.. Its important to keep our heart healthy.. to keep our body alive..
Today September 29 is celebrated as World Heart Day. Our Sheeba ma`am made this day wonderful by making a discussion about how to keep our heart healthy. I was so amazed as everyone was interested and shared there knowledge.
Our College has conducted a class on "Research Methodology" by Dr. Bindu. S. The session was conducted through Google Meet from 11 to 1.00. It was an interesting session in which she explained every aspects associated with research and the various types of researches like action research, empirical research, case study etc were discussed. I am sure that, everyone of us understood the content. But I think that, more than the theoretical part, ma`am could have included examples. I think due to the time limitation there was not much time left to discuss more.
We conducted a welcoming function for our New manager of Christ Nagar college, Rev. Fr. Joseph Vattaparampil CMI. We beginned with the prayer at 11 pm and then we enjoyed the beautiful words of our manager who enlightened us with his magical words. He explained us the importance of the profession. Teaching is not just a profession, beyond that teachers mould the coming generation. Then all our teachers and non- teaching staffs introduced themselves and we wind up our programme at 1 pm.
We were informed before itself that, after onam vacation from September 7 to September 9, we will be having our mid semester exam. Even if we were informed, due to the onam celebration at home, we were little distracted from studies. But some how we managed to write the exam properly. The exam was conducted by assigning one teacher for 5 to 6 students and we were monitored through Google Meet and we should always keep the video on and teacher presented the question paper for us. It was a new experience and I was not that comfortable of writing exam without having the comfort of a proper desk like in our classroom. But not only me, majority among us was satisfied with these online classes and exams. We really want our traditional classroom settings.
On 7th and 8th Sepetember, we got an opportunity to take part in an online workshop conducted by KUETEF (Kerala University English Teaching Educators Forum). It was a nice experience and we were able to understand various online platforms like online whiteboards, Book widget, befunky, flashcard.online, pixton cartoon maker, etc. It was a very effective session.
On September 5, we conducted a virtual onam celebration. We were really excited to watch every programme and to see everyone in set saree. Everyone looked beautiful in set saree and set mundu. Before this day, the competitions were done through virtual platforms and the results will be announced today.
Our teachers surprised us by presenting a wonderful onam wishes to us through pre-recorded video. It was an amazing visual treat for all of us.
We created an entertainment video for everyone
Then first, their was Presentation of Malayali Manga first round videos.
I was the first contestant, Adithya. Then there was a second round asking one question to each contestant. The question asked to me was "If you could change anything in this world, how will you make that change ?" I was scared a little, I was given 1 second to think and answer within three second. I answered that, "I am a budding teacher who love teaching. I believe that if I can bring a change in the world, it is only possible through being the change and changing my students to become better human being. I can change the way they behave, the way they respect others, I can make them a better individual so that I can change him, through him I am bring change in his family, friends, society and in the world. Then they presented the photo entries for the competition of Onasadhya and Onapookkalam Photography contest.
At the end of all the program they announced the winners of Malayali Manga competition.
I was so happy. Because I won the title "Malayali Manga 2020 of Christ Nagar College of Education". Second place was crowned by Keerthi and Third place by Reshmi Ratheesh. It was a new experience for me and it will have a special place in my mind. And I also got first prize for Onasadhya photography Contest.
Teachers' Day is celebrated on September 5, the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a great teacher and the second president of India.As we are all budding teachers, we decided to celebrate our day. We planned to entertain our teachers and make them happy through online meet up.
The programme was really wonderful and our chief guest was Dr. Raghunathan Pillai, Coordinator of Kerala State Civil Service Academy, Thiruvananthapuram. He gave us valuable informations regarding the profession and passion of teaching. He made us understand the value of our profession.
Then after the official function we celebrated the day with our teachers by conducting various programmes and sharing our love to them through various videos and games. We planned and presented this video for our beloved teachers.
Onam is an annual holiday and festival celebrated in Kerala, India. It is a celebration of culture, heritage, togetherness and love. Onam is celebrated in the Malayalam month Chingam. According to the belief of Keralites, the festival is celebrated to commemorate King Mahabali, whose spirit is said to visit Kerala at the time of Onam.
In our land onapookkalam (Atham), Onasadya, onakkalakal, onakkalikal, etc are part and parcel of the culture of our country.
I hope that, even if we suffer with Corona, many of us are able to celebrate onam with our family in our home. I also celebrated onam with my family in our home. It was a valuable memories.
