Feb 10th

Information sets us free...
Shifting to the new office has not been easy for everyone...The administration has been trying hard to make it a smooth ride....Shuttling between two offices and classes themselves,getting other offices to respond to provide resources on time is a big task...
some have had to change their residence and after many getting used to's...
so we all looking for information specific to the area...which is the good place to eat? lunch anyone? where can I get the bus from? Good cheese available down the lane!!.would you like us to cater for you?..dancing classes around the corner...film television institute in the next lane!!

I am looking forward to settling in the new office...Its this huge cobbled house with marble flooring...new desks and cupboards...with sofas which make you melt into them....a wifi enabled garden and today my desk gives me a view of who is coming in...oh I forgot and luxury bathrooms....and a basement library...

Now if each one of us, puts online, as we discover niches of a new place or known area...what does that information do for all of us? individually and as a group...the world becomes just a click away!!

http://www.teacherswithoutborders.org/pages/what-we-do
http://www.teacherswithoutborders.org/pages/india


BuZZZZ...http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/02/readers-get-your-buzz-on.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNjbx_-BtP8

while I have been wondering about what I would like to discuss with my students, the questions that they might ask me...I also think I need to have a list of what I hope my course reduces so we could build a more sharing, caring world....
1. malware hacker attacks.
2. disrespecting confidentiality of other's files.
3. copying without asking permission or giving due.
4. stealing credit card numbers and money from bank accounts using the internet.
5. trading of source codes, intellectual property and military and corporate secrets.

note to self:-a good planning approach and sound methodology and you! yes the you, reading this blog is going to make it happen! :)

How am I going to distribute new information to my students? what services/applications will they engage in?

'What are the delivery options and their associated costs'

'How can I improve my response and delivery times'

How is the team of 5 senior and junior associates from Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, 4 team members from the Centre of Internet and Society, 20 professors and librarians from the 10 colleges going to collaborate to use information, create useful links and share knowledge?

what protocol do we need to respond to our students diverse needs?

Do we have a strategy to react to dissatisfaction?

what are my own limitations and those of the team?

food- sharing- guilt- covering- want- yearning- treat-pricing-railway space drugged, ngo space---conversation food-living city- from city left- setting sun---same everywhere.....different food :)

Interesting people
Cathy Casserly

She served as Director of Open Educational Resources Initiative at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. A year ago she joined The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as Senior Partner.
from Tamil Nadu. A woman full-timer, Seva Vrati as they are known, narrated the action in one of the Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Kanyakumari district in which more than 3000 SHGs are being managed by women under Seva Bharati. In a village called Thirparappu, the SHG comprised 18 women members belonging to one particular caste and two members from another caste. Caste divisions in rural areas are distinct and divide society many a time. The caste association wanted the less-represented-caste women to be removed from the SHG. The activists who were running the SHG refused bluntly to budge.

An MTech from IIT (Powai), Anil Vartak, is helping coordinate all service projects numbering more than 1.5 lakh all over India while a postgraduate in science, Kripa Prasad Singh, works with a thousand youth force in Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, that includes women workers in a large numbers, among the tribal segments from Arunachal to Western Ghats and Andamans to Spiti, monitoring and helping 14,000 projects in areas of education, entrepreneurial development and medical help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer

interesting learning place
http://www.nrityagram.org/soul/gurukul/gurukul.htm

Interesting events
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20481....Open Video Alliance Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig