As part of Vachan Sankalp, Library and the Reading Room is made
open to St. Teresa’s BEd College students under the Banner of Resource
Sharing for Vachan Sankalp
Throughout the day, in all 45 Students enjoyed the ambience SIE’s specious silent reading hall and the STIE Library Resources including reference sources and fictions
Library and the Reading Room is made open to St. Teresa’s BEd College students under the Banner of Resource Sharing for Vachan Sankalp 2025
National Webinar Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Libraries and KRC's-15/10/2023
St. Teresa’s Institute of education
organized a webinar on “ARTIFICAIL INTELLEGENCE AND
MACHINE LEARNING FOR LIBRARIAES AND KRCAS” on 15th September 2023.
The guest speaker for the webinar was Dr. Parthsarathi Mukhopadhaya
Department of Library and Information Science University of Kalyani, West
Bengal
St. Teresa’s Institute of Education
and Gandhi Shikshan Bhavan’s Smt.
Surajba College of Education jointly organized a national webinar on “ARTIFICAIL
INTELLEGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR LIBRARIAES AND KRCs” on 15th
September 2023 at 2:30 pm to 4:30 PM on zoom platform. The guest speaker for
the webinar was Dr. Parthsarathi Mukhopadhayay, faculty member of University of
Kalyani, department of library and information science.
It was a very informative webinar
as Dr. Mukhopadhaya enlightened the audience with a wide range of tools and
motivated to explore those later on. The webinar began with a Sanskrit shloka
describing knowledge as supreme wealth and person should always be thirsty for
gaining new knowledge to excel in his work. Prof Dr. Gisele D’souza, Principal in
Charge of St. Teresa’s Institute of Education delivered keynote address. She
welcomed all the participants and the guest speaker. She suggested that AI is
entering all the fields especially in libraries so to gain knowledge about all
the tools is the need of the hour. She perfectly quoted that computer is fast
and accurate; man is slow, sometimes inaccurate but brilliant so we need to
make combination of both.
Dr Shakuntala Nighot introduced the
esteemed speaker. The session saw an
overwhelming response from I librarians and research scholars throughout the
country. Over 100 participants joined the webinar.
Women's Day Display 7-03-2023
On 7th March, a book display was organized in St.Teresa's library on the account of Women's day . It was an extraordinary book display, which celebrated the literary achievements of influential women.
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Dr. A.P.J ABDUL KALAM BOOK DISPLAY- 16/10/23
A book display was organized from 16th October to 23rd October,2023 to honor the great visionary Dr.Abdul Kalam.This was not only a great opportunity for the students the explore the literary pursuits of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam but also the books written on this great leader. Each book in the display is a testament to Dr. Kalam's enduring legacy—a legacy of innovation, inspiration, and indomitable spirit.
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Human Rights day Book display - 1o/12/23
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31st March, 2022
The formal Language webinar was conducted on 31st March 2022 the webinar began sharp at 15:00.The webinar was conducted through Google Meet. This webinar was organized by Dr. Shakuntala Nighot in the Multipurpose Hall of St. Teresa's Institute of Education.The resources person was Dr.Perin Marolia. (Retd. Prof and PhD Guide SNDT University) The seminar began with the introduction of Dr. Perin Marolia an Academic Editor by Shakuntala ma'am to the students. Total 102 attendees including 2 staff members attended the webinar which was organised in Multipurpose Hall of the college.
Objectives of the webinar were
To enlighten the students about
Dr.Perin began with giving information of research writing and how it is different from day-to-day conversational language. Firstly she explained about how research writing is different from essay writing. Secondly she mentioned about how researchers should focus on his or her vocabulary while writing any research report. She very nicely explained the students difference between research and paper with the help of various examples.
She elaborated more on use of proper grammar while writing research report. The resource person stressed on avoiding wordiness while writing the report. She put forward certain rules such as the number numbers upto nine are to be spelled out and the number after nine should be written in numerals. She explained about how to avoid the maximum usage of the word 'more' in the research. Ma'am perin emphasized on grammar sentence structure active passive voice, placement of Clauses and phrases. These concepts were made clear by certain examples. She enlightened us about certain tools like use of spellcheck, thesaurus and grammerly which will help the students to write the most authentic action research report.
The students were given a Google quiz which was based on the content covered in the Formal Language for Research Writing webinar. The Quiz had seven questions of 12 marks. The answers for the questions were also posted later on Google Classroom so that the participants could do self assessment.
This webinar turned out to be very informative and helpful for especially for SYBEd students who were in the process of writing action research project. Students got to know how to use formal language and use of proper vocabulary while writing research paper.
The webinar ended with vote of thanks by Dr.shakuntala ma'am for Dr.Perin Marolia for guiding the students of STIE for their action research project. We are also thankful for Dr.shakuntala ma'am for conducting this informative webinar for students.
NLIST Orientation Program for FYBEd
28th, 29th March 2022, 1st April 2022, 3 pm-4 pm
The main aim of the session was to orient the students about 24*7 freely accessible rich resources and collection offered by NLIST Consortia.
A comprehensive NLIST (National Library and Information services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) orientation Program was conducted by Librarian Dr. Shakuntala Nighot for FYBEd students (47) of STIE on 28, 29 March 2022, 1st April 2022, 3 pm-4 pm which consisted of:
N-LIST membership is activated for all of us by generating individual user IDs and Passwords to ensure 24*7 access to vast consortia comprising of several databases of E-Journals and E-books.
We, as students were amazed and happy to find this treasure trove of knowledge at our finger tips. NLIST is indeed very helpful to find the scholarly resources for making our syllabus notes, assignments, seminar and action research etc.
The program was truly helpful as we could now access the library’s digital and scholarly resources anytime and from anywhere!
04th & 5th March 2022, 11.30 pm-1 pm
Venue: SITE Lecture Hall & Computer Lab
The main aim of the session was to make students aware about 24*7 freely accessible rich resources and collection offered by NDLI.
A comprehensive NDLI orientation Program was conducted by Dr. Shakuntala N. for FYBEd students (47) of STIE on 4thth March 2022 which consisted of:
Madam, in her detailed orientation with minute details about NDLI, focused on the Types of Resources offered, Various Search Techniques to broaden the search, Application of various filters to limit the search, various File Formats etc.
Students were surprised to know NDLI search is much better than Google Search due to advanced filters and more scholarly literature. We all became registered members of NDLI and STIE NDLI Club. Madam demonstrated the procedure to participate in the Club Event and generating the Participation Certificate. Now as part of Each One Teach One Outreach Program we all were set to become NDLI tutor to orient at least one member from the society about NDLI resources. As NDLI is free library for all who is in search of any kind of knowledge of any discipline!
4th - 13th March 2022, Venue: Any place convenient to tutor and learner.
Program Co-ordinator: Dr. Shakuntala Nighot, Librarian & NDLI Club Precident, STIE
Participants: 47 Students of FYBEd (21-23) as tutors + 47 Learners from wide-ranging social background
Report:
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is ever growing gigantic virtual public library which came into existence through National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). It holds resources in several languages to support for all academic levels (KG to PG and life-long learners), all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners.
A comprehensive NDLI orientation Program was conducted by Dr. Shakuntala N. for FYBEd students (47) of STIE on 5th March 2022 which consisted of:
Each One Teach One and its Objective
Innovative outreach Program Each One Teach One, was organised by STIE NDLI Club with the objective to reach out to lifelong learners from the society to make them aware and orient about this repository. FYBEd student accepted a role of personalised NDLI tutor and oriented one person/learner from the society about NDLI during 4th to 13th March 2013. Program consisted of following steps
Authenticity Check
To make this program more authentic the tutor had to upload learner’s photo in the form https://forms.gle/Su8HU25HDCxQh5De8 with NDLI home screen logged in with learner’s user ID.
Reward to Tutors
This program was registered as STIE NDLI Club Event. On 14th March 2022, 47 FYBEd Students received the certificate from NDLI Portal for participating in NDLI Each One Teach One Activity as NDLI Tutor.
Analysis and findings from the feedback:
Some representative feedbacks from learners depicts that comprehensive resources in NDLI can cater to various information needs of various user groups which underlines its importance to society.
Learning Outcome: Though all 46 learners were of different age group, soci-economic, professional and academic background and belonging to various languages they could trace and use the resources from their subjects and languages in various forms. Thus through Each one, Teach One: Outreach for NDLI Orientation, STIE library could move out of its wall and reach out to lifelong learners or adults in the society to inculcate and boost reading habits in them, to quench their knowledge thrust or to fulfil their information needs. Thus through Each one was a small attempt by STIE library step ahead on the guidelines laid down by NEP 2020 and to reach out to society.
Vachan Prerna Divas 21st Oct. 2021- Workshop on Speed Reading and Mind Mapping
St. Teresa’s Institute of Education celebrated Vachan Prerna Divas on 21st October, 2021 at 1.50pm via zoom meeting. Vachan prerna divas is originally celebrated on 15th October every year on the birth anniversary of late Dr. A.P.J Abdul kalam who strongly promote reading. The session was in collaboration with Gandhi Shikshan Bhavan’s Surajba College of education.
The session was started by a prayer service by Ms. Upassana Sanghvi and later a brief introduction was given on vachan prerna divas and later different books were displayed Dr. APJ kalam . Later Ms. Shkuntala Nighot introduced the resource person Ms. Jyotsna Sawant. later the resource person started the workshop on speed reading techniques by sharing a google form on reading habits after this MS. Jyotsna sawant gave us imputs on benefits of reading and asked the participants to read book for 3min. later she asked the participants to share their difficulties they faced while reading for 3 minutes. After this ma’am explained us how we can calculate the reading speed. Ma’am Jyotsna asked us to read two books Seven Habits of highly effective people’ and 2 States, then asked us to calculate the speed of our reading through the formula, shared the google link with us and asked us to put it on the Google form.
Ma’am gave the technique of reading through the pointer- finger. Pictures in the books makes our reading very interesting and gives clear idea of the content. The concept of mind map was taught and how the matter can be portrait on the flow chart. Tony Buzan is the founder of mind mapping. Ma’am then asked us to draw the mind map on the drawing paper with the matter on the book ‘Seven Habits of highly effective people' which was projected on the screen. To do this mind mapping we need to note down the subheadings in the chapters in mind map format. Ma’am asked us to note down all the main chapters from book 'Seven Habits of highly effective people’ Mind mapping should be so comprehensive so that with one glance reader should get full summary of the book. Good reading habit helps us to read even the jumbled words. We skip many things while reading for example grammar like articles, adjectives, adverbs etc.
In short speed reading techniques are
After teaching the different techniques of reading Ma’am Jyotsna again asked us to read the book once again and calculate the speed and compare it with the previous. It was really helpful in our reading to increase our speed in reading and to make the reading very authentic and realistic. Ma’am also taught the uses of World web dictionary and PDF reader.
The prizes of the book review competition and best library user was announced by Dr. Cerena D’cunha . in book review competition the first was Sr. Cinthiya, second was Rohini Save and the third winner was Arlene Bose. and the first winner for best library user was Upassana Sanghvi and second winner was Ruby Sharma. Later a formal vote of thanks was given by Gayatri Joshi and then the session ended at 5.10pm with National anthem
The program was a great success with valuable information highlighting the need and importance of reading and mind mapping.
Date: 19th June, 2021
On the Occasion of Vaachan din, St. Teresa’s Institute of Education and Gandhi Shikshan Bhavan’s Smt. Surajba College of Education jointly conducted an event, ‘Prati Din Vaachan din’ on importance of everyday reading. The webinar started with a beautiful song that evoked the spirit of Knowledge and created a perfect atmosphere to start with.
The Principal of St. Teresa’s Institute of education, Dr. Sr. Tanuja Waghmare said the prayer as well as with a warm heart, welcomed the honored chief guest Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar (professor and HOD of library and information Sciences of Savitri bai Phule, Pune university) and the audience of the webinar. This was followed by Dr. Shakuntala Nighot, librarian in charge at St. Teresa’s Institute, giving a brief information about the NDLI (National Digital Library of India), and the NDLI club. She also welcomed Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar as the chief guest and the speaker for the day. In his presence, the inauguration for NDLI club of both the colleges took place.
Dr. Pradnya Bhosekar called upon Dr. Shakuntala Nigot to introduce the speaker, Dr. Rajendra Kumbhar. He was introduced as a Professor and HOD of Library and Information sciences at the Pune University. Dr. Nigot also spoke on his experience within conferences, seminars, paper presentations, writing and guiding in research methods, posts in various important committees, his role as a guide to PHD scholars, as an author, etc. The stage was then over to him for encouraging and motivating the audience to read more.
Dr. Rajendra’s speech on Importance of reading could clearly reflect his interest and love for reading books. He rightly said that Reading cannot be a one-day celebration, it is from breath to breath, Reading is life and life is reading. He emphasized on his statements by given the audience a fact that people those who have a regular reading habit obtain great marks in exams like the GRE. He also stated that when readers speak, appropriate words flow out from their speech, such a speaker continues and the listener immediately marks him as a good reader. As teachers he urged all to be good readers, as sometimes students try to imitate the teachers and also their reading habits.
Her further said that the World now is full of distractions and people need the power of concentration which can be achieved by reading. He emphasized on reading between the lines. Dr Rajendra Kumbhar said we are living in 21st century, we call it a digital world. Everyone is engaged in social media, may be on the laptop, playing the games, on the website reading articles, watching videos, listening songs etc. On social media you are trying hard to actually concentrate but ultimately solution is here in the form of reading particularly really printed books they actually have no side effects. Reading helps develop analytical skills in the modern day. Greater the reading greater the analytical ability that comes to you to understand those micro points from the text between the lines when it comes when you read.
Dr Rajendra Kumbhar said the purpose of education is to create thinking generation and to activate the brain which comes only from the reading. 6 minutes reading helps you to reduce 68% stress. Reading a book change our personalities. Books are the tools which will help us to virtual tour of the world. Reading absolutely has no side effects. Dr Rajendra Kumbhar said but what should we read actually is which will help you to benefit your life and the life of the others. He mentioned some of the books like “ To Serve With Love”, “Super Thirty”, “Teach like a Champion”, “ The Book is for us”, Teaching Kids to Think”, “The Alchemist”, “United Minds”, “Man Me Hai Vishwaas”, Robin Sharma’s books are also the greatest books like “Master Mind.”
Doctor Rajendra Kumbhar encouraged each one of us to join the public library NDLI which will help each one teach one us. He says don’t wait for the reading day to come start from today onwards. He wished each one of us to be the reading model for the students.
Pradnya Bhosekar thanks doctor Rajendra Kumbhar for vaccinating us by encouraging us to read books
Dr Judy Grace Andrew the principal said books are the change makers. Parent should read aloud when children are small. Books are something that takes us beyond. Books are something from the womb to the tomb. She thanked the doctor Rajendra Kumbhar for his inspiring talk.
Pradnya Bhosekar invited Anushree to give the vote of thanks.
Anushree expressed her gratitude to Dr Rajendra Kumbhar on behalf of everyone and thanked the both the colleges Gandhi Shikshan Bhavan’s Smt. Surajba College of Education and our college St. Teresa's Institute of Education and each staff.
The webinar ended with the national anthem.
Date: 10th April 2021
Venue: Google Meet
“Lets Know STIE Library and its Resources” A Library orientation program for F.Y.B.Ed20-21 students was organized at St. Teresa's Institute Of Education on 10th April, 2021 at 2:30to 4.30 via Google meet. The program was organized by Ma'am Dr. Shakuntala Nighot the in charge of STIE library. The main aim of the session was to make students aware of the library rules and instructions.
Ma’am began stating the term “I will be the best library user of 2020-2021The program was organized to make the students aware of the library rules, resources and facilities offered. The detailed orientation with minute details was given through a presentation and practical hands on whenever possible.
Ma'am introduced to us every nook and cranny of the library. The rules and norms from the entry to the exit of the library. She gave us full insightabout the library, how are the books been managed and even information was provided on the cupboards and shelves. What are the steps that could be used to issue the book, tore turn the book, and issue duration for different material.Searching library resources through STIE Library Web-OPAC is demonstrated in detail.
After the visit to the library, We were also introduced to various social networking sites and their utility for STIE students. She demonstrated to us Institutional Facebook page ,Youtube Channel of the institution, STIELibraryBlog etc. students were asked to visit these sites and to subscribe or to send afriendrequesttothesame so that we can easily get notification for the new resources added on those.
N-LIST membership is activated for all of us by generating individual user IDs and Passwords to ensure 24*7 access to vast consortia comprising of several databases of e-Journals and E-books.
We were guided to register on National Digital Library of India and to become STIE NDLI club member. We were also informed about annul STIE Best Library User Award and criteria to win it.
49 students participated in the orientation to the library. All of us realized the importance of library and its resources in the journey of becoming a best teacher! We all were feeling information empowered as we are offered the key to the treasure trove of information and knowledge. The program was great success with valuable information highlighting the importance of library.
Hearty Congratulations to
Prize Winners of
Vachan Prerna Diwas Competitions 2023!
19th October 2023
1) QUIZ COMPETITION
Place | Name of Prize Winners |
| |
1st | Shruti Chikhalkar |
1st | Ayesha Sayyedd |
2nd | Aishwarya Bambarkar |
3rd | Karishma Gonsalves |
3rd | Salomy Farel |
3rd | Nimisha Kadam |
2) BOOK REVIEW COMPETITION
Place | Name of Prize Winners |
| |
1st | Kinny Michelle |
1st | Numa Shaikh |
2nd | Anju Maria Varghese |
3rd | Erica Andrades |
3rd | Andrea Rachel D'Souza |
3rd | Venita D'Souza |
3) BOOK MARK COMPETITION
Place | Name of Prize Winners |
| |
1st | Ayesha Sayyedd |
2nd | Aishwarya Bambarkar |
3rd | Shruti Chikhalkar |
3rd | Ninoshka Carvalho |
4) IT'S MY QUOTE ON MY BOOK MARK COMPETITION
Place | Name of Prize Winners |
| |
1st | Lerisa Pereira |
2nd | Hannah Godfree Joseph |
3rd | Sancia Andrades |
