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"Tell me who your friends, I will tell you who you are" says a famous Russian Proverb. In the current scenario in which we are inundated with social media this saying can be techified (if there is a word as such.. May the English teachers forgive me..) as, Tell me which Channels you subscribe in YouTube, I will tell you who you are. Social media has evolved as our primary information consumption source. Irrespective of age, educational qualification, social backdrop, most of us are submerged into the sea of YouTube videos. Day in Day out, we are connected with YouTube. No wonder, YouTube has many great resources and many many not so great resources.  Locating the proper channels is what decides whether you procrastinate in YouTube or up-skill yourself. In this post, I thought of sharing two of the YouTube channels, that will assist you in up-skilling your understanding of Mathematical concepts. NumberPhile Numberphile is one of the excellent channels if you are interested in ...

Everything that Begins has to End Some day. That day has come to Edmodo. If you Don't know what is Edmodo, this post is of less relevance. If you are teacher or student using Edmodo then its a shock. Shock is an understatement.  Edmodo is closing its doors on 22, Sep 2022. The official web page has this announcement (screenshot enclosed). For those who don't know what is Edmodo: It is a Learning Management System (LMS). It is great platform to keep in touch with your students, in a simple, neat and clean format. It was a Free Tool. No Hassles.  My association with Edmodo started wayback in 2010-2011. Long long before the recent buzz on remote learning during the recent Covid19 pandemic.  The first batch was Web Technology M.Sc 2010-11.  Data Visualization (2022, M.Tech and MCA) course has become the last in the Edmodo line-up for me: From then with each subject I have utilised Edmodo. My workflow was like this: Create a Class Group for each subject.  Share the C...

Do you like Mathematics ?  If your answer is "Yes" then you may like to read this post. If your answer is "No" then there are more reasons for you to read this post.  This post is about a book titled " The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics. From One to Infinity ". This book is authored by Steven Strogatz. The theme of the book is to introduce rather re-introduce the Mathematical Concepts in a joyful manner. Maths looks difficult to only those who have got introduced to it in a wrong way. Otherwise as the author says,  Maths is everywhere, if you know where to look  This book is organised into Six major parts: Part I : Numbers Part II : Relationships Part III : Shapes Part IV : Change Part V : Data Part VI: Frontiers Before I tell you what these parts are about, let me tell you this first: This is a book that can be read by literally anyone - a school going kid, a college student or someone exploring frontiers of Maths. The only condition is that you n...

In the last week of January this year, I made a decision to quit all forms of social media. I stopped using FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn. These are the major Social media services in which I was active. An exception was WhatsApp. The reason being the Covid19 induced remote learning. Literally every communication was through WhatsApp. So retained WhatsApp. In WhatsApp too, I stopped updating  and viewing Status messages. Now we are in the middle of August. Six months have passed by. This post is about my experience during these six months and what I learned or rather unlearned during this Fasting... Social Media Fasting.  Let me start with narrating, why I took such a decision. It all started with a book titled " Digital Minimalism " by a Prof. Carl Newport. You should also give a try reading this book. Such an impactful book filled with distilled wisdom. This book was not the sole reason for this decision. It was catalysed by certain personal things that were happening in m...