Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
On Education-16:
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil -C.S.Lewis
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Blog of the day-1: "Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom"
I have been a subscriber to the Email Alert Service of Kendriya Vidyalaya Library, Pattom, Kerala (They also provide SMS Alert!). Though I have never been a student of KV, my kids were KV students. Further, when I visited their blog, I was so much impressed, I signed their email alert service. A school in India running a wonderful blog, which contains a lot of useful services for the students and is updated regularly (Unlike some government portals which are updated once in six months or a year or sometimes never, with the result you see the names of retired and dead persons still on roll!) is something very novel.
The first thing that caught my eye the list of New Arrivals. They have a very good collection of books and keep on adding to them. They display the cover page of recent additions of books and journals. They welcome the visitors in a very friendly way to get a complete picture of all offline and online sources and services from the Library. It is all very impressive and one should be really lucky to have been a student of KV, Pattom!
Then I saw I was visitor number 619,095! So popular a blog!
Then there is the Online Network of Library – LIBRARY JUNCTION.
They have sample question papers for Classes X and XII on their downloads page, in addition to Question Banks.
They have Tutorials for different subjects.
Their index page which gives you an idea of what you can see from the archives. For example, they have Karan Thapar Interviews. You have Links to useful portals like NASA videos, Aids to Netsearch, Educational Portals, Libraries Online, Online TV. Ebooks and Ejournals.
Mr.S.L.Faisal is the Librarian. Kudos to him and the school authorities for their exemplary service. One wishes that other schools and colleges emulate them and provide such commendable services to their students.
The first thing that caught my eye the list of New Arrivals. They have a very good collection of books and keep on adding to them. They display the cover page of recent additions of books and journals. They welcome the visitors in a very friendly way to get a complete picture of all offline and online sources and services from the Library. It is all very impressive and one should be really lucky to have been a student of KV, Pattom!
Then I saw I was visitor number 619,095! So popular a blog!
Then there is the Online Network of Library – LIBRARY JUNCTION.
They have sample question papers for Classes X and XII on their downloads page, in addition to Question Banks.
They have Tutorials for different subjects.
Their index page which gives you an idea of what you can see from the archives. For example, they have Karan Thapar Interviews. You have Links to useful portals like NASA videos, Aids to Netsearch, Educational Portals, Libraries Online, Online TV. Ebooks and Ejournals.
Mr.S.L.Faisal is the Librarian. Kudos to him and the school authorities for their exemplary service. One wishes that other schools and colleges emulate them and provide such commendable services to their students.
You can take a look at the blog for yourself:
http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com
Grateful thanks to the Librarian and other authorities of KV, Pattom.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Video Talks-1: "Stanford University Commencement Address" by Steve Jobs
Grateful thanks to Steve Jobs, Stanford University and YouTube.
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