The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Children enact evolution of communication

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Children enact evolution of communication

Staff Reporter

`Sanchar Vani' at a St. Thomas Mount school From the old style of making announcement through drum to the latest iPods, children provided an overview.

CHENNAI : The project day titled Sanchar Vani (on media and communication) at The PSBB Millennium School, St. Thomas Mount, showcased a child's perspective of communication technology.

From the ancient method of announcement using the drum to the latest iPods, children provided an overview of communication through the ages. "Children today know only the Internet, FM Radio and Satellite TV and radio channels. This two-day event attempts to make our students understand the history and evolution of post, television, radio and other means of communication,'' says Dr. Rukmani Mothilal, principal of the school.

The school children put up a mock post-office, radio station and television station. The live FM radio was a big hit. Ham Radio, Satellite Radio, All India Radio, iPod and Mobile FM were covered in Radio.

Visakan S. of Standard II, who was dressed up as Guglielmo Marconi, explained how radio worked. The children of Standard III dealt with television, and they had displayed a model of 1969 model television and also the latest plasma television.

Vijetha Ravi explained the concept of satellite television technology.

The other students explained communication through dance, history of the theatre, communication inside the human body, newspapers, print and cinema.

Dr S. S. Badrinath, president and chairman, Medical Research Foundation, who inaugurated the meet and Mrs. Y.G. Parthasarathy, Dean and Director, PSBB Group of Schools, were among those who witnessed the children's works.

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