Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of web Resources.

Hello Readers! 

On 19th November 2019,we have attended a workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources.  A session in workshop mode on evaluating quality of web resources. This workshop organized at English Department through Dr. Dilip Barad  head of English department, Mkb university. In this workshop Sir teach us to how evaluating quality of any web resources.  As a  student we have face difficulty in writing assignment or research papers for seminars is to evaluate the quality and authenticity of internet resources provided by search engines. Sir very well explained that how to evaluate the websites.

• Turnitin : 

Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving student writing. The company's cloud based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students. One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world. Turinitin is used by more than 10,000 institutions in 126 countries to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of students papers online. 

What constitutes "Research " for students today has come to mean "Googling ". As a way to address this gap in students skills, Turnitin has developed a source evaluation rubric for educators to share with their students.  The rubric, created by secondary and higher education instructions,  is designed to help students evaluate sources that they use in their writing. 

At the end of this workshop, we have task to evaluate Quality of  any three web Resources. So let's we try to evaluate three web Resources.

• Appendix : SEER ( Source Educational Evaluation Rubric) Worksheet :

1.  3.0. - 4.0. : Highly Credible, quality                            Sources. 
2.  2.0. - 3.0. :  Credible Sources 
3.  1.0. - 2.0. :  Questionable Sources 
4.  0.0 -  1.0. :  Unacceptable or                                           inappropriate Sources. 

• The Rubric is built on five criteria 

In the workshop dilip Sir explained this five criteria. This criteria are evaluated along a numerical scale anchored by an explicit call out to  "Credibility " , a move to make to make the Scroes more informative for students. 

The Rubric is built on five criteria

Authoritative  In Authoritative we checked about the site that is referenced and linked to by authors. Information is well referenced or cited and written by authors with expertise in the content area.

Educational Value  In educational value we have check that Does the site content help advance educational goals? Or instructional goals?

Intent  In intent we have check that is the site a well respected source of content intended to inform users?

Originality  Is the site a source of original content and viewpoint?

Quality  Is the site highly vetted with good coverage of the topical area?

1. Sparknotes : 

• Authoritative : 4
• Educational value : 3
• Intent : 3
• Originality : 3
• Quality : 3 

I have many times refers this website. Spark notes is highly informative and is well referenced to original content. This website also cited and expertise in the content area. This website provide us many instructions and it's source of original content and viewpoint. 

2 . Encyclopedia Britannica  : 

• Authoritative :  4 
• Educational Value  : 4
• Intent  : 3
• Originality : 3 
• Quality  : 2

For educational value in this site we find the biography of any Auothers. And it's also help us to advance educational goals in competitive exam like net or gset etc..

3. Poetry Foundation : 

• Authoritative  : 4 
• Educational Value : 4 
• Intent  3 
• Originality  4 
• Quality  3 

It is a non-subscriptions site that offers authored content. For the educational value in this site we find many poems of many scholars poets in by just one click and it helps to achieve advance educational goals. This site is highly vetted with good coverage of the topical area and this site provides original content. 

So,  the workshop on  Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources is very fruitful for us. We all are thankful to Dilip Barad Sir who organized this workshop and he explained that how evaluating quality of any web resources. 

Thank you.... 

Flipped learning : T. S. Eliot Tradition and Individual Talent

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We have academic task on Flipped  learning in which we have watching the videos and then write about the concept of videos ,what is our understanding and asking questions. Listing is very important skill for develop our  understanding.  This task given by Dilip Barad Sir head of English  department. Flipped learning task is very helpful for us to understanding concept of any works.  Click here to know about this task. 

Video 1 : 

In the first video of introduction about T. S. Eliot's contemporary critics. And division of Eliot's persona and world in three segments. Explained by Dr. Ketan vyas Sir Associate professor.

Eliot is one of the seminal 20th century critics and many other critics of this area. The new criticism began with I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot. Afterwards Sir talks about the New School of Criticism. And the three important critics and their works in which they gave their opinion.

1 . Allan Tate :    Tension in poetry 
2.  J. C. Ransom : The new literature 
3.  Cleanth Brooks  : Language of paradox. 

Eliot essay and Theory divided into three parts. Eliot wrote the  "The Preface to Lancelot " in which he says that he is a classist in literature.

Video  2. 

The second video explained by Dr. Sanjay Mukhrji.He told  about the T. S Eliot's concept of Tradition. And how individual talent is associated with tradition.

T. S Eliot uses this term with positive connotation or negative. Secondly we come to know how the individual talent associated with it. It connotes that at particular time, place over a period of people living and believe in certain principles and beliefs and carry out way of life. Eliot speaking from modern critics point of view and there is always this tension between somebody being traditional and somebody is modern. 

 Eliot actually means the seconds positive sense although we have to be really reading between the lines of this essay and when we do so, we will realize that Eliot is actually criticizing romantics with their great deal of emphasis on the individual. 

Eliot wants to assert that he is seeing this term in the very positive sense. Individual does not cut itself away from the tradition. Tradition for Eliot as he mentioned in the essay is already an existing monument. Eliot criticizing the romantics, but the he seems to be carrying a thread froward from Matthew Arnold with when Matthew Arnold talks the historical sense. 

Video 3 :  

The third video is about explanation of "some can obsorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it." Explained by Dr Sanjay Mukharji.

Eliot demands from his poet as well as from his readers a wide reading. Shakespeare seems to be unexceptional because if he says that everyone has to very well read every creative artist and then cumming down to the modern readers. We find that is no mention that Shakespeare went to any university. Dr. Jonson says  to the extended in his preface to Shakespeare that he knew no other languages than English. In this sense Shakespeare was not highly educated in conventional sense but still that he has a wide array of entire cross section of characters,of themes of ideas in his works.

Speaker mention the Arnold essay called  Function of Criticism in present time. Arnold mention that critics have a most important role to play and his role is that the critics should provide fresh ideas to the author.

Video  4 : 

T. S Eliot making some reference to chemical reactions. In the forth video speaker told about the  what is the relevance of this scientific chemical reaction with arts and humanities. Early in the twentieth century, it then tries to bring in the elements of science and the vigor of science into humanities and arts. T. S Eliot refers to is the in the laboratory the formation of sulfuric acid,  which is our H2so4.

Speaker told about the creative process. Since long if we look at Plato , Plato thought that poets create through a grip of frenzy. Aristotle differed from Plato's views and he said that poet make something, they create something. Dryden gives his views of creative process in three different stages.

Video : 5 

In this video T. S. Eliot's essay divided into three parts.

Tradition and it's importance

            Tradition is not followed the rituals, costume and regulations and rules. Tradition is the concept of both past and present.

Poetic process

Not an expression but an escape from personality. Eliot says that tradition is affected. He criticizes the imitation of poet.

Shift attention from Author to Tex

The death of the author is not physical but Biographical elements. He suggests that to the author is dead and impersonalized.

• Question : 

Video 1 : 

1.what is practical criticism. 

2. What is a New School of criticism. What is main purpose of New School of criticism. 

Video 2 : 

1.  Eliot uses such words as surrendering to the tradition sacrificing one from self.. What is Eliot try to say in this words?

2.  Why modern are good or tradition are not so good?
Video 3 : 

1. Arnold mention that the critics role is that the critics should provide fresh ideas to the authors. How?

Video  4 : 

1. Plato thoughts that  Poets create through a grip of frenzy. What is the grip of frenzy?

After watching videos we all asked  many questions and in the class Sir gave answer of all those  questions. As we asked above. Generally in the class only few students ask questions but in the flipped learning we have compulsory ask questions in Google classroom by this thing all students asked questions. So flipped learning is very helpful for us to better understanding and develop our thinking skill.


              Thank you ...........