The Spoken Tutorial Project

The Spoken Tutorial Project is about teaching and learning a particular FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) like Linux, Scilab, LaTex, Libre office etc via an easy video tool. Spoken Tutorial is an audio-video method to learn software effectively. To impart quality education to the students and to provide them job-oriented quality education, this spoken tutorial project has been organized in various departments of Handique Girls’ College. Developed by IIT-Bombay, the ‘spoken tutorial’ website (spoken-tutorial.org) shows the step-by-step process to learn the lessons from the recorded audio files. On completion of this training program, students get e-certificates from IIT-Bombay. Till date more than 10 departments including Computer Science, Political Science, Statistics, Economics, Education, History, Psychology etc. have completed the Libre Office suits training Program. More than 200 students have already received the e-certificates from IIT-Bombay.

Considering the utility of the project and its relevance to modern day education system, our students have found it to be very useful. So it was decided to renew the software service of FOSS in 2019 with a one-time payment of Rs. 25000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only). Therefore an intensive training programme“6 months’ certification course for Computer Basics & Office Automation” is conducted by the Department of Computer Science of Handique Girls’ College along with the regular courses of the Spoken Tutorial Project.

TITLE OF THE PROGRAMME

“6 months’ certification course for Computer Basics & Office Automation”

Education qualification:-

The eligibility condition for admission to this programme shall be 10+2 or equivalent, in any stream.

Infrastructure(s) availability details:-

The content/nature of practical work must be skill oriented and aim at the development of marketable skills. The infrastructure available present are listed below.

• Total number of labs- 2 • Total number of PCs- 52 • Total number of servers- 2 • Total number of digital classrooms- 1 • Total numbers of faculties- 5 (five) from the Department of Computer Science Department

of Handique Girls’ College.

Maximum intake capacity:

Considering the present infrastructure facility in the college an intake is about 20 to 30 students per batch to maintain quality and standard of teaching.

Total programme duration:-200 hours

Syllabus:

SL. NO TOPIC/MODULE DURATION (IN HOURS)

1

Fundamentals Major components of a computer (A brief introduction of CPU, main memory, I/O units). Keyboard, display, mouse, printers etc. Secondary storage devices (hard disks, optical disks, flash memory), backup devices. Computer Software

10 hours

2

Operating System: What is an operating system? Evolution of OS, functions of OS. Bootstrapping. DOS- Internal & external commands. Use of GUI, Linux/Unix – Basics Unix Commands, Use of Unity GUI/GNOME 3, Unix File System.

10 hours

3 Networks: Introduction to networking, components of a network, advantages of networking. Basic features LAN, MAN, WAN, and Wireless LAN.

10 hours

Network Configuration IPv4, IPv6, DHCP. 4 Internet:

Evolution of internet, Basic internet terms (Client, Server, MODEM, Web page, Web site, Home page, Browser, URL, ISP, Web server, Download & Upload, Online & Offline), Internet applications (e.g.-mail, search, ftp, VOIP, Video Conferencing, Audio-Video streaming, Chatting).

15 hours

5 Word Processing (Libre office writer) Introduction to Word Processing , Features , Learning document window, Creating , Saving & Closing a document, Opening an Existing document , Editing a Document , Formatting Features ( Paragraph Formats, Aligning text & paragraph, Border and Shading, Header & Footers, Bullet & Numbering ) , Inserting & Editing a Table , Inserting Picture, Checking & Spelling Correction, Page Setup , Print Preview , Printing a document , Mail Merge , Document Template & Wizards.

25 hours

6 Spreadsheet (Libre office calc) Introduction to Spreadsheet, creating, saving and editing a workbook, Inserting, deleting Worksheets, Opening & Moving around in an existing worksheet, Working with Formula & Cell referencing. Functions, Working with ranges - creating, editing and selecting ranges. Format Feature: AutoFormat Feature, Changing alignment, Character styles, Date Format, Border & Colours etc. Previewing & Printing a worksheet, Creating Charts & Graphs. Database in worksheet, macro, linking and embedding

25hours

7 Presentation Tools (Libre office impress) Creating & saving Presentations, Opening an existing Presentation, Working in different views, Working with slides, Adding and Formatting Text, Formatting Paragraphs, Checking Spelling and correcting typing mistakes, Adding clip art and other pictures, Inserting Animation, Designing slide shows, Running and controlling slide show, Printing Presentation.

25 hours

8 Practical 80 hours

Report of the Project

NAME OF THE VALUE ADDED COURSE SESSION

YEAR OF OFFERIN

G

NO. OF TIMES

OFFERED DURING

THE SAME YEAR

YEAR OF DISCONTIN

UATION

NO. OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE

YEAR

NO OF STUDENTS

COMPLETING THE COURSE IN THE YEAR

DURATION

METHOD OF TEACHING

SPOKEN TUTORIAL

JULY-DEC 2016 1 NIL 46 46 3 Hrs. THEORY/LAB

JAN-JUNE 2017 2

NIL 330 330 3 Hrs. THEORY/LAB

JULY-DEC NIL 119 119 3 Hrs. THEORY/LAB

JAN-JUNE 2018 1 NIL 76 76 3 Hrs. THEORY/LAB

JAN-JUNE 2019 1 NIL 136 136 3 Hrs. THEORY/LAB

6 months’ certification course for Computer Basics & Office Automation

JAN-JUNE 2019 2 NIL 54 54 200 Hrs.

THEORY/LAB

A Certificate is awarded to the students after the successful completion of the course. A sample copy of the certificate is given below-

Three Week Certificate Drama Workshop/Course

The three week certificate drama course consists of all the basic knowledge and skills required for a theatre. This was seen at the end of the course in the final production play “Shasti”. 18 participants were trying to apply the skills that were taught during the course period. The participants are as follow:

1. Anuhita Kachari 2. Saraswati Kalita 3. Barasha Medhi 4. Nandita Goswami 5. Krishna Moni Deka 6. Angkita Das 7. Subhrata Kashyap 8. Anindita Sandilya 9. Sushmita Kalita 10. Colombia Baruah 11. Karishma Lahkar 12. Chayanika Sharma 13. Riya Mahanta 14. Niyor Hazarika 15. Minakshi Kalita 16. Manali Hazarika 17. Nihasmita Kalita 18. Chayanika Barman

Benefits of the workshop: The workshop not only nurtured the drama skills, but motivated the participants in upgrading their day to day standards. In the workshop the participants were trained in various aspects- Body movement, Raasa theory (i.e. understand the emotion). A Certificate is awarded to the students after the successful completion of the course. Action and reaction, Voice and speech, concentration, imagination, five senses character analysis.

The three week certificate drama course schedule:

Day 10am to 12am 1pm to 4pm

1 Introduction

Break

Theatre games- warm up

2 Body movement Stage geography

3 Exercise on concentration Stage balance

4 Voice exercise Rasa theory + Theatre games on action and reaction

5 Body movement Understanding self

6 Exercise on senses Script reading

7 Character analysis Script reading

8 Song practice for the play Script reading + speech exercise

9 Voice exercise + song practice for the play

Exercise on imagination + stand up for play

10 Dance + song practice for the play Blocking of the play

11 Blocking of the play Understanding lights in theatre

12 Blocking of the play Dance + song practice for the play + trust games

13 Basics of set design and costume design

Revision of the blocking + new blocking

14 Physical exercise + revision of the blocking

Adding music and movement to the play

15 Voice exercise + speech exercise+ gabble of the dialogues

Adding the remaining music and movements to the play

16 Polishing of the play Polishing of the play

17 Theatre games to relief the stress + voice and movement practice

Polishing of the play

18 Run through + notes after run through

Run through with corrections

19 Run through with costumes Run through with costumes

20 Show in the evening

Sample copy of the certificate -

Sample copy of Appreciation Certificate to the Resource Person-