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About SDM IPR Cell

SDM IPR Cell is established to educate its stake holders : students, faculty and others about one of the most important and relevant issues of our times: Intellectual Property. Properties have ruled human minds since time immemorial and in recent years technologically created and crafted properties such as algorithms and gene sequences are overshadowing the traditionally adored properties such as land, factory etc. The first and foremost objective of SDM IPR cell is to bring a desired degree of awareness about these intellectual property issues such as creating them, protecting them and harnessing them for personal, professional and social causes . This SDM IPR intends to do with a set of well conceived and thoroughly planned activities such as invited lectures, IPR clinics and design of curriculum to mention the few. Keep watching this blog for regular updates

Web Technologies for Teachers

Periodically emergence of new technologies have altered the nature and scope of human endeavors. One such endeavor that has been regularly benefited from new technologies is education. In pre-printing press days education was by and large oral and limited to physical delivery of lesson. The advent of printing press and hence the printed word changed it for ever. The ability to publish books created universities and authors. With the advent of WWW we have a new power with us. Hyperword. Hyperword is a created in connected environment. Printed word captured the oral knowledge for ever and made it available everywhere in the world. The hyperword goes beyond that. At the same time a hyper word informs reader and also has a potential to another source on informed topic. This twin features of hyperword is the basis of all that is happening and all that can happen in the days to come. Some of resources available for teaching that exploit hyperword are Blogger Search engines Online docs The