1. Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu
Saksham
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli,
Tamilnadu

2. Batch Summary Location : Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli,
State: Tamil Nadu
Batch Start Date:
Batch End Date:
No. of Participants: 23

3. Name of the Participant College/ UniversityDepartment
Participant Details
S. No.
Name of the Participant
College/ UniversityDepartment
State 1
Dr. Narkunaraja Shanmugam
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli –
Tamilnadu 2
Dr. A. Antony Joseph Velanganni
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 3
Dr. S. Selvaraj
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 4
Dr. K. Thamilmaran
Associate Professor, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 5
Dr.S.Suba
Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 6
Dr.C.Kubendran
Principal (i/c), Bharathidasan University Constituent arts & science College, Nannilam ,Thiruvarur District 7
Dr.M.Premavathy
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bharathidasan University Constituent College for Women, Orathanadu , Thanjavur 8
Dr.S.Maneemegalai
Principal i/c, Bharathidasan University Constituent College for Women, Orathanadu , Thanjavur District 9
Dr. N. Amsaveni
Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 10
Dr.V.Sethuramalingam
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli –

4. Name of the Participant College/ UniversityDepartment
Participant Details
S. No.
Name of the Participant
College/ UniversityDepartment
State 11
Dr. N.S. Shibu
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, Bharathidasan University Constituent College, Lalgudi
Tamilnadu 12
Dr. U.Alibava
Associate Professor, Department of Tamil Studies, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 13
Dr. T. Jai Sankar
Assistant Professor and Head i/c, Department of Statistics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 14
Mr. R. Jegankumar
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 15
Dr. M. Muthuselvam
Assistant Profesor, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 16
Dr. S. Karuppaiyan
Associate Professor, Department of Lifelong Learning, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 17
Dr. R. Sakthivel
Assistant Professor, Centre for Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 18
Dr. K. Maheswari
Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Social Work, Bharathidasan University College,
Thuraiyur Main Road, Kurumbalur – , Perambalur District 19
Dr.S. Vanitha
Assistant Professor
Department of Commerce and Financial Studies, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 20
Dr. K. Vetrivel
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli –

5. Name of the Participant College/ UniversityDepartment
Participant Details
S. No.
Name of the Participant
College/ UniversityDepartment
State 21
Dr. M. Sathiyabama
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli –
Tamilnadu 22
Ms. M. Prabavathy
Assistant Professor, Centre for Differently Abled Persons, Bharathidasan University
Thiruchirappalli – 23
Mr. K. Balasubramani
Nodal Officer
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli –

6. Batch Learning Curve

7. Batch Learning Curve

8. Highlights - Inauguration
SAKSHAM at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu commenced on 21st June 2012 with 23 participants from different departments and affiliated colleges.
Inaugural address was done by Dr. T. Ramaswamy, Registrar, Bharathidasan University.
Inauguration was done by Dr. (Mrs.) K. Meena Vice-Chancellor, Bharathidasan University.
Ms. Shivani Sahai, Program Manager (SAKSHAM), attended the inauguration. She explained about SAKSHAM and its benefits. She also shared contribution of Microsoft in Higher Education.
Mr. K Balarubramani, Asstt. Prof., gave vote of thanks.

9. SAKSHAM @ Bharathidasan University: Inauguration
Guests at the Inauguration Prayer
Benedictory address was done by Dr. T. Ramaswamy, Registrar

10. Ms. Shivani Sahai, Program Manager, SAKSHAM addressing the audience
Highlights
Dr. (Mrs.) K. Meena, Vice-Chancellor, addressing the audience at inauguration.
Ms. Shivani Sahai, Program Manager, SAKSHAM addressing the audience

11. Media Coverage

12. Media Coverage

13. Media Coverage

14. Media Coverage

15. Media Coverage

16. Media Coverage

17. Participants involved in a group activity – Little Discoveries
Highlights – Bharathidasan University Group Activities
Participants involved in a group activity – Little Discoveries

18. Participants presenting their mind maps
Highlights – Bharathidasan University Mind Maps Creation
Participants presenting their mind maps

19. Participants involved in Collaboration Activity – Building Bridges
Highlights – Bharathidasan University Collaboration Activities
Participants involved in Collaboration Activity – Building Bridges

20. Participants involved in a Motivational activity for Collaboration
Highlights – Bharathidasan University Motivation Activities
Participants involved in a Motivational activity for Collaboration

21. Highlights – Bharathidasan University Motivation Activities
Dr. K. Meena, Vice-Chancellor, Bharathidasan University participated actively in the soft skills session and interacted with participants on teaching-learning process.

22. Highlights – Bharathidasan University Valedictory
Dr. T. S. Sridhar, Ph.D., I.A.S., Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Higher Education Department, Government of Tamil Nadu delivered valedictory address through audio-conferencing.
Dr. (Mrs.) K. Meena, Vice-Chancellor, Bharathidasan University delivered presidential address

23. Highlights – Bharathidasan University Valedictory
Dr. (Mrs.) K. Meena, Vice-Chancellor, distributed the certificates to the participants
1 SAKSHAM Courseware was presented to Library of Bharathidasan University

24. Highlights – Bharathidasan University
The participants were enthusiastic and keen to learn.
The following were the highlights of the programme:
General Highlights
The group was enthused about their knowledge and skill building.
They were very excited about their IT enablement .
The participants were open to new ideas and willing to experiment with them.
There were lots of query sessions on IT usage particularly on Productivity programs. Participants wanting to clarify their doubts on simple topics like “auto-text” and mail merge to complex topics like data analysis using excel, pivot tables and creating 2D charts.

25. Take-aways – Bharathidasan University
Participants found IT sessions very interesting. especially Microsoft Excel, Advance features of PowerPoint, LCDS and Office 365.
Participants found activities like planning technology integrated lessons, visioning exercises as well as questioning and listening role plays very interesting and took part in these very enthusiastically.
The sessions on Windows Accessibility Features for Specially Abled People was much appreciated by all.
Participants took part in collaboration and motivational activities very enthusiastically.

26. Sound Bytes – Bharathidasan University
The course content was very excellent. It is the blend of Special features of Microsoft latest teaching & leaning components.
Jegankumar. R,  M.Sc, M.Tech., Assistant Professor Department of Geography,
School of Geosciences, Bharathidasan University
I loved this awesome program, I am sure I am going to pass it on what I learnt, to my students, to my colleagues and going to keep this flame going on as possible as I can.  
Thanks a lot for awesome team of Microsoft. They are really fantastic and I wish I could have theirs’ patience.  
Narkunaraja Shanmugam, Associate Professor
Biomedical Science, Bharathidasan University

27. Feedbacks – Bharathidasan University

28. Summary – Bharathidasan University
The training commenced on the 21st of June 2012 and concluded on 30th June 2012
There were 23 participants in all from different faculties of the Bharathidasan University
The training was successful in addressing all the defined concepts/topics and objectives.

29. The Valedictorians

30. Group Photo after valedictory

31. Thank You!!!