The national program of technology enhanced learning (NPTEL) is an initiative of the Government of India to provide quality educational material to engineering students . The site has several video tutorials for various engineering subjects. However, the site is not very popular among Indian students. I have been trying to promote it among my students… Continue reading Learning with NPTEL
My kids are having holidays for next 10 days in connection with Onam. During holidays, I let them play Gcompris if i am not using the computer. Today they wanted to play. I instead of letting them play Gcompris , I showed them StoryTellng Alice They were hooked to it within half an hour. By … Continue reading Storytelling Alice
Shayam has written a nice letter to his HOD on usage of free software in laboratory experiments. As a teacher, I am trying to use free software in my own college. The problems mentioned in his letter is existing in all most all colleges in Kerala. The root cause for this is in the syllabus… Continue reading FOSS in Engineering Colleges
Four sixth semester students from Model Engineering College has done a small project titled the RGB Led project. They have blogged the development and published the programs and schematics. I have been going through the site today and I feel that this is the way students do their minor project. There is nothing complicated in… Continue reading The RGB LED project
This post is for my students at college of engineering Attingal . We are going to get vacation during May and June. I think your semester examination will be over by April end. I have a small project which some of you can take up during this summer vacation. The project is related to amateur… Continue reading Summer Projects for students