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Think.com
in KVS
A
success story of Public Private Partnership between KVS and
Oracle
An
organizational agreement was signed between KVS and ORACLE
in February 2005 for carrying out the project in KVS
extensively.
Think.com
is an online community for learning. Learning is a social
phenomenon, which is why Think.com engages and inspires
students. By providing a wider yet protected audience,
Think.com turns students into multimedia authors for a
global community and allows peers to think and learn
together.
Only
students and teachers from member schools can enter this
password-protected learning community. Once inside, members
use websites and interactive tools to publish their ideas,
collaborate on projects, and build knowledge together.
Think.com provides interactive learning tools to thousands
of schools around the world in 8 languages.
Implementation
in KVS
Think.com
provides a secure space on the Web to students, teachers and
schools. They make use of the facility by registering with
the project which is a very simple process.
Students
create their own website where they post articles of their
interest, poems, stories, interesting pictures, audio clips,
video clips etc.. They visit each other’s websites and
exchange useful information. After visiting a fellow
student’s website, a student leaves his remarks on the
contents of the website if he feels to do so. His remarks
appear in the form of attractive yellow sticky at the bottom
of the webpage which anyone visiting the website can see.
This leads to tremendous excitement among students and they
are motivated to write small pieces on their subject of
interest which they want to share with others. They also use
the website to undertake projects on collecting material
form the web on some interesting topic from their
curriculum. They also use it to know more about their
culture e.g. festivals, dance forms, musical instruments
etc.
The
content on the student’s websites is regulated by the
teacher administrator of the school so that nothing
offensive or undesirable appears on the websites. Teachers
also create their websites and provide useful and
interesting material to the students. A mathematics teacher
from KV IISC, Bangalore used this facility to communicate
with students during vacation. He posted assignments for
students on his website and the students were asked post
their answers back. The students posted their answers and
their doubts on their websites. The answers were evaluated
and the doubts were cleared by the teacher. Another teacher
from KV Malleswaram, Bangalore, used this facility to
present some very useful material on Environmental Science
for the benefit of the students. There are so many success
stories concerning this project. Now all concerned, the
Principals, teachers and students are actively participating
in the project and are getting manifold benefits:
- Gaining
skills to use the latest technology tools for access and
exchange of information.
- Sharing
of teaching resources by teachers among themselves.
- Sharing
of interesting information about current topics by
students among themselves.
- Sharing
of useful and interesting information by the teachers
with the students.
Recent
Guidelines for KVs
The
following guidelines are being followed in KVs in order to
make the full use of Think.com:
- The
Principal will be directly responsible for running the
project to its full potential and monitoring it on a
regular basis.
- All
students of class III onwards will register in Think.com.
- All
teachers will register in Think.com.
- Every
student must contribute at least 02 pages.
- Every
teacher must contribute at least 03 pages.
- Every
KV will have minimum two Teacher Administrators.
- The
Class Teachers will coordinate between the students of
their respective classes and Teacher Administrators for
registration and contribution of students in the
project.
- The
Class Teachers will be in-charges of their respective
classes for participation in the project.
- The
Principal will register himself / herself as a teacher
in the project and visit the pages of the students and
teachers of his / her KV in order to encourage them and
provide them with suitable guidance online.
- The
Assistant Commissioner will also register himself /
herself as a teacher from a nearby KV and visit the
pages of the students and teachers of his / her Region
in order to encourage them and provide them with
suitable guidance online.
Think.com
website
http://www.think.com/
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