Online Free Educational resources

Are you a student, parent finding (free) teachable content or more imporatant a teacher again to find online teachable aides?

Find the some of the best educational aides designed exclusives for students at curruki.

it provides multiple contents for a topic and is best used as educational supplemental aide.

it is avialable in Tamil also. You can also contribute to teaching content available on the web. Become a virtual teacher.

Happy learning - http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

-Jagadish

3D Desktop

I installed based on sachin's suggestion, this 3 Dimentional Desktop.
Boring desktop did get a good boost of image.

Try to install the free version and enjoy the look and feel from http://www.bumptop.com.

3D browsing.

-jagadish

Common Craft

Many times , we have very basic questions -- what is internet ? what is rss ? what is podcast ? many times , we don't get the answers because we don't ask them and also to right guys. Many times , the person whom we ask also has a very limited knowledge about these modern tools. I came across a wonderful site which shares this knowledge in a very simplistic manner. Check some of them and you will get your fundas clear.

What is Internet ? Explained in a very simple manner



www.commoncraft.com


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Technology Enhanced Learning - A Very Useful Under Graduate Engineering Learning

This is a contribution from Rajagopal. Thank you for interesting insight.

If you believe primary education level is not uniform across, rapid commercialization of engineering education has contributed to drop in overall excellence in quality. I may be risking broad generalization.

IITs, IISc and some of the premier institutes have together to provide their complete content on Line. If you have good bandwidth connection, go ahead and download them. Else you can pay and buy the content.

I may be understating the importance of the content. It is a Significant boon to engineering college students who do not have access to quality education.

Technology in Education:
Govt. & IITs have got together to create this massive education reform.. to bring the IIT quality education to all students across the country.
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ (IITs India)

A Global Phenomenon:
This transformation in leveraging IT/Web/Multimedia for is not only in India, but also in MIT & lots of US universities.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm (MIT USA).

Student’s life is now different:
Definitely a game changer .. Suddenly college students(irrespective of which college they are registered with) now can learn from the best teachers. With just Rs8,000/- you can get an entire video collection for 4 year IIT B.Tech course in DVDs. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/availability1.php

Knowledge worker’s life is now different:

Refresh your subjects free via Online video’s:
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?courseId=1065 - link

How to decide what to buy ?

Traditionally , we all love to visit the market , feel the goods for sale , test them , bargain on the price and bring them home. From vegetables to TVs this buying method is the same. But how do you buy without visiting the showrooms ? Is it possible ?? Off Course... You can do your favourite pas time sitting at home using a computer and connecting to Internet.

If you know where to look for , the world market is open for you 24X7. I am sharing here a website which gives you a god feel of things before you buy. The categories offerred are very wide  , from Consumer durabeles to IT products and you can select from a variety of brands and do all your research before making that important decision. Check this site and change the way you shop,

www.compareindia.in


Catalog shopping is not new to a western consumer . In India , it is just started. It was a fun to see a 500 page catalog book landed at my home from . My two sons spent a week to oggle at all the toys and sports goods in the catalog. Again the same catalog is available online..

http://hypercityindia.com/

Try and explore many more such shopping experience siting at your home.

Cheers and happy shopping...

Moodle - noodles!

If you are a education Institution and want to host your home grown, ever growing own content management, course management system, moodle would be ideal.

Your teachers can host their courses on internet / intra net and have students go over the homeworks, revisions etc and come to class prepared.

Seems ideal for engineering colleagues, Medical colleagues, IT savvy schools and NGOs hosting for IT enabling focussed schools.

http://www.moodle.org  is your solution. Some of your geeky students can rig it up.

Astronomy site in Marathi

 

This is a very interesting website in Marathi http://www.avakashvedh.com/ giving information about Astronomy . As an amateur  astronomer , you can find the details about the positions of planets , details of planetary  activities and much more…

Apparently this website is active for last few years.  This site is made by सचिन सखाराम पिळणकर of Mumbai.