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Monday, Jul 03, 2006

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Educational CDs on display

Staff Reporter

The exhibition offers 20-50 per cent discount on various titles The exhibition offers 20-50 per cent discount on various titles

CHENNAI: An exhibition featuring over 10,000 educational CDs and CD-ROMs that cater to the needs of students of all ages is now on at Chettiar Hall at Alwarpet.

Produced by over 200 companies, the CDs cover all subjects — ranging from nursery rhymes, pre-school activity, fairy tales, Indian epics, and moral stories for children, down to interactive software to learn various applications like C, Photoshop, Dream weaver, C++, Java, C#, those featuring titles produced by Microsoft, BBC, Discovery Channel and Encyclopaedia.

"The exhibition seeks to create an awareness and to directly interact with customers and let them know about the latest CDs and their utility that are available to all at affordable prices" said N. Anandan, Director, Dove Multimedia, the expo organiser.

The exhibition is being organised for the third year running.

Former Indian Captain K. Srikkanth inaugurated the event and released two CDs. '

The educational CDs include Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, learning tutorial for foreign languages such as French, Russian, German, and Spanish, etc. Add to it CDs for Competitive Exam like UPSC, GRE, IIT, AIEEE and TNPCEE, Management skills and development. The rest caters to local audience on how to teach Tamil, ancient stories, horoscope CDs. There are also Game CDs to attract children.

The exhibition, which offers 20-50 per cent discount on various titles, is open till July 11.

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