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Nortel LearniT and One Laptop Per Child

Learn about a unique 21st century initiative by Nortel LearniT and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) to energize and empower education via a synergy of the innovative child-centered, diverse environment-ready XO laptop computer technology with Nortel LearniT’s engaging learning resources.

Master the Science with Pokémon

Nintendo of America, Inc., the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and Nortel LearniT have teamed to develop Master the Science, a powerful, interactive, Internet-accessed Pokémon-oriented school program that incorporates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) themes into activity units for elementary and middle school students.

Nortel LearniT Ambassador Success Stories

Nortel LearniT volunteer programs represent the diversity of our employee talents and the locales in which Nortel is located.  Geographically, our effort crisscross the globe from Canada to Morocco to India to Marrakech.  Volunteers design and create learning centers in large cities and rural locations, train the centers’ teachers and learners in using technology, and build everything from wireless networks to walls to specialized learning tools.

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JumpStart – Video Tutorials

Creating Objects in Flash

Using the Flash procedures described in these video tutorials makes buttons easy to create and gives your web site a polished look.

Digital Audio

We are constantly hearing different sounds and audio clips, in this series you will learn how to create a good quality audio file using free software and some minor editing.

Digital Ethics

This series focuses on understanding the �rules of the e-road�, and common pitfalls that will help keep your research and use of the Internet legally and ethically sound.

Discovering the Internet

This series will show you the fundamentals of Internet surfing including the basics of how the Internet works and how to better navigate the vast resources available on the web.

Imaging

With this series you can start at the beginning or move ahead to advanced principles and techniques to help you take your digital imagery interests and skills to the next level.

Networks to Knowledge

Making connections in a digital era means you know how to network. This unique series includes both the basics of how-to and the opportunity to share your networking expertise.

Online Safety

It can be a big cyber-scary world out there. This series will show you how to help protect your privacy, enhance your safety, as well as how to safeguard your PC from virus attacks. Gotcha!

PowerPoint Presentations

Learn how to create presentations to better engage your audience and convey your messages. First timers and experienced users will benefit from these videos.

Web Content Creation

From wikis and blogs to Dreamweaver and NVU, you can be a web content developer in no time.

Video Production

 SOURCE: http://www.nortellearnit.org/

Kannada Speaking-Weblearning Program

Kannada Speaking Program

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To make the courses easy-to-follow, all lessons are taught in English. They have Kannada written in English to help you to read and speak Kannada. … http://icc.eweblearning.com/catalog/catCoursesShow.asp?PID=44&COURSEMODE=C

 #301: Beginner level 1 Kannada Speaking Course

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 #302: Beginner level 2 Kannada Speaking Course

http://icc.eweblearning.com/catalog/catCourseDescriptionShow.asp?PID=44&CID=255

This course is for level 2 learners. The course assumes that you have basic level knowledge about Kannada (or have gone through our level 1 course). It is comprised of lessons that help you learn grammatical, situational, environmental, behavioral, and lingual aspects of Kannada.

q       The grammatical aspects include correlatives and temporal, active and passive voice and transformation of sentences. 

q       The situational aspects comprise of words/sentences/conversations used in specific situations such as while one goes shopping, studying, traveling, having meals, giving instruction and ordering, operating in the office, conducting normal day-to-day business, etc. 

q       The environmental aspects contain topics like weather, climate, home, animals, birds, and insects. 

q       The behavioral aspects include sentences with reference to “emotions” and “reactions” in our day-to-day life such as showing affection, anger, quarrel, expressing sadness, extending apologies and sympathies, and while refusing, believing, requesting and providing encouragement. 

q       Finally, the lingual aspects cover some interesting subjects like proverbs, riddles, sayings and so on.

Free Kannada classes

Free Kannada classes
Vijayabharathi Pre-University College in collaboration with the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka, is organising free Kannada speaking classes for non-Kannadigas from the 2nd week of July 2007. Duration of the course is 2 months. The classes will be held in the college campus between 5 pm and 7 pm thrice a week, and will be conducted by expert teachers. There is no restriction on age and qualification for the participants. After successful completion of the course, certificates will be issued to the participants. For admissions, those interested can contact,
The Principal, Vijayabharathi Pre-University College, No 89, Charles Campbel Road, Cox Town, Bangalore – 560005. Phone: 41253888, 41253640.

Spoken Kannada classes

Spoken Kannada classes
Kannada Prasaara Parishat  has commenced its next batch of Spoken Kannada, Kannada script learning and higher Kannada classes. The classes are held only on Sundays from 10 am to 1pm, at the Hosmat Hospital premises, Magrath Road, (Near Mayo hall Garuda Mall), Bangalore. For further details contact B V Raghavan – 94488 78569 / H V Nataraj – 98456 80958.

Language with love

Language with love

 

H.G. Srinivasa Prasad, who has been teaching Kannada to non- Kannadigas for the last 18 years, firmly believes that language can never be taught by force.

 

ONE OFTEN hears the complaint that non-Kannadigas living in Bangalore make no effort to learn Kannada. But the question can be turned on its head: Why doesn’t Bangalore teach the language of the land to those who come from outside the State? This phenomenon, after all, is peculiar to Bangalore. Non-Kannadigas in towns such as Mysore or Shimoga, one often finds, speak better Kannada than the native speakers themselves.

H.G. Srinivasa Prasad, who has been teaching Kannada to non-Kannadigas for the last 18 years, says: “The problem is that people in Bangalore start talking to a person in his language even before he makes an effort to speak our language. Non-Kannadigas are willing to learn Kannada, but we are not willing to teach them.” Mr. Prasad cites the example of one of his students, a research scholar from London, who came to Karnataka to do some fieldwork. “She desperately wanted to learn Kannada, but people insisted on speaking to her in English wherever she went.” Finally, she had to tell them: “Look here, I don’t know English. Please speak to me in Kannada.”

It is this language scene, characteristic of Bangalore, that makes a conscious effort at teaching Kannada necessary, feels Mr. Prasad. For the last 18 years, he has been conducting classes in “practical Kannada” to a spectrum of non-Kannadiga residents of Bangalore.

His students include doctors, nurses, software engineers, lawyers, teachers, and so on. Some of the classes conducted are sponsored by the Kannada Development Authority and the Department of Kannada and Culture. Mr. Prasad and a few of his like-minded friends have now come together to form Kannada Prasara Parishat, to propagate Kannada.

For Mr. Prasad, an employee of the Reserve Bank of India, teaching Kannada is both a way of expressing his love for the language and a break from the monotonous dealings with cash. While he was doing his masters degree in Kannada from Mysore university, his teacher and a well-known poet, Chennaveera Kanavi, had said: “Becoming a Kannada teacher is not the only way of serving the Kannada cause. You should go into different fields and create a Kannada atmosphere everywhere.”

Mr. Prasad learnt the special skill of teaching Kannada to non-Kannadiga adults at a course conducted by the Department of Kannada and Culture many years ago. Among the 30-odd people who attended the course, only Mr. Prasad and a couple of others actually took to teaching Kannada.

Mr. Prasad and his friends conduct two batches of Kannada classes (100 hours each) every year: From January to June and from July to December.

He also holds classes in industries and other establishments on request. (Those interested can call 3484449.) The teaching methodology adopted in these classes is very different from what language learning involves at the school level. “We are teaching adults who already know a language. So, learning here involves, at once, unlearning set notions about language and building on what they already know,” says Mr. Prasad.

The emphasis is primarily on the spoken language. “Grammar and script come later.”

The grouping of the letters of the alphabet is also very different from what one is taught at the school level: According to the similarity of shapes.

And English is a strict “No” in Mr. Prasad’s classes. “Teaching any language through translation is always counter-productive, specially when language structures as diverse as those of Kannada and English.”

Mr. Prasad adds that it is very important to hold the attention of the students by keeping the classes lively, since adults, unlike children in a conservative school, can always opt out of the class. “I use a lot of humour, often related to the blunders made by new learners.” This helps them open up and shed apprehensions about making mistakes. “It is important not to feel shy and self-conscious.”

Mr. Prasad firmly believes that a language can never be taught by force. “Anything that is imposed will not last.” He always makes it a point to tell his students: “You are my friend whether or not you learn Kannada.”

Considering that a person who cannot speak Kannada can manage perfectly well in Bangalore, why should one even make an effort to learn Kannada?

He quotes what the late poet, Su. Ram. Ekkundi, had said while inaugurating one of his Kannada courses: “Learning the language of the land is like saying `Thank you’ to your host when you go to someone’s house and accept his or her hospitality. It is one’s primary duty.”

His classes, he also hopes, will add their own mite in building a Kannada atmosphere and plenty of goodwill in the burgeoning metropolis of Bangalore.

 

 

 

BAGESHREE. S

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/03/11/stories/2002031100240200.htm

 

Request to Kannadigas all over the world on Give One, Get One Program

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative’s goal is to distribute 100 million $100 laptops to third-world children.  Details here: http://laptop.org/vision/

These Laptops designed at MIT are engineering  marvels. They are now being built and distributed.  They are sold in 100,000 – 1,000,000 quantity lots to nations to keep
the costs down.

However, …a current program to aid in the laptops’ software development is the

Give One, Get One

program in which an individual KANNADIGA may buy one laptop to be distributed to a  child, and keep the second one. The hope is that the second one will be used for appropriate application development and also can be donated to EKAVI TRUST for 177 taluq EKAVI Kannada communities.

EKAVI would like to request Kannadigas all over the world to make  one or more of these development systems available to 177 taluq EKAVI Kannada Communities for application software development and evaluation and  also to be used at all 177 taluq EKAVI KANNADA Communities

It costs only $399 to both donate a laptop to a 3rd world child, and to get a second one to be used at 177 taluq EKAVI Kannada Communities. This opportunity ends on 12/31/07 – at the end of this year.

Ideally EKAVI would like to have one laptop for each of 177 taluq EKAVI Kannada  Communities by donating as many from Kannadigas from each taluqs.

177 taluq EKAVI Kannada Communities would use these to enhance the Kannada learning and teaching.

Kannada Software developers (among the EKAVI Kannada Kali Communities or other selected Kannadigas) would develop new applications (for Kannada learning/teaching) to be shared with the world.

EKAVI urges KANNADIGAS all over the world to participate in this program by donating to 177 taluq EKAVI Kannada Communities. Donations may be tax deductible. Time is of essence. Please act quickly.

This will also help EKAVI in Bangalore to have EKAVI KANNADA LEARNING CENTERS in different locations. This is an essential thing for EKAVI to have this done in Bangalore also.

All suggestions are welcome from Kannadigas  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kindly send an email to:  ellakannada@yahoo.com

Mail checks payable to EKAVI TRUST.

In USA or Canada mail it to: V. M. Kumaraswamy 14102 Moore Ct. Irvine, CA 92606.

In USA or Canada call: 949-857-8578

Mail checks payable to EKAVI TRUST.

In INDIA mail it to: EKAVT TRUST Red. C/O Mr. H. C. Eranna, EKAVI TREASURER
c/o Late Dr. P. Venkatappa
34/1, 1st Cross, M. T. Layout
(between 12th and 13th cross of Malleshwaram)
Malleshwaram, Bangalore -3, Karnataka. India.

EKAVI BELLARY District and six Taluqs Communities

ABOUT EKAVI – A TOTAL KANNADA ORGANIZATION

Ella Kannadaabhimaanigala Antararshtriya Vedike In “EKAVI”

EKAVI KUVEMPU program photos
https://ellakavi.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/ekavi-kuvempu-program-photos/

 

ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಭಿಮಾನಿಗಳ ಅಂತರರಾಷ್ಟೀಯ ವೇದಿಕೆ – ಈಕವಿ
ಬನ್ನಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು ಒಂದಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂದಾಗೋಣ…

EKAVI NADEDUBANDA DAARI  

https://ellakavi.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/ekavi-nadedubanda-daari/

V. M. Kumaraswamy, MBA , BMSCE 1971 Batch

http://www.orkut.com/Album.aspx?uid=4319771866401229384

JOIN: EKAVI COMMUNITY on ORKUT
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=23145031

JOIN your EKAVI DISTRICT and TALUQ. Please tell your friends and send it to them also.

EKAVI BELLARY DISTRICT — TALUKS of BELLARY District

E KAVI ಈ-ಕವಿ BELLARY
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=27379740

E KAVI ಈಕವಿ HOSPET, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32139951

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ KAMPLI, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32127587

E KAVI ಈಕವಿ HOOVINA HADAGALLI
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32127627

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ KUDLIGI, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32169510

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ SANDUR, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32122712

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ SIRUGUPPA, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32169650

________________________________________Join EKAVI COMMUNITY on YAHOO – 3500 members
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ellaKAVI

ekavi and ellakavi

http://picasaweb.google.com/vmkumaraswamy/EKAVIAndEllaKAVI?authkey=OfRkRh_5210

EKAVI GoK CIRCULAR on School Adoption Program
https://ellakavi.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/ekavi-gok-circular-on-school-adoption-program/

TALUKS of BELLARY District-EKAVI BELLARY DISTRICT

TALUKS of BELLARY District – EKAVI BELLARY DISTRICT

EKAVI ಈ-ಕವಿ BELLARY
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=27379740

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ HOSPET, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32139951

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ KAMPLI, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32127587

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ HOOVINA HADAGALLI
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32127627

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ KUDLIGI, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32169510

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ SANDUR, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32122712

EKAVI ಈಕವಿ SIRUGUPPA, Bellary
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32169650

Online Language Courses: Learning Kannada — Learn Kannada

Online Language Courses: Learning Kannada — Learn Kannada

Language Schools – Learn Languages Online – Learning Languages

SOURCE:

http://www.ats-group.net/languages/language-learn-kannada.html

Spoken Kannada
Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in Karnataka State in South India, and has a literature that dates from the ninth century.

Kannada Language Resources on the Web
Kannada language resources: Mumbai/Bombay pages (fonts, software, literature etc)

kannaDa kali
Learn Kannada – kannaDa kali

Common Kannada, Tulu and Konkani phrases
The most popular language in Mangalore is Tulu, some authors also refer Mangalore as Tulunadu.

• English – Kannada Online Dictionaries – Glossaries Translation
• English – Foreign Language Dictionaries

SOURCE:
http://www.ats-group.net/languages/language-learn-kannada.html

Resources for Kannada Learning compiled by EKAVI and ellakavi group

Resources For Learning KANNADA Language compiled by EKAVI.doc
Resources for Kannada Learning