Vidumanpetha website awarded with the Grand Jury special meritView(s):
In the National competition for best e- content (e-Swabhimani 2012), Vidumanpetha web site was awarded with the Grand Jury special merit award under the category of e- Education & Learning.
Scientific knowledge and information in the web is available in English, Tamil and other languages. Therefore, the people who can only understand these languages have the opportunity to take the advantage from this web based knowledge. Unfortunately, due to the language barrier, most of the Sinhala speaking people are not in a position to benefit from this enormous knowledge. To overcome this situation, on 2005 Prof. Asiri Nanayakkara(IFS) together with Dr. KumariThilakarathne (IFS) took a huge step towards the advancement of Sri Lankan Science Education By making their concept in to a reality. It is named as “Vidumanpetha” the first ever Sinhala Science web site, a path that anyone can walk along to grasp new science concepts, to learn and practice science with fun by using new methods, etc… In 2009 we redesigned the entire website to make it more user-friendly and launched it officially by the hand of Prof. P.W. Epasinghe, Science Advisor to H.E the President. All the articles were written in a font, created by Prof.Asiri Nanayakkara previously. According to the newly introduced laws and stands by the government we converted the entire website to Unicode and redesigned it in 2012. “Vidumanpetha” is a web portal, open doors to three major categories.
Suwahasvidujalaya This section contains,
-Science glossaries under the following subjects.
-Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geology and Maths.
-Science Dictionaries under the following subjects.
-Chemistry, Diabetic, Cancer
Glossaries and Dictionaries contain a total of 44,000 words. All these Glossaries and Dictionaries are downloadable. All the words are inserted into separate databases with a simple search engine for each of them. Simple user-friendly interface Design is same but the color theme is varying according to the subject of the page.
Main target of this section is to introduce new methods to learn science with fun, without getting bored. This section contains,
Science experiments for kids – simple explanations and instructions to guide the students to do experiments safely on their own at home
Science concepts behind day today activities
Science articles – written by students, scientists
Method to build a home laboratory – Describe step by step, using picture guidance to make lab equipment by using the waste goods and materials around us
Chemistry games – flash games, card games, snake and ladder games, etc…
Vidu head arana
This section contains the information on terminal illnesses and giving hope for patients/providing information about new treatment methods are included in it. All the articles are written by M.B.B.S qualified Doctors.
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