Welcome to the Age of Texpression

We are living in an age where technologies have invaded in all walks of our life. Technology is assuming a status of a language. When humans invented or discovered language, they found a means of expression in it. Once alphabets were determined and words were formed, ability to produce expressions using those words became the differentiator between people and society, Poets or authors are known for their command over language and hence their expression ability.

Today in our technology-enabled and technology-embedded world, we must coin a new term to denote the ability of individual to use tools or technologies to express. My choice is Texpression. Technology today has a potential and is doing today what language did once for human society. It is providing a means to capture one's thought and express it for rest of the world. Texpressions are human expressions enabled by underlying traditional language and wrapped in technology or tools. Blog is an example for Texpression.

Power of language to express and power of printed word to spread expression created a new species of people called authors May be now time has come to Texpress :Using tools to enhance human expressions and reach wider audiences.

About SDM IPR Cell

SDM IPR Cell is established to educate its stake holders : students, faculty and others about one of the most important and relevant issues of our times: Intellectual Property. Properties have ruled human minds since time immemorial and in recent years technologically created and crafted properties such as algorithms and gene sequences are overshadowing the traditionally adored properties such as land, factory etc.

The first and foremost objective of SDM IPR cell is to bring a desired degree of awareness about these intellectual property issues such as creating them, protecting them and harnessing them for personal, professional and social causes.

This SDM IPR intends to do with a set of well conceived and thoroughly planned activities such as invited lectures, IPR clinics and design of curriculum to mention the few.

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Web Technologies for Teachers

Periodically emergence of new technologies have altered the nature and scope of human endeavors. One such endeavor that has been regularly benefited from new technologies is education. In pre-printing press days education was by and large oral and limited to physical delivery of lesson. The advent of printing press and hence the printed word changed it for ever. The ability to publish books created universities and authors.

With the advent of WWW we have a new power with us. Hyperword. Hyperword is a created in connected environment. Printed word captured the oral knowledge for ever and made it available everywhere in the world. The hyperword goes beyond that. At the same time a hyper word informs reader and also has a potential to another source on informed topic. This twin features of hyperword is the basis of all that is happening and all that can happen in the days to come.

Some of resources available for teaching that exploit hyperword are

• Blogger
• Search engines
• Online docs

The power of hyperword- non-linear jumping potential and having multimedia content can do wonder for teaching world