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Mark Stories Created by Children on StoryWeaver Did you know that it's now possible to mark your child's story as 'Created by Children' on StoryWeaver? And, you can add additional details like name, age, and so on. It was important for StoryWeaver to have this feature mainly for two reasons: to give due credit to young creators, and for our user community to be able to identify stories created by children. Here's how you can mark stories created by children. It's easy-peasy. After you create a story, hit the 'Publish' button and a form appears. At the near-end of the form is a field to add details of the child. In cases where a story has been created by a group of children, it is possible to add details of more than one child. Additionally, there is an open field in which you can add any other details which you feel may be relevant. For instance, if the story was created as part of a campaign, a class project, etc.   Once you publish th...

a a Smaller sub-centres, cluster colleges, courses on oceanography and a training academy for examiners — the University of Mumbai’s perspective plan proposes several changes. Experts say efficient implementation and administration will be key to driving chan Instead of just the Fort and Kalina campus, if other University centres are granted more powers and administered well, each can tackle issues faced by the students in that region. SUDHAKAR TAMBOLI, former senate member of MU Ashish Chawla, 20, a third-year student of information technology at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College in Bandra, still remembers how he had to visit the University of Mumbai’s (MU) Kalina campus multiple times to ask for his revaluation results, after he failed in his math paper in June. “Technically, it should have come out in August last year, so that if I still didn’t qualify I would have enough time to prepare for the December exams,” says Chawla. While everybody else got their results...

Mumbai:  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, today announced the launch of comprehensive inventory management system to assist Mumbai Mobile Crèches (MMC). Mumbai Mobile Crecheshas been one of the few NGOs working specifically to support the health, education and safety of children of construction laborers, since 1972.  Developed by TCS pro bono as part of corporate social responsibility programme, MMC’s comprehensive inventory management system, Reduces manual paper work at the sites Provides the ability to aggregate data across all centres managed by MMC Helps in easy monitoring of centre activities and advance planning The system also generates real time accurate reports with statistics, assists in recording inventory of purchased and donated assets across all centres. Migrant workers at construction sites are on daily wages and work under harsh conditio...

The winners have been announced!  Grand Prize Winner Puja Singh  - Teacher (Language & Literature), Victorious Kidss Educares, Pune (Entry - Sub-skills) Category Prizes Young Learners Middle School Tertiary / Higher Education I Prize Gurdeep Kaur Aujla - Primary Teacher, Bombay Cambridge School, Andheri (East), Mumbai  (Entry - Language) D. Sreedevi  -  English Teacher, Sri Jayendra Swamigal Silver Jubilee Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli (Entry - Language) Catherine Anna Pushpam A  - Assistant Professor, B S Abdur Rahman University, Chennai (Entry - Exam) II Prize Viral Vimal Shah  - English Teacher, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School.(Vidyashram)Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad (Entry - Language) Priyanka Payaal  - English Assistant Teacher, Mount Carmel School, Dwarka, New Delhi (Entry - Sub-skills) Shashi Prabha Nagendra  - Assistant Professor, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Entry - Language) III Prize S...

Clearly defined learning outcomes for each class would help parents track student’s progress MUMBAI: Even as the state government has come up with new programmes such as competency tests to improve the learning levels of students in schools, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has defined class-wise, learning indicators and outcomes for students across the country. City school principals and other academicians have said that the state government should adopt these indicators or develop special markers for students in Maharashtra. In a 208-page report, the NCERT has laid down the indicators and outcomes, which state exactly what a child is expected to learn at a particular age. The report also provides evaluators a guide to identify whether students are acquiring the skills. It has provided simple guiding points for parents to check the progress. Although states have been given the liberty to adopt these indicators as per their needs, Maharashtra ...

Katherine Martinko   ( @feistyredhair) Living  /  Culture December 21, 2015 CC BY 2.0  Steve Bissonette Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event. Icelanders have a beautiful tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve and then spending the night reading. This custom is so deeply ingrained in the culture that it is the reason for the  Jolabokaflod , or “Christmas Book Flood,” when the majority of books in Iceland are sold between September and December in preparation for Christmas giving. At this time of year, most households receive an annual free book catalog of new publications called the  Bokatidindi . Icelanders pore over the new releases and choose which ones they want to buy, fueling what Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association,  describes  as “the backbone of the publishing industry.” "It's li...

Abdullah Chand, Arun Chandru and Sivarajan T At a time when scientists all over the world are struggling to develop artificial liver tissue, three Bengaluru scientists have actually developed such tissues that perform functions of the human liver. This breakthrough has not just brightened hopes for patients seeking liver tissues from live donors, but has also brought a potential alternative to artificial extracorporeal liver support (or liver dialysis) used in detoxification treatment for liver failure - a process similar to hemodialysis. The trio that achieved the breakthrough comprises Arun Chandru, Dr Abdullah Chand and Dr Sivarajan T - all senior scientists at Pandorum Technologies Pvt Ltd, the Bengaluru-based biotechnology start-up working on tissue engineering. The ideation process for the same started way back in 2009. In 2012, they received a grant for the research project from the Union department of biotechnology (DBT), under the ministry of science and...

There is a big news for the more than 14 lacs students of class 10th and 12th lakh, as they are going to get their books without any charge. Some of the books are already available and now with the #DigitalIndia mission all books will now be available in coming days. As per theAccording to Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani, NCERT  has already made some of its books available online through its mobile app and e-books, and will look to add CBSE books, videos and other learning material. and All CBSE textbooks and other learning material will be made available online by the NCERT. “We made NCERT books available online for free through e-books and mobile applications a month-and-a-half ago. We are similarly going to make CBSE books available online along with additional learning material and videos as part of our good governance efforts,” Irani said at the inauguration of a new building of the school in Khichripur. Says Smriti Irani in At a function ...