General counselling for admission to engineering colleges in the State through the single window system will begin on July 9. Nearly 86,000 applications were sold on day one just 2,770 lesser than the 88,770 applications sold on the first day in 2011 of the sale of forms for admissions to 1.6 lakh seats in about 525 colleges [...]
Tamilnadu HSC Plus Two Examination was conducted by Tamilnadu Exam Board in March/April 2012. HSC Exams are the eligible for various Professional courses such as Engineering and Medical. Tamilnadu HSC Plus Two (+2) results for the year 2012 will be released soon after declared by the Tamilnadu Government in their website site. Students can check their [...]
One of the hardest challenges faced by the Teachers or Schools is keeping the Students engaged in the classroom. With the kids born and growing up with iPods, iPhones, iPads, IM, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, blogs, podcasts, Gaming arcades, et al, the daunting task of maintaining their interest inside the classroom is a exercise in vain [...]
Learning in the age of Tablets Most of the new technologies have a way of altering the approaches to learning, and of influencing it in some way or the other. While I was waiting for meeting at a college in India, I met with a sales force from a vendor trying to sell tablets [...]
Top schools of the world open their doors to the world through open courses. With MIT, Michigan, Harvard and Stanford being pioneers. Yale is also increasing its share of open courses. Yale recently announced that it would introduce 10 new courses as open courses. “Ten compelling new Yale College courses, which range from financial theory [...]
In our working on Innovation and leadership, we had an exercise to build a paper bridge. Students at CIMAT came up with innovative design to build bridge capable of supporting bottles filled with water. Here are some pictures of it… Team is fun collaborative learning exercise. Improve communication, emotional intelligences and team work of the [...]
New online game that helps kids learn Math and English the fun way BrainNook’s cool educational games are based on fundamental concepts in Math and English Grammar. The games cover concepts ranging from single-digit addition to 3D spatial visualization. “The interactive, fast-paced nature of the games helps children develop many critical skills, such as reading, [...]
While trying to get some rich content sites, we stumbled upon The Molecular Workbench, Visual, Interactive simulations for Teaching & learning science “The Molecular Workbench provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science.” The Molecular Workbench provides a platform for educators to create and [...]
New media has been an incredible boon to education. Use of ICT in classroom have changed the way of learning. With laptops becoming household items the use of media in education is ever more increasing. There are tons of educational websites offering free quality educational content and educational games to motivate young minds. A game that [...]
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