Think.com in KVS

A success story of Public Private Partnership between KVS and Oracle
 
An organizational agreement was signed between KVS and ORACLE in February 2005 for carrying out the project in KVS extensively.

Think.com is an online community for learning. Learning is a social phenomenon, which is why Think.com engages and inspires students. By providing a wider yet protected audience, Think.com turns students into multimedia authors for a global community and allows peers to think and learn together.
Only students and teachers from member schools can enter this password-protected learning community. Once inside, members use websites and interactive tools to publish their ideas, collaborate on projects, and build knowledge together. Think.com provides interactive learning tools to thousands of schools around the world in 8 languages.
Implementation in KVS

Think.com provides a secure space on the Web to students, teachers and schools. They make use of the facility by registering with the project which is a very simple process.

Students create their own website where they post articles of their interest, poems, stories, interesting pictures, audio clips, video clips etc.. They visit each other’s websites and exchange useful information. After visiting a fellow student’s website, a student leaves his remarks on the contents of the website if he feels to do so. His remarks appear in the form of attractive yellow sticky at the bottom of the webpage which anyone visiting the website can see. This leads to tremendous excitement among students and they are motivated to write small pieces on their subject of interest which they want to share with others. They also use the website to undertake projects on collecting material form the web on some interesting topic from their curriculum. They also use it to know more about their culture e.g. festivals, dance forms, musical instruments etc.

The content on the student’s websites is regulated by the teacher administrator of the school so that nothing offensive or undesirable appears on the websites. Teachers also create their websites and provide useful and interesting material to the students. A mathematics teacher from KV IISC, Bangalore used this facility to communicate with students during vacation. He posted assignments for students on his website and the students were asked post their answers back. The students posted their answers and their doubts on their websites. The answers were evaluated and the doubts were cleared by the teacher. Another teacher from KV Malleswaram, Bangalore, used this facility to present some very useful material on Environmental Science for the benefit of the students. There are so many success stories concerning this project. Now all concerned, the Principals, teachers and students are actively participating in the project and are getting manifold benefits: