http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress Bear with us while we dunk our brushes in paint and write a bit of poetic code. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:43:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have always wished for the iPhone to have a better camera. However, here are a few images from Hyderabad. and more and more. We'll have a few more specific updates soon! http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=37 Since the last post, a lot of poetic code has passed under the keen eye of our QA team. Scores of courses have been built, in a way that most of us did not, before. Dozens of UIs came under the merciless knife of our designers and many heads have ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=33 Following recent articles questioning the Governments approach and reasons for its review of home schooling; notably a recent piece in the Independent and yesterday's defence of home schooling by Bernard Trafford in the Guardian I find it ironic that so many seemingly sane organisations are speaking out against home schooling when ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=31 Whilst this article appeared in the film section of the Guardian's G2 supplement on Monday, the broader issue the author is exploring is how her area of the printed word needs to look at how it can benefit and become more effective through harnessing digital content (in this case film), which ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=27 Great Turnout! Big Thank you to everyone. Here is the final tally. S1 Judge: Kunali Sanghvi Participants: Atul Sabnis Hanoze Elavia Hiren Lakhmani Kurush Wadia Mihir Damniwala Pramila Rajesh Shetty Sumukh Byndor S2 Judge: Ghazala Ansari Participants: Abhijeet Sethi Ashish Lazarus Kamal Goradia Palash Sinha Robert Lamprell Shankaran TJ Sheetal Jain Souvik Chaki Vicky Bhavnagri S3 Judge: Atul Sabnis Participants: Archana Shyam Chandra Badan Singh Dip Narayan Ganesh Kumar Ghazala Ansari Jesi Patel Maxim Wen Rasik Arun Girme Rupali Dalvi Vishal Nair S4 Judge: Nachiket Paratkar Participants: Jolvin Rodrigues Abhijit Chaturvedi Jayanta ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=26 How Twitter works You tell people what you are doing, and follow what others are doing (all in 140 characters, max); along the way, discuss ideas, post updates, share news and info (but keep it short) Just in case, watch the demo What do you have to do? The experiment has begun; Tweeting end ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=25 Owing to the overwhelming response, we have decided that there will be a fourth subject that you can choose. Here are all the four subjects: S1: Impact of Comics on films after 2001. S2: Parallels between Chinese and Indian street food. S3: Influence of the Chola dynasty on Indian Architecture. S4: Influence of Music ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=24 Hello All. Thank you very much for the overwhelming response to this wonderful experiment that Shaurya has started. Here is how the list stacks up, if some of you can re-select subjects, it would be good for the judges. S1: 1. Hanoze Elavia 2. Sumukh Byndoor 3. Atul Sabnis 4. Shashank Abhyankar 5. Kurush Wadia 6. Pramila Pandey 7. ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=22 Tweet Tweet? Do you tweet? How twittery are you? Let’s find out… A tweet of an experiment that we would want you to be a part of. Twitter is a micro-blogging application that many people around the world use to communicate with each other. You can tweet with your phone, you can tweet with an ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=21 While Dr. Howard Gardner’s eight multiple intelligences address the complete human potential beyond the traditional I.Q. tests, there is dearth of research or application of this concept to education. Primarily the first two, linguistic intelligence and logical-mathematical intelligence are the focus of all testing and hence, teaching in the educational ... http://blog.learningmate.com/wordpress/?p=20