Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Primary and Secondary Education online resources available free

Here are few online resources available free – being promoted by the Govt/other NGOs… Got this info from a recent APJ Kalam speech…

CII-Shiksha (www.shikshaindia.org) is a free programme helping schools and teachers use technology for their teaching and learning. The Shiksha movement aims to help teachers to not just use readymade content but also become resource creators. More than 3000 schools have been provided the Shiksha content. Over 10000 teachers have access to the free Shiksha content. During the last 8 months over 1000 teachers have been trained in various Open Source e-teaching based software and this number is growing. The free Shiksha Portal can be accessed from this web portal: www.eshikshaindia.in

Sakshat - This programme is specially designed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to help the students to learn that entire syllabus of 10+1 and 10+2. The online answering system for the questions by students. You may access this from www.sakshat.ac.in.

At the primary and secondary school level, Government Municipal Schools in Karnataka have introduced the accelerated learning model using computer based animated courses. This was pioneered by the Azim Premji Foundation which has brought down dropouts from schools substantially.

NCERT has prepared the National Curriculum framework under Prof. Yashpal’s leadership (Great communicator of science) and modified the CBSE syllabus for promoting creative education at all levels through the application of learning by doing concept.

Free Computer Training Offered in Chennai

FREE NANDINI COMPUTER SCHOOL AT KORATTUR & PERUNGUDI IN CHENNAI
FOR THE BENEFIT OF LOWER INCOME GROUP

Nandini Voice For The Deprived, a Chennai based NGO invites applications from boys and girls belonging to lower income group for the six months long free computer course in Nandini Computer School. The students do not have to pay any fees whatsoever.

Free Nandini Computer School is functioning at Korattur and Perungudi in Chennai.

Free Nandini Computer School are also functioning at other centres in Tamil Nadu at Nagercoil, Dindigul and Perambalur.

At any time, around 250 students from lower income group are studying in the free Nandini Computer Schools at several centres in Tamil Nadu . In the last few years around 4000 students from lower income group including differently abled persons have passed from Nandini Computer Schools and most of them have already been placed in jobs.

In Nandini Computer School, students are taught basic computer operation including

* Introduction of the computer * Coral Draw
* DOS * DTP
* Wordstar * HTML Basic
* MS Office * Photo Shop
(MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point) * Internet browsing
* Foxpro * Tally
* Adobe Pagemaker 6.5



Boys and girls who have passed plus two and whose family income is less than Rs.4000/- per month are eligible for admission. The maximum age limit is 23 years.

Placement services would be extended to the successful students. The course would commence on 1st July, 2009.

Those who are interested can contact:

N.S.Venkataraman,
Trustee
Nandini Voice For The Deprived
M-60/1, 4th Cross Street,Besant Nagar, Chennai-600 090
Phone: 24916037
E-mail: nsvenkat@md4.vsnl.net.in
Web: www.nandinivoice.org

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