IDA Teaching Award for Teaching excellence in Commerce

I am glad to be selected for IDA Teaching Award for Teaching excellence in Commerce, selected through three levels from over 5600 nominations Pan India...! I am fortunate to be among the 21 Innovative Educators, selected for the IDA Teaching Award 2016 

Link :http://awards.indiadidac.com/teaching/winners-2016/

The felicitation ceremony was hel on  5th May 2017, at the India Habitat Centre along with a conference on “Evolving Education Ecosystem” which was attended by Principals & senior management from Top Delhi NCR schools and prominent speakers from education fraternity along with IDA advisors from NCERT, NIOS, IPSE & more.

Check Facebook Post by India Didac Organisation 

List of winners 

Microsoft’s E2 – Education Exchange Live Streaming

The E2 - Education Exchange is Microsoft in Education’s annual event recognizing and celebrating the achievements of educators who combine content, pedagogy, and technology in exemplary ways to prepare students for success.

Great to see our Indian Team attending event onsite with Dr.  Vinnie Jauhari (Director, Education Advocacy , Microsoft) at Toronto Canada 

It was my pleasure and honor to attend this year Microsoft’s E2 – Education Exchange Live Streaming from Toronto Canada sitting at my home 

It was great learning experience listening to experts and real life stories where Microsoft is leveraging technology to bring about real life social changes.

Check the topics covered 

In case you missed the live streaming you can watch the recorded event by visiting Microsoft Educator Network 

All the sessions were amazing but I particularly liked 4th session by Daniel Mcduff about Transforming Learning through emotion . Eagerly waiting to try this new technological innovation where I will be able to know the emotions of my learners.

Also the Onenote session done by Mike Tholfsent was amazing .He shared top 10 tips of using OneNote .

It was glad to know that Microsoft is associated with WE Movement 

It is always a pleasure to listen to Anthony Salicito (Vice president of Worldwide Education at Microsoft). His dedication is reflected in the way he speaks and inspires so many educators including me.

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Leveraging Technology in Education - conference

I attended conference on Leveraging Technology in Education at Hotel ITC Maurya, New Delhi on 23rd September ,2016

 Leveraging Technology in Education

How can Technology support inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning 

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)  organized a day-long conference to deliberate over how technology can be leveraged to support inclusive and quality education and promote lifelong learning. The conference brought  together industry stalwarts and key representatives from Government and civil society to deliberate and help draft recommendations which can aide policy development.

The conference  provided a glimpse into the exciting world of new possibilities in the areas of 1:1 learning, classrooms of the future, adaptive learning, digital content transformation, building teacher capacity and much more. 

My participation in this conference  helped me in benefiting from interactions with industry leaders.

Some of the key confirmed speakers were Mr Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India; Ms Debjani Ghosh, Managing Director, South Asia, Intel Corporation and Mr. Rajiv Srivastava, Managing Director, Hewlett Packard India.

Also it was great to hear 

Dr. Manpreet Singh Manna - Director , Incharge SYAYAM Cell ,AICTE

Ms Jyoti Guota - Principal DPS Gaziabad

Dr. Vinnie Jauhari - Director education Advocacy , Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Kishore Balaji - Director corporate affairs , Intel south Asia (He was an excellent moderator)

Also met Many MIE's and Fellow (Sangeeta Sukramani , Meenakshi Oberoi )

My participation in this conference  helped me in benefiting from interactions with industry leaders.

Innovative Educator Expert program

Glad to be part of Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert program 2016-17.
Being part of this program has given me opportunity to learn from experts and my peers across the globe.
Awaiting lot of new learning of innovative practices .

Attended EdmodoCon 2016

I attended EdmodoCon on 2nd August 2016, 
Title : Elevate Global Learning 
EdmodoCon is a live online global event where educators from around the world connect with each other to share how they’re using Edmodo and other digital tools to personalize learning. The educational professional development event of the year, EdmodoCon will help you collaborate with other teachers, discover valuable new resources, and inspire you to harness the power of edtech in your classroom.

Selected as MIE Fellow

MIE fellow are the Educators who have demonstrated and built strong MIE Expert or Trainer achievements and can dedicate more time to work with Microsoft and educators to transform classroom learning.
I am among  newly appointed 6 MIE fellows:
 • Hari Krishna Arya
 • Meenakshi Uberoi
• Srinivasan Sriram
• Sangeeta Shukramani
• Mamta Narula
• Poonam Dogra

Check the Microsoft Newsletter  : Click here 

E2 - Educator Exchange virtual event

Although in person experience is different but this year due to  Virtual event ( Live web event )and Live streaming through Periscope by Minnia Feng, I was part of all the fun and learning at

E² - Educator Exchange digital conference 9 March 2016 . 

Thanks Microsoft for giving Opportunity to educators across globe to collaborate and learn new and innovative ways of bringing positive change in way they teach .

Thanks Microsoft for giving Opportunity to educators across globe to collaborate and learn new and innovative ways of bringing positive change in way they teach .