows,
animations, podcasts and photo stories.
• The students were able to visualize through Google
docs and spreadsheets, they could print
assignments, assessments and lesson summaries
and through the audio notice board, they could
communicate with each other after school.
• Quizzes and puzzles included in the blog also kept
the students up to date about key dates and events
and enable them to have fun as they learned
• http://nvshydbiology.blogspot.in/
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23. FA C E B OOK A S A C LA S S ROOM TOOL
• JNV Vijayanagram is utilizing facebook as a tool for students to work
together in conducting research on class projects, share links, news,
photos, ideas, opinions and blogs
• Students join or create their own communities of interest to share ideas
about education practice, research or issues.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002167556683
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24. • Our school-based discussion board was visited regularly by some of the
most academic and enthusiastic students but only occasionally by others.
The Facebook Group is quite different. It’s visited regularly, even by
students who rarely visited our school discussion board. The reason for this
is quite obvious. Less academically inclined students are often the ones who
spend the MOST time of an evening socialising on Facebook! When they see
that little red notification flag appear – they are just one click away from
reading and ‘liking’ what they read.
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25. . Us ing Google Doc s
Apart from usual MS Office tools (word processing, multimedia, spreadsheets) teachers and
students are proactively using Internet as a tool to enhance teaching and learning
• At JNV Vijayanagram Students and teachers are actively using web 2.0 tools. Google docs
and spreadsheets to publish announcements about upcoming assignments and to monitor
student progress via an interactive process.
• Students find that Google Docs help them stay organized and keep on top of their
assignments. They never have to remember to save their work; it happens automatically.
• Through the revisions history, a student can see clearly who contributed to what assignment
and when; if a student says he or she worked on a given project over the last two weeks, it
will be documented (no more "dog ate my homework" excuses)
• It's easy to collaborate online with fellow students, even when they aren't in the same place,
and they can get feedback easily from teachers, peers and enter updates anytime from
anywhere. They can go back to the revisions history to see how their assignment has
evolved.
• Teachers upload their lesson plan, teaching diary, minutes of meetings, assignments and
questions papers and share with their peers.
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26. Online s haring with G oogle doc s
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27. OFFLINE ‘ eXe ‘LE A RNING MA TE RIA LS
Since most of the time students cannot sit on internet systems/some may not have
connectivity at Dormitories the use of offline tool became critical.
Using and open source e-learning XHTML editor (eXe), a stand-alone folder is
generated on various topics and copied in computers.
•The course material has animations, images, quizzes, MCQs for self assessment
and assignments and summarized through mind maps.
•These materials are useful in delivering a time consuming component of the
lessons effectively.
•The materials are also uploaded to the school’s network which can be accessed
easily at any time.
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28. ePals - C OLLA B ORA TIVE LE A RNING
• ePals, the leading provider of school-safe collaborative learning products for
K-12 students, teachers and parents, has been dedicated to helping learners
from around the world connect and interact with each other online in a
safe, educational environment.
• ePals connects teachers, students, parents and educators from around the
world, enabling them to communicate and collaborate on academic and
cultural projects and establish international friendships
Twitter for profes s ional development
By becoming a regular user of Twitter, and through reading other educators’
blogs using Feedly or Google Reader – makes professional development
available to teachers anytime, anywhere.
Educators often talk about the value of authentic audience. The network that
we have built through using Twitter has contributed to the authentic, and global
audience that enhances students’ learning experiences.
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29. IC T M AN U AL
Mr. R.V.Raghavendra Rao, PGT Biology of JNV Vijayanagram has been chosen for
NCERT funded project, for developing an Online Manual for Integrating Web 2.0
Technology in Education and OER and Free and open source software for
education.
http://ictmanual.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=59
The Manual is the result of an NCERT funded project conceived and implemented
by M.U.Paily (Ph.D) for NCERT.
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30. The projec t is innovative bec aus e….
• The students are very enthusiastic learners –in their feelings about how the class
compares to their traditional classes.
• All our meetings are recorded for us – so if a student doesn’t understand something we
talk about s/he can go back later and “re-live” that part of the class – something that is
not practicable in a traditional class (without quite a bit of extra effort to arrange).
• The Virtual Classroom provides an efficient and scalable tool for conducting attention
testing.
• Podcast helped a lot to the VHP, PHP students to understand the concepts and perform
well in examination. This minimized the discrimination with others. It has inculcated the
Self and independent learning at their own pace.
• On-line learning can challenge students to learn new skills and ways of studying and
learning
• Students are able to collaborate with other school students, teachers and subject experts
to share the knowledge.
• Teachers are also collaborating with others for professional development
Innovative
Teaching and Assesment
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31. Key challenges faced during implementation
 Teachers and students need to become familiar with the tools
 Time dependency for Live Sessions and Technical Limitations
 Infrastructure for the participants PC needs to be prepared
 During Online Classroom Session unless everyone has fast Internet, things slow
down if everyone turns on their webcam at once. It works fairly well though
with a small number of webcams. But after initial introductions, we have found
that we tend to just turn the webcams off, unless teacher need to show them
something, or use hand gestures in an explanation.
 Not being able to see each other all the time or move around the room using
body language, requires a new skill set – and a different teaching style, on the
part of a teacher.
 Preparation (on teacher’s part) needs to be more thorough, and is a little more
time consuming than for a traditional class
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32. S trate gie s to O ve rcom e th e s e C h alle nge s
JNV Vijayanagram will continue to support its growth in the use of technology on
the campus by:
 Continuing to upgrade and enhance its hardware, software and network
capabilities
 Offering and assisting teachers in the use and integration of technology into
the Class room curriculum
 Creating awareness to teachers, students and community the use of
technology for 21st century.
 Promote "high-tech" skills in teachers, but rather to encourage widespread
adoption of easy-to-use technologies that are 'high-concept' and have the power
to transform classroom interaction.
 Using digital communication for better collaboration with other teachers and
students at International level.
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33. Outcomes /A chievements of the project
Award for Best usage of ICT in Education (2010) :
A joint Initiative of NVS and Intel
Presenting 1:1 learning to Hon’ble Minister MHRD Sh Kapil Sibbal
and UNESO Representatives
Reaching out to the C ommunity
Community Award Overview
Inititatives Intel -NVS Joint Contest on “Best Social Impact of
Project on Community Development”
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34. Feedback/Tes timonials
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35. S ucces s Stories
 Our school is situated at Kiltampalem which is the remotest corner of the
Vijayanagram district, we are leaving no stone unturned in implementing as well as
imparting ICT in academic, administrative and community activities with the limited
paraphernalia available in this school.
 Teachers and Students actively participate in various ICT based competitions
conducted by Microsoft, Intel, TCS and Infosys
 Our school has the distinction of organizing 15th State Level Science Congress; cluster
level Games and sports, workshops in Hindi Raja Bhasha. It has won the Laurels from
the participants for its meticulous planning and effective use of technology.
 In NVS and Intel Excellence in Education Awards, Mr. R.V.Raghavednra Rao was
adjudged best teacher in 2007 for “Stop AIDS and keep the promise” as well as Microsoft
Innovative Teachers Leadership Award 2007.
 To witness our Vidyalaya ICT activity a five member committee has visited from
Netherlands which was jointly conducted by Logica CMG and Comet Media.
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36. Th ank You
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