4. About this project:
• Official launch on the 26th of January, 2010
• The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the
‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National
Mission on Education through Information and
Communication Technology (NMEICT), launched
by the Ministry of Human Resources and
Development, Government of India.
• Popularize software development of spoken
tutorials and its use will be coordinated through
website http://spoken-tutorial.org.
5. Observations
• Digital Gap or Divide
• Reasons for these gaps in
access are:
– Lack of knowledge about
accessibility
– Lack of proper guidance
– Lack of infrastructure facilities
available
– Difficulty in understanding
English
6. India’s Population
• 21st Century belongs to India
• 2024 Most populous
• Largest population of youths in
world
11. Objective:
• Seeing and Hearing greatly improves
Understanding.
• A variety of spoken tutorials that will help to
learn and use open source software (200+).
12. Objective
• Community based site,
• Welcome your contributions.
– Have a topic, script or video for a spoken tutorial?
• Upload them on site http://spoken-tutorial.org.
• Promoting translations of these tutorials into different
languages.
• After creations
– tutorials are reviewed by experts,
– they will be hosted on site and will become part of the
public domain,
– thus benefitting all who are interested in it.
13. Objective:
• Conduct software training
workshops using spoken
tutorials
• and give certificates to those
who pass an online test.
14. Mission
• Learning is more effective when animation and
narration are presented simultaneously .
• Audio-video demonstrations can illustrate
features with maximum clarity.
• Main objective is to pass on the knowledge of
technology and free and open source software
(FOSS) through the website to the millions in our
country who lack opportunities and/or access to
learn any software.
• Indian regional languages
15. Goal
• The spoken Tutorial Project aims to make
spoken tutorials on FOSS available in several
Indian languages, for the learner to be able to
learn in the language he/she is comfortable in.
• Our goal is to enable the use of spoken
tutorials to teach in any Indian language, and
to be taught to learners of all levels of
expertise- Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced
16. Target Group
• The target group is the community at large,
– including school children,
– college students,
– working professionals,
– retired professionals,
– housewives,
– teachers,
– trainers,
– research scholars,
– software users and developers.
• Aim to reach out to all the people in India through this
portal.
53. Steps for installation of software (for
Organisers)
1. Open the "index.html" file in
Firefox/Chrome/Chromium web browser
2. The "Side-by-Side Method" video appears by
default.
3. Select Foss, Language and press "Search"
button, to view the videos.
4. After this, refer to the "Installation Sheet"
and follow the instructions to install the
software on your machine
54. Steps for learning from the tutorials
(for Learners)
1. Open the "index.html" file in
Firefox/Chrome/Chromium web browser
2. Watch the "Side-by-Side Method" video
3. Select Foss, Language and press "Search"
button, to view the videos.
4. After this, refer to the "Instruction Sheet
55. "Instruction Sheet“: Note
• Subtitle option will work only on Firefox.
• If you are using Firefox, then type "about:config" on
address bar.
• Once the config page is loaded, then click on "I'll be more
careful, I promise!" button.
• Then search for the option
"security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy".
• Change the value to "false", this step is mandatory to load
the web fonts offline.
• If you are using chrome, Please close all opened chrome's
windows.
• Open chrome via command prompt with "--allow-file-
access-from-files" flag to access subtitle option.
56. About Libre Office Suite
Libre Office is an all-in-one
program opened via a single link:
An open
alternative
office suite to
Microsoft
Office.
57. Libre Office & MS Office: Similarities &
Differences
Libre Office is equipped with most of the same
features and functions as MS Office, but the
difference will be that these may be named
differently and located in a different menu to
MS Office.
Using Libre Office you can create or edit all of
the same types of file as you would with MS
Office, e.g. word documents, spreadsheets and
presentations.
58. MS Office Vs Libre Office
MS Office/ MS Window Libre Office
MS Word
Ms Excel
MS Power Point
Window Paint
NA
MS Access
59. LibreOffice Suit
• Many of the keyboard shortcuts you may have grown
accustomed to work the same way in Libre Office:
[Ctrl] C - Copy
[Ctrl] V - Paste
[Ctrl] Z - Undo
[Ctrl] A - Select All
[Ctrl] N - New Document
[Ctrl] S - Save Document
[Ctrl] P – Print
Etc.
60. The toolbars are similar to MS Office
and have the same functions:
61. Compatibility with MS Office
• Libre Office will recognise and open any MS
Office document or file.
• When it does so, however, you may notice some
minor difference in appearance and formatting.
• For example, the fonts may be changed. Libre
Office offers a wide range of fonts that are similar
to or approximate MS Offices one, so you can
change the font, if necessary, whilst editing.
