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15 June 2010
MirandaNet Newsletter New Members May 2010
Dear MirandaNetters
Once more it is my great pleasure to welcome many new members, from all round the globe! The breadth of our reach continues to amaze me. I'm currently still travelling around on MirandaNet business, and hope to write a proper welcome to you all soon.
Best wishes to you all
Christina Preston
Scholars
I am completing my master degree in Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. I am specializing in distance learning. I am interested in applying Salmon's five stages in my final research. I think I will get great benefit from your forum in this regard.
I currently teach ICT at an 11-18 secondary school in the South West of England, I have a whole school responsibility for e-learning. I am particularly interested in the use of VLEs (especially Moodle) and I am a Cisco Networking Academy instructor, currently teaching IT Essentials and Discovery courses. I have been a teacher for over 20 years but I still learn something new every day and I hope that I pass on my enthusiasm for ICT to my students.
I am a New Zealand e-learning educator with extensive knowledge of deploying, using and evaluating e-learning technologies. I am currently the manager of the Emerging Technologies Centre at the Waikato Institute of Technology and for the last four years has been a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Education e-Learning Reference Group.
I have been the project leader of a number of government funded e-learning projects, including the Open Source Course-ware Initiative, the Open Source Learning Object Repository Project. I have been the research leader for a number of Ministry of Education funded projects investigating the role of e-learning in industry training organisations, institutes of technology and polytechnics and schools.
I am a post graduate in Education, and am interested in teaching Math and Science. I work for Podar International School, Kolhapur, India. I work as the Principal of the School. I feel teaching is a noble profession and with the D's (Dedication and devotion) I would like to work. Life is an ongoing process, and taking note of every small thing happening around us is important to make a big difference in the people's life with whom we come in contact with.
Dr. L.P. Ravi Kumar requires no introduction to the community of experts, a familiar Mysorean among the Educationalists of the state, has been appointed as the Founder Principal of the school from this year. He is the former head of Amrita School of Education, Amrita University, Mysore Campus, born to the teachers' family on 10th May 1975, hails from Mysore district of Karnataka State in India. He is the product of Mysore University obtained his M.Sc. and M.Ed from the same university. His research work on "Synthesis, Kinetics and Mechanistic evaluation of oxidation of peptides of Elastin sequences" was awarded a Ph.D degree by the prestigious University of Mysore. He is married Dr. H.C.Prameela and the couple blessed with a male child.
Dr. RK has a rich experience of teaching school children (ICSE & CBSE), Undergraduate and Post-graduate students for more than a decade. He has varied interest and wide administrative experience as a HOD of chemistry and education. He served a member of BOS and BOE in Amrita University. He is the life member of Indian Chemical Council and Jaycees.
Dr.RK is a gifted teacher and a devoted researcher well known in the academic circles for his valuable contribution to the field of chemical science and education through his published research work. He has published 04 research papers. The high quality of research works are attested not only by number of good publications but also by way of presentation in national and international conferences. He has been providing consultancy services to Green Wood Public School(ICSE & CBSE), Kasargod, Kerala and Aditya Public School(ICSE), Doddaballapur,Karnataka.
Dr.RK is deeply interested in teaching children of various ages and has a passion for Chemistry. He is a trainer in individual development programmes and has conducted a number of teacher orientation programmes for teachers of secondary and higher secondary schools, PU colleges and Degree colleges .
Dr. RK is a recipient of ‘Award of Excellence' is presented annually by Mysore Public School for the academic session 2002-2003 to a person of persons with distinguished career of service in the interpretation of science & research to the society. Mr. Ramachandran.M, Principal, Mysore Public School gave away the award. He is also conferred the ‘Best Science Organizer' at the National Level and awarded a special service medal in the Memory of 10th Anniversary Year of the Putani Vignana Group for the year 2004.
Krishnamurthy Nandivada Venu Gopal
I am into teaching and administration for more than three decades. My interests include adolescent counselling, action research,teaching methodologies,learning strategies, etc. Presently I am the Principal of Podar International School in Chinchwad, Pune, India.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
I believe that children have always been the most important resource for our society, for the nation and to the world.. Every institution should endeavour to develop a strong responsible and respectful citizen with the deep sense of values and ethics. Hence I strive to create an atmosphere for the growth of the institution by using my inherent spirituality, strength, knowledge and experience. I am MA Sociology and Bachelor of Education from University of Annamalai.
I am strong and determined, focus on the results of the students and a consistent quest of outstanding performance in the field of education has made a solid platform for a successful educational guide.
My interests in ICT are
- Interactive white boards
- Power point presentations
- Visual learning
- Computer projects
With best wishes
Simran K
"Excellence in everything we do" is the guiding thought for me in life and makes me a perfectionist or to strive towards the same. I always make sure that teachers use ICT extensively in our school. Having interest in Educational Management and Administration I am keen on the use of ICT in transacting the curriculum. Having joined MirandaNet, I am sure that I will be able to explore a lot of new ideas and interact and share with friends world-over.
I am trained post graduate (MSc: B.Ed) with over 20 years of experience in the field of education in the capacity of biology teacher and principal. I have worked with different educational boards in India and Dubai following IGCSE, CBSE and ICSE syllabi.
I am a strong believer who advocates the philosophy "seeing is believing". ICT is the integral part of education where children have a hands on experience simplifying the teaching and learning process to the minimum.
I try to be friends with all. Think I could learn from all I come in contact with. I understand the immense potential of ICT in learning and am personally comfortable with e-learning. I would like to push for the use of ICT where the benefits are obvious. I would however like to keep the human element at the centre of all endeavours of the school that I am mandated to lead.
I think the ICT is here to stay and the generation of the people / experts / teachers who are handing it over to the young generation is not doing it with the conviction which is why it has cultural gaps. Unfortunately the technology is so dynamic it is not giving any breathing space to ponder over the validity of it.
It is just changing in look and the ability.
ICT is no more a change, it is a dynamic reality. The only thing is we are not yet equipped to render our life digitally. Quite possibly the day must be lurking somewhere near by. Who knows?
Mr G C Rao brings with him a great experience and success of working in reputed English medium Modern public schools. He had a long stint with Delhi Public Schools managed by the DPS Society, New Delhi and was the Founder Principal and Educational Consultant of the B K Birla Centre for Education, Pune for eight years. He was also the Educational consultant/Advisor to Birla Public School, Doha, Qatar and had a short stint of about two years with the Multi-crore Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust.
He is a Teacher leader and trainer with a passion for imparting quality modules of Education such as Class management, Class control and interaction, Discipline as a way of life, Never to denigrate a child, etc and has made special contributions in the direction of School management and administration. He feels strongly that schools cannot maintain a position of moated self-sufficiency due to the onslaught of Electronic technology which is transforming the global communication systems by accelerating the processing, development and delivery of information. Mr. Rao firmly believes in a caring school and aspires to make suitable refinements in existing practice, develop renovated curriculum, or redesign key components of their operation to make productive changes.
Though his principal interest lies with Boarding and Day-cum-boarding schools for which he has earned many accolades in creating and managing such schools, he is not an alien to day schools. He strongly believes in humanizing education with a secular outlook and wishes to combine the best of the east with the west in making his profession meaningful to Indian conditions. Prior to joining Podars, he was with Dr D Y Patil’s International schools for more than two years looking after their IGCSE/IB world schools as Principal.
Mr G C Rao holds Masters Degree in Science, English, History and Political Science with a degree in Teacher training and he has also been honoured with the awards like Vidya Shree, Samaj Shree, SGE award, etc.
Hi! I am a teacher at PIS, Chinchwad, Pune. I am proud to be a part of this noble profession. The day I have joined my institution I have been using technology extensively. The use of technology has helped me to whitewash the orthodox methods of teaching and learning process. I would like to learn more in this area.
When in the mid of May I got an opportunity to be a part of Moodle it exposed me and my thoughts globally. I thank my institution for it as well as Mrs. Preston, Mr. John and Mr. Allen for their valuable contribution.
In the current school education system without ICT programme classroom teaching cannot be successful and also completed. It is very much knowledge based education procedure. This gives us different source of information related to modern education system. It has all scientific approach therefore I want to become a member of MirandaNet.
I have realized that technology is here to stay. Its use in education is of utmost importance as our future citizens / present pupils need to learn its use and implementation in gaining knowledge necessary for them to become productive world citizens.
In this process, it absolutely necessary for teachers to update themselves with the resources using ICT and its implementation in their teaching-learning process.
In recent years there has been a groundswell of interest in how computers and the Internet can best be harnessed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of education at all levels and in both formal and non-formal settings. But ICTs are more than just these technologies; older technologies such as the telephone, radio and television, although now given less attention, have a longer and richer history as instructional tools. For instance, radio and television have for over forty years been used for open and distance learning, although print remains the cheapest, most accessible and therefore most dominant delivery mechanism in both developed and developing countries. The use of computers and the Internet is still in its infancy in developing countries, if these are used at all, due to limited infrastructure and the attendant high costs of access.
I am always interested in knowing more about novel methods of education and how they can contribute to the overall development of a child. As Professor Abdul Kalam, the honourable ex-President of India stated "Education is the best defence of a nation". If we think about the world as one nation, we can see how education would benefit the world as a whole.
Members
To interact with the teachers all around the world.
I am curious to learn ICT skills. Although I am using new technologies including exploring the internet, software and and multi-media to make my lessons interesting and thought-provoking, even so I am keen to learn more.
I am an English teacher in a good reputed school. I want to learn new ideas to improve my teaching skills.
I would like to use this website to enhance teaching techniques.
I have completed my Post Graduation in English and Mass Relations. I believe that learning never stops at any stage and at any point. Each experience in one's life adds to his bag of knowledge and understanding.
I like experimenting and exploring new methods of learning.
It's my conviction that class room is the field where a teacher has all the resources at his/her disposal.
I am teacher in a well reputed school. I want to improve my ICT skills.
I want to be friendly with every one. Keen to update myself always. Love to have technosavvy people in my group always. I am using ICTs not only for the teaching - learning process but to enhance the depth of the content.
I'm a science teacher and I'm looking here for some resource for creating interactive resources in secondary school sciences. Please pass some related materials, innovative techniques which can be very well used in the school level.
I'm a true professional teacher with double masters (Eng and Isl) along with B.Ed. and am very much interested in Islamic History and wish to be a true representative of the Muslims in future.
I have completed post graduation in English. I have done American Speeking course of one year. At present I am teaching English in Podar International School. My hobbies is to read the books, especially funny, jokes books. I also like to know the people around me and know in detail about them. I like to visit various places. I am more interested in teaching grammar. Podar school has given me good opportunity to learn the various aspects of technology, more information about the world wide news. I am very much thankful for that.
Hi I'm Zeenat working with the Aurangabad group and I believe that we learn till the end of our life, and I welcome all the things related to education and to make it more effective want to get more into ICT.
As a Principal of an upcoming school of the Podar Group of schools in India, and as the Podar Group's policy to make optimum use of ICT in school education, I wish to keep myself updated with the latest in ICT.
I did post graduate diploma in computers. Also passed Masters Degree in Information Science.
Since I am a teacher I feel that my computer skills should be enhanced so that I would help my students in developing their skills overall.
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