There is a question from Techno India Salt Lexity, but I was just there two days ago. Hello, over to you. Hello. Yes, Mr. Good evening sir. Good evening. Techno India. Yes. Basically, Toyinpans faculty member has been registered for this particular course. And most of them are from a little bit non-computer science background and having very little bit use of computer and other smart devices. So, they are quite little bit confused with the so many platform. So, already we had a talk in the last discussion with you that you are preparing for a single platform to be accessed for all delivery and all content. Yes, but as of now they will be required to use two platforms. One is the Moodle, which will be used largely for assignment submissions and discussion forum. We have decided to use Moodle, but for viewing the videos and for online multiple choice questions to be answered, quizzes to be answered, we will be using IIT Bombay. Also, we have to use the Wiki as well. Wiki is part of the Moodle. Wiki is not a separate software platform. So, log into the Moodle and you will have access to the Wiki. Right sir. Yes, but let me further add that if participants are confused, they are probably confused because they have never been exposed to these kind of platform. So, some confusion is legitimate. But let me tell you that with some effort in the initial period and subsequently with the assistance during face to face interaction, you will be able to come over these problems that the people face. And I am sure from the third week onwards, they will be handling these platforms very comfortably. Yeah, thank you sir. Thank you. Pula Reddy Engineering College. Yeah, over to you. Hello. Good evening sir. Good evening. Myself Harinath Reddy, workshop coordinator for this FDV sir. Yes. Yes. Go ahead Dr. Reddy. Yes sir. We raised a query yesterday sir that on 15th May, we do have an MSET exam that is for Telangana, which was scheduled already on 2nd May, but due to unavoidable some reasons, we have postponed it to 15th May. Hence, we are unable to conduct it on May 15th. This is one important problem for us. So, so far the questions raised by other colleges, I came to know that these videos, the content will be that is copied or stored in the website. So, that can be checked out later. Yes. So, is there any other day for us to have an interaction? No, we will, we will still continue to have our interaction on 14th, 15th only. What I suggest is you may request the participants from your remote center to come on 14th and do majority of the activity on 14th itself. Then whatever remains, the remaining activity they can do either individually or in small group by observing any interactive session that we have on 15th, which will be recorded. So, we have to, so we have to tell all the participants to go through their themselves by going through all this recording. That is right, that is right. And another question, of course, this is our seminar gallery and for the, that is computer center, do we need this ABU software, sir, or any other, that is to be available in the center? No, no, no, ABU is required only for the interactive sessions, if and when they are there during the face to face interaction. But when they go to the lab, you do not require an ABU facility in the lab at all. They should be just working in the groups coordinated by you, that is it. Okay, okay. And another small request, sir, from three to four faculty members, they are putting up request to me that for one day they are unable to attend face to face interaction on one day. That may be on 4th or 5th June like that, due to their valid reasons what they are saying. So, can we suggest them to go through the recorded lectures, sir? I would strongly suggest that do not make an exception at the beginning. So, do not make any announcement. Okay, okay. However, when they are unable to come, ask them to put up a note telling you why they are unable to come. And if the, if you believe that the reason is legitimate, tell them that you will seek permission from the coordinator from me, which I am already giving you. Okay. So, do not tell them in advance, but tell them that if they are absent, they will have to compensate for it immediately thereafter, by understanding what was done on that day here. Okay, okay. So, we have to make, to be ready with the material which they are absent on that day. Sir, I will tell you, doctorate, my worry is that if you make any such announcement at the beginning, then even those who do not have any other activity on those days, but suppose some activity comes up, say a friend's marriage happens on a Sunday, and he comes to know about it later. Now, what he will think, a colleague who is participating, he will think that, oh, in such case you permit me to, permitted someone else, so you will permit me also and then I will go and attend that marriage. So, we do not... Still now I have permission, sir, because we need to clarify from your... No, so you please clarify to them that this request has been put up and Professor Fadak has agreed to consider it, but at this juncture, he is not making it possible for anybody to be exempt. They will have to do the necessary work, but he is trying to consider whether such work can be done subsequent to that day later on, on one's own, that is the only possibility. Yes, sir. Okay, sir, another clarification. Yes. We need to... Yes. How to ensure that each and every participant is doing the activity and how the coordinator is to be monitored all those things, how to monitor all those contents prepared by the participant. Because in one letter it is mentioned that the coordinator will be, that is, taking or monitoring all the activities done by the participant. As a coordinator, how to check it? You cannot monitor the activities that the participants do online, obviously, because you have no control over that. The online activities are being monitored by us. Both the platform Moodle and IIT Bombay X actually have event logs. So, we know, for example, when exactly a participant submitted an assignment, date and time is known. We know when exactly a participant viewed the video. We know exactly when a participant gave an online multiple choice quiz. These events are being logged by the platform and these logs are analyzed by us. In addition, we will be requesting participants to maintain a professional diary of the workshop where they will be required to record what time and what date they did what. It is entirely up to them. You do not have to coordinate or you do not have to supervise or any such thing as the workshop coordinator is not your job. But they will be submitting such diaries and which will be automatically validating by analyzing the log record. All that you need to ensure is that when they come for face-to-face interaction with you during those three weekends, that is the time when I would expect you to help coordinate their activities and monitor their presence and participation. Is that fair? Okay, sir. So, in all those for six days, I will be there for them to accompany all those. Correct. One more thing, a small question, sir. Yeah. For example, is there any, there will be deadlines for the assignments, sir? Yes. So, if some people ask us, can we send, because maybe some other reason, they are unable to send it by deadline. But immediately after that date, they are going to submit. Is it possible for them? No, it is not possible. And for the online submissions, you will notice that eight to ten hours of work, which they have to do in one day, we are actually expanding that one day to one full week. Now, during that week, they can complete that assignment on the first day itself. For quizzes and other things, we will typically have a deadline, which will permit them physical three to three and half days of work for every assignment. Even for multiple choice, even our surveys, which we will be releasing tonight, for example, they will have Saturday, Sunday, Monday and up to Tuesday, June, Tuesday noon to Sunday. Now, once you give this kind of deadline, the deadline becomes atrocent. It will not be extended even by one second. Online assignment deadlines are hard deadlines. Sir, in earlier questions raised by other, there is remote center coordinator. So, can we get the list of activities to be monitored by co-workshops coordinator?  So, for example, when next week, weekend, you have the face to face activity, Jay Krishnan and Prasanna Murthy will be preparing a handout for you specifically, which they will be sending it to you ahead of that, much ahead of that activity. Okay, okay, sir. So, for your information, we have 69 participants out of which 16 were outside participants in our college. Very good. Very good. And this is the first workshop and as a remote center, it is the first workshop for us. So, we are expecting very good response even from other colleges also. But as of now, we got 69 at present. Very nice. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm. Yeah, so I'll just... JK wants to make one more small point. So, you asked about how you can monitor. So, one place where we would request you to actually do monitor is in the wiki activity because people are doing it for the first time. So, a cursory glance into the wiki pages. Have people submitted it? Are they having problems? So, all these could be taken well in advance before the face-to-face interaction. And during the face-to-face interactions, if there are some queries, you could discuss with the group and put these questions to us directly during the face-to-face interaction. Also, if you actually see the discussion forum. So, we are also users of these... We are also, what do you say, initial users of these kind of technologies. But there are many other faculty, colleagues who are already participating in these courses who are actually very well-versed with these technologies. And I saw almost 10 to 15 explanatory posts with screenshots with detailed write-ups on what exactly has to be done and what all things have to be done put up by the participants of this community. So, first, always take the help of the community. If it is not getting solved over there, then you always have the face-to-face interaction where you can directly ask the instructor. We are all equals when it comes to use of ICT. So, I do not say that I am an expert, but there are even more better users among yourselves. So, please make use of these expertise. And that is what we call a collaborative community, which is the main driving force of such a faculty-developed program. Yes. Just in knowing what is his direct responsibility for which he will be at all. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you. Let us go over to RBS College of Engineering and Technology. Good afternoon and over to you. I cannot get your audio. I am sorry, but your audio is not, I cannot hear. You are not audible, sir. Are you please cross-check your line input and other AVU parameters? I can see you, but I cannot hear you at all. Do not worry. We will come back to you. Please try to resolve the problem by figuring out your AVU connectivity. Let me go to RC Patel Institute of Technology. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. So, my question is how the activity on the Moodle will be graded? The activity on the Moodle will not be graded directly, but the submissions will be graded. The multiple-choice quizzes will be graded and the submissions will be graded through a combination of peer assessment and direct assessment. We will have a mechanism to do that. Okay, sir. Thank you very much. Right. Over to you. Thank you. So, Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology. Over to you, Krishna Institute of Engineering. Hello. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Hello. Good evening, sir. Sir, my question is that because you own this workshop, some participants have found the outside of the computer string. So, there are cases of problems for handling the Moodle. So, could you send some video to the Moodle? Moodle has nothing to do with computer science. Moodle is a tool which is being used extensively by teachers of even high schools and so on. So, in fact, the best way to know about Moodle is to visit the Moodle site itself and look at all the Moodle documentation. Hello. So, there are also YouTube videos on Moodle. Yes, sir. So, my question is that after 10 to 20 July, we have to make a team. We have to sign a team. So, what is the role of the team? What the team have to do and what the workshop coordinator have to do for that? The role of the coordinator is merely to coordinate the team formation and to ensure that the members of the team sit together during face-to-face interaction. These teams are to be formed by participants. The coordinator will not do anything about that. So, when the coordinators come together, that is the reason why we are forming the initial groups in Moodle itself based on their domain. Now, there may be, for example, seven people from one domain and only three from another domain or whatever. When they come face-to-face, they will be finally forming the teams for group activity. Now, those group activities will be indicated what group activities to be done. In that group activity, it is not that teams sit individually and separately. The entire class will sit together, but the members of the team are expected to sit next to each other because they have to discuss the problem that is being solved first individually and by the teams. The role of the coordinator is only to facilitate such teams to sit together in the session which requires team activity. That is all. Okay, sir. So, one more question. If you are regarding the workshop, someone has some participants' option, are you not doing the assignments? So, there is any role of workshop coordinator for that? Well, the coordinator should merely report such observation. We will independently know if the assignments are not submitted and we cannot do much except to write a small letter of reprimand and refuse to give the certificate which will be recognized by AICG. That is all. But this time we will be very strict in issuing certificates unless all the assignments are done in time and unless there is some basic minimum score in the multiple choice quizzes and the peer assessed submissions and a person just because registering or enrolling will not be entitled to get a certificate. That much is very clear. So, what you can do is you can help us by giving us inputs on whether the participants are not participating properly in face-to-face interaction and so on and we will factor that while taking a decision on giving the certificate. Sir, I have no question. So, after submitting the assignment by the participants, who will evaluate this assignments, means the project at the workshop coordinator will be evaluated from the other side, the answer will be evaluated. I have answered this question if you have been listening to the previous discussion. Most of the assignments will be if there are multiple choice quizzes, they are automatically graded. If there are assignments of longer inputs then they are graded by peer assessment. So, every participant will have to submit the assignment and assess some three or four other assignments. That is to be done by every participant. The workshop coordinator has no role in this. Only the final team assignment that is submitted by the participants after completion of the ten weeks of online activity, we would expect workshop coordinators to go through those team assignments. So, for example, if there are 60 participants at your place, there will be maybe let us say 15 to 20 teams. Now, these 15 to 20 assignments which are submitted by them, we do not expect a very detailed elaborate assessment because they will be in different domain, but we will supply some qualitative parameters and the workshop coordinators will be expected to submit independently three category classification of these 15, 20 assignments that are submitted from their remote center.  You will be able to assess based on the parameters that we submit. It will not require more than three to four hours of work which can be done over two, three days after the end of the assignment. Right. Jagraj, your colleague of engineering. Yeah, over to you. Good evening, Prof. Good evening, Mr. Jai question. Sir, I must thank you for your patience in listening and answering the question for the past two hours. Thank you for that. And I have issues and clarifications to be made, sir. And as raised by NIT Prichrapalli, I need to have the issue of the election to be connected on May 16. So, the attendance might not be good on those weekends, especially on May 14 and especially on May 15 and some of our participants are going on election duty also on May 15. So, please provide some other alternate to them. And the next thing that I would like to say is ask is what is the point of contact for IIT Bombay during the online activity sessions? Because we would meet you during face-to-face interactions. But on the other days, which is the point of contact, sir? The E-outrage. I believe that the point of contact has already been communicated. What I will do is I will request my workshop manager Mr. Mahendra Parma to once again communicate to all RC coordinators and workshop coordinators. But our FDP brochure itself tells you the phone line numbers. But Mahendra, are we also giving them any additional numbers or email ID? Yeah. So, there is a workshop team member phone number plus the email. Email is asynchronous. Communication is the best way of communication that your mail will always be responded to. So, as a RC coordinator or workshop coordinator, when you raise a query, it will be answered with priority. Yes, sir. I have. If it is related to this FDP, any point. Because I have written a mail to E-outrage at IIT Bombay E.ac.in and I have not got E-outrage at the rate it.itb.ac.in. Regarding the registration of one of the participants. Yes, newly. Okay. Okay. And one more thing, sir. The session, the last day for the registration is suppressed by today. But the online activity starts by May 2 and some of our participants are not aware of these ICT tools and they are out of these computer streams and they feel that they are left behind. Yes, you are right. So, I will react to this question in two different ways. Number one, if it is known that the course starts from 2 May, why did they wait till 6 May to register? They could have registered earlier. The last date is given merely as a facilitation for some peculiar reason. They are unable to register early. They should register later. Second, in the first week, we do not have any graded assessment. There is no graded quiz, multiple choice quiz or anything which will impact either their performance or they are getting the certification. The first week is merely an exploratory week. Second, the submissions which they have to do in the first week which all are entry surveys. In fact, let me make an announcement. I have sent a mail to everyone that we will release the entry surveys at 8 p.m. to 9 and we will expect them to the original date of submission was indicated as 8th May. What we can do is we will wait till the midnight today and we will release the surveys tomorrow morning and we will extend the submission day to Tuesday night. That means they will have Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to respond to these preliminary surveys. These do not require any extensive studies. They just have to respond to certain entry level questions. The real work will start from the second week onwards. So, I do not think we are putting people at any disadvantage even though they have no exposure to computers. Okay, sir. Thank you. And I want one more clarification, sir. There are few faculty members even in our institution and other institutions who have newly joined and have not got their ID card. I am alternate to ID card if this is going to be the case. They can upload the offer later itself. That is good enough. If they just upload the offer later, we will accept it for the time being. And we will validate their registration immediately. No problem. You see, we have to have some mechanism to confirm that the participant is a teacher where the FDP is directed towards teachers. And my last request for me is... Yeah, please. This is a delay. Yes, sir. This is a special case because I even encountered certain cases in this FDP so that I posted this question. Okay. So, that is okay. You can go ahead. Let me go back to RV as well. And request in such a tea, as you said, sustainability and dissemination seems to be a bigger problem because it sustains for a course of six months. But again, after that while they lose interest in them and the dissemination, it's a greater problem. Can this... I request you to include some elements of motivation that makes the participants to sustain and disseminate what they have learned from this workshop. So, that's my humble request to you. We'll be addressing these issues in the last portion of this workshop, namely building and nurturing collaborative communities. We'll elaborate this part later. Okay. There are still so many people who have these questions. So, let me start interaction with RVS College once again. Over to you, RVS College. Sir, good evening, sir. Good evening. In our center, there are registered above 100 participants. Good number. Sir? Yes. Yeah. And that 100 participants, 10 participants, nearly 10 participants are external participants. But we don't have track details of the external participants, whether they need accommodation or some other things. We don't have enough details. Are you the RC coordinator? Because RC coordinator can see the details of all the remote center. All the participants who are not from that issue. Oh. Yes, sir. For workshop coordinator, we don't... In fact, workshop coordinator need not bother about issues such as registration and transport and accommodation, etc. That is precisely what is expected to be done by RC coordinator. Workshop coordinator is supposed to ensure that the actual workshop is conducted properly. That's all. So, better... But after all, your RC coordinator is your own colleague. So, best way is to talk to the RC coordinator and find out whether everything is well or not. That's all. Okay, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Let me go to Phinolax Academy. I believe it is Ratnagiri. I visited that college long time ago. Over to you, Phinolax. Yes, sir. Sir, I had two questions, but I got the answers of both the questions in previous discussions. The first question was about whether it is required to have a lab in a classroom. So, answer is there is no need of computer lab with face-to-face interaction. And the second question is about the software requirement during the two hours in computer lab. Again, the answer is no software requirement. But when I saw the syllabus, there is one CMS called as Drupal. So, without having any kind of software, how the participant will work with that Drupal? These participants are not expected to work extensively with Drupal. What is expected is to give them an exposure to Drupal, which we will be giving both through pre-recorded video lectures. And we will make a Drupal site available for them to explore Drupal. So, Drupal is not going to be extensively discussed or used in this FDP, except that they will be told about Drupal in the proper context. So, do not worry on that. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. CDAC, Noida. I think this was one remote center which had a problem of some day. Over to you, CDAC. Good evening, sir. Yes. Yes. Good evening, sir. Sir, we have a query for face-to-face interaction. And as we have learned through this session that we can go through recorded version also. But my query is, sir, can we do all sessions for recorded version or for one or two only? Can you repeat the question? Sir, my query is that can we do all the sessions through recorded versions? No. No. No, that is not possible. I will tell you that there will be a portion of activity which will be a group activity. And that group activity will have to be conducted face-to-face. What I suggested is that we will keep the recorded version available so that participants can see the recorded version, do individual activity that is suggested in that recorded version. But they must come back to you in small groups where you should get the group to face-to-face activity in groups conducted. There is no choice. Now this can be done on any alternate day in the subsequent week as per the mutual convenience of participants and your place. Okay, sir. Okay. Let us... My query is basically that can we do all the live sessions face-to-face? Can we, in spite of all live sessions, can we do recorded version and give the activity on subsequent days? Yeah, yeah, absolutely no problem. You are most welcome. Or we can do one or two activity because as we have also requested and sent a mail that for 23, we can go for recorded version, sir, only. Yeah, yeah, it is perfectly fine. You decide how we wish to conduct that activity. The group activity has to be conducted by you. If you cannot conduct it on the date on which we have announced this, you can conduct it later and use the recorded version for the other part. No problems at all. That is perfectly fine. Basically, you have to decide this in consultation with the participants who are registered for at your centre and ensure their attendance and participation whenever you decide on an alternate date for the group activity. Okay, sir. Okay. And sir, one more query is... Yes, please go ahead. Sir, one more query is that should we need to send attendance? Yes, you have to send attendance when people come for face-to-face portion. Let us... Let us... I have gone recorded version. For recorded? Recorded version? Is it not? Yes. Whatever be the version that you use, whenever people attend an activity, you will have to submit their attendance. So they will not be present. By the way, if your question relates to some days, it's okay, but this should not be done for all the three face-to-face interactions. That is not correct. Only in case you have a specific problem on any one day which cannot be solved, only for that, for example, Tamil Nadu has elections and there may be people who are on election duty who may not be able to come. So only under such circumstances, we are saying you may permit use of recorded version, etc. But this is not a replacement for normal face-to-face dates which have been given. So the three Saturday Sundays which have been defined are the three days of face-to-face interaction. I am answering this question as an alternative only if your centre has huge problem and prior engagement of something else for which the centre cannot just conduct this face-to-face activity. Only then the alternatives can be used, not otherwise. Okay, sir. Right. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you, sir. Let me go to KLE Society's college of Indian Beargown. Over to you, Beargown. Hello. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Sir, I am Vidya Hadimani, workshop coordinator. Sir, I have a query that can a non-faculty, a system administrator of our own college, can he register for this workshop he is interested? We have this dilemma even in the previous workshops. Personally, I am all in favour of him registering. But I do not see how I can give him a participation certificate which is recognized by AICT for faculty development program. Of course, if he wishes to attend, he should enroll, he should register, he should benefit from all interaction, but we will not be able to give a certificate of participation in the same sense. I may consider giving him a separate participation certificate from IIT or something like that. Honor code certificate. IIT certificate then from the principal IIT? No, no, no. IIT principal, I mean IIT director does not issue any certificate to anyone. We will be giving him an honor code certificate for completing the online FDP program from IIT Bombay. But there will be, it will not be at all equivalent to conduct, participating in a proper FDP. That is not possible. I am planning to run a separate workshop or program, training program for all systems people across the country because their help and their assistance is required, but this is not that program. But sir, he is finding difficulty in registering himself. Yeah. He tried registering with the option non-faculty. Yeah, because. But he couldn't. So, please tell him to wait. Subsequently, we will be announcing a development, a program, a training program of a similar kind, but meant for system administrators, software engineers and other people who help us in doing our educational activity. There will be a separate program for them. I will get it recognized by AICT and we will announce that program. We will probably run it around November, December sometime. So, please ask him to wait and have patience. Yes. Yes, surely. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Over to you. DMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. Yes, sir. Hello. Sure. Yeah. Bangalore. Sir, I have registered even as an individual participant. Perfectly fine. I am the coordinator now. Yeah. I am finding one difficulty here. Yeah. I am not able to use as a both. As a coordinator and as a participant. Even I had, you know, mailed to your... I am not finding that option, which you are option. There is no real option. There is nothing like a... Okay. There is nothing like a coordinator option. When we form a group, the Moodle group does not recognize anyone as a coordinator. For Moodle, all group members are same. So, it will not recognize you or me or anyone, either a coordinator or something. We are all participants. But you will be able to communicate with all group members, any which way. The point is, you know that you are the coordinator, others don't. So, when you initiate a communication to all members of the group, when you write that communication, you write that as coordinator. In which case, it will be understood to be a coordinator's mail. Whereas, anything else that you wish to observe as a participant, you write it without the title coordinator. That is the best we can do. In other case, as earlier coordinators noted, I could not hear that your answer. That most of our participants are non-users of ITD. They are actually new to that.  They don't know how to even read the initial data, even their name and about them. They are putting a lot of difficulty in this.  Simple videos, like how we get on YouTube. Go here, click. It will be very user-friendly. I note your point. Unfortunately, we are too late in life to do that now. But the suggestion is well-made. And what we will do is, we will prepare such short videos which will help complete novices also to work on, let's say, simple things like registration, uploading files, et cetera, et cetera. I get your point. The only hope that I have now is that while some of the colleagues may not be familiar with ICT, but they being faculty members in professional colleges, they will have professional help from either their colleagues or their students. And they should be able to overcome the initial problem. But you are very right. In the first week and even in the second week, there will be plethora of queries and questions and doubts that they will have. In fact, in the first phase-to-phase interaction, you may have to spend half an hour, one hour actually solving these problems for them. So, in short, you will be playing these one or two minute videos to multiple people on that day. But the point is well-made. We will take cognizance of that. And in the future editions, we will make these short videos wherever relevant. Thank you very much. One more question. We are collecting 1000 rupees from the participant. Hello. Yes. Hello. Yes, yes. Go ahead. Is there any split up of expenditure for 1000 rupees? Even if, of course, if you want to give it as an honor or input to the non-paying staff, is there any ratio? We are leaving it entirely to the remote center coordinator, remote center workshop coordinators and remote center management. And the reason why we are charging this 1000 rupees is because we believe that there is no value in a free lunch. That means if people are participating, they should pay something. But this money, you do not have to pay anything to IIT Bombay. We are not running it under IST. This program has been approved directly by AICT. So, there is no fees to be paid by us. And as I said, we have been supported by some funding from SAP. But in future FDP, there will be a component that they will have to pay to remote center as well as to IIT Bombay. So, that will be the next version. Only this version, we have got some funding support. Okay. Thank you so much. Let me go to government engineering college. Where is this? West Bengal. West Singh Boom. Jharkhand. Oh, not West Bengal. Jharkhand. Yeah, hello. Over to you. Good evening, sir. First of all, let me thank you for giving us this opportunity to be associated with one of the most renowned institutions of our country. And we are extremely glad to be part of this program. So, we are currently facing two issues. I would like to draw your attention on that. Today, I have called many times actually few like institutes around our suburb. But they are trying to register themselves under this remote center. But the problem which they are facing is their location is not coming. During the time of registration, they are from a place which is in Jharkhand named Ramgarh. Their location as well as their institute name is not coming at their drop-down window. So, due to this, almost 20 odd participants are like unable to register themselves since yesterday. So, I have tried to call at administrative number which has been given few times. But due to some technical issues, I didn't able to catch up. And that is one problem. And along with this, I have two, three questions. One is among these three face-to-face interactive sessions. Is it necessary to attend all the face-to-face interactive sessions for the participants during this FDB program? Or he can skip one or two if there is some serious concerns? Let me answer both the questions. Number one, if they don't find their own college in the drop-down menu, there is an option called Other. They should choose that other option and they should just write down the name of their college and register. So, I would like to interrupt because what the problem they are facing is they are not getting the other option as well. Just a few minutes back before getting this face-to-face interaction, I have got call from their site. They are not getting other options as well. They are getting all other colleges in Jharkhand. But the colleges in Ramgarh around Rachi, they are not getting those colleges. They are getting colleges like CIT, Rachi, all other colleges, BIT, Mishra, BIT, Sindhri. But Ramgarh is not like coming up in the pop-up window. Along with this, other option is also not there. Can you do me a favour if those people are in touch with you? Just collect their email IDs and send those email IDs to us. Even if the last date or time is passed, I will try to do something about them over the weekend if possible by requesting my team to handle it at the back-end. Of course, if it is not possible, I would like a personal regret mail to them, requesting them to attend the subsequent FDP which will be continued to conduct. So, ask them not to worry. But we will try to do the best that we can. I have just talked to my back-end team and if they can do that, that is nice. But in the meanwhile, if you are in communication with them, please just collect their email IDs, just list of email IDs and send them to us and we will see if we can do something about it. Definitely, sir. And the second question was about face-to-face interactions. Face-to-face interaction is an integral part of this FDP. A four-week FDP is required to have one week of face-to-face interaction as per ICT approval. This one week of face-to-face interaction, we have broken into three parts which are three weekends. So, these are obligatory. If people do not attend that, all the group activities we plan to conduct as a part of pedagogy training will be conducted during those face-to-face activities. If they are not physically present for those face-to-face activities, we cannot consider the participation in the FDP to be complete. So, it is a obligatory requirement. It is not an option. All right. Thank you very much, sir. Excuse me, sir. I have one last question. Yes. Hello. Yes, go ahead. Sir, can you give me a brief idea of payment? Like, mode of payments which has been, like, nothing has been disclosed. Like, the mode of payment, the participants is to pay. Actually, should they pay directly to the remote center or there would be any link via which they will be paying? No, no, no. In fact, I don't know why there is confusion. It was very clearly stated in our announcement that money is to be paid to the remote center directly on the first day at the beginning of the face-to-face interaction. There is no money collection mechanism that we have put. So, obviously, the remote center should give them a receipt when they give that money and utilize this money for providing all the facilities over the six days of interaction. That's all is expected. IIT Bombay has nothing to do with either that payment collection or receipt or the utilization. You don't have to send any utilization certificate, nothing because we are not funding it. Later on in subsequent FDPs, when we conduct the future FDPs, there will be a fees component for IIT Bombay and a fees component for remote center. At that time, we will announce a web portal for payment for IIT Bombay portion, but the portion to remote center will have to be paid to the remote center directly. Since all remote centers do not have a common mechanism of such fees collection, we have said that let such payment be made at the time of face-to-face interaction to simplify matters. That's all. There is some clarification which my manager has just given me. Number one, the other option is very much there. So, I do not know why they are not able to see that. We just check the registration form. If you click on the collage, there is the other option. Second, if they are having any problem, one simple advice is let them choose your remote center name as their collage itself and let them register. All right. Yeah. All right. Thank you very much. Actually, they have sent me the screenshot too, but they are not getting the other option. Yeah. That is why I am little concerned. Thank you very much, sir. I would definitely inform them to select our collage. Right. Thank you. Ramgad. Hello. Good evening, sir. No, but Ramgad is not there. Kalani Kulkarni from PVG college. Good evening, Kalani. Hello, sir. Hello. Hello, sir. Greetings from PVG college. This workshop itself is very, very innovative. And thanks to you and your team for involving us. And definitely almost all queries and my doubts are cleared. And I think this is time to work. And due to your efforts, definitely we will become smart teachers. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much and all the best. Thank you for participation. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Let me go over to RBS engineering college. This is Agra. Hello. Good evening, sir. Good evening, sir. Myself, Namrata Gupta, workshop coordinator. And I have a query regarding Moodle assignment. Yes. I have got to through my college link. And then further I got, there are so many links for the particular participants in the Bikki pages. In the Bikki pages, there are so many links for a single participant. So if I understand it correctly, we have, we have initially populated only the one name that has been registered at our end. So what you can do is as a remote center coordinator, you can remove any of the duplicate links and ask the participant to use only one link. This may happen because he might have, he or she might have edited that page and added their name again. So this is the duplicate. I mean, it is understandable. They are getting familiarized with the technology. So as a coordinator, what you can try to do is remove all the duplicate entries and ask them to use only one link. Thank you, sir. And thank you for participation from your institution. Let me go over to IES College of Technology, Bhopal. Over to you. Sorry, your audio also has a problem. I cannot hear you. Sir, your audio is, you are not audible, sir? Yeah, can you check? Yeah, please go ahead. I would like to ask some questions. Doubt, there is having 50% of participants here in this week. Some of them, it has some doubts on you. So they have a fear of about it, if you organize. I am sorry, but your audio is not clear at all. It is breaking and it is very low. I will request to check your audio separately by arranging a separate test session. But meanwhile, you can post your question on chat. So you look at the chat and try to answer it. But I am sorry, I am not able to hear you. I can see you very clearly. So your video is very good. But audio has a problem. We will get back to you later. Let me go over to Shanmuga College of Engineering. Good evening sir. Good evening sir. Most of my questions are answered sir. Very good. Thank you sir. I have a very small query. My participants are asked me, actually the pedagogy teaching workshop, they attended. They are asking me that whether this workshop will be something different from pedagogy workshop. I want to answer them sir. Good question. So I am happy. In fact, if they have attended the pedagogy workshop, they will benefit more because this will be an extended version of whatever they studied there. There will be something more. So as a matter of fact, they will be able to appreciate this perhaps better than other participants who are doing everything for the first time. So the basic principles of pedagogy which will be reiterated, of course they will know about them. But there is a lot more material this time that you will find. And it is a fresh perspective specifically looking into blended and online instruction. Whereas we focused in pedagogy workshop, we were focusing on classroom instruction. Here we are focusing more on the blended and online instruction and hence all the modules will be aligned to that. Okay sir. Okay sir. Thank you sir. Very nice of you and your participants to have raised this issue that are we getting the same material under a different bottle? So that is not correct. We are aware of that because we only conducted that workshop. So there is a definite material as he rightly says. Please tell them that this is a, there is a pedagogy element but it is about online and blended education and not about the classroom training which was emphasized in that workshop. Thank you so much sir. Thank you. Let me go to Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. Yes sir. Very good evening sir. Good evening. So this is Praveen Draja, remote center coordinator and workshop coordinator of CSRIT 1249. It is my privilege to thank NME ICT, IIT Bombay and Professor Patak to receive rupees of 19 lakhs fund to conduct various kind of activities in our institute including a view of gradation also. Thank you. Thank you very much sir for receiving so much of funding in our institute through the NME ICT and IIT Bombay Government of India. Yes. And my question is, shall we assign the teaching assistant to this workshop? Now we have around 25 participants registered for this workshop. Shall we assign the teaching assistant for this workshop? And could you issue the certificates for them? This is my first question sir. And my second question is, is there any schedules or session schedules? I am asking the session schedules and the attendance details, could you send the mail to the respective RCS or a workshop coordinator? Yeah. So let me answer the first question. Sorry, your third question? Yes sir. The last question is, my participants are attending the Saturday, Sunday, 3 days, 14, 15 and 4th and 5th of June and 25th and 26th of June. So it is a vacation, a leave, Saturday weekend. So could you able to issue the at least participant certificate? It is my suggestion. Is it possible to issue the participant certificate to my participants? After completion of the successful model assignments, then only they will receive the certificates. Let me answer the questions in the order in which you ask them. First of all, we do not require any teaching assistants for this program. Teaching assistants are required to help people to do the lab assignments in that particular domain. So that is not required here. That is one. Second, what is the second question? I forgot. The schedule and attendance and all. So the schedule, basically all online activities are to be done by teachers individually as per their own time of convenience. There is no schedule. The schedule will be announced weekly. They will be doing that assignment. We are independently able to capture when they submit an assignment, when they do an online quiz, when they watch a video. All that is done through big data analytics at our end. So there is no question of attendance monitoring or anything during the 10 weeks of online interaction. Face to face interaction is when the group activity will be done. These are critical activity and these activities form an integral part of the entire FDP. You cannot consider the FDP to be meaningful without these three weekend activities. So any participant who for a reason unable to participate in the face to face activity during the weekend will not be considered to have participated in the workshop at all. I think that you should make it very clear to participants. That is an integral part of FDP. Without that FDP cannot be considered otherwise we would have arranged only for an online course. Look, the face to face interaction is meant for some specific group activity which cannot be conducted alone. So please tell all your participants that it is required that they must attend. If for some very emergency reason if someone is not able to come, we will announce how to compensate for that absence by that person doing more work. But otherwise face to face activity is not to be considered separate from the online activity. Both activities together amount to the FDP. Is that clear? Yes sir. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. Last three institutions, so I seek apologies for keeping them waiting for a long time. This is School of Management Sciences Lucknow. Over to you Lucknow. Hello. Hello. Yeah, we can see you and hear you clearly. Hello sir. Hello sir, good evening. Good evening. Please go ahead. Don't wait. Hello. I can hear you very clearly. Hello sir, good evening. Am I audible? Hello. Thank you very much. I tried half an hour earlier, but couldn't get contact with you sir. Sir, first of all thank you very much for providing opportunity to do as I said earlier. I have been in the workshops since the beginning, so all the points are here. It's something that I would like to arise in future and try to go back to. Can you repeat the last question? Keep the mic slightly away from your mouth so that we can hear you clearly. Hello. Yes. Hello. Please repeat the last question by keeping the mic slightly away from your face. Please go ahead. Okay sir. Okay sir, I just want to know what is the basis of or mission of a group? What I have done during the session that is based on the domain. But some of the participants raised a question. For example, in a particular domain, there are only two candidates. Then can we get in the current? The submissions, yeah. The submissions will have to be done individually for all the individual assessments and assignments like multiple choice quizzes and submissions which are called for individual assessments or individual submissions. There will be a team assignment. There are different kinds of team assignments. One team assignment which they will have to do during the face to face interaction. That will be prescribed in great details in the coming week on the model and a separate note will be sent to the workshop coordinator on how to conduct that. The final team assignment which will have to be done by teams of participants after the entire completion of these 10 weeks will again be specified during the portion of this thing. So right now if the participants are worried, please tell them not to be worried about the team assignments. Enough explanations will be given whenever it comes for the team assignment work to be submitted. Okay, sir. Right. Thank you so much. Two more institutions and we are done. Marathwada Institute of Technology at Aurangabad. Over to you, Aurangabad. Very good evening, sir. Very good evening. Yeah, we are fine. Very good evening, sir. Very good evening, sir. Good evening. Please go ahead. Greetings. Greetings from MIT Aurangabad. And we don't have any queries to ask because we have got sufficient information. Okay. It has been cleared and then we are very much thankful to you for providing us an opportunity. And we are almost registered about 50 candidates from various institutes in and around Aurangabad. Very good. And it is a very good activity and actually it is going to help the institutes at NVA level, at individual level, at institution level, and even also at NIRF level also. As a result of ranking framework. So it is a very good activity. Thank you very much. Thank you. And my remote center coordinator wants to talk to you. Yeah, sure. Please go ahead. Thank you so much for such kind of great patience. We seriously salute you. And we have actually clarified all the doubts to 45 minutes before only. Okay. But we have just waiting for greeting you. Thank you so much, sir. So very nice of you. Although, sir, I have only single doubt. Could I appoint one remote set, a view coordinator for this workshop? You may please. At least a view coordinator. Yeah, that's right. You may go ahead. But we are not making any suggestions or observations. We are leaving all arrangements to the remote center. So the remote center coordinator and workshop coordinator can take a decision on what is most suitable and convenient to ensure that the workshop is conducted well. So if you need a view coordinator and in fact you should have a view coordinator because there are three weekend sessions and you saw that in two or three cases unfortunately the audio-video link broke down. Now your link is working excellently.  No, sir, right now we don't have any AVU coordinator. The things are ideal there. Okay. So it is fine. It is your call. You can take a call. I am perfectly happy with either way. And thank you very much for participating. Could you arrange some certificate for him? If I am appointing an AVU coordinator, we need to have some certificate to him or her. We have not thought of that. But we would have typically RC coordinators and workshop coordinators. We certainly do not require any TAs. But if there is an AVU coordinator, I will consult my colleagues and take a call on this. I will let you know. Okay. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. The last session, Reva Engineering College. Oh, is that Reva Mathifalesh? Hello. Hello. Over to you. Yes, sir. Hello. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Okay. Thank you, sir. Welcome to RCID 1350. Myself, Gangaram Mandloi. I am RCCN workshop coordinator. Hello. Yeah. Please go ahead. What is the number you said, the RC number? 1350, sir. Oh, 1350. Okay. Yes, sir. Yeah. This is just a new setup as a remote center. We are participating at first time. And it is just a government college. And facilities are available here. 30 seat, AC seat with the internet facilities, PCs and NKV power backup UPS is also available in case of failure of any electricity. And I would like to thanks to for providing the fund 2.81 lakh to our institute for update the remote center facility. Mr. Panloy, since this is the last institute, I hope you do not mind I spend three, four minutes with you because the name Reva raises some very old and sweet memories in my mind. You may not be aware of this, but am I right in recalling that the college was set up in mid-60s? Yeah, yes, sir. Okay. My father was posted as additional civil surgeon in Riva then. I was an Indian college student at SJS, ITS, Indore. And if I am not mistaken, I had gone to Riva to visit my father during the summer vacation when the stone laying ceremony of the engineering college was done. I believe at the hands of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, if I am not mistaken. And I recall, I think I have attended that ceremony. At least I know that a friend of mine was attending that engineering college which started functioning a few years earlier. And he had told me that the classes were held in the arts college and the labs were conducted in the science college. And the workshop was being conducted in those days in the state transport workshop. So from that time, Riva Engineering College has come to a very long way. I also recall if I am not mistaken, my old friend and colleague who did his PhD here, Professor Khan was posted in Riva Engineering College for some time. But that was maybe three decades ago. So I am talking of very old time. As I said, the name Riva raises some very fond memories. I am so very happy to see so many of you waiting patiently for more than two and a half hours when the entire interaction has happened and you are at the end. And yet your enthusiasm is boundless. I am thankful for that. And I am also happy to welcome you as the remote center conducting this workshop. As you know, in every engineering college in the country, we have a problem of how to enhance our effectiveness as teachers in the growing load of students. And without using in technology, it will be impossible. So I am very happy that you have actually started the participation as remote center with this FDP. Welcome to this. And I look forward to great contributions in coming months and years from your college. Thank you so much. And another facility is also available here, sir, as a podium machines which were purchased from Singapore. Oh, I see. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Okay. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. It's alright, sir. Right. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much. Let me see if there.


What if I told you you can make as much as $15,000 a month by typing on your computer? Well, in today's video, I've got nine of the best typing jobs from home, and many of these are actually pretty easy to get into. And the first one on the list is going to be a Raider in one company that you could work for is going to be TELUS. Now TELUS is a customer experience and digital solutions related company. And as a Raider, you would basically be helping search engines to be as effective and accurate as possible. So basically you would be rating and providing feedback on web searches, text, and images. Now the salaries for Raiders vary from about $15 to $42 per hour. And Glassdoor has Raiders at TELUS International making about $42 per hour. So some of the pros of this one are its remote work and you have a flexible schedule. It can be engaging and intellectually stimulating work. And they do have a competitive compensation and benefits package. Some of the cons of this one are it does have a pretty demanding workload. And you do have to have good attention to detail. But overall, I'm going to give this one an opportunity score of 8 out of 10. Now the next one on the list might be good for you if you want to be able to greet people without ever having to go into an office. And that's going to be a virtual receptionist for the company Smith.ai. And this company is all about helping other companies become more responsive. And right on the homepage, they say that responsive businesses win more clients. And they basically help businesses solve their problems when it comes to the subjects of 24 seven phone answering sales outreach campaigns, live website chat, SMS text answering, lead screening and intake and appointment scheduling. And as a virtual receptionist, you're going to be responsible for greeting clients, answering incoming phone calls and managing schedules. And you can do all of this from the comfort of your own home. Now one of the reasons that I chose Smith.ai is they had really good reviews online from people who have worked there. But you can do this job for many different companies. And according to indeed receptionist working at Smith.ai make about $15 an hour. So some of the pros here are the opportunity to represent businesses in a bunch of different industries. So this can be great for you if you want to get your foot in the door in certain industries, for instance, you also have a chance to develop your communication and customer service skills. And of course, you have the freedom and flexibility to work remotely. Some of the cons here are it does require self discipline as well as effective time management. And in some cases, you may have to handle difficult clients. But overall, I'm going to give this one an opportunity score of 8.5 out of 10. Alright, so the next one on the list is going to be one of my favorites. And I have a prediction that this is a career that is going to blow up in the next 10 years. And that's going to be a freelance writer.  Now one thing I'll say about freelance writing is it's very important to specialize. I think one of the main reasons why people sort of get burned out on writing and they quit is because of the fact that they aren't specializing enough. So for one, you don't just want to be a general writer, you want to choose a niche. And the reason for that is because of the fact that audiences have gotten mature, right, they're very smart, and they'll know if you don't know what you're writing about. So you want to choose a niche that you're passionate and or you know a lot about. So for instance, maybe you're very passionate about the gaming niche or personal finance or business or software, that is the type of niche you would want to specialize in. But then you would want to specialize even further. You would want to pick a medium for writing as well. So you could be a blog writer, a YouTube script creator or somebody who writes for newsletters. And if you get really good in whatever niche and medium that you specialize in, that's how you can make amazing money. And there are writers that make well over $100,000 a year. And some of them can even make it to the seven figure level and just about all good content across the internet originates from good writing. It doesn't matter whether it's YouTube videos or podcasts or Instagram Reels or Twitter posts, almost all of it is researched and scripted because that is how you make good content. The days of just turning on your camera and ranting are over. Audiences expect well researched content now. And so this is a career that's going to be really big in the future and it's already pretty good now. And I also think this is a career that's great to get your start if you want to become a content creator yourself. So the pros here are you get access to a wide range of writing opportunities. You get to work from home and set your own schedule and you can connect with reputable clients. And once you have a portfolio built up, that's when you can charge more and make more money. Some of the cons here are there is intense competition for generalist writers. So do not be a generalist, be a specialist. If you take one thing from this video, that is the thing you should take. Always be a specialist. There can also be tight deadlines and sometimes you will suffer from what's known as writer's block. But the opportunity score here is going to be a 9.5 out of 10. The next one on the list is going to be a very common career that you hear about quite a bit, but it's honestly one of the best ones to get your foot in the door when it comes to a remote or work from home job. And that's going to be a transcriber. And there's many websites you can work for. One of them is going to be gotranscript.com. And transcription is where you convert video or audio files into a written manuscript. And according to Glassdoor, transcriptionists make about $40,000 a year. So some of the pros of this one are it is fully remote. That means you can work from anywhere in the world that you have an internet connection, you have a variety of different transcription related projects and you get prompt payment for completed work. Some of the cons are the tight deadlines can be very demanding at times. You're going to need a lot of self-discipline to manage yourself and typing a lot can give you finger strain. So make sure that you get a good keyboard. But overall, this is one of the easiest jobs to get started working remotely, whether you just want to make a little bit of extra money on the side, or you could potentially make a full-time income. And for that reason, I'm going to give this one an eight out of 10. Chances are you don't want to do it for your entire career, but it's a great place to get started. The next one on the list is going to be another type of transcriptionist, but it's going to be a little bit more specialized, which is something that I recommend doing. And that is a legal transcriptionist for verbit. So apart from transcribing different legal proceedings, you might also be responsible for transcribing phone calls, personal videos, social media videos, surveillance camera footage, investigation recordings, and many more. Now, according to verbits website, they're going to start legal transcriptionists off at about $16 per hour. And according to Glassdoor, verbit transcriptionists make about $27 per hour. Plus they have a comprehensive benefits package. So some of the pros here are it's fully remote work, you get exposure to legal proceedings and terminology. So if you want to work in the legal industry at some point, this could be a great way to get your foot in the door. And you have an opportunity to collaborate with legal professionals. Some of the cons here are there is complex terminology that you're going to have to know. It can be challenging to maintain accuracy over long recordings. And there is a high level of confidentiality and professionalism required. But overall, I'm going to give this one an opportunity score of 8.5 out of 10. The next one on the list is kind of like being a wingman in the digital world. And that is going to be a virtual assistant. And one company you can work for is time, et cetera.com. Now there are many different websites that you can work for as a virtual assistant. Time, et cetera is for some of the more high end ones. So a lot of the time, these are going to be virtual assistants that work with executives, for instance. And as a virtual assistant for this company, you're basically going to be helping executives schedule and manage their workload. So in many cases, you'll be fielding calls from other executives from other companies that want to get ahold of the person that you're representing. So this can be a very good position for networking. And with this company, you'll be earning a minimum of $17 per hour. So some of the pros here are you get to work remotely with flexibility. You'll get to work on a wide range of different tasks and projects in order to expand your skills. And it can be great for networking. Some of the cons here are you have to be very organized. You have to have great time management skills and self-discipline. Sometimes you'll have to meet tight deadlines and it can be a high pressure position. So overall, the opportunity score here is going to be a seven out of 10. The next one on the list might be great for you if you're somebody who spends like 10 hours a day on social media anyways. And that's going to be a social media specialist for PCMag.com. And PCMag is a massive authority site that covers different types of technology. And in this position, you'll be responsible for distributing content across different social media platforms. On top of that, you'll be writing, engaging copy, and you'll be brainstorming ideas for content that you can post. So this job allows you to work from home while tapping into your creative genius. So some of the pros here are it is a fully remote position. You can work from anywhere, you get exposure to cutting edge technologies, and you have a chance to engage with a large passionate audience. Some of the cons here are part of your job is going to be monitoring and responding to comments. And some of those can be negative. It really doesn't matter how good of a job your company does, there's always going to be trolls. You're going to have to have excellent multitasking and communication skills. And you're going to have to stay on top of the ever evolving tech landscape. But overall, social media specialist is a great career to get into in my opinion. And it's also a really good one for you to learn if you want to start your own brand in the future. This one is going to get a nine out of 10 opportunity score. The next one on the list is another career that a lot of people look down on, but it's super easy to get your first remote job with. And that is going to be a customer service professional. And in this example, you're going to be working for work.com with two Rs and work.com is yet another B2B company, which means business to business. And that means they provide services to other companies. And in this particular case, they help other companies hire customer service professionals. And as a customer service professional, you are going to be responding to clients through email, chat and on the phone. And a quote I really like is if you're not taking care of your customers, your competitor will. And one of the reasons why I included this one on the list is because they honestly had really good reviews online. And as a customer service representative at work, you'll make about $20 per hour. Plus they have really good perks and benefits. So some of the pros here are remote work, flexibility, opportunities to work with different clients and industries. So this can be a great way to get your foot in the door if you want to work in the technology industry, for instance, and competitive pay and potential for career growth. Some of the cons here are you are going to have to deal with challenging and demanding customers.  But overall, I'm going to give this one an opportunity score of 8.5 out of 10. This is probably one of the easiest careers to get your first remote or work from home job in. The next on the list is going to be another job that's relatively easy to get. And that's going to be a typist and you're going to be working for van and services. And this is kind of like a transcriptionist, but it's less specialized. So a lot of the time you'll be captioning or subtitling, but this one can be really good for you, especially if you know multiple languages. And according to Glassdoor, typists at this company make about $20 per hour, although other estimates online can be lower than that. So some of the pros of this one are diverse typing assignments, competitive pay for skilled typists, and it is very flexible. Some of the cons of this one are the nature of the job can be somewhat repetitive. You may have to manage multiple projects simultaneously and there is limited room for growth. So overall, because of the fact that this one is less specialized and you should really specialize in something especially like transcription, I'm going to give this one an opportunity score of six out of 10. Now, by the way, I have a bunch of resources for careers that I really like and careers that are really easy to get into. I've also interviewed a ton of people who have used these resources to get into those careers and I'll put them down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And also, if you want to check out a bunch of other remote jobs that maybe don't have anything to do with typing, I did make a remote job tier list where I listed, I think, over 30 of them. And you can check that out by clicking right here.


Hi everyone, I'm Jonathan Lips, one of the maintainers of the Appium project, which is an impact project here in the OpenJS Foundation. If you haven't checked out Appium before, it's a Node.js implementation of the WebDriver protocol that allows you to target a variety of platforms for automation, using the same protocol you might be familiar with from automating web apps via Selenium. Most people use Appium to automate iOS and Android native apps, and it's become quite a popular way to enable CI for mobile apps. Appium's been around for over eight years now, and we're getting close to releasing Appium 2.0 with some fun changes that I thought I would share with you all. One of the main goals of Appium 2.0 is to open up Appium as a platform for automation development, allowing anyone in the world to build new drivers or plugins for Appium and share them. What are Appium drivers? They are, at a minimum, a bit of Node.js code that extends our base driver class, and you can write your own Appium drivers to target new or bespoke automation platforms. Are you developing your own operating system or app development framework, for example? You could easily build an Appium driver for it, for internal use, or to give to app authors who build on your platform so they can easily add automation to their development cycle. The promise of Appium is W3C standard automation protocols applied to any possible operating system, user interface, and app platform. We're working on a couple new drivers ourselves for release around the same time as Appium 2.0, including support for automation of the Roku TV platform, the Tizen TV platform, and Chromebooks slash Chrome OS. Now what are Appium plugins? They're ways to extend the operation of Appium with basically unlimited power and flexibility. Again, by writing a bit of Node.js code that extends one of our base classes. Some early plugins that have already been written for Appium 2.0 include one that standardizes the element hierarchy across both iOS and Android, or one that turns Appium into a device management service that knows which mobile devices are available for testing, or another that adds image recognition and processing capabilities to Appium. So you can navigate a user interface and interact with it purely visually without recourse to any actual underlying UI elements. And we could imagine lots of other kinds of plugins, especially ones that might integrate with other technologies or services. So our hope for turning Appium into a platform is that developers will be able to easily implement their own ideas, package them up, and make them available to anyone else who uses Appium. Appium 2.0 will ship with a nice command line interface for finding and managing these drivers and plugins. Appium 2.0 will also see some important updates to Appium Desktop and Appium Inspector, a set of electron apps that allow you to run an Appium server and inspect mobile applications visually, similar to how you appreciate using dev tools in your browser. The Appium Inspector comes with a lot of tools to make writing Appium tests easy, even for test authors who aren't app developers themselves or who might not have access to the app source code. So those are some of the highlights for Appium 2.0. There's obviously a lot going on under the hood as we constantly try to keep our code base and workflows moving forward at the same time as developing new stuff. So I invite you to check out Appium, if you haven't before, and definitely join us at the 2.0 branch on Appium slash Appium at GitHub if you're interested in learning more about the code or helping out the project. Thanks!


When Andrea first saw us, it was love at first sight, and the feeling was entirely mutual. We were elated when she adopted us and seamlessly began referring to her as our mother. She made us feel loved, which is something we've never previously experienced other than among ourselves. Andrea, or mommy as we referred to her, gave us new everything, clothes, toys, and friends to play with, even our own room and the beautiful condo where we lived. Her friends always made a big fuss over us whenever they visited, complimenting on how cute we looked in our matching outfits. Their favorites were these light orange shirts and dark blue suspenders that had light pink hearts which displayed our abbreviated names, Andy, Randy, and Sandy. The fact that mommy made them herself are why those outfits were so meaningful and made us really excited whenever she picked them out for us to wear. We especially enjoyed when any of mommy's friends came over with kids our own age. We'd have so much fun spending hours playing games like house and hide and seek, but my favorites were the ones made up on the spot. She'd confide her deepest secrets and lamented about her problems whenever she'd sleep in our room or vice versa. She's saying how much it meant for us to just listen. Mommy even took us to her job a few times where we received nothing but compliments from her coworkers. We grew extremely attached to Andrea during those first few months and new mommy's sentiments were the same. Each of us thought this seemingly unbreakable bond with her would last forever. One that we strongly cherished and were eternally grateful to have. We were mommy's little angels for the first time in our young lives. Me and my siblings felt like we were part of a true family. That all changed when mommy started seeing Tim. Apparently, he'd worked in the same building as mommy's job and they would frequently talk if they ever bumped into each other during the workday. Tim was a computer programmer, but his biggest passion was sports, namely the major ones like baseball, hockey, football, and basketball. He was especially into stats and analytics, namely the highly advanced ones which he used to gauge the value or track progress of a player or team. He wrote a few different sports blogs but rarely posted any content. Tim was primarily focused on his social media accounts where he did have a large following and engaged in heated discussions where he tried to prove people wrong and make them see things his way. There's no denying Tim's formidable wealth of knowledge on these topics, but he was a pompous know-it-all and had a monstrous ego. According to Tim, his outlook was the only acceptable way to properly interpret a scenario or back an opinion with facts. As more time passed, I noticed this defective trait of his applied to practically everything he did in addition to his profound sports analysis. He was constantly correcting or critiquing mommy on everything to the point where it was affecting her confidence and overall morale. Tim was a very condescending individual and seemed to take pleasure at correcting and lecturing mommy on the right way of doing something or even how to think. He knew he was ultimately conditioning her to be just like him and it concerned us when she vented about Tim's overly abrasive and controlling qualities, especially when mommy became convinced that she actually needed what she called Tim's necessary discipline in her life. Even some of her friends tried advocating for mommy to break it off with him, but she gave them the same bland excuse. He's good for me. She would always say, sounding like a robotic recording during each instance. He gives me structure, companionship, and discipline, things I've never had in my life before that I need to become a better person. Tim wasn't a big fan of us either and seemed quite jealous of the love and attention we got from mommy. Whenever he would use the computer in our bedroom, Tim would kick us out until he was finished, saying we made him feel uncomfortable, whatever that means. The three of us were powerless to stop mommy from continuing to see Tim or at least bring to her attention how toxic his belittling dominion seeking personality was becoming. She went from being loving and vivacious to a timid shell of her former self that questioned everything she did and said, especially with Tim. It got worse when Tim started spending nights, which eventually turned into stays lasting weekends or days at a time. Tim's influence slowly encroached into our home from how the furniture was arranged to what foods he wanted mommy to cook or shows they watched. We grew extremely fed up with Tim's unrelenting impositions and neared our breaking point when mommy told us the Tim was not only moving in, he wanted to make our room into an office or as he called it, his analytics station, Tim's going to become part of our little family. Mommy told us one night with a tone of blatantly forced enthusiasm in her voice. We'll be more complete now than we were before. We brandished our smiles when mommy relate us the news, but we're boiling with anger and concern on the inside. All three of us could tell just by looking in mommy's eyes that deep down, she didn't want Tim moving into our home. Their relationship took such a toll on her that mommy genuinely felt she actually needed Tim to function in all aspects in life. We decided to act when he brutally berated mommy one night after she reorganized the linen closet but missed one minor detail among Tim's specific convoluted instructions. She locked herself in our room where we tried soothing her and she held us tightly during which Tim continued lecturing her from the other side of the door. What repulsed me the most were the petty apology acts Tim would pull whenever they fought that one mommy over every single time he was breaking our mommy if she wasn't already in shambles. Considering how warm giving and personable mommy was seeing her treated this way while those lovable aspects about her slowly deteriorated was overwhelmingly objectionable. That was when we decided to get rid of Tim by any means necessary. All we needed was for him to give us an opening. Me and my siblings formulated a plan and gathered the materials we needed for its implementation, a roller skate for mommy's days playing roller hockey and a kitchen knife. All we had to do then was wait for our chance. It came one day when mommy left to run some errands after quadruple checking with Tim that everything she'd listed was accurate. Once she left, Tim put some boxes of his belongings into our room and smirked as he walked up to the three of us. Enjoy it while it's still yours. By the month's end, this room is going to be my domain. Tim said arrogantly, his face scrunching when he put a special emphasis on the word my as he spoke in his deep voice, you'll be more out of the way wherever I wind up putting you three. Everything about Tim was always excruciatingly unbearable at that moment. It took every ounce of self-restraint I had from smashing that enormous beak like nose. Just looking at Tim sent my mind into a frenzy.     With a slight snort, Tim laughed at his own words as he left our room and sat in the den. Our bedroom was located directly across, which gave us a clear view of Tim. He kept flipping between a few different games and frantically typing on his laptop, most likely making a slew of social media posts that coincided with whatever he was watching. Tim was consumed with his pretend life as a wannabe pro sports analyst, so we knew he wouldn't notice when we dispersed to put our plan into motion. While Sandra entered the kitchen to make the distraction, I retrieved the knife we previously concealed in between the mattress and box spring. Randall took the roller skate and hid in the hallway closet, which was about halfway between the den and kitchen. I remained in the bedroom and would emerge when Tim responded to the impending crash. Sandra did just what she promised and pushed over the glass vase sitting on the kitchen table. It made a loud shatter that instantly got Tim's attention, who shot upright and asked what the hell that sound was out loud to himself. Soon as he walked past our bedroom, I stepped out into the hallway tightly clutching the knife, making sure to remain roughly 70 or so inches behind Tim, his approximate height. My footsteps were very quiet and calculated. So Tim was totally unaware I was trailing closely behind. I managed to keep up with his hasty urgent steps, but started getting nervous, thinking Tim might reach the kitchen before Sandra could get into position. Fortunately, Sandra, being the reliable individual she was, had gotten ready in time. Tim was three or four feet from the kitchen entrance when Sandra stepped into view, causing him to freeze mid-step. What? Was all Tim could say as he exchanged stares with Sandra, who wore a widened smile and slowly canted her head while she started waving at Tim. Looking like he knew something was amiss, he slowly started backing up, making sure not to take his eyes off Sandra. Tim was so focused on her, he didn't even notice the closet door nudge open wide enough for Randall to push out the roller skate, which slid directly into his path. Tim released a fearful yelp-like shriek upon tripping over it. The foot stepping on it shot out forward while the rest of his body jerked back, causing him to immediately lose his balance. Twisting 180 degrees as he fell, I still maintained that precise distance behind Tim and firmly held the kitchen knife vertically in point with its pointed blade aimed toward the ceiling. My precision was on point. The knife's entire blade and part of its handle effortlessly sank through Tim's left eye, its serrated tip bursting through the back of his head. A loud smack-like crunch signified the impact his face made when it slammed onto the floor. All was silent after that, as we gathered around Tim's stiff, twitching body, watching the blood seep out from under his butchered face and collect around his head. The most gratifying part for me, aside from how enormously successful we were at pulling this off, was the monstrosity of a nose Tim had got absolutely smashed during the fall. She looked like a crumpled, bloodied accordion tightly wedged between his face and the floor. Mommy reacted exactly how we expected when she returned home. After a spree of incessant frantic hollering and wailing, she broke into hysterics and just barely managed to hold it together enough when she called 911. The police and paramedics arrived quickly, along with mommy's parents and some of her friends. She was severely traumatized by the incident and completely inconsolable, although part of me thinks some of those tears were of relief that she was out of Tim's shadow, possibly joy. She eventually came in our room to step away from the commotion and hugged us tightly. In between her soft sobs and sniffles, mommy kept mumbling about how she couldn't and didn't want to believe this was happening. Two police officers, an older and younger one, entered the bedroom saying they were ready for mommy to make her statement. Still sobbing, we watched her step back into the hallway with the older police officer. It truly hurt to see mommy like this and we felt absolutely horrible for doing what we did, but knew it was for the best. Tim was slowly eating away at mommy from the inside and making her a totally different person. Even if she tried ending things herself, Tim would probably find a way to twist her words and turn the tables or convince mommy that that's not what she actually wanted. The pain was fresh now, but we knew she would heal quickly. Mommy was a strong person and we hoped she'd rejoice at the aspect of things going back to normal with our little family. The younger police officer stayed in the room and was staring at us intently while me and my siblings sat on the bed. He seemed fixated on a particular detail about us and had a growingly suspicious look in his eye that made me extremely uneasy, which was something I thought he sensed.  The older police officer asked the younger one when they walked back in the room with mommy. The younger officer continued watching us closely for a couple more seconds before replying. Doesn't something just seem off about him? He asked softly. I tensed. What are you talking about? The older police officer asked out loud, seemingly irritated at what his colleague was saying. I don't know. The young officer said, squinting as he leaned in closer, making me increasingly convinced we were about to be compromised. I can't quite put my finger on it. The older officer looked like he quickly ran out of patience and hastily started guiding the younger officer back towards the door, which filled me with relief. I nearly chuckled when I heard what the older police officer said to his younger colleague as they left the room. Well, there's plenty to do out here that you can put your finger on. I'm not sure what you found so fascinating about them. They're just dolls.


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Team keep it clean. What's going on this engraving here with another video and in this video Looks like former Redskins actually in the Falcons I think was the first round draft pick for the Falcon so long ago D'Angelo Hall is retiring From the NFL. You know what I didn't even I didn't even realize I didn't even I didn't even remember that this Dude played for the Raiders too. It seemed like that was Wow, I Feel like that I feel like I just skipped that in my mind that he played for the Raiders Because Redskins, of course, we remember because that was his most recent team then The Falcons I had almost forgot about that, but that was his first team and then he had um He just fell out of he fell out of uh He fell out of favor with the Falcons. They had a bad ending to their relationship. What's up, George? What's up JB? What's up, J? What's up Logan QC mildew appreciate all y'all coming through man, especially on a Monday morning But he picked a great day to retire because it is gloomy outside It's been raining all weekend. It's been raining throughout the day today here in South Florida So he must be here in South Florida somewhere Because if with him choosing to retire today, what's up King Swaggy P with him choosing to retire today It just makes sense. It makes sense Because he must have been in this weather and he must have been like man I don't know if is he a free agent or I mean it obviously doesn't matter now But is he a free agent or is he actually on I don't even know what his status is right now. It's just It's just so much unknowns about the Angelo Hall He was super when he came out boy, he was super fast man. This dude was fast But what's going on Kim? Oh, George said he honestly thought he retired two years ago It seems like it. I know he got hurt was it last year he got hurt or the year before last I know was it the year before last when he got it into a little thing with the angel I mean not the Angela Hall with Deandre Hopkins and Deandre Hopkins just murdered him. He murdered him murdered him murdered him So it was crazy man. It's wow Deandre Hopkins embarrassed that dude so bad it was sad man It was sad But anyway, he I remember they they even moved into a free safety because that's how older he was That's how like slow he was or whatever they had to move into free safety because it It just wasn't working for him at cornerback anymore And usually when when it ain't working for you at cornerback, and they move you to free safety usually most guys don't really make it Most guys really don't make it Charles Woodson, no is it Charles Woodson was it Charles Woodson who played for the Packers at free safety? Yeah, it was Charles wasn't sure. Yeah, Charles Woodson it worked out for him for the Darius web It was like it was up and down Well for the most part it just The Darius web was like so-so Who else the Angelo Hall didn't work out for him? Oh Rivas well, he didn't he never really tried it Who else is out there they oh they they started to do it with Rogers Cramarty But then they cut him so For the Giants So yeah, I mean we'll see we'll see but anyway He's done now. He's done. So this is good for him to I guess he's Sort of going out on his own terms. Kind of Lee. What's our perfect one? He's yeah, he's kind of going out on his own terms Even though I feel like his health and his reason to play kind of like forced him out Understood oh no, I didn't oh he's 40. He's that old really He can't be 40. He's 40.  He played for the Vikings. He played for the Cowboys Did he play for anybody else? Did he play for the Bears real quick or the Reds guy? I don't think so, but he definitely paid for those two and he that dude is real deal, man Terrence Newman been playing since before I was born and that was like 53 years ago So it's that's a long time man Terrence Newman is real deal that dude is real deal But yeah, man, that's that's crazy. How long this dude been at it for man And every year I would think he was gonna be retiring man. I thought he's gonna be retiring man Yeah, y'all make sure I leave a like on the video. We got how we got 20 you got 23 people in here chilling right now But we only got 10 likes click that thumbs up but appreciate it perfect one for one Justin to another Oh and Drake no, I didn't with the Lamar Jackson thing. I didn't get to speak to him Which I was like, I'm like, I wasn't like beat myself up about it or whatever because I'm like, okay The time will come what we'll get to speak to him eventually to speak to whoever eventually that time will come I'm not worried about that. I do wish I could have talked to him yesterday I could have made the whole experience even better, but I Was knocked out and my friend my guy called me He called me twice and with my phone When I'm at work, I don't be wanting it to be going off over and over and over again because it will go off over and over again So I took the vibrate off So my phone is just silent if I don't have it on loud I won't hear it if I got it on vibrate ill I won't hear so I am My phone was on silent so it doesn't vibrate So he called me twice and I was knocked out I woke up probably like 20 30 minutes after he called me and then oh and he had actually texted me to he texted me emergency so when I woke up I saw it and I'm like Emergency or whatever I'm sure it wasn't nothing, but I called him back anyway So when I called him back, he was like oh man, he's like you probably not even gonna believe what just what just happened to me or whatever So I'm like I say what happened man? He was like he's like I got something for you, but you're probably not gonna believe me if I tell you So I'm gonna just send it to you so and I didn't I didn't believe I didn't really think it was nothing I didn't really think too much of it so he So he showed me the video and I was like it ain't really hit me at first. I was still waking up I'm like okay. That's cool Whatever, but then as I started to wake up more and more and I started to like actually be awake Even though because I was half asleep because I woke up at like 9 45 yesterday and went to sleep around like four something so I ain't get that much sleep I don't ever really get that much sleep So it ain't really hit me until I woke up and I'm in there until I kept watching it over and over again I'm like man And he said he told them all Jackson about the YouTube channel and stuff and I'm like wow this Like that's that's Lamar Jackson. That's the dude who is gonna be the quarterback for the Ravens soon like wow this dude I had a chance to actually speak to this guy, but I was knocked out, but It was cool, man. It was cool, man. It was real cool So just having that and having having had that opportunity it was it was wild man and Yeah, I'm gonna have him say my name on the camera and stuff and what not it was cool It was real cool and it was real humbling just to just to know that That would not happen without everybody that comes through on these videos without all the support from y'all without They would that stuff wouldn't happen Cuz yeah, it wouldn't happen. So appreciate y'all man appreciate y'all. Yeah, JB They say you know he said perfect ones name too. So yeah, that could have been for all of y'all, but yeah, man That was nice man. That was nice. That was real nice. So hopefully I mean like I said, hopefully they'll be more opportunities I'm sure they'll there will be whatever happens or happen Hopefully Ravens will catch notice or something and Ravens will give me a call send me an email send me something Come ready to come work, man. I'm ready to come work. You want us to move the ball tomorrow? I don't know about all that part, but we'll visit every week We're from home something like that We'll see but never know man never know what could happen never know what could come of this But yeah, like I always say man, I appreciate y'all because without y'all ain't nothing man.  But yeah, it was it was real cool. It was real real real cool. It was real cool. So Hey, we'll see man. We'll see. I appreciate that drink appreciate that a lot man. So We're gonna see what happens In the future so So I was just sticking to it You hear that double take when I said move the ball. Oh, yeah. No, I Know yeah, I wouldn't want to move there. I don't know man. Yeah, probably not but Because that's just such a big change. I mean, we'll never know what the future holds But we'll see man. Anyone think Tavon Young can take car spot To find young was he was Tavon Young was he's real good in a slot as the outside corner back That wasn't his specialty. He was perfect in the slot though, man. That was his thing But yeah, anyway, the Angelo halls out of there appreciate y'all. I'm about to head back in the work now Hopefully one day I won't have to be saying this anymore that I have to head back in the work now and Hopefully the work will actually be for the With what this is and I don't even feel like this is work because it's so much fun. Anyway, appreciate y'all Oh, what do you say Trevor say? Where you from? I'm originally from Maryland originally from Maryland been down in Florida for a long time now But I'm originally from Maryland. Do I miss Maryland food? Yes weather. No Jimmy Smith and Humphrey gonna be elite. Hey, yeah, Jimmy Smith to stay healthy. Oh, Antoine will feel that was another one You know what? He was a corner back then he moved to safety too. Oh, did I just do that in Madden all the time with him? I think I just didn't matter all the time because I would put they had a super fast corner back that I will put that corner back And so anyway It is what it is man. Oh Yeah, think whether Maryland is bipolar come to Florida, man It's it's way more like it was it wasn't sunny outside just now But it was it was just gloomy and dry now just started raining now stopped all during the string So that was that anyway Yeah, one day man one day never know how things will go We'll see everything ends up and that's he said it sucks in New Hampshire by the way. All right, man Appreciate y'all man. We had to do a stream later on some other stuff man. Appreciate it. We out