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An article discussing the pros and cons of various school boards

The article examines the strengths and weaknesses of various school boards and the rationale being used by parents and children in choosing a school belonging to one or the other.

Bangalore centric, but general enough in content

Wikibooks & Wikijunior

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

These books seem to be better than Wikipedia for helping school children with extra reading on several topics.The wikijuior books are not many in number just now but whatever I saw seem to be well targeted at school children's leve. The wikibooks on Science that I saw seemd more for the children preparing for Board Exams - they even have questions at end for assessing what has been learnt and for exam practice. read more

Free open source software to help make communication easier for children with disabilities

Winner of the 2008 Manthan Award for e-Inclusion, Skid is designed to help kids with disabilities communicate and learn. 

Check out the skid.org.in website for the software as well as ideas on how to get a child started. read more

Live Discussion Widget for classroom blogs.

The link demonstrates a live discussion widget designed for edublogs. It is of particular importance to India, as it incorporates the google transliteration facility for typing indic scripts for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

 

 

So go ahead and add the live interaction element to your blogs.

Related link : http://blog.classgrid.com/
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Creating Multiple Choice Answer/Marking Sheets

this site allows teachers who create multiple choice questions to easily make the scoring/marking/answer sheets.

Related link : http://www.catpin.com/bubbletest/
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Stories of Peace

I received this book from Arvind Gupta accompanied with this note - 

"Today I stumbled upon a wonderful book on PEACE STORIES by a very famous author Martin Auer - he is a very distinguished author - winner of the Hans Christian Anderson and other awards. He has put them on his website for free individual downloads. His story THE BLUE BOY is already out in 25 languages. Here is a really kind man who for world peace has done such a selfless job. read more

Think Different (Inspiring Video)

Just love this video! I don't necessarily agree with their choice of people in the video - but I guess this was made for American audiences. The words and the message, however, are simply brilliant! Truly inspiring stuff...

Related link : http://www.youtube.com/v/4oAB83Z1ydE
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Training Facility for Technical Training or Soft Skill

Dear All , 
      Greetings from Linova Info Pvt Ltd !!!
  We are into training / Exam  facility  provider, and brief details is
given below.

    Our services used by leading companies such as Tech Mahindra, Accenture,
Wipro , TESCO  NIIT,Kingfisher Airlines,ISQT and Aptech.

    Because we offer significant advantages over conventional training / Exam
facilty.

   When you next consider your arrangements for train read more

Knol- A reference Guide

Like Wikipedia, Knol started by Google, could well turn out to be another boon for writers and experts who would like to air their views and expertise on any subject. How it unveils is yet to be seen. With children being hooked to Wikipedia as an easy reference tool for them, how far KNOL will go lets see.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/technologies/widget/?i=54679 

Commercial networking site for school help

Came across this site: Extramarks.com which describes itself as "an effort to bring students, teachers and parents on a single platform to ensure that a child excels academically. It utilizes Internet to provide anywhere, anytime after school educational support for children studying in classes VI to XII and is presently focused on Indian students".

While registration is free, you can (need to?) buy points to access certain services. You earn and spend points depending on what you do with the site - invite a friend, ask a teacher for help, etc. read more

Related link : http://www.extramarks.com
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