End of Journey of THINKQUEST !!!

ThinkQuest is one of the biggest online learning platform which provide a fabulous platform to more than a millions of student of 30416 schools from different part of world. ThinkQuest helps students develop important 21st century skills, including communication, critical thinking, and technology skills. It was transitioning from 30 June onwards.

The sudden announcement of transitioning was very shocking not only for it’s user but for the digital world also.

ThinkQuest was created in 1996 by Allan H. Weis under his nonprofit Advanced Network and Services. The service was acquired by the Oracle Education Foundation in 2002, which has operated many different the competition until 2012.Eventully ThinkQuest is going to be closed after June 2013

As per oracle education foundation ThinkQuest is being closed because when oracle first released think.com [predecessor of ThinkQuest], few technologies solution were available to educators. But now scenario has been changed .In fact, many free technologies are now being available to educators worldwide. And therefore oracle education foundation found it the right time to sunset ThinkQuest.

ThinkQuest library of more than 1,07,943 projects which set it apart from any other online learning platform. It let the students to move beyond the walls of their classroom and explore the culture of different parts of the world. It has completely changed the way to teach and learn. 

ThinkQuest users can download their projects from ThinkQuest before 30 June using ThinkQuest online tool . ThinkQuest   has also invited members of his wonderful community to visit the “ThinkQuest Farewell Scapbook” project and share how ThinkQuest has touched their life.

In the last Trough this blog I would like to wish everyone who has been associated with ThinkQuest,... Goodbye, Good Luck and every Blessing for the Prosperous FUTURE .....  

How to type Indian Rupees Symbol ?

Around 3 years before , in July 2010 India joined the list of countries having their distinct currency symbols . the amount in Rupees is now prefixed with a ₹ , which was formally prefixed as “Rs.”

                                                                                               This symbol was designed by uday kumar , a B.Tech student at industrial design center , IIIT Bombay . The symbol was selected from over 3000 entries invited through a competition  held for citizen Nationwide  .

Today thus symbol is being used all around . 

we notice ₹ symbol in various newspaper, magazines, website, bill, price tag, statement, financial document, stamps and bank cheques frequently.   

We counter many situation when we also need to use ₹ (Rs.) symbol whether it is sending financial mail , making bill, track your expenses or any other such work , still after 3 years of symbol designed still many people don’t know how to type ₹ symbol. 

I will tell you two simple way to type ₹ symbol :

1 . Direct Method -

If you rarely encounter use of ₹ symbol this method is for you. This is the most easy and fastest method .

1.     Open a new Microsoft word document.

2.     Type 20b9 (b in small letter) in any font .

3.     Now press Alt + X .

4.     You will notice 20b9 has changed into ₹ .

                              This method works only in Microsoft office word document so if you want to use  ₹ symbol in any other program , I will suggest you to to first type ₹ symbol in Microsoft office word document as described above and copy it and paste it in program you want to use . 

2 . Patch Installation Method -

If you frequently need to type ₹ symbol opt following method . This method will work in all programs .

1. Download and install the required patch from here .

2 .Download the appropriate version of the patch based on your version of Windows.  Once download completes, install the update .

3. After installing the patch you need to change keyboard setting by following steps .

•              Browse to Control Panel, select the category :Region and Language
•             Select the tab Keyboards and Languages, select the option : Change Keyboards
•             Click on the tab Add and select English(India) and Keyboard as India(default).
•             Click on OK, and then on Apply and Ok to save the settings.

 4. Restart the system after ensuring that the default language is selected as English India.

5. Now your keyboard will be able to write rupee symbol.

6. For writing rupee symbol now on wards use Ctrl+Alt+₹(4 or $ on regular key). The Keyboards without rupee symbol, can use Ctrl+Alt+$ .

Note :

                                        This works with most of the keyboards irrespective whether rupee symbol is present on the key or not. The key with $ will be used to write rupee symbol.

The FIRST

The first 

what the amazing word FIRST is . isn't it ?
with a new joy , extreme enthusiasm we do something for the first time without thinking about which way it will lead us toward . there is a totally different experience of doing something for the very first time .
The same experience and feeling i am having while writing my first blog .
But don't know why after a short while the same joy ,same enthusiasm , same feeling got lost somewhere .
I hope the same will not happen in my case ..................