Conference Report

CVM’s H. M. Patel Institute of English Training & Research, in association with ELT@I, has organized 1ST International Conference on Interactive Media in Pedagogy: Learning English In and Beyond Classrooms from 08-10 January, 2010. The inaugural function was held at BVM auditorium on 08th Jan. 2010. The function started with a prayer by Nishant Joshi & group. Dr. R. P. Jadeja, Director of the Institute extended a warm welcome to the intellectual gathering, followed by a floral welcome to the dignitaries on the dais. On this occasion a book on Business Communication written by Dr. O. P. Juneja and co-authored by Dr. Aarti Majumdar, was released by the esteemed guests on the dais.
Dr. Maya Pandit, Pro- Vice Chancellor, English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad delivered a Key-Note address on ‘Why Technology?’ She focused on the collaboration among society, education and technology. She also highlighted that education must provide entertainment with reference to media and other easily available resources for which she used the term ‘Edu-entertainment’. She was of the opinion that now the thirst for knowledge has shifted from passing competitive exams to know the self, the world and to help the globe. She expressed technology as an essential tool for teaching and learning English which enhances teacher and learner’s ability to learn for various purposes. Mrs. Jayanti Ravi Menon, Commissioner Higher Education, Gujarat shared her noteworthy experiences in the field of education. She focused on paradigm shift from ‘passive teaching’ to ‘active learning’. She also explored the key role of ICTE and English Language Skills with reference to the reduction of unemployment and Knowledge Management. She emphasized on ‘Choice or freedom based education system’ to be developed in 21st century in India where a learner can get his/her graduation in Physics and Economics together which is not available at present. Charutar Ratna Dr. C. L. Patel, Chairman CVM and President of the function shared his valuable presidential remarks on the theme of the conference and showed his happiness referring the academic growth of Gujarat in the field of teaching English. He showered his wondrous blessings upon all and congratulated the host team. Finally, Dr. K. M. Prabhu, Vice-President, English Language Teachers’ Association of India, proposed a vote of thanks on behalf of both H. M. Patel Institute and ELT@I. Dr. Praphu opined that the Institute with the support of Government of Gujarat has made the state a unique state in the area of English Language Teaching-learning in India. Within a few years it will overtake even Tamilnadu and Andhra which are the leading states in this area today.
The function ended with the National Anthem. There are 300 participants from the various states of India and abroad in the conference in which more than 120 participants will present their paper, out of which 10-12 participants have come from the countries like UK, Iran, Iraq, Ukraine, Singapore etc. The conference will surely lead towards knowledge exchanging and so towards fruitful learning.

Stay at the Conference

Dear Friends!

Your accommodation is finalized at the following venues:

• Vadtal ( nine kilometers away from the Institute)
• NDDB Campus

In both the cases, you are advised to come to the Institute first and then the volunteers from the Institute will guide you for the respective places.

The list of your accommodation details will be uploaded very soon.

Schedule for 10/01/10

Dear friends

Here is the final instalment of paper presentations that are going to take place on the last day of the conference, i.e. 10/01/10. However, if your name still does not figure in the list, then please do contact us immediately.

	Presenter	Chairperson	Announcer	Room No.	Date
Please note that presentations are scheduled between 10:15 – 11:50 at H M Patel Institute
1.	Seema Singh		Sathyajit G D	209	10/01/10
2.	Ajay Patel			209	“
3.	Krushna Mishra			209	“
4.	Tarun Patel & Rajesh Bharvad			209	“
5	Venu Mehta			209	“
6.	Yashwant Sharma			209	“
7.	Sarah Holt	Dr K M Prabhu	Dharmanshu Vaidya	207	“
8	Govind Prasad Goyal & Smita Gupta			207	“
9	Pawan Dwivedi			207	“
10.	Harbhadrasinh Sarvaiya			207	“
11.	Neda Fatehi			207	“
12.	K. Madhavi Reddy			207	“
13.	Falguni Desai	Prof M B Gaijan	Hina Dobaria	208	“
14.	Satish Lakde & Sathe			208	“
15.	Vaishali Punjani			208	“
16.	Mrunal Chavda			208	“
17.	Urmi Satyan			208	“
18.	Surabhi Pillai			208	“
19.	Manish Pandya & Divyanshi Pandya	Dr N V Bose	Jignesh Rupapara	210	“
20.	Bhaskar Pandya & Kaushal Kotadiya			210	“
21.	Sumeet Ramchandani (not presenting)			210	“
22.	Audrey E Barlow			210	“
23.	Jagdish Joshi			210	“
24.	B S Nimavat			210	“
25.	Dilip Bhatt	Dr Dilip Barad	Bidyarani Guruvayum	108	“
26.	Vaibhav Sabnis			108	“
27.	Kajal Rao			108	“
28.	Kavita Tyagi			108	“
29.	Kiran Shukla			108
30.	Jaysukh Hirpara			108
31.	Vasishth + Arindam			109
32.	Sunil Shah + Surendrasinh Gohil			109
33.	Girish Prasad Rath			109
34.	J L Shalin			109
35	Arti Yadav + Avinash Moharil			109

Paper Presentation Schedule: 9th January 2010

SR	Presenter	Chairperson	Announcer	Room. No.	Date
Please note that presentations are scheduled between 14:00 – 15:45 at H M Patel Institute
01	Subhamitra Adhikari	Dr Aarti Mujumdar	Dharmanshu Vaidya	207	09/01/2010
02	Jaishree Iyengar + K. Raju			207	”
03	Swati Khare			207	”
07	J. Jalkute + V. Wagmare			207	”
08	Manoj Gadekar			207	”
09	Ganesh Chavan			207	”
20	Manish Vyas	Dr Jinendra B Jain	Gaurav Gohil	109	”
04	Bhavdip Chavda			109	”
05	Kiran S N			109	”
06	Chetan Trivedi			109	”
22	Vikas Raval			109	”
23	Anju Agraval			109	”
10	S S Thakur	Dr V U Pawar	Hina Dobaria	208	”
11	Leena Shajy			208	”
12	Tejas Beldar + Sachin Labade			208	”
13	Kirit Rughani + Dina Ranigna			208	”
14	Hem Raj Kafle			208	”
16	Amita Patel			208	”
15	Khagengra Acharya + Tirtha Ghimire	Dr S Senthilnathan	Satyajith G D	209	”
17	Vaishali Shivkumar			209	”
18	Dilip Barad			209	”
19	R Janaky			209	”
21	Sarbjeet Cheema			209	”
24	Arti Kumar			209	”
25	Tejal Chauhan	Dr R Gandhi Subramanian	Jignesh Rupapara	210	”
26	Chandrakant Tanna + Vohra			210	”
27	Anila Nair			210	”
28	Rajeshwari Singh			210	”
29	N V Bose			210	”
30	Shezad Bodila			210	”
31	Bharat Bhushan	Dr Mohammad Shaukat Ansari	Bidyarani Guruvayum	108	”
32	Milan Pandya			108	”
33	Nehaben Thakkar			108	”
34	Abhipsa Yagnik + Anil Varsat			108	”
35	Anshu Surve			108	”
36	Nikhil Joshi			108	”
37	Agnel Parmar	Dr Jaylaxmi Jadeja	Faisal Sheikh	110	“
38	Charul Jain			110
39	Firoz Shaikh			110
40	Nisrin Pathan			110
41	Swati Bhatt			110
42	Sumathi Shivkumar			110