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Women make free online education site

The website will benefit students of standard VI to IX studying in English, semi-English and Marathi mediums.

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Three city women — Swapna Gupte, Ragini Tandon and Sunila Bhonde — have launched a website, www.sharpeners.in, a unique initiative to provide schoolchildren with syllabus-based educational content in an interesting yet simple and easy to understand format for free.

“The site will provide free quality education to children of all strata,” said Gupte, an info-tech professional who also taught in a school for some time. The women interacted with the media on Wednesday.

The website has been launched for students of standard VI to IX studying in English, semi-English and Marathi mediums and following the state board pattern. The site will also have games and quizzes for extra-curricular development, said Gupte.

The website, claimed the women, would bridge the gap between what is taught in top-tier schools and middle and lower-tier schools by providing quality educational content. Currently, the beta version of the site is available online to give a glimpse of how learning would be an exciting experience.

Based on the feedback from users over the next two months, the fully functional site would be launched in December 2011.

“The website will stand out with quality content, dynamic nature, way of presentation and its free access that can be obtained by just creating a username and a password,” she said.

Tandon said that one can learn topics with the use of interesting pictures, illustrations, animation and examples at one’s own convenience. “All that you need is access to the Internet,” she said.

According to her, the site has certain features which will facilitate in self-evaluation through a simple quiz at the end of each topic.

It also has a special module for parents that can help them track their child’s progress while using the site.

Bhonde said teachers from various schools in the city, who have put in more than two decades of teaching, have contributed to the website content.

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