Workshop – DIGITAB in Classroom Teaching (VVA Primary/Secondary Section)
In their endeavor to incorporate ICT into classroom teaching, the Management of Vidya Vikas Mandal’s Vidya Vikas Academy, provided their teachers with a DIGITAB at a function held in the month of November.
In order to provide training to the staff to use their DIGITAB a workshop ‘DIGITAB in Classroom Teaching’ was conducted at VVM’s Vidya Vikas Academy, Margao, Goa, on Saturday, 17th January 2015.
The workshop was attended by Mrs. Sheela Gaunekar, Chairperson and Manager of Vidya Vikas Academy, Mr. U. N Bene, founder member of Vidya Vikas Mandal, Mr. Vinayak Angle, member of the School Managing Committee, Librarians of Sister Institutions of Vidya Vikas Mandal, Dr. Alan Rodrigues, Principal, Vice-Principal and the teaching staff of Vidya Vikas Academy.
Dr. Alan Rodrigues, Principal welcomed the gathering while Mrs. Wilma Alphonso compered the programme and introduced the resource persons.
The resource persons were Mr. Madhusudhan Navelkar of Smartlink Systems Ltd. and Mr. Rupesh Shirodkar, System Administrator of Vidya Vikas Mandal.
Mr. Madhusudhan Navelkar made the staff familiar with working of the DIGITAB. Mr. Rupesh Shirodkar briefed the staff with the utility of the Library App. This Library App is the first of its kind created in India for a Digital Library and it has been developed by Mr. Rupesh Shirodkar himself. The App can be used to access to e-books.
The staff was also acquainted with the various Apps available and the Apps that can be downloaded on the DIGITAB. The workshop would help the staff to use their DIGITAB more confidently and effectively not only while teaching but also for planning, evaluating and recording data.