Sunil, a high school physics teacher in a nondescript village in Thrissur, is now a teacher to thousands of students. Blogging has expanded his reach like anything.
Log on to www.karipparasunils.blogspot.com and you know exactly how he runs a physics class in his blog. ‘Physics Vidyalayam’, one of his ten blogs, was started in 2006 and over the years has turned inspirational to many students and teachers.
There is every possible information on physics lessons you can find in the cyberspace at his blog. Click on the pictures of scientists, from Einstein to Edison - there are a whole number of them - and you get all the details. There are the various physics experiments charted out, physics lessons covered, doubts cleared and probable questions for examinations rehearsed.
“I came to read about blogs from newspapers and learnt their positive objectives. Once I started one and came to know about its reach and impact, I decided to use it for the goodwill of the student community,’’ Sunil speaks to us from Thrissur.
At the various teachers’ training classes, Sunil came across many doubts and thought, “why not clear them and post them so that teachers like me can use the material.’’
In a few years, when his blogs began to be well-received, Sunil started encouraging his colleagues at school and students to start blogging.
His school, Kamala Nehru Memorial Vocational Higher Secondary School, now has its own blog, www.knmvhss.blogspot.com. All school activities, engagements and achievements are listed in the blog, which has been paving the way for children to know about a wider world outside.
However, Sunil says blogging has made him grow as a person too. “I could develop my language, learn new things from blogosphere and develop new relationships,’’ he says.
Though mainly focusing on physics, Sunil is now the IT trainer in the school too, which explains why a lot of IT stuff is found in his blog.
asha.nair.expressbuzz.com