SPOKEN TUTORIALS

Mrs. Chitra Kaul the Resource Centre Coordinator (Spoken Tutorial Centre, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon) along with a faculty member Mrs. Megha Goel visited 30 schools from 29th October to 7th November 2014 with an objective to broaden awareness regarding Spoken Tutorials which is an initiative by the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Government of India and is being developed by IIT Bombay.

They met with the Principals, Vice-principals and IT in-charges of various schools like The team met principals, vice-principals and IT in-charges of various schools Dhankhar Sr. Sec. School, Ajanta Public School, Amity International, Arya Vidya Mandir, Dev Samaj Vidya Niketan, Dronacharya Sr. Sec School, Govt Sr. Sec School, Sh. S.N. Sidheshwar Sr. Sec, Ryan International, Royal Public School, Manav Rachna International School, Jeewan Jyoti Public School etc and shared with them the benefits of Spoken Tutorial. They presented its salient features helpful in teaching and learning a particular FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) like Linux, Scilab, LaTeX, PHP & MySQL, Java, C/C++, and Libre Office etc.

The visit was useful as they received enthusiastic response for participation from the staff and students of various schools

Besides this, the team also organised a workshop for the students at Dhankhar Sr.Secondary School, Farukhnagar,Gurgaon wherein the students were shared practical aspects of the Spoken Tutorial.