Comments on: Educatorslogin..the community for teachers 2.0 http://www.webyantra.net/2007/05/02/educatorsloginthe-community-for-teachers-20/ Ground Zero for Indian Web 2.0 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:03:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Mohan Gudipati http://www.webyantra.net/2007/05/02/educatorsloginthe-community-for-teachers-20/comment-page-1/#comment-54910 Mohan Gudipati Tue, 15 May 2007 09:20:53 +0000 http://www.webyantra.net/2007/05/02/educatorsloginthe-community-for-teachers-20/#comment-54910 Just to add another dimension to what has already been said, this is a portal for Indian teachers, across the country. Therefore, it must be designed keeping in mind the access the teachers across the country (and not just urban areas) have to internet. I would not be surprised if a significant proportion of Educatorslog.in's audience comes from class 2 towns - internet usage is booming, and many teachers I know are turning to the Internet for help. My point is, a multimedia centered site (as opposed to a site that uses multimedia extensively but is not 'dependent' on multimedia, the direction in which educatorslog.in is moving) requires a broadband level of connectivity and infrastructure to communicate effectively. Given that broadband penetration in India is still low, a broadband intensive site might exclude a significant portion of India's teaching community. Ofcourse, assuming that the free broadband access proposal (by the now 'ex-'communications minister Dayanidhi Maran) comes through, then there is no excuse for a site that does not leverage the strengths of multimedia.. ! :) Just to add another dimension to what has already been said, this is a portal for Indian teachers, across the country. Therefore, it must be designed keeping in mind the access the teachers across the country (and not just urban areas) have to internet. I would not be surprised if a significant proportion of Educatorslog.in’s audience comes from class 2 towns - internet usage is booming, and many teachers I know are turning to the Internet for help.

My point is, a multimedia centered site (as opposed to a site that uses multimedia extensively but is not ‘dependent’ on multimedia, the direction in which educatorslog.in is moving) requires a broadband level of connectivity and infrastructure to communicate effectively. Given that broadband penetration in India is still low, a broadband intensive site might exclude a significant portion of India’s teaching community.

Ofcourse, assuming that the free broadband access proposal (by the now ‘ex-’communications minister Dayanidhi Maran) comes through, then there is no excuse for a site that does not leverage the strengths of multimedia.. ! :)

]]> By: Team http://www.webyantra.net/2007/05/02/educatorsloginthe-community-for-teachers-20/comment-page-1/#comment-54408 Team Sat, 12 May 2007 14:10:53 +0000 http://www.webyantra.net/2007/05/02/educatorsloginthe-community-for-teachers-20/#comment-54408 Thank you, Amit, for this profile. We do like your moniker "Teaching 2.0"! :-) Just a clarification regarding the ability to share multimedia. Perhaps your visit to the site did not reveal too obviously some of these features. While the site <b>is</b> largely textual (it follows the usual design of a community "blog" or forum), the site <b>does</b> allow one to share links to videos, podcasts...(though these will open in a new browser window) - do see some of the latest resources on films on animation made by NID students, as well as some wonderful films for educators. Also, the posts can and do have attachments which could be documents of any type - word docs, pdfs, image files, powerpoint slideshows...In fact several elogs and resources do have attachments where teachers are sharing posters, lesson plans, pdf files of graphic organizers etc. Hope this helps give a better picture of educatorslog.in to the audience of this blog. Thank you, Amit, for this profile. We do like your moniker “Teaching 2.0″! :-)

Just a clarification regarding the ability to share multimedia. Perhaps your visit to the site did not reveal too obviously some of these features. While the site is largely textual (it follows the usual design of a community “blog” or forum), the site does allow one to share links to videos, podcasts…(though these will open in a new browser window) - do see some of the latest resources on films on animation made by NID students, as well as some wonderful films for educators.

Also, the posts can and do have attachments which could be documents of any type - word docs, pdfs, image files, powerpoint slideshows…In fact several elogs and resources do have attachments where teachers are sharing posters, lesson plans, pdf files of graphic organizers etc.

Hope this helps give a better picture of educatorslog.in to the audience of this blog.

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