Introduction
A Website is a collection of publicly accessible
interlinked web pages which contain a variety of information. There are
educational websites, news sites, social media sites, ecommerce sites, etc on
web. Websites are hosted on servers, and require a web browser such as Chrome,
Firefox or Internet Explorer to display its web pages. A website can be accessed directly by
entering its URL address or by searching it on search engine such as Google or
Bing. Originally websites were categorized by their top-level domains. Some
examples include .gov for government based websites, .edu for educational
websites, .com for commercial websites, etc.
Educational Websites
Educational websites can include websites that have
videos or topic related resources that act as tools to enhance learning. It
helps to make the process of learning entertaining for students, especially in today’s
age. With a massive surgery in educational technology since the Covid pandemic,
educational websites are becoming more and more popular. Students, teachers,
parents are openly depending on websites related to education for gaining
further knowledge. Such websites provide video lectures from direct classrooms
or private one to one recorded lectures, simple and comprehensible notes on a
relevant topic, content or subject such as science, math, commerce, history,
language, arts, etc. Another added feature of these websites is the easy mode
of accessibility- educational content is
available at any time or any place. This in turn promotes learning
irrespective of time, space and distance.
TED has hundreds of motivation, inspirational,
interesting, knowledgeable and innovative talks. It features lectures,
seminars, talks, presentations on various topics by famous personalities and
educated professionals. The TED platform leads on to further discussions, which
in turn widens our knowledge and perspectives. The most popular talks are based
on the topics of mythology, music, art, dance, politics, psychology, geography,
climate, language etc.
The videos with English subtitles help the student
teachers to understand it better and thus get to improvise their English
It helps them to prepare speeches on the same topic
during presentations at school.
Helps in widening students horizons about knowledge and practically implement them in classrooms.
2)edX
This website provides real-time classroom lectures by
expert teachers and professors of top universities. The best part is that they
provide a verified certificate at a , once you have successfully completed the
course online.
Suitable content for B.Ed trainees
Build skills for career
Extra bonus points during interviews
Extra diploma certificates highlights ones
LinkedIn profile and resumes
3) Teacher Tube
It is a website which shares instructional videos made
by teachers and student teachers for teacher training. The members are
encouraged to upload educational videos content. They also have to rate the
videos on the basis of content, presentation style, comprehensibility, etc
through constructive criticism. Videos of good content will get the necessary
hype and thus the integrity of the site can be maintained.
Suitable Content for B.Ed trainees
•Student teachers get innovative teaching ideas and styles of various
teachers so as to incorporate them during their own teaching sessions.
4)
SWAYAM
It is developed by Ministry of Human
Resource Development, MHRD and All India Council for
Technical Education AICTE with the help of Microsoft. This website provides
content for students if school, undergraduate, post-graduate, training,
engineering, law and other professional courses. The videos are prepared and
presented by the best teachers in the country.
Suitable content for B.Ed trainees
•Provides lectures of important theories and concepts for B.Ed training
students.
5)
Common Sense Education
This website provides high quality digital literacy
programs. The main focus of this website is to empower students on ICT based
education. It provides information about best digital tools that facilitate great
learning experiences for students and teachers.
https://www.commonsense.org/education
Suitable content for B.Ed trainees
Provides free K-12 digital citizenship curriculum
Trusted reviews by experts about the right videos,
films needed for classroom teaching
Provide effective strategies for technology based
education
Conclusion
Technology based education is very much popular in
today’s modern educational system. Teachers have to be well equipped in the use
of ICT in education. Teacher training programs in fact provide lots of
opportunities to student teacher trainees to acquire the much-needed skills for
classroom teaching. For this certain websites like TED, SWAYAM, edX, etc help
out the student teachers by providing
suitable content so as to transform them into well developed teachers.
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