Oracle Education Foundation’s Think.com is Now Available in Hindi
NEW DELHI , India , August 17, 2007: The Oracle Education Foundation announced today that Think.com is now available in Hindi. Think.com was launched in India in 2004 and is actively used by over 75,000 students and teachers in over 1,100 schools in India including Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas and DAV schools.
However, this is the first time that Think.com has been available in an Indian language. The Hindi user–interface will enable even more Indian students and teachers to collaborate on projects and share educational content with peers around the world – more than 2,77,000 other students and educators from 50 countries who are members of this protected online learning community.
"We have been overwhelmed by the way Indian students have responded to Think.com over the past three years. Students actively use Think.com to augment their day–to–day language, literature, science and mathematics learning," said Krishan Dhawan, managing director, Oracle India . "The availability of Think.com with a Hindi interface, will open this global learning community to thousands of Indian students."
Kiran Karnik, president, NASSCOM said, "Innovative ideas like Think.com are very welcome in a country like ours where a majority of the students are not fully proficient in English. NASSCOM and the IT industry have been making efforts to overcome this so that there is greater employability for students in global industries like IT. In this context, it is heartening to see Oracle’s effort, through Think.com, which has opened up a whole new way of learning for Indian students."
"The global collaboration and communication skills they pick up using Think.com will help students when they join the international workforce. That Oracle has made this platform available in Hindi speaks about the company’s commitment to bridge the skill gap in India ," Mr. Karnik added.
Recognition For Think.com Learning Content
Also today, several students and teachers from the Think.com community in India were recognized for using Think.com to create learning projects and outstanding educational content. Those who were acknowledged today included:
1. Mrs. Rajeshwari.S , Kendriya Vidyalaya Wellington (Ooty), Ms. Sarita Tejwani , Kendriya Vidyalaya (Ujjain,), Mr. K.Ramachandran , Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1 Jalahalli (Bangalore), Mrs. Chemmalar Shanmugam , Kendriya Vidyalaya CRPF – Yelahanka (Bangalore), Mr. Gauri Shankar Singh , Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Malhar (Bilaspur, Chattisgarh), Mr. E. Ramana , Kendriya Vidyalaya (Moscow) for creating educative content on Think.com to help their students’ learning process.
2. Ms. Sarita Tejwani from Kendriya Vidyalaya (Ujjain) and team –– consisting of Anshul Jain, Shashwat Sahay, Aishwarya Vyas, Neha Manwatkar and Akshata Kalyani –– were awarded for creating the best theme–based learning project on Think.com titled ‘Mind, Body & Soul – Do we really care!’.
3. Another project titled ‘Mosquito Menace’ by Mrs Savita Suverna from BGS National Public School (Bangalore) and team –– consisting of M.G.Sharath, P.Srivatsav, G.P.Sailesh, Spurthi S. Mand, Zainab.R.L – were also felicitated.
About Think.com
Think.com is an online community that facilitates project learning and students’ use of technology. It is a protected, teacher–mediated environment where learning takes place with no advertising. Within Think.com, students and teachers are granted space to design and implement learning projects within their class, or with other schools globally.
For more information, visit http://www.think.com .
About the Oracle Education Foundation
The Oracle Education Foundation sponsors Think.com and ThinkQuest, free online programs for the primary and secondary education community. It also makes grants to select schools and nonprofits to promote global online collaborative learning. For more information, visit http://www.oraclefoundation.org .
About Oracle India
Oracle entered India in 1987 and set up an India Development Centre in 1994. Today, Oracle has two India Development Centres as well as Indian hubs for Oracle’s global support, consulting and financial services operations. Through its presence in over 20 cities in India, and an extensive network of more than 400 channel and alliance partners under the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle India markets the complete range of Oracle products and services across India. Oracle India has more than 6,700 customers in the telecommunications, banking, insurance, manufacturing and utilities industries, across the government and private sector. Oracle India is a major partner for E–Governance initiatives of Central and State Government bodies in India. The Oracle–HP E–Governance Centre of Excellence is located at Oracle India’s head office in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Oracle has its Retail Centre of Excellence at Bangalore.
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