Open to Alumni, Parents,Teachers, Students and School Administrators

Venue: St. Stanislaus High School

Firm registrations for the ICTs & U seminar and the workshop will be done in St. Stanislaus High School on May 1 from 10 am onwards, at the fair reception.

Informal registrations to reserve seats in the workshops and the seminar can be done on the phone at 23869052, but they need to be confirmed at the fair.

Dramatics to enhance communications
Thursday, 1 May, 11am to 2pm

This workshop will help participants appreciate the relevance of dramatics as a tool to develop confidence and communication skills in their students. Through storytelling sessions and communication techniques, the resource persons will demonstrate how such activities can be used not only as an expression of creativity but also as an aid for learning. The trainers' methodology synergises drama with the soft skills aspect of communication training. With powerful tools like improvisation, role play and other exercises, they ensure that participants have an enjoyable learning process.

Ajit Kamath and Sunil Vishrani
Ajit and Sunil together run Wizards, an innovative enterprise that allows them to pursue their first profession, theatre art while supporting themselves professionally. They run workshops and courses in effective communication and presentation skills, team-building, leadership development, training of trainers, customer servicing, dramatics and narration techniques.
98203 58330
ajitkamath@wiztalks.com

Music to enrich learning
Thursday, 1 May, 3pm to 6pm

This workshop shows how music contributes to the all-round development of pre-school children and facilitates creative self-expression. In this sense, it is an invitation to al pre-school teachers to find out how to introduce music in their classrooms and make learning joyful for the children. A music teacher at the Godrej-run Udayanchal pre-primary school, Tanuja Kantak has many years of experience with pre-schoolers and has recorded two albums of learning songs for children.

Tanuja Kantak

A music teacher at the Godrej-run Udayanchal school, Tanuja Kantak has many years of experience with pre-schoolers and has recorded two albums of learning songs for children. She has transformed her passion and love for music into a profession, conducting music workshops for teachers, teacher trainees, schools and professional institutes working in the field of Early Childhood Care and Education.
67963591
email c/o Binaifer R. Chhogga <binaifer@godrej.com>

Information Communication Technology-based teaching-learning strategies
Friday, 2 May, 11am to 2pm

In this workshop, techniques of using ICTs as a strategy to teach and to learn will be explored by the resource person. Techniques such as web quest, social networking, tagging and other methods which employ Internet services as resources will be demonstrated. Participants are urged to bring laptops and to share them with neighbours to enable group work in some of the problems that are set out.

Jayashree Shinde
A Phd in the field of Instructional Design, Jayashree Shinde teaches at SNDT University where she heads the Department of Educational Technology.
98207 79375
jssndt@rediffmail.com

Introduction to Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)

and Wekosystems, a new organisational strategy
Saturday, 3 May 10:30am to 1:30pm

This workshop will begin with an exploration of what Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) can bring to education. Commonly referred to as computers, when combined with the Internet, these are much more than word-processing and calculating machines. They are tools with the potential to bring joyful self-directed learning into schools and homes.

As a result of ICTs, new ways of organising work and managing working relationships are being explored and the Wekosystem or wiki ecosystem is a pioneering effort to establish an alternative economic unit. Democratically managed while ensuring transparency and accountability, this will give a new form of freedom to individuals working together in a system. The management of a wekosystem takes place without a centralised structure. It consists of two levels of management, macro and micro levels and these levels are not hierarchical, but on the same plane. The micro lives nested within the macro.

Wiki Ocean is a path-breaking enterprise based in Pune which is one of the first organisations in the world set up as a wekosystem. This is a radically new approach to management which would be of interest to anyone looking for better ways to manage work and resources, whether it is a school or a business or an NGO.

The resource persons for this workshop will be Shirish Agarwal of Wiki Ocean (wekosystem.org) and Chandita Mukherjee (cometmedia.org) of COSMOS, the New Media wing of Comet.
2386 9052
cometmediafdn@gmail.com

What are Learning Disabilities?
Saturday, 3 May, 3pm to 6pm

This workshop, directed to teachers and parents, will be conducted by an experienced remedial educator and homeopathic physician. Participants will how to identify learning disabilities which affect reading, writing and mathematical performance. Subsequently, they will be introduced to lifestyle habits and practices that will help in mainstreaming the child experiencing such difficulties.

Fatema Jetpurwala
A homoeopathic physician and a well known remedial educator, Fatema Ismail Jetpurwala is Chief Coordinator of the Child Development Centre of Saifee Hospital. She has had a dynamic career path having been professor, consultant and educational advisor of to several of Mumbai's reputed medical centres. She participates frequently in community-organised medical camps and is the founder-director of Fatema Centre for Holistic Health & Child Development. She has many papers and publications to her credit.
98923 92041
fatemacentre@yahoo.com