Colloquium - Pre-registration

Today's pre-registration colloquium was really good. The students and even the guides were grilled by the faculty members. One thing that was shown to the students was that the topics lack sufficient focus. Unless, the researcher knows what needs to be done and how the things are to be done, it would be difficult to carry out the research in a focused manner. Well defined research design and backing up the presentation with sufficient basic data are the expectation of the committee. Having too many objectives and hypotheses would also make the research out of focus.

As far as my students are concerned, they had collected some data and unfortunately was not reflected in their proposal. We were given the understanding that the proposal should contain emphasis on the objectives, hypotheses (if any), methodology and work done. Work done was indicated breifly but sufficient material to support the claim was absent in the proposal. I think it is a good suggestion that those things should be there in a proposal.

I think that we may think of coming out with a broad guidelines for preparing the proposal. It should be broad enough to allow the researcher to be innovative, if they want to. Some comments could have been avoided in the interest of encouraging the students and the novice guides. After all the overall objective of the colloquium is not to demotivate the students!

I have asked Sunil and Sudha to take the comments seriously and incorporate the suggestions. I told Sudha not to be too submissive during the presentation. Sunil should learn to take the constructive criticism in a positive way ... some time he tends to enter in to arguments even on a good suggestion.

Blog Demo

I gave a demo about blog to the students of MLISc and MIM. I enjoyed working with them

Image

I tried to add image to my blogspot (my blogspot homepage). I could not get how to do it. Here in the postings I know how to post an image. Example shown below:

Letter

I have some how delaying writing of a letter .... very important one. I have to do it tomorrow at any cost.

Express Yourself Online

I was thinking of what compitition I need to organise for MULISSA. My idea was that the compitition should be attended by all students and it should be technology based. After a weeks pondering over the issue, I got an idea. I thought of encouraging the students to involve themselves in blogging activity. A competition would trigger them, I feel. So I sent a proposal to Prof. Shalini, the Chairman of the Department, regarding this. She accepted the idea but slightly changed the tone of the competition to a higher level. I still believe that the compitition should be at a lower level to start with. I have aired my views to her over the email. I am still waiting for her reply.

Kannada

ಕರಗತ ಕತರಕ ತಕರಪತಕ ತಕರಪಗದಾತರಗತ ತಕರಗದತಗಜೈಜಗಾಡಜೇಗ ್ಡಾಗ್ಗೈಜದ್ಗೈಲ
This is just a trial to see whether I can create kannada blogs