Folio
The Hindu published a themed booklet between 1998 and 2001 on a variety of topics such as faith, cities, rivers, addictions, earthscapes, reaching out, etc, to name a few. Continue reading Folio
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Managing Information: Part II
The learning process can be made more effective and productive if we can customise the document with necessary annotations and bookmarks that point to specific locations in the document. A free program such as Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/) could be used for this task. Foxit Reader helps generate required bookmarks with a few mouse movements. Read more… Source: The Hindu Using Mendeley’s bookmarklet, Web Importer … Continue reading Managing Information: Part II
Inquiry based learning
Few articles, that I came across recently on inquiry based teaching and learning. Science magazine (www.sciencemag.org) from the US has started a competition on this topic: Teaching Real Science In this issue of Science, we are publishing the first of 15 winning entries for the 2011 Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction, a laboratory module entitled Light, Sight, and Rainbows. Created for introductory college science courses, each module can be readily … Continue reading Inquiry based learning
The National Trust
Source: The Hindu, India Cambridge Letter: A vision unfolds by Bill Kirkman Last week, my wife and I visited a very large estate about 10 miles outside Cambridge. We decided at the last minute to go there, because the weather was fine. We walked through a variety of woodland and well-kept gardens. There were many visitors, but because of the size of the place, no … Continue reading The National Trust
Perpetual Motion of Thought 