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.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Words of Wisdom-53:
Higher education can be a boon only if there is a sound foundation of critical thinking, curiosity, active participation in the classroom, and a problem-solving orientation at the high school level - N.R.Narayana Murty
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Words of Wisdom-52:
Communication of good values by reputed people is an important first step in changing the mindset of youngsters - Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
Saturday, October 17, 2009
A Website for Research Students
Reproducing below copy of another mail from Prof Subbiah Arunachalam addressed to Prof Joshi regarding acquiring information literacy and writing skills, citing a free website useful especially for research students:
"Please visit
<http://courses.informationliteracy.org.uk/login/index.php>
and examine the site. After we go through it in detail we may promote its use in India. It helps students (and others interested in research) acquire information literacy and writing skills. And it is free!
Arun"
"Please visit
<http://courses.informationliteracy.org.uk/login/index.php>
and examine the site. After we go through it in detail we may promote its use in India. It helps students (and others interested in research) acquire information literacy and writing skills. And it is free!
Arun"
Helping the Talent Pool of Moffusil India
I am reproducing below an interesting mail received from Prof Subbiah Arunachalam, forwarding an article, "MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Sunday Trek To The Golden Gate" (He gives up his weekends to help his kindred folk: the vast scientific talent pool of mofussil India) by S. Anand that appeared in Outlook, 20 December 2004.
Friends:
Prof. G Rajasekaran of Matscience alerted me to this short write-up which appeared five years ago in Outlook*. I do not know if Dr Satyanarayana's Sunday classes continue to this day, but I will find it out. But he has provided a good model. Resaerch scientists and university professors in small towns like Karaikudi and Rourkela can follow this model and help motivated students get into research. Fortunately now many open educational resources are available free on the Internet, iTunes and YouTube, e.g. the NPTEL courses offered by IITs and IISc, the Open University, UK, courses, the MIT (USA) courses and several others. An organization called ISKME (Half Moon Bay, California) has a directory of open educational resources.
Best wishes.
Subbiah Arunachalam
* May be available in the archives of OUTLOOK.
** Contact address of Prof Satyanarayana as given in the above Outlook article:
233, Off Central Avenue, DAE Township, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu—603102.
Tel: 094443-46247.
Email: svmsatya@yahoo.co.uk
Friends:
Prof. G Rajasekaran of Matscience alerted me to this short write-up which appeared five years ago in Outlook*. I do not know if Dr Satyanarayana's Sunday classes continue to this day, but I will find it out. But he has provided a good model. Resaerch scientists and university professors in small towns like Karaikudi and Rourkela can follow this model and help motivated students get into research. Fortunately now many open educational resources are available free on the Internet, iTunes and YouTube, e.g. the NPTEL courses offered by IITs and IISc, the Open University, UK, courses, the MIT (USA) courses and several others. An organization called ISKME (Half Moon Bay, California) has a directory of open educational resources.
Best wishes.
Subbiah Arunachalam
* May be available in the archives of OUTLOOK.
** Contact address of Prof Satyanarayana as given in the above Outlook article:
233, Off Central Avenue, DAE Township, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu—603102.
Tel: 094443-46247.
Email: svmsatya@yahoo.co.uk
Friday, October 16, 2009
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