[kanchilug] Camp on Spoken Tutorial at Kanchipuram

From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:52:06 +0530
Yesterday, we had a camp on “Spoken Tutorial” Project at Kanchipuram.

Video Tutorials are the easier way to spread the computer literacy
throughout the world. Skilled Computer Teachers are less in the
countries like India. But the video tutorials can reach any part of
the world, where any student can learn from the videos.

Tons of video tutorials are available in the sites like

MIT Video Courses [ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses ]
Khan Academy [ http://khanacademy.org]
PHP Academy [ http://phpacademy.org ]

But as they are available only in English, it is being touch to reach
the rural and village students.

To solve this problem, Ministry of Human Resource, India and IIT
Bombay, jointly started a project called “Spoken Tutorial”

The idea is to create small videos on various software and languages
in one language and to translate the videos in to all the languages
possible.

The creation of videos, translation and dubbing activities are done by
the students, unemployed people, and home makers. Anyone can
participate in this project and the team rewards the contributors upto
Rs 3,500 for a 10 min video.

Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, The project leader of “Spoken Tutorial” travel
throughout India, to create awareness about this project and to make
people to participate in the nation wide revolution.

Yesterday, Kanchi Linux Users Group organised a camp for Spoken
Tutorial Project, at Meeting Hall, Sangeetha Hotel,Kanchipuram. Around
45 students participated in the event.

Mr. Thyagarajan explained  about Spoken Tutorial Project.

Mr. Shrinivasan (its me) about the activities of KanchiLUG.

Miss. Priya explained about her contributions to the Spoken Tutorial Project

Mr. Dhasthageer narrated his project on Fluid Flow Visualization.

We played some videos created by Miss.Priya.

Then, Prof Kannan explained about the project. He demonstrated on how
to create a Video Tutorial.
He explained how this project helps a lot of remote village students
in north east, west parts of India.
He answered for the questions. All the students expressed their
interest in participating this project.
He requests all the students to contribute a little for the national
revolution in education.

These spoken tutorials can be created to teach any Free Open Source Software.

We can extend them on various topics like
Basic computer usage
Using Internet
Online Banking
Online Ticket Reservation
Online Payment systems
Searching
Using Email Systems
etc.

For more details. visit the site http://spoken-tutorial.org

The snaps are available at
https://picasaweb.google.com/tshrinivasan/SpokenTutorialCampKanchilug#

http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/camp-on-spoken-tutorial-peoject/

-- 
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan


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[kanchilug] Camp on Spoken Tutorial at Kanchipuram

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