It is 6 o'clock. We'll call the 24th regular Common Council meeting to order will the clerk Please state the court of the day.  Will the clerk please call the roll all the person Salazar all the person Walton all the person Feldy all the person Ackley excused all the person Decker here all the person Pirella all the person Laster all the person Sabaglio All the person Flicky Pineski all the person Mitchell there are nine present all right for those in attendance Would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all All right jump into number three on the agenda Oh Approval of the minutes from our last meeting older Feldy Thank You mayor. I move to approve Second motion in second any discussion on the minutes seeing none all those in favor of approving the minutes, please state. I Anyone opposed minutes are approved just number four anyone for public forum today. No one this evening Next is mayor appointments city attorney Thank You Mayor hereby submits the following appointment for your consideration Libby all brands to be considered for appointment to the mayor's International Committee to fill a vacancy with the term expiring on April 18 2022 and that will lay over Next city attorney There is one resignation Jeannie Bogartis has resigned from the senior activity Center Commission effective immediately I Move to receive and file Second it's been a motion in second to receive and file the resignation All those in favor of receiving and filing the resignation, please state. I Anyone opposed that is approved Next city attorney This is a confirmation of a mayoral appointment the mayor submitted the following appointment for your consideration To the senior activity Center Commission Karen Cobra for a term to expire April 15 2024 And that would be a roll call votes elder Feldy I move to confirm Motion in second roll call vote. Please refer to your Mooney code All right, that is approved All right next we have a few hearings today Four of them So we're opening up the hearing for item 13-21-22 pursuant to notice published and personal notices sent by the finance director There's a hearing scheduled for this evening to confirm the exercise of police power in Making assessments for those benefited properties which assessments are proposed for public assessment district one Is there anyone wishing to be heard is There anyone wishing to be heard Final call anyone wishing to be heard Seeing none Alder Feldy I Move to close the hearing There's been a motion second to close the hearing any discussion Seeing none all those in favor of closing the hearing, please state. I Any objection hearing is closed Next is item 10 another hearing number 14 21 22 pursuant to notice published and personal personal notices sent by the finance director. There's a hearing scheduled for this evening to Confirm the exercise police powers and making assessments for those benefited properties against which assessments are proposed for parking assessment district two Anyone wishing to be heard Anyone wishing to be heard final call anyone wishing to be heard Seeing none Alder Feldy. I move to close the hearing Motion in second any discussion Seeing none all those in favor of closing the hearing, please state. I hi you want opposed this that hearing is closed number 11 hearing number 1521 22 pursuant to a notice published and personal notices sent by the finance director There's a hearing scheduled for this evening for confirming the exercise of police powers and making assessments to those benefited properties Against which assessments are proposed for parking assessment district four Anyone wishing to be heard Anyone wishing to heard Final call anyone wishing to be heard Alder Feldy. I moved to close the hearing There's been a motion in second any discussion Seeing none all those in favor of closing the hearing, please state. I hi anyone opposed That is approved Number 12 hearing number 16 21 22 pursuant to a notice published and personal notices sent by the finance director There's a hearing scheduled for this evening for confirming the exercise of police powers and making assessments for those benefited properties Against which assessments are proposed for parking assessment district five Anyone wishing to be heard Anyone wishing to be heard Final call anyone wishing to be heard Seeing none all their Feldy. I moved to close the hearing There's been a motion second any discussion Seeing none all those in favor, please state. I Anyone opposed that is Approved all right next is a consent agenda 14 through 35 All their Feldy. I moved to receive and file all our O's Receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances There were second Second motion second any discussion on any items in the consent agenda Alder flicky paneski Item number 18 Which is the contracts for sidewalks There there were a hundred and seventy six pages of contract contract and There was not a space or not a page that talked about How the sidewalks are chosen what the criteria is now my assumption is that public works Knows about this. Is that a correct assumption? And is there a procedure and a protocol for it? City engineer Yes, well the procedure is Most of that money gets spent just on complaints that we receive throughout throughout the course of the year like from fall all the way through winter so Well, yeah, what most of the funding is just on just on fixing the complaints we get from the public for sidewalks So for example if I have a constituent that has an issue with the sidewalk I refer them to your department and they go on a list. Yes, they do. Yes. Thank you. Yeah Thank you, Alder flicky paneski any other discussion on the consent agenda Other flicky paneski is that another one Actually, I just want to comment number 20, which is the mayor's youth council and number 21 Which is the sustainable task force and I am very delighted to see those back on the agenda and moving forward Thank you. Thank you for those comments Additional comments regarding the consent agenda Alder Walton Yeah, it's for the consent agenda number 14 I remember this coming up in a previous meeting or a previous council meeting What's different that we're doing this time compared to the last time this came up? City attorney So this isn't exactly the same thing in this particular case. Mr. Gillette filed a notice of claim against the city This is a little bit different than his previous filings which Went to the police and fire commission which were complaints to the police and fire commission those Matters before the police and fire commission were heard His complaints against the officers were dismissed He then filed a claim against the city alleging that we should pay him Certain amounts of money because he didn't like the result and that claim has now been denied Additional any other comments on the consent agenda? All right seeing none there's been a motion in a second this is a roll call vote please refer to your moony code All right, that item is approved next is report of officers item 36 RO number 134-21-22 by the city plan Commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 39 21-22 by alder person Pirella and RO number 128 21 22 by the city clerk granting harbor cafe LLC and its successors and assigns the privilege of encroaching upon described portions of 30 40 30 42 south pier drive and the city is shaboy good for the purposes of adding an Outside seating deck which is to report that this matter was discussed at a regular plan Commission meeting on March 15th 2022 alder Pirella I moved to file the RO and adopted the general audience Motion and second any discussion on this item alders valio Thank You mr. Mayor. I'm just so excited to see a new restaurant coming to the south pier district I look forward to dining there on a regular basis. Thank you for those comments and support any additional comments Seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Please refer to your moony code elder tacker Didn't go There we go. There we go. Thank you My nice that's a items 37 and 38 Will be referred to the finance personnel committee meeting Number 39 will lay over Items 40 41 additionally will be referred to the finance and personnel committee meeting Next is item number 42 RC number two five nine twenty one twenty two by the finance and personnel committee To whom was referred resolution number one five three 2122 by older persons Mitchell of flicky Pineski Ording the sale of two million two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in general obligation promissory notes series 2022 a alder Mitchell Thank you, mayor. I moved to receive the RC and adopt the resolution. Is there a second? There's been a motion and second any discussion. I know we have David here from Aillers So folks have any questions regarding Alder Alder Mitchell Thank you, mayor. I move to amend resolution number one five three of twenty one twenty two two one Decrease the amount of the bonds to be issued from two million two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars to two million one hundred and ninety five thousand dollars Which includes updating the amount identified in the resolution title section one a and section two and Two to incorporate the exhibits provided by Wisconsin public finance professionals based on the bids received today There's been a motion to amend in a second any discussion on the amendment Seeing older flicky Pineski's a comment on the amendment itself. All right. I am assuming that this was amended because When the bonding went out to the public it came in the interest rate came in below So the result of today's Bond sale is because the issuance cost came in a little bit lower We were able to downsize the issue by 20,000. So if you look at pay, let's see. Well, he didn't page number it so the report that City administrator wolf passed out. There's a page that has like a yellow column in it Usually I page number so I apologize. I should have done it myself Anyways, so there's a comparison between what we presented to you Last month and what the actual amounts came in so basically Well, the issuance cost are pretty much the same what actually came in a little bit better Is the underwriter actually had a premium on the bonds and that's a way that they use to to make it more appealing to the Investor so there are some money that they gave the city to pay their interest for the first couple years and then there was a Remaining amount that could be used to downsize the issue So the difference between the reoffering premium and the amount that has to be deposited that service is what downsize the issue Thank you Any other comments on the amendment? Administrator wolf Thank You mayor. I just want to thank David and and Phil from Aillers. They did a great job They're new for the city of for the city and they've been working with us on our five-year fiscal planning And this is the first first year in many That they actually took care of the general obligation promissory note process and as you can see we did save some money This is the first year where the city actually borrowed significantly less and if you recall back in 2021 I had Proposed that we would be looking at a five-year reduction in some of our borrowing and the use of general funds So this is again the beginning. We do have some big projects for the future So we'll have to see how that all works in but David is here to answer any questions that the council May have in this borrowing. So thank you All right, any other comments on the the amendment all their Savalia finance director I Would just ask that the amendment be adjusted number two stated Wisconsin public finance professionals, but should be Aillers Can that be a friendly amendment people who made the amendment in the second could just decode that a friendly amendment? I would consider that a friendly amendment. All right The motioner and seconder has accepted that as a friendly amendment. Thank you finance director Additional comments on the amendment Seeing none all those in favor of approving the amendment, please state aye. Aye. Any objection to the amendment? Seeing none now back to the main motion as amended older Savalia. Thank you very much I Would love to ask question of our bound bond council here and where they think bonds are going to be going in the future Are we in a are we going to be at 6% 8%? Yeah Moving forward Well, I'm not a bond counselor because I'll never be an attorney in my life, but we're your miss municipal advisor It's kind of hard to say because if you look at the graph that we kind of we put at the end of the report We've been kind of creeping up a little bit The last page we've been kind of creeping up But we got a report the beginning of the day that showed that the rates actually are down a little bit this week So it'll be interesting to see how your rates came compared to last week You know, I've been kind of paying attention to what it's been doing since the beginning of the year And we're going up about eight points every week Which we don't want to see that but I think some of the geopolitical Issues are kind of affecting what's going on and hopefully the Fed with some of its interest rates increases doesn't keep The rates for the bond market going up as well, but there is a little bit of a correlation with what they're doing as well so We're hoping that they'll stabilize it seems like our bond sale department kind of felt that we're starting to get a little bit more footing in the market and and Hopefully we'll see a little bit of a stabilization as far as the municipal bond rates So So as a follow-up here no predictions on where we're going to be next year, you know I wish I had a crystal ball because you know It'd been nice to get a start a little bit earlier and save you a couple points But you know unfortunately, I think you know the last couple years January and February has been a little unstable and as you know Two years ago February three years ago February We kind of had a real big zigzag because of some pesky virus, but It seems like people are a little queasy in the beginning of the year But this one didn't seem like it has really stabilized until just recently and hopefully that Continues to slow down so we don't have those rates jumping. We're still in a pretty good interest rate market though So thank you so much Administrator Wolf I got too many Thank You mayor. I just wanted to make sure that the council knew this but During our Moody's call. We did maintain our double A2 so that's the highest level that we can achieve so again, congratulations to everybody for the hard work and We'll keep doing the best we can. Thank you. Thank you administrator Wolf Alder Perla Thank You. Mr. Mayo. I just wanted to understand the basically the We are lending Um Sorry, yes, we are landing about two million and plus and then in five years. We will pay Two million five hundred seventy eight So what is that we are going to pay? Back in the end. What what is that we are going to pay? People in the end so once again, I wish I had a page number, but there's a schedule that has kind of a pink section to it You borrowed two million one hundred ninety five thousand dollars, which we will pay over ten years to basically a paying agent that will distribute the the money to the investors that had bought your bonds and As a part of that we have an interest rate the coupon is at three percent, but because of the the Premium that you receive the yields. You'll see the yields actually on the page where it has the bidders listed Where it goes from one point three percent yield up to two point two five Like I said the the premium is a way that the underwriter allows Gets the the bonds to look better so you can see the coupon to the investor is three percent based on that you're paying In you know when you actually make the payments you'll make three hundred eighty three thousand six hundred dollars of interest payments But those are being offset by about eighty thousand dollars of premium so your your net expenses for that is about 238,000 Yeah, so and that would be in ten years. Yeah, that's over ten years We're using notes for this which is a ten-year maximum on notes If we were ever to need something where we have a bigger issue. We might go out 20 years It kind of depends on I think that's one of the things We're gonna try to show you in the future when you start having bigger projects is is there a reason that we would go out longer But this this one is paid over ten years So people will we will not need to pay back before then it's not staggered. It's all together We we make a payment each year of principal and interest and tell that 10th year So so if you look at it each each year in the schedule is how much we pay I see yeah I I apologize I didn't have time to look at this So I understand now that yeah, okay and the reason that it's set up the way it is and if you look at the column That's like second from well That's that's after a little bit more growth, but probably five from the right There's the tax rate and one thing that we're helping the city implement is a way to stabilize the tax rate When we come back and may to present the five-year plan You'll see that we've kind of structured around that rate to start with What we're trying to do is make sure that the taxpayer doesn't have any realization of a Increase and a bounce because of your debt of your capital projects So what we'll show you is that that dollar 36 that we're showing in here is where we're going to stabilize Unless for some reason your growth allows us to bring that down a little bit more But we want to make sure that the debt and the capital projects aren't the reason that you're having increased in your taxes Okay, thank you Any additional questions for the the motion is amended Anyone else seeing no one else cute up. Will the clerk please call the roll? Okay, I have to call this all their Decker All their Feldy. Hi, all their Flicky Pineski.  All right that item is approved. Thank you It I'm 43 RC number 244 21 22 by the Public Works Committee to whom was referred direct referral resolution number 167 21 22 by older persons Decker and Pirella authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with Moss and associate LLC for real-estate and consulting services for the Southside interceptor System shoreline infrastructure protection and assessment project older Decker. Thank you, ma'er. I make a motion to adopt the resolution Motion and second any discussion on this item all their Flicky Pineski lots of questions this evening. Is this the the sewer on the Southside that is exposed because of the of the the lake action, etc Or is this something different city engineer. Yes, that's yeah It's a sanitary sewer long-league short drive down at the bottom of the bluff. Okay. It's a yeah, it's it's the one you're thinking of great Thank you Thank you additional comments on this item Seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Please refer to your Muni code Nine eyes. It is approved Next is general ordinances city attorney or excuse me other matters authorized by law So number 44 is an arrow number 136 21 22 by the city clerk submitting various license applications And that will be referred to the LHPS committee and number 45 is a resolution number 17 121 22 by all the persons Mitchell and Flicky Pineski Authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute an engagement letter with corals and Brady LLP to serve as disclosure Council with regard to general obligation promissory notes that will be referred to the finance and personnel committee Seeing that we've exhausted the agenda Alder-Feldy, what is your motion? I move to adjourn There's been a motion in second all those in favor of adjourning, please state aye. Aye anyone opposed. We are adjourned at 626. Thanks everyone


Good morning everyone, we will start the session today, around 140 remote centers have joined, the others are trickling in, the main session will start in another 10, 15 minutes. So, what I will do for the first 15 minutes is do a floor transfer and interact with all the remote centers who have queries and questions. So, all the remote centers who have queries and questions, please raise the hands now. For the first 15 minutes, I will be doing an interaction session with all the remote centers. So, first it is 1 to 8 1, S V E R College of Engineering, Pandarpur. Sir, yesterday there was one problem that audibility and video clarity was not there. That was the question. So, are you able to see the video and audio clearly now? Yes, sir. So, apparently it seems there is a small technical change at our end, please wait for a minute. I will take the questions from other remote centers. Just wait for a minute, we will continue the interaction. We are back to the interaction. So, yesterday many people were having audio video complaints and there was a small issue with IIT Bombay X. We have rectified most of it and the lab assignment is scheduled for tonight at 12 o'clock. Now, this is RC 1106 Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Yalahanka Bangalore, Nithya Meenakshi Institute of Technology. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Sir, yesterday because of server error I was not able to do a lab assignment. Yes. And after that when I went home and I searched that lab assignment option itself is not there in my total after login. So, what am I supposed to do? One second. Let me just check. So, the lab assignment has been released for all students. So, if you actually look at IIT Bombay X now, I can see the lab assignment one coming for all the students. So, do not worry, you have time till tonight at 12 to do the lab assignment one. But as of now like in my login it is not coming from yesterday evening till I saw today it was not coming. Can you check now? Lab assignment one option itself is not visible in my lab. So, what I see from my end. Sure, I will check it. Yeah. So, what I see from my end is that the students are able to see the lab assignment. So, if there are issues regarding that do let us know we will we will check and make it open available till 12 o'clock today, 12 at 12 at night. Okay, sir. Okay. I will move to 1, 2, 2, 5 BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. Good morning, Jaika sir. Yeah, good morning. This is Prasar Ashok. Yeah, tell me Prasar Ashok. Yesterday we had a lot of discussion on Mentor Menti model in the afternoon sessions. Okay. Of course, there was no clarity from the IIT Bombayx I mean from the A-view. Okay. I mean the audio was little no there was a problem. But there were many associate faculties at our RC and we tried our level best to convince our participants. Still they have still some confusion. I thought you are the right person to summarize in 2 minutes what it is all about. Okay. So, Mentor Menti model. Yeah. So, this is a valid question. This is BMS College is asking about the Mentor Menti model that will be applied in this particular FDP. Now, let me tell you so previously when there were synchronous workshops that were happening with remote center coordinator and workshop coordinator helping out in the actual synchronous workshop, we are slowly moving away from the model of the workshop coordinator and remote center coordinator that will still be there. But for the FDPs the new model is people who do well in the first offering of the FDP in the previous offering of the FDP they will be offered a chance to become associate faculty in the course when it is offered next. So, last year we had the same offering and around 253 participants had emerged as the top performers. Now, we had separately invited them to be a part of the associate faculty team of which around 184 people have kindly agreed to be part of this particular FDP. Now, what is the role of a mentor or a mentee? Now, this is equivalent to let us say a senior who has done the same course let us say from the engineering colleges let us say there is a third year or fourth year student who has completed some courses and is has emerged as good performers. The teachers using them as teaching what you say mentors for the junior students. So, what the mentors do? The mentors motivate the mentees who are the participants for the current FDP clarify their doubts and also interact with them continuously. So, as to ensure that the goals of the FDP gets fulfilled. Now, Professor Fartag had informed us about the idea of collaborating communities. So, we have around 180 mentors and each mentor might be getting around 40 to 50 mentees under them. So, there is it is like a small community which is continuously interacting with each other and what will happen is there will be exchange of ideas, there will be exchange of best practices and there will be a more better rapport between various engineering or teaching faculty across the country. Now, this is the vision that Professor Fartag had shared yesterday morning in the interaction session. So, I hope people got a better clarity regarding the mentor mentee model right now. We will be coming back to BMS College. I believe that Professor Fartag will be joining you in some time. Let me take two more questions for this interaction. Thakur College 1068. Morning sir. This is Manish Rana from Thakur College. Yeah. Hi Manish. Manish, your video seems to be not clear. There seems to be a haze in your video. You may have to stop and start the view to have a better clarity. Just the video. Okay. We will take care of that. But you can you can ask the question. Yeah, question is that will you be teaching us some tools which we can use in smart classroom in this interaction? So, the question is will there be some tools that we will deal in a smart classroom. So, as of now we have not put that in the agenda because the major the tools that we are talking about for many teachers smart classrooms are slowly coming up across the country. So, as and when it gets more popular we will be putting those content in the FDP for the current FDP it is not there. But what we will try to do is we will put those some videos regarding smart classroom softwares in one of the learning extension resources in the coming weeks. Okay. So, did I answer your query sir? Yeah. Okay. Now let me go to 1063 Divile Partial Institute of Technology Pimpri Pune. Good morning. I am Professor Rupa Bindu. I am a faculty of thermal and fluid subjects in mechanical engineering. Okay. Now, first I would like to congratulate this team of Bombay IITX. It's a great initiative of NME ICT which has been executed by Bombay IITX. Thanks for that. And the tools like the ICT tools like website and blog this will be very much helpful for my students for grasping of the subject. Great. Thanks for that. But one thing I want to ask you sir that this is regarding the understanding part which we are concentrating that is use of ICT in grasping of the knowledge by the students. But the question is like this that as a teacher we are much concerned about the monitoring assessment and monitoring of the students. So, I just want to ask that is there any such quick tool in ICT available by which we can immediately come to know about the slow learners, fast learners in the class and so that we can take action accordingly on the slow learners. You know that the teaching time saves nine. Okay. Is there any monitoring available? Okay. Quick and easy. Okay. So, the question that has been posed by RC 1063 is are there any ICT tools that will help in monitoring and assessment. So, the quick answer is that the learning management systems, learning management systems like Moodle or let us say even IIT Bombay X is one of the mechanisms through which you can do monitoring and assessment. Now websites, blogs, etc. are basically content management system wherein you will provide content to the students and they will be it is only dissemination of the content. Whereas in learning management that is the place where the actual learning gets measured, the activities are provided and you can actually monitor how each student has performed in the course. So, quick answer learning management systems are the easiest way of doing it. Okay. Thank you. One final question from RC 1316 Dronacharya College of Engineering. Good morning. Yeah, good morning. Sir, I have just one question regarding FDP 201x. Okay. I am little early. Will it be possible to include clickers in the classroom where somebody is asking smart tools in the classrooms? Okay. So, the question is whether clickers can be used in the smart classrooms. So, will it be included in the FDP currently in this edition? It would not be there because we are almost using the same curriculum that we had used in the last, what do you say the last FDP almost the same curriculum has been used in the current year. But if more people request these kind of softwares to be included in the curriculum, we will definitely look on it at the moment what we can do is we can provide it as learning extension resources that you can do a self exploration and understand. Sir, one more question, sir. Yeah. Regarding a view connectivity. Okay. Most of the time they are depending on the Bombay server. Okay. Will it be possible to have a local server, machine can be designated and local server and configured? Is there any provision in the system? So, just for your practice purpose. So, basically the question is can AVU be installed locally? The answer is yes, technically yes. However, what is required is you need to have a competent team who can configure it properly. The request has to be placed to Amrita e-learning system or IIT Bombay who will help you out in the local installation. Sir, thank you so. Yeah. So, around 158 remote centers have joined as of now. So, let me start the session for today. So, it is the session is about how to optimally use the FDP in your own teaching learning and how can you obtain the maximum benefit out of this FDP. So, let me just quickly go to the courseware of IIT Bombay X and start from there. So, yesterday many people were asking doubts regarding discussion forum, the clarity of discussion forum it is unable to search and other queries like that. So, what I am going to do right now is first I will talk about how to better use the discussion forum of IIT Bombay X for effective teaching learning through this FDP. So, what I am going to do now is share my screen what I will do is I will just ok. So, what you can see over here is I will go to the discussion forum of IIT Bombay X the FDP 101 X that you are currently seeing. I will explain to you how to better navigate the discussion forum and some etiquettes regarding how to best use the discussion. Just hold on for a second we are experiencing some technical difficulties with IIT Bombay X. So, I will come back to the IIT Bombay X in a short while sorry for the technical glitch the IIT Bombay X server seems to be not responding at this moment we will just check and get back to you. So, quickly within discussion forum what is happening is that there are structures what do you say tags through which you can access the discussion forum. Now, this is on the left hand side of the menu button you can actually see the 100 discussions unanswered discussions and you can sort it by recent activity and most activity. So, when you actually go to the IIT Bombay X what is required is that you use the features of the discussion forum effectively and then participate in the interaction with your peers. I will also talk about the pedagogic modifications that were made in the videos, the activities and the quizzes to ensure that you make effective use of this course. Now, the first thing that you can see is that there are each video is now a learning dialogue with reflection spots. So, this is a terminology that we have coined at our end to make where we call the MOOC as a learner centered MOOC and what we want teachers to experience while going through this FDP is experience the course as a student. Now, when you experience the course as a student what will happen is, so what happens is each of you will understand what are the difficulties faced by the students while using ICT or while trying to do effective teaching learning. Also, we are actually providing some additional methodologies through which you could make your own course more interesting and more effective. Now, one of them is the learning experience interaction. Now, how this happens is once you complete let us say one topic within your course where you have discussed the key concepts what is required is you make a structured discussion among students of your class and ensure that all the misconceptions or alternate conceptions are elicited out and gets addressed within the classroom itself. And ICT is actually helping you in this process because more time will be spent when you use ICT effectively more time will be spent in the classroom for activities like discussions or other active learning pedagogies and you can actually clarify the doubts of the students who are who have let us say now somebody said about slow learners and fast learners. So, each of these could be now club together let us say group together and you can still make an effective discussion within the classrooms. Now, this is what we want to want you to experience first such that you can then take it forward in your own classroom. Now, each of the pedagogic features that we are trying out in the MOOC the FDP-101x is actually coming from a face to face classroom because so, if you take the example of learning dialogues it is actually equivalent to a teacher passing their lecture and asking a question to the students. Now, students will note this so, if they are let us say they are doing note taking or other things they will actually think about the content that has been discussed till this point and then write the answers to the question or answer back to the teacher within the classroom. Now, in an online environment we are facilitating it through course journals where course journals will be individual records of learning and we are actually asking you to reflect further about the actual learning that has happened in the FDP. Now, about learning by doing activity what we are saying is that as soon as some content has been discussed you should immediately provide an activity for the students who will be able to which will help in reinforcing the concept that were discussed in the classroom. Now, one method through which this could be done using ICT let us say things like blogs or learning management systems like Moodle you can provide the content to be discussed outside the classroom they will watch let us say videos they will read through documents they will also go through various resources provided by the teacher. Now, inside the classroom now what the teacher does is teacher provides specific questions for the students to engage in the content and they may do lot of activities to ensure that whatever content has to be discussed gets actively understood by the student. Yet another feature that we are trying to do in the IIT Bombay X is also providing you practice of the technology first before giving you assignments about the technology. Now, if you actually look at the week 2 content we had actually provided only practice activity for you regarding WordPress page and one good thing that has happened is many of the associate faculty have chipped in and provided guidelines clarified doubts and also within the discussion forum they are answering many of the queries raised by the participants. Now, this is something unique about this FDP wherein all the associate faculty are actively engaged in ensuring that all the participants get benefited through this FDP 101X. Now, yesterday what has happened was when during the lab assignment session when the server was down for a moment some of the associate faculties across various remote centers actually engaged participants in activity within the within their remote centers and I would congratulate all the associate faculty for showing their earnestness and actively getting involved in the course and what is happening is these kind of efforts is what I talked earlier in the mentor mentee model the rapport between the faculty is getting increased and we hope to have a larger community evolve out of these various offerings of the FDP. Let me now speak about little about the actual mentor mentee interaction that we had demonstrated yesterday. Now, we are actually grouping different people based on their domains, their cities, the institutes etc. such that there is nearness of the mentor with the mentee either in terms of physical location or in terms of the domain of the participant. However, since there are only 184 mentors and there are around 7000 participants not we cannot always ensure that there is a one to one mapping between either the domain or the cities or the institutes. So, what will each mentor have is a group of various faculty let us say from arts, science, engineering, law etc. and what it will do is with teachers interacting with each other during the mentorship sessions the we are trying to break the silos of domains wherein the electronics faculty will not talk to a civil engineering faculty or let us say as mechanical faculty is not talking to a electrical faculty saying that the domains are completely different. Because if you actually see the kind of problems that we are facing they are truly interdisciplinary and for teachers to provide effective teaching learning it is actually important that teachers move beyond domains and engage with other teachers and improve their understanding. What I will do at this moment now that I have explained the basic agenda of optimally using the FDP I will transfer the floor for questions where I see a lot of hand races coming from different institutions. Let me now go to Center 1250. Center 1250 Sharad Institute of Technology College of Engineering Kolhapur Center 1250 I am unable to hear your audio. I will come back to you after I take some more questions from other remote centers. Now this is Maulana Asad Institute of National Institute of Technology Bhopal Center 1001. Hello. Yes. Are you hearing me? Yes, sir. Tell me. Sir, I am Manoj Singh. Good morning sir. Yesterday in your session your video and audio was 80% is good but 20% time we can't hearing properly and all the questions are based on it. How can we solve? Okay. So the question is about so are you able to quick question are you able to see me and hear me clearly now? Yes. Okay. So let me answer this query. So this query is that sometimes my video and audio from IIT Bombay is not coming clear at several remote centers. So to all remote centers the clarity of audio and video at your end will depend upon the local server at your institution and the bandwidth that you have. Okay. So the actually the clarity would depend upon the local bandwidth. So let us say if you do not have the two MBPS connection that is prescribed for ABU interactions sometimes the ABU login may not be clear. ABU interactions may not be clear. So what you have to ensure is that the infrastructure at your end the server and the internet bandwidth gets checked consistently and ensure that there are no drops in bandwidth. But your all question based on it how can we solve my question is that basically you will have to improve the local infrastructure and ensure that there is consistent bandwidth at your end. So your service provider internet service provider you will have to check with them and ensure that they are consistently providing you the required two MBPS bandwidth at your end. Sir, this is Arvind Singh Tomar from Molana AIR at the mobile center. Yeah, tell me sir. Could it be possible to have some textual information over there so that we can read it? So are you asking about ABU guidelines or session slides? I have a simple question that if we cannot hear and not see it then can we have the textual messages over the screen so that we can read it? Okay, so textual messages on the screen it is see the issue is we are presenting the video or whatever the let's say slides from our end and it will actually depend on the bandwidth at your end whether you are able to see it clearly. Now if the video itself is not coming out clear then there is less chance that you can see the slides or other uploaded documents clearly at your end. I will ask my studio team head Sajjan Dixit to answer your query now. Hello, so I think you are talking about the scripted talk we don't have any scripted talk it is live talk so you you won't get any textual appearance on the ABU. We can't feed it it is naturally elaborated by Jay Krishnan. We don't have a scripted talk so you can't can't get that kind of text but you have to make sure that your bandwidth bandwidth is not fluctuating if it fluctuates then you will you will get this kind of issues. If is there any problem from IIT Bombay side just try to understand all will get the same problem. The problem is listed in the user chat that they are not getting the voice and audio skillery. Yeah I understand some some of the out of 167 5 to 10 remote centers they have this issue because their bandwidth is fluctuating and they don't have adequate audio system therefore audio and video they are they are using the issues in that. Activities are based on them the graded activities are based on it so if we cannot hear and see the videos and videos so it is possible for us to answer the graded activities. So another the transmission we are hosting on the youtube live channel that is also recorded there so if you unable to attend that session on you have a difficulty in any session on a particular part then you can just get that streaming videos on our channel. Thank you sir. Thank you. Yeah you are welcome. Let me now go to KK Vag Institute 1088. Good morning everybody. My question will be somewhat out of context. In yesterday's session professor Parthak mentioned that we should be very careful about plagiarism. Yeah my query is regarding if I regenerate something looking at a reading or a drug diagram and then produce in the video wouldn't come under violation of the copyright act. Second thing is if I use any freeware which has been downloaded from an internet and use it to develop a particular figure or a structure and regenerate it in the video will it be a version of the copyright act. Okay so the question is regarding plagiarism wherein there is something that has been regenerated at based on let us say some videos or some material or some software and used in our own educational resources. Now the quick answer to it is you will have to check what is the IPR of the original material and what is the copyright saying about it. If it is a Creative Commons resource then you will be there is no issue and Creative Commons there are different licenses through which it is being distributed. So suppose there is a CC buy or Creative Commons just the Creative Commons attribution then you are free to use it in any way you want. There is another license called Creative Commons by share alike wherein you will have to use the same license of the original material. So basically you will have to look at the source material and its copyright to understand the plagiarism or the IPR implications. Thank you sir. If the company or the copyright holder provides me with a letter of no objection can it be used to develop and reproduce the video? Yes so if you so Professor Fartad had yesterday told about the case where Professor Uday Gaitande in one of the earlier courses had used the same thing he contacted the original person who had developed the steam tables and got his permission to reuse it. Now the permission will be provided by the person who created it and they will be clearly telling you whether it could be used for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Yes sir I am satisfied thank you sir. What I will do right now is I believe Professor Fartad is at BMS College of Engineering. I will just go to BMS College now. Yeah Dr. Ashok is Professor Fartad in. No no not yet I have not received any call. Okay so we are expecting so one thing so I will come back to you so as soon as you Professor Fartad arrives do let us know. Let me tell about one thing that we are doing in this FDP. So you would see a lot of associate faculty coming to various remote centers and joining for the interaction. Similarly our own course instructors are present across various going to various institutes and participating in the interaction from these remote institutes. Now this is something that we had we are trying for this particular FDP wherein we can we will be able to involve more of the teaching learning more of the faculty from each institute and encourage and motivate them to do well in the FDP. So you will have lot of us coming let us say during the synchronous interaction in between the course or after the course to several of your institutes and interacting with you. Let me now take a question from 1 to 1101. Yesterday Dr. Pathak had said that we need not be very enthusiastic about going for the flip classroom. There should be some amount of time which we should decide while thinking about our course. Can you suggest what should be that percentage in terms of going for a flip classroom kind of a delivery with conventional delivery when I mix both of them? Okay. So the question from the remote center is so let me answer this question. The question is what all things need to be taken care while actually going for a flip classroom mode of delivery. Now one main thing that you have to look at is are the learning objectives that you have for your students being satisfied by let us say use of ICT outside the classroom or engaging in discussion within the classroom. Second thing the context in which you are actually operating. So let us say if you have a large percentage of students who do not have access to ICT resources then providing videos or other materials outside the classroom is going to be difficult. Now the third thing is about the regular practice that both you and your students are comfortable with. Now let us say when you are trying out any new ICT tool or let us say any new pedagogy what you have to keep in mind is how comfortable you are with the change in pedagogy and it may so happen that you may have done very well in finding out resources, designing activities just because the students were not familiar to this mode of let us say teaching learning there will be resistance from the students side. Now this is very important when you are using any ICT tool you will have to look at how comfortable both you and your students are with the technology. Let me now go to 1, 2, 7, 8 SDM Institute of Technology. Ujire. I have a query on web press creation. Will it be considered for resource creation assignments? The question is word press creation, will it be considered for resource creation assignment? The answer is yes, but we will be doing this in the fifth week of the course the specific resource creation assignment in word press will come in the fifth week of this course. Currently it is for practice. Now you have to be familiar with the technology first then only you can do the assignment. So one full week is given for you to practice the technology. I have one more query. Yeah. Few of my friends are unable to attend this program. Okay. So is there any sir they have wished to continue the assignments? Are they registered in this program? Yes they are registered but they are not a part of face to face interaction. Okay so the question is some participants are not part of the face to face interaction but they would want to be continuing in the FDP and do the later assignments. What is the policy for that? Now see the synchronous interactions are important because of two reasons. One is because participants can interact with instructors at IIT Bombay and second you will be interacting among yourselves. Let us say a remote center has an associate faculty. This is one place where physical interactions can happen during the course. Now at the start of the course itself we have said that the synchronous interactions are mandatory however the exact policy as in if there are some unavoidable circumstances will take decision based on individual case. So the general answer is no they have to be part of the synchronous interaction. If there are unavoidable circumstances they should let us know so that we can take some decision on it. My friend has one more query. Good morning sir. Good morning. I also had a question regarding WordPress that is I have downloaded it in my cell phone as an app. Whether creating a website in a cell phone will it be same as creating it on laptop does it make any difference for the course? I have even customized it on my smartphone also. Okay so this is an interesting scenario wherein okay let me repeat the question to all other participants for the benefit of all other participants. One participant has downloaded the WordPress mobile app in the phone and is trying to do the WordPress page creation using it. Will it affect the main FDP scores or resource creation assignments? The answer is no. You are free to use any ICT device that you want as long as you are able to satisfy the questions the conditions in the question. Now WordPress mobile app is vastly gaining popularity. So many of the teaching learning apps that you applications that you are seeing within this course nowadays the mobile applications for each of this is coming. So Moodle also has a mobile app WordPress also has a mobile app. So these things are coming even screen recording in mobile is also possible.  Now what is important while using it in your own teaching learning classroom is to see whether your students are able to see whatever information or whatever is your objective is it getting satisfied with the use of WordPress created using a mobile app. So thank you very much for that answer sir. Yeah. So one more doubt is that the fifth week when we are asked to do that activity on the WordPress can I continue with the mobile site itself. Sure. Sure. If not for the teaching activity. Yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you very much. Now I am going to NMIMS Sherpur RC1103. Yes. This is RC1103. I am Dr. Payal. Then they associate faculty for NMIMS Sherpur campus. Yeah. Tell me Payal. The question is yesterday some of the faculty members has missed the session due to genuine official workload which was there with them and there are so many faculties who are registered for this particular FDP. It was next to impossible to even adjust those workloads. So how to take care of this loss? Okay. The question is regarding absence in synchronous interactions due to workload. We understand that yes there are issues regarding workload. That is why at the start of the workshop itself we get the permission letters from each faculty saying that they will be allowed to attend a view interactions. Now why this discrepancy happened? Again each of the case has to be handled case by case. There are no standard policies. The standard policies faculty must attend the synchronous interaction. Sir, I am Dr. Mohanawasthi. Yeah. I have a question that whatever the ICT that we are following is for classroom teaching. Okay. Now the major problem that we are facing at this moment especially in the technology is that the how to effectively conduct the labs. Because what happens that in engineering education what we are facing is that the students are not able to convert their ideas into the projects. So if they want to have their ideas converted into the project we have to give them the lab assignments or how effectively lab has conducted. So do you have any plans of in this FDP for getting how effectively the labs are conducted by using this ICT methods? Okay. So like on source softwares or any other things. Okay. This is what my question is. Thank you. Yeah. So the question is is there some content in this FDP regarding effective teaching learning within labs. Now in the pedagogy aspect of this course which comes in FDP 201 next we will be dealing with several pedagogic techniques that can be used both inside the classroom and even in the lab. Now how effectively you can use it depends on each individual teacher and the students of the teacher. So the pedagogy aspect of teaching learning in lab will be covered in the FDP 201x. Let me now move over to 1005 Anna University Chennai. My question is on open source softwares like Skylab open form and related. Okay. Will there be a sensitization in the FDP that follows now? So the question is will there be sensitization regarding open source softwares? Yes across multiple FDPs we will be providing you various open source softwares. Currently Skylab is not part of the larger picture but what we will do is we will provide learning extension resources for Skylab or other similar open source softwares that can be used by faculty. I have one more question. Yeah. First of all thank you for conducting this workshop. Okay. And we are very much benefited with that. My question is there are some interesting things in the video. The best part we like this three or two ten minutes video where students will not get distracted. That's a short answer. And another point is some of the parts of video are very interesting. So if I would like to share the video to my fellow faculty. So how can I do that without logging into IIT Bombay? Okay. The question is Yeah. So the question is how can videos of this FDP be shared with other faculty? Now all the resources that we have created as part of this FDP is in creative commons. If you actually look at the videos there is a link, YouTube link of these videos that are available on top of it. So what you have to do is just share the YouTube link of these videos with your friends. But do know that if they want to use it just ensure that they provide attribution to IIT Bombay team saying that the ideas were because it is in creative commons by share alike. So if they want to propagate it further and use some parts of the video, they will also have to ensure that the videos that they create are also in creative commons. Thank you. Yeah. So let me have one more question. Yeah. Can you please put the documentation on the creative common license in the course of this website so that their use would be known to us? Yes. So larger. So yes, there will be we will be providing you some sensitization and some resources regarding various creative commons application. We will be dealing this in week four and week five where we will be talking of video creation and finally putting all together for a final output. So we will be dealing with creative commons and intellectual property related modules while in week four as well as in week five. Thank you for your answers. Yeah. So let me now go to CEDAC Noida. Hello. Hello. Thanks a lot for a nice wonderful workshop. Actually there are two questions and two requests. Okay. The first question is that those videos that were part of this course can we download and keep a copy for us? So the answer is yes, you can because they are put under creative commons. Then the other request the first request is that the lecture this was from Dr. Sahasrabudde's were very nice. That was posted yesterday. Okay. And apparently it seems that it is a series of lectures. Yes. And I try to find out in all in the IIT Bombay channel but not successful. So is there a possibility that we do get links of those? So we have Dr. Sahasrabudde doing the next session immediately at 11.30 so that you can actually ask him for more videos links related to the videos etc. Actually it would be frankly I can ask but asking question here is a sort of a winning lottery. So the series of videos they were just two videos that were part of the visual communication skills. We have Dr. Sahasrabudde doing an entire session from 11.30 to one just immediately after this session. So you can actually see get the lottery of Dr. Sahasrabudde talking in this FDP session. Then there is one more question. The second question is that if we go through the discussion forums there are a lot of reactions about ICT being invading teacher space or so can we sort of a video covering or answering these questions. Okay so what yes the question is about some of the common questions that are being posted in discussion forum. We will definitely create a final doubt clarification video wherein we will consolidate all the doubts raised by several participants and try to make it into either a video but I think making a video would be too lengthy because there are a lot of queries. What we will try to do is we will try to provide documents wherein we explain the answer. So we will be sharing several PDFs which will answer these questions that has been raised through the surveys and the discussion forums. And one final question from my side yesterday there when we were discussing about it was raised that there is a problem in creating discussion forums of about 60-70 people. Why can't we use Moodle for that? Okay the question is why can't we use Moodle for discussion forums? The answer is that then there will be two different platforms through which participants have to switch between it. The previous FDP was done using both IT Bombay X and Moodle and participants found it really inconvenient to switch between platforms. That is why we have decided a uniform decision that all the activities will happen in IT Bombay X. Thank you. Thank you sir. Yeah. So let me now go to centre 1345, Supreme College of Engineering, Supreme Knowledge Foundation, 1345. Hello. Yeah. Good morning. Yeah. My first question is in a view interaction between a mentor and a mentee, suppose a mentee is interacting with a mentor and at the same time I want to show him some equations which I am writing on a paper. So is there any provision for third window or multiple windows coming in where in one window I can show some doubts while solving some equations and any written text? Okay. So question number one. So I will answer this query wherein is there provision for the mentees to show their written text through a view in a separate window? The answer is no. Only the mentor can have multiple interactions permitted because he has the he or she has the teacher privilege. The mentees can what you can do is show it through the video itself where the interaction is happening. Okay. My second question is in the discussion forum, there are some questions which I am asking some queries. Okay. But after I ask that query and post it, then second day when I open the discussion forum, I see that all the other participants query responses are coming in and my queries are getting lost. Okay. So how do I segregate my queries and responses from all the other all other responses from other participants and all. Okay. But I have to search and all. Yes. If a separate window is there by which I can see my own queries and the response. So the answer, so the question is how can one participant see his own posts in discussion forums because there are around 7000 people interacting at the same time. It gets lost in the discussion forum. The answer is you can actually click on posts I am following. So there is a star button in each post. If you actually create a post, you will automatically follow the post that you are creating. And what you can do is from the search button in the discussion forum menu, which is on the left hand top. So there will be three arrows, horizontal arrows on the left hand side. You can click on it and you can select posts I am following. And you can see the queries that you have posted or other discussion posts that you are following. Now let me go to the next remote center, Audishankara College, 1345. So we have a query related to this workplace.com. Okay. After creating the blog and website, we now have faculty members who have posted the link in the discussion forum. Whenever we are trying to open the link, it is directing towards the user idea and password. Okay. So the name of this query is actually open. Yeah. So what? How we can go through the link and get the data on it. Okay. So the question is what happens is the link that has been shared in WordPress is after clicking it, it is asking for user ID and password. So one thing that you have to do is you have to select visit site and so in the dashboard, select the visit site option and select the public page that is visible in WordPress. And that link has to be shared with other participants. And what you can ask other participants who are posting these user ID, the links that is asking for user ID, kindly respond to them saying that please provide the public link of the page. Another question, sir? Yeah. From the same college, in the assimilation quiz of week two, question number three and four were quite critical. And we could not allow it to your conclusion. We had a great follow up in the discussion hour but still they were in physical mode. Okay. I will look into this question because I also saw a lot of queries regarding the assimilation quiz too. Let me just check the question and I will try to find some common policy for questions that are ambiguous or are having some problem in understanding. Sir, I have some queries regarding grading activities. So actually I said that for the first two week grading activities, after that you will cover these people for the third week. When we can get that conclusion, sir? Can you repeat the question once again? Actually based on the grade activities, we will forward to the next sessions. We got the information that the based on the grading activities and the performance in the grading activities, we will move to the next session. So is it possible to move the next session for the third week? No. So see the thing is, so the question is moving to the next session. So all the week contents are available for you to access freely. So the week three content has been released and you can access the content without completing the week two graded activities. But every graded activity has a due date before which you have to complete. If you don't complete the graded activity, it will affect your grades. So it is like, see it is like you can still be in the class without attending one or two exams or short tests in your own classrooms. But your overall grade will be affected because of your absence in those tests or quizzes. Please the total five weeks we will consider, sir. Yes. So the grading policy has been elaborated in the video as well as there is a document for grading policy. Kindly go through the document once again. Thank you so much. Yeah. So 1, 2, 2, 5 once again. Center 1, 2, 2, 5 is Professor Fatak in at your institute. Apparently Professor Fatak has not yet come. No, not yet come. Okay. I will just move to the other remote centers now. RBS College of Engineering. Let me go to 1136, PSG College of Technology. Hi, I am Deepak. I just got some basic question. Usually for this normal classroom teaching, we will be focusing on this week students based on one-on-one interaction. Okay. So for this, but when we use this ICT, how can we give more focus on this below average students? Okay. Now the question is about below average students or weak students. First of all, this idea of below average or weak students have to be removed from our mindset because every student is capable of doing wonderful things. Only thing is they are not being provided with the correct facilities or they do not have access to these facilities while doing their teaching learning. Now you could use lot of the student-centered pedagogy to ensure that these students come up, they improve their performance of learning and participate. So it is not just dependent upon ICT. It is actually dependent upon the way a teacher facilitates classroom interactions. Okay. Now I will move to Center 1255, Mount Zion College. Sir, good morning sir. Actually my question is mentor-menti interaction regarding mentor-menti interaction. Okay. Sir, is it possible to have interaction with multiple mentors with different location with single mentee group? So the answer in this, yeah I got your question. The question is whether a mentee group can have interaction with multiple mentors. Now for this FDP, we have only one mentor to a group of mentees. So this many to many interaction will not be possible. Thank you. One more question. Sir, is it possible to have a mobile app for mentee mentor interaction? Can you repeat the question? Okay. The question is, is it possible to have a mobile app? So you have lot of, so if you are comfortable with sharing your mobile number and other things, you could interact with your mentor using WhatsApp or other applications that are available in mobile. Now it is up to the convenience of the mentor and mentee to decide what is the mechanism through which they are going to interact. What we will provide from our side is, apart from this, there will be one session through ABU through which they could interact in FDP 101X. There will be slots open in FDP 101X in the coming days where at least one interaction is possible between one mentor and a group of mentees. Okay. So let me now go to Thespur University Center 1153. Sir, you are not audible. Yeah. Hello, Jayakrishnan, can you hear me? Yes. Now I can. Okay. So I have the direct question regarding the discussion forum that we are using in this particular FDP. Okay. So in the discussion forum, the problem is there are too many threads or discussion that is being posted by the more than 7000 participants. Yes. So what happens most of the times we may miss some important discussions or the category wise. Okay. So will it be possible or what would be the way for the best use of those discussions that we know as a categorically rather than having all the discussions in one place and difficult to find it out? Okay. So I have answered this question right at the start and I have also answered it again. So it is regarding discussion forum. So there is a menu button through which you can actually do a lot of things like you can sort the discussions, you can look at most active discussions, you can look at your own discussion threads and participate effectively in the discussion forum. Now in the morning there was a small technical glitch through which due to which I was not able to share my IIT Bombay X discussion forum with you. What I will do is in the afternoon between 2 and 2.30, I will create a separate session just for the discussion forum wherein I will provide you with slides through which you will understand how to sort the discussion forums and participate effectively. Hello. Yeah. Sorry, can I just add into it something? Yeah, please tell me. My question is not that highly discussed threads. I just want to know that category that infrastructure difficulty wise. Say discussion on that. Discussion on say a category which says that it is problem of finding resources. Say third is branding between the using ICT and the physical face to face interaction. So would it be possible to make those kind of categories rather than just looking into the highly discussed topic and all this. Okay. So the question is can there be categorization based on things that are more interesting to the learner if I am not mistaken. So one quick way of doing it is you can click on that star button where it says follow and all the posts that you follow the interesting posts that you want to follow will come under the menu bar posts I am following in your discussion forum. So this is one easy way of tagging specific discussion forums that you want to explore or keep tabs on. I will take the final two queries. One is RVR and J.C. College 1363. Ma'am your audio is not audible. Unable to hear your audio ma'am. Can you check your mic? No audio. I will come back to RVR and J.C. I will take one college one more remote center 1135. Periyar 1136. 1135. Periyar Mani Ammai University. Tanjavur. Yeah tell me sir. Sir you are I am having an echo in your audio. Can you hear me? I can hear you but there is an echo. So speak slowly. Can you hear me? Sir I can hear you but there is an echo in your voice. I am not able to hear you. Can you just do a one final check of your audio? I am unable to hear you sir. I will come back to you in the afternoon. I will just I will go to 1034 now ME Society's MCC Pune. Ma'am can you check your audio? Yeah. Hello. Good morning sir. Good morning. All of us have a doubt and the doubt relates to using the reflection spot and the quiz activities. Basically in a particular course of engineering we have five courses per semester if we are following semester pattern and if every faculty decides to use make use of the quiz activity using LMS for enforcement of the learning The problem that we enter after because of right this out earlier is students do not actively participate. What is happening in the case if we are doing this every week we as faculty members are going to get acknowledgement in the terms of certificate but students look at it what is going to be their benefit or outcome. So from a strength of 60 plus I have hardly 10% students who actually participate actively in the quiz activity after teaching a particular topic. So this is one theory that we have how to actually use it to these students and the second place with respect to the core journal and the WordPress website that is created Okay. So thank you for the questions. The first question is regarding activities of students. So it so happened. I mean many teachers will be facing the same issue that only few percentage of their students are truly active in the class and does all the activity. So there are no shortcuts for this. You will have to coax the students to do the work provide more student-centered activities that they like. Let us say so some of the previous FDPs what we saw was use of activities like think-pair-share or peer instruction in a classroom had motivated students to take part in the classroom discussion. Now these active learning pedagogy through which you can engage more students will be discussed in FDP to O1x in the current FDP regarding course journal and WordPress. There are no submissions yet of course journal in a let us say file upload assignment for course journal and WordPress. It is only for you to see whether you can practice it right and share with your colleagues and get their inputs in the discussion forum. The exact activity of WordPress upload and course journal upload will come in weeks 4 and 5. I will take BMS college can you tell me whether Professor Fartek is available at your. So Professor Fartek has informed us that he will join at 11.30. So currently time is 11 o'clock. You will have a session by Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudde at 11.30 on visual presentation skills and Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudde will be taking the session from a remote center so that so this is something another unique experiment that we are trying out in this FDP where course instructors participate from several remote centers. So I have seen a lot of hand races. I will come back to you in the afternoon wherein we will discuss a little more about effective use of this FDP due to some technical difficulties. You are not able to carry it forward further but some time will be definitely spent on how to make the best use of this FDP and then I will take the queries from other participants. So I hope so you can now go for a break. We will reassemble at 11.30 where Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudde will be taking a session on visual communication skills. Thank you.


Workplace Health and Safety Queensland is excited to share this short film about managing young workers, the right start. Young workers, particularly those employed in the construction, manufacturing, transport and warehousing, agriculture and labour hire industries, are a priority group that we target in order to achieve our goal of reducing the number of work-related injuries and fatalities in Queensland. This group is a priority because about one in every 100 young workers suffers a serious injury at work in Queensland every year. Each one of those injuries happens to someone who is just starting out in their careers and it has a significant impact on them, their colleagues, families and friends. Over the last few years we've done a lot of work to better understand what makes young people more prone to getting injured at work. What we have learnt is that relying on young workers to speak up when they feel unsafe is not effective. Young people are more likely to avoid asking questions and jump straight into work to try and impress their supervisors and co-workers. So it's these people that can have the biggest influence on a young person's safety at work. This film focuses on the important role that supervisors and managers play in designing work that keeps young workers safe. It follows two young workers throughout their day and highlights the different experiences they have based on the effectiveness of their supervisor. You will also hear insights provided by industry leaders on how they are actively engaging with their young workers to keep them safe today and develop them into future leaders in health and safety. Workers aged between 15 and 24 years make up about 18% of the Queensland workforce. 4,000 young workers suffer a serious injury at work each year. That's an injury that keeps them off work for at least five days and possibly one that will affect their ability to work for the rest of their life. A serious injury affects not just the worker but their colleagues and supervisor, their family and their friends. As a supervisor or manager of a young worker, you have the greatest influence on their attitude to work safety. This means ensuring an appropriate level of supervision relevant to the tasks that they are performing. With a young worker they normally just come out of school so they want to work, they want to earn a bit of money. So they like to come in and shine and impress straight away and to impress you normally think you need to get in there and do flat out work and that sometimes could create a bit of drama. You try and open up dialogue with them around what have they actually experienced in their life. They've just been in school and then they've just joined us. We know we've got to look after them a little bit more. We have a lot of dangers in our industry. They might look dangerous until you start doing stuff like jumping down steps or what not. You've just got to be aware they'll come up to a hole instead of just taking the way down. They think we'll jump down and get it done quick and easy and that's where they find themselves in a bit of strife. Young workers have a unique risk profile. They may not notice when a situation becomes dangerous or they may misjudge the level of risk. They may be less likely to ask questions or raise safety concerns and they model their behaviour off others, whether that behaviour is right or wrong. Effective induction, proper training, regular supervision and support and mentoring is vital for a young worker to adopt the right attitude to safety and develop safe work practices. Let's follow two young workers as they go about their work day to see how the interactions with their supervisors and their experiences can differ. This is Adam. He is 19 and lives with his mum and dad. He's been working as a civil construction trainee for the last three months. His boss Ray values young workers. Ray knows that his business's safety system needs to accommodate Adam's unique risk profile to ensure he is safe at work and is productive for the business. Ray follows the tell me, show me, watch me approach. This is Ryan. He is 21 and he is a first year apprentice Tyler. He has just moved in with his girlfriend Emily. Ryan hopes one day to be his own boss with his own business. Ryan's boss Dan thinks young workers are often a hassle, slow and spend more time checking their phones than focusing on their work. Hey Adam, could you come over here for a minute please mate? I'm just going to get you to do a bit of work on the excavator today. I know you've done unit of competency but using one on site is a different story. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to get you to move that pile of dirt on that flat over to here. Do you feel comfortable with that? Wonderful. We'll just start off with a pre-check. So then we'll just jump inside the cab and check all the controls because they can vary from machine to machine. And then together we're just going to go through the safe work method statement. You've probably seen these swims before on other high-risk activities. So we'll still go through just so that you understand the measures we have in place to ensure the safe operation of the excavator. So we'll be doing a few easy navigation tasks. I'll be in constant contact and watching you. Just remember the exclusion zone is marked out. If anything or anyone comes inside that zone, you need to immediately stop. Any questions? I'm ready to go. Nice enthusiasm. What do you need to do? Just be moving the excavator around or lift up the bucket. You'll be in eye contact just in case anything goes wrong. And if anyone enters the exclusion zone, I'll stop. Excellent. Great stuff. You reckon you can handle it? Yeah. Ryan, awesome that you can grace us with your presence from college. Now look, mate, we've got a lot on our plate today. Do you know how to use a tile cut? Yes. All right. What about a grinder? Yeah, yeah, we've done that. All right, good.   You're going to do that, mate? Yeah. All right, good. Let's get stuck in. No mark around today, mate. We've got a lot on our plate, all right? Yeah. Hey, Joe, good stuff. Are you comfortable with that? Yeah, just stick to the plan and it's all sweet. That's it. That's what they're there for. Yeah, just do everything according to the book, okay? That means following the work plan and swims. In that way, we don't even have any near-miss incidents on this side. Okay, any questions? No, I'm all good. What I'm going to do now is I'm just going to get you to do something a little bit more interesting than that. I'm just going to get you to move the materials from here over to the stock pile, okay?  I'm going to ask you to step outside the exclusion zone and just watch me carefully, okay? All right. You're all right, mate. That sounds good. But, yeah, look, we've got a lot in the garden, mate. Hang on a sec, mate. Ryan. Ryan. Mate, where's the guard for the grinder? What's going on with the glass and the earplugs? I thought you knew what you're doing, mate. Yeah, yeah, I do. It's the other guys. They didn't have it on, so I thought I didn't need it. I'm sorry, but, like... Mate, head to the back of the trailer and I want you to get the guard for the grinder and see what these other guys are up to. Okay, just focus on what you have to do. I haven't got time to babysit today, mate. I really need you to get stuck in and get this job done, okay? And then come see me, all right? Yeah. All right. Sorry about that, mate. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's got a few dams for your apprentice. Yeah, no, we'll sort it out. All good. Adam. How'd you wake up training college this week? Oh, yeah, I was okay. You know, the teachers are all right. But actually, it's really good using the simulator first, but I'd rather be doing it real stuff on-site. I'm really glad you're enjoying it.  Oh, thank you. Hey, speaking of college, I probably should take a look at your training records before you take off, hey? Oh, yeah, that'd actually be pretty good. All right, well, a couple of them, yeah. Sweet. No worries. So, are you playing a band? All right, there you are, mate. Shipping off earlier today. All right, do you want me to just finish this up, then?  Okay. So, just with this next placement, do you want to feel like... An effective form of inducting a young worker into a particular task can be using the tell-me-show-me-watch-me approach. So that involves providing a verbal and written instruction into performing the task, demonstrating how to perform it safely, and then providing feedback while watching the young worker actually demonstrating the task. With our young workers in terms of how we've managed inductions and characteristics of a supervision, we think about how they learn, their learning styles. These days, it's more around about visual rather than just general written communication. We'll try to use more visual aids, which is, oh, that's in your face rather than some guy reading from the piece of paper. So an induction is really important. It's into a particular task or using a particular piece of equipment, making sure that that work is competent in performing that work. They understand the work that's going on around them, that they're supervised. In terms of supervision, we talk about supervisors being more understanding of how young workers learn and how important it is that they actually have more interactions with the supervisor on a day-to-day basis rather than being left alone. We have to have good conversations with them. We've told you not to use your phone. Are you sure you're all right? You seem a bit distracted. It's just another level of engagement with our workforce. We know that providing mentoring and social support is really important to allow young workers to engage with their work environment socially. We have a mentoring program that we use on a regular basis, which identifies the supervisor taking more action or someone who's been in the industry a long period of time and takes them under their wing and helps them through their career, probably for the first three to six months.   He's a little bit withdrawn and we need to give him that a little bit more support. Whereas you get some youngsters who are very brash, know it all, done it all before, and they need a bit of temper, so we put them with one of our stronger guys who's probably a little bit more outspoken. Their values are different than older people. They've been in the industry a long period of time, so we try and leverage off those values and use them to guide them through the decision-making throughout their career. We also try not to ostracise them and highlight them by wearing different coloured hats, so they are part of the workforce. The supervisors really do to have their one-to-one relationship with them. Proactive initiatives around financial skills, mental health and well-being, physical health and well-being, even literacy, those kind of issues can impact on a young worker's health and safety. While it might not be directly a safety initiative, it has positive safety outcomes by engaging young workers within the work environment. So some of the examples that we've seen where industry is engaged with their young workers around safety has had really positive outcomes. So it's helping to understand some of the documentation and systems that they've got in place and why they're important. It's helping to understand why they do the role that they do that way and the dangers that might be associated with those roles. Through effective induction and training, appropriate supervision and good feedback, and supportive mentoring, young workers will become more aware of how to do the job safely. Engaging with young workers through consultation will also enable them to share their ideas around work health and safety and help to improve the way that safety is managed in your workplace. Unless we get in and support it as an industry the importance of the young workers and their interactions and the value they bring, recognising this, they are a little bit in that risk group of high incidents, so we can actually manage risk no different than any other risk that we see on our sites. The best advice I would give to anybody is keep open communication and keep talking and make them feel part of what we do. There is a lot to be gained from young workers and information and knowledge that they can impart to us to learn as an organisation and as an industry as well. We would like this film to be used at workplaces to start a conversation with supervisors and managers that encourages them to reflect on how they engage with their young workers about health and safety. Show the film at meetings and use it in presentations. Lead a discussion about improving the way your leaders provide inductions, training, supervision, feedback, support and mentoring.


In some cases, we have multiple sets, each of which contain the same number of objects. For example, we might have five packs of hot dogs, each of which contains 12 hot dogs, or we might have six packs of hot dog rolls, each of which contains eight rolls. Find the total number when we have a collection of sets corresponds to a multiplication, and so we define a times b is the quantity corresponding to a sets of b. Now there is a problem in notation, because a times b means a sets of b, a is a number, but b might not be. So for now, when we write a times b, a should always be considered a number, regardless of how we write it, and b might or might not be a number. To avoid the notation problem, we'll begin by spelling out the first factor. For example, we might write four times three base five. Let's multiply three times two one four base six, and so we have three sets of two one four base six. That's two large, one medium, four small. And we have three sets like that. Since we're working base six, we'll look for sets of six to bundle and trade. So here's a set of six we can trade. And in fact, since this is the next larger unit, we'll move it to the appropriate column. We'll bundle and trade other sets of six. Again, for organizational purposes, let's put these in the right column. And there's another set of six we can bundle. And again, arithmetic is bookkeeping how many of which units we have one zero five zero base six. Now remember that in base n, the largest amount we can conceive is n. So what happens when we multiply by the base? Well, let's try it and find out. Let's try to find five times three two base five. And so we have five sets of three two base five. But if we bundle and trade, then every unit in every set appears five times. And so each of the three mediums becomes a large and each of the two small becomes a medium. And so we find that five times three two base five is three two zero base five. And this is true generally. And so we could say that we add a zero. But how you speak influences how you think and we shouldn't say that. What we're really doing is shifting the places. And so we can say that multiplying by the base shifts all digits one place. So for example, if we want to find four times one three two base four, multiplying by four means that every unit in every set appears four times. And so each unit in every set can be bundled for one of the next larger unit. And so our product is one three two zero base four.