Next Step Mentors

06/10/2016

Communication workshop series kick off at Kakojan College - Jorhat by NSM.

12/06/2016

New batch, new learnings...

29/05/2016

*Hilarious Laws which you have not studied in schools:*

💮 *Law of equality :*

The time taken by a wife when she says I'll get ready in 5 minutes is exactly equal to the time taken by husband when he says 'I'll cal you in 5 minutes!
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💮 *Law of Queue:*

If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
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💮 *Law of Telephone:*

When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy tone.😅
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💮 *Law of Mechanical Repair:*

After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
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💮 *Law of the Workshop:*

Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.😐
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💮 *Bath Theorem:*

When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
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💮 *Law of Encounters:*

The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
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💮 *Law of the Result:*

When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
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💮 *Law of Bio mechanics:*

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
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💮 *Theatre Rule:*

People with the seats at the farthest from the entry arrive last. 😅
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💮 *Law of Coffee:*

As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will
last until the coffee is cold. 😩
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💮 *Law of Proposal :*

After you accept a proposal you will get a better one...😜

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💮 *Law of getting late*

When you reach early for something it will never start on time😜😉

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💮 *Law of exam*

If you didn't read a page which is of least importance, first question will be from that page only. 😜😜😝

10/05/2016

Academic year moving towards an end.
Thanks dear students for making it worthwhile!

14/03/2016

21/02/2016

Role Play of the SA batch of Department of Post..

21/02/2016

Had a great outdoor training with our students at NITS Mirza..

06/02/2016

We had great time while interacting with the students of IIIT GUWAHATI today..

25/01/2016

This is a continuation from the previous post on Inverted Pyramid Approach to writing news in Journalism….

The Telegraph method of transmitting messages coincided with the American Civil War. During those times, the telegraph lines went 'down' frequently. So the war messengers started prioritizing the transmission of news- they sent the most important newsworthy information first followed by news in a decreasing order of importance. This ensured that the lead news/crucial news about enemy movements got transmitted intact.

Overall the bottom line was to convert the most important and summarized news first- i.e the lead news.

This method lead to a three layered way of transmitting news in journalism i.e. most important news first, important news second and then least important news last. Additionally, this gave the newspaper the flexibility to fit in last minute news by trimming off the third layers from different news articles.

For instance see the below extract of the lead news from Jan 24 'The Telegraph' (Kolkata version):

Jan 24: University of Hyderabad vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile today went on indefinite leave following advice from undeclared quarters. Read the complete news by using the link below:

1-0-25@01@2016-1001.html" rel="ugc" target="_blank">http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/paper/1-0-25@01@2016-1001.html

See for yourself how they have used the inverted pyramid to structure their news article.

Though used regularly in newspapers, the same method can be adopted for our official communications when time is a constraint for us.
So remember- when the next time someone asks you in an interview you to tell about yourself within the next two minutes follow the inverted pyramid approach.

English News Paper, The Telegraph e-Paper brings Latest News in English on Politics, Business, Bollywood, Cricket, Lifestyle, Education, Entertainment, sports and more from Calcutta.

18/01/2016

In journalism there is something called the inverted pyramid approach to writing the lead news...
Don't Google...wait for our next post this week...

02/12/2015

Curiosity happens where there are Gaps in knowledge. Once we realize that we have a gap in our knowledge we are driven to learn more.

This is known as the Gap Theory… This theory was provided by George Loewestein from the Carnegie Mellon University..

Teachers or mentors should make use of this theory to make learning a more interesting and fun experience.

To create a gap..show students something which they already know.. and then tell them what they do not know.. For instance- an earth science teacher may ask his students to bring pictures of an earthquake devastation. All students will understand "what" an earthquake does.. but the gap that will be created by the exercise is "how" it happens.. this will set the context for studying tectonic plate movements.

Teaching and learning can be fun by using the right tools...