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Role  of teacher in digital age    In today's digital age the role of the teacher remains important and irreplaceable. Students can be smarter in using gadgets. They are also faster when accessing the internet or using a variety of applications, play games, and more in the learning capacity at school and at home. They may assume learning does not have to be with books and at school at certain hours. Learning can be anywhere, anytime, with learning resources from anywhere. Essentially they understand that today, students have unlimited access to space and time. Until sometimes students ignore the teacher's explanation or an appeal to reduce internet usage in times when it is not needed.  In the digital era, the teacher plays a key role not as a fellow-learner, but also as a link to the knowledge community, or state of the art in that discipline. Hence in additions to general teaching skills, some more skills are needed to be embibed in a teacher to play his role effec...

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  Blog     Blog is a discussion or informal website published on the World Wide Web.         •    It consists of discrete, informal diary-style text entries   Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order.         • Art blogs, photo blogs, mp3 blogs, Edu-blogs are popular.  Teachers can use blogs as an instructional aid   TYES OF BLOGS  Personal Blog : Ongoing diary or commentary by an individual. This is the most common blog type.  Corporate and Organizational Blog : It is used for private or business purpose. It enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally marketing, branding and public relation purpose. Microblogs : Microblog is a broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elemen...

Electronic mail : Email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).    Email is a service provided by the WWW.   Persons with internet address can exchange message and files.   When you send email from your computer, it reaches the email address of the receiver.  An email address consists of two parts - username @ hostname e.g. amit@gmail.com. E-mail systems are based on a store-and- forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Originally, e-mail was always transmitted directly from one user& device to another&; nowadays this is rarely the case.  An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the ...