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WebLab New Brave World of Web Resources Today we have plenty of web resources available. These resources range for simple tools- information, communication, collaboration, networking to entrepreneurial resources such as API . Time has come to help our students explore this new opportunity. What is a web lab? WebLab is a place where students can learn and explore web resources- and verify their utilities through variety of activities. These activities may be carried by the teacher or students to explore, to learn, to stimulate interest and develop favorable attitude towards web resources. Need and purpose of WebLab Some of the ways in which a WebLab can contribute to the learning and subsequent harnessing of the web resources are: It provides an opportunity to students to understand and internalize the basic web resources through concrete applications It enables the students verify or discover several web resources and applications using search and explore techniques It helps students

Plentiful resources available on the web have created a new experimental and entrepreneurial opportunity: creating of web-based endeavors. A web-based Endeavour can be entrepreneurial or educational in nature. A Web-based endeavor is any project that harnesses a web-based resource in creating an end-user value or utility. For instance A custom search engine ( CSE ) eliminates for the end user the drudgery of going through a flood of general search engine outputs by conducting search action within a mentioned list of one or more web sites or resources. Here is an example of CSE that helps students to search for seminar topics . Search API enables a programmer to select a portion of search engine index and customize its output on a give web page or end-user screen. Here is an example or ( example ) in which search API is used to screen and filter a particular category of documents to be listed for the end user. Web API from different service provider can be combined in innovative man

Last few days I spent attending my ailing mother who was admitted to a hospital in Mysore. One morning while I was on my way to hospital, I saw one saw a person moving slowly. I could faintly remember that face and while I came close to him, I said " Sir are u BMK ?" Yes he said. BMK was my chemistry teacher while I doing my graduation in Sarada Vilas College , in Mysore during 82-85. Next few minutes he spent updating me about college, our old teachers and his colleagues. He said Prof. Janardhan Rao is now almost blind and is in Warrangal , with his daughter. Our mathematics teacher Prof Nagaraj Rao and another professor Narendra he said were no more. Prof. Nagarathna , Physics professor has moved to US after one of her son met with an accident. Later I visited college web site and noted that , Prof. Ashok Kumar is current principal and Prof. Nataraj is the vice principal. They taught us Botany and Kannada respectively. Those few minutes with BMK took me to two

It is a pleasure to inform you that IPR Cell @ SDM CET is organizing IPR 2010, a REGIONAL WORKSHOP on UNLEASHING INNOVATION AND PATENTING IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS on 6 th February 2010. This has been the interest and initiative of our Vice chancellor, Prof. Dr. H. P. Khincha, VTU, Belgaum . The objective of the workshop is to provide technical awareness among the faculty fraternity to integrate various aspects of knowledge and practice of innovation and Intellectual property rights in teaching, project works and research. We are pleased to extend a warm invitation to you and your institution to take part in the regional workshop and make the occasion a great success.

Teaching can be seen as a process. It consists of a sequence of steps or functions : such as discovering information to delivering of lecture. Lean thinking aims to eliminate waste from any process. Therefore teaching is good candidate for the application of principles of lean thinking. Teaching is moving teaching what to teaching where. In the past, when schools were less in number and teacher were difficult get, teacher's job consisted of teaching a student "what and how". With the spread of education and advent of web, number of resources that teach you " what or how" are increasing in number and accessible from anywhere. In this context, teaching becomes more of "teaching where" to look for learning resources and how to harness them. Lean teaching is all about linking students to minimum number of learning resources. This must eliminate waste in terms of unsuccessful searches.

With networks sweeping our life, it is time to observe them and crystallise their behaviour into proverbs. Here are two I have formed You can't crawl the same web twice On the web every search is a surprise

Experts recommend that learner's life at educational institution must be linked to their life outside of it. The learner's life outside of educational institution includes life at home and in community. Linking of learner's life to outside also implies that it must also include institutions where he/she is expected take positions and where his/her participation is required. One such future institution for a technical graduate is obviously industry. At higher education life this also means readying learner for professional life. Experts also recognise that given space, time and freedom,learners generate new knowledge by engaging with information passed on to them by adults: teachers and parents. We have been often told that we live in information age and information is a productive factor. The web has become a growing source of information and one of the necessary skills to be cultivated in learners is to "know where" i.e. ability to locate and procure information

I am experiementing with using web tools in enriching teaching process. Here is a blog where I list my experience http://ping.fm/j2kt7