The document describes a workshop on the Spoken Tutorial Project undertaken by IIT Bombay to promote digital literacy across India by developing audio-visual self-learning courses and offering free workshops to teach open-source software. The Spoken Tutorial Project creates spoken tutorials to teach software from scratch in any language and offers certificates to participants and organizers of workshops conducted at colleges and organizations. The workshop described was held at the MCA Computer Lab at Cochin University of Science and Technology to provide an overview of the Spoken Tutorial Project and its goals of spreading knowledge freedom through free and open source software education.

1. SELF workshop on
School Of Engineering
Cochin University Of Science and Technology
May 26,2012
INTRODUCTION
S Spoken-Tutorial Based
E Education and
L Learning through
F Free FOSS Study
Spoken Tutorial Project
Undertaken by IIT-Bombay
Initiative of National Mission on Education through ICT
MHRD, Government of India
Kumar Vimal | http://kumarvimal.in

2. Spoken-Tutorial Project
Developed by
IIT-Bombay
Initiative of
'Talk to A Teacher' Project
Funded by
The National Mission on Education thorough ICT (NMEICT)
Launched by the
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

3. Mission of STP
Spread Digital Literacy across India
Knowledge Freedom.

4. What STP do?
Develop Audio-Visual self-learning Coarse-
ware called Spoken-Tutorial.
Using spoken-tutorial anyone can learn a
software from scratch.
Software can be learn anytime,anywhere and at
any speed.
Available in regional languages.

5. What STP do?
STP offer free workshop for Gov.
organizations,SMEs, NGOs and
students,Teaching and Non-Teaching staffs of
Colleges
Generally Organized by students and remotely
monitored by IIT-Bombay
Conduct online Test
Certificates are awarded for participants and
Organizers.

6. Who can get benefit from STP?
Some Example:
A person ignorant of IT
e.g don't know how to book online ticket
An engineering / Science student
e.g Scilab etc
An office Worker
e.g LibreOffice or LaTex etc
An IT professional
e.g PHP, Python etc
Designers
e.g blender, Gimp etc

7. Workshop at MCA Computer Lab,CUSAT

8. OVERVIEW OF STP
For more detail on this unique project, Let us Watch video
2 Minutes Overview of Spoken-Tutorial
By
Dr. Kannan M. Maudgaliya
IIT-Bombay
kannan@iitb.ac.in

9. Questions

10. LibreOfficeis is a free and open source office suite.
Developed by The Document Foundation.
descended from OpenOffice, from which it was forked in
2010.
Available for all computing platform v.z Windows, Linux
and Apple MAC
Available in many regional language including Malyalam

11. Equally powerful as Microsoft office
Has all the functionality of MS Office
MS Office LibreOffice
Word processor Word Writer
Spreadsheet Excel Calc
Presentation Power Point Impress
Database Access Base
Microsoft office cost Rs. 4000 for 1 PC [link] whereas LibreOffice is completely
free of cost .
Light weighted, use very less resource of computer than MS office.
You can learn LibreOffice free of cost using spoken-tutorial and other freely
available resources.

12. Let dirty our hand with LibreOffice with help of spoken-tutorial.