 So, today the job is to do three things. One is to finish off with the ideas that we introduced last time as to how to speak in public and how to make it easier for yourselves. Now, to demonstrate whether this really works, we want the remaining people to come here and use those principles when they stand up here and talk about what they want to say. Quite interesting that even if you just have to talk about three things, disaster, success and what you want out of this course, three things. People do not do two of them or do not do one of them and stuff like that. They come here and forget about everything else and then go off on a tangent. So, this just demonstrates that even for one minute you need to do some preparation. So, see if the people who come now can utilize those ideas and speak like what did we say? Do not do this, do this, speak slowly, speak confidently, we are all your friends, we are not here to hurt you, we want you to do well, we want you to speak nicely and we are dying to learn a little bit more about you. We want to be entertained, do not bore us and do not go over time. So, everybody here finds this part interesting because they want to know more about their friends. It is something humorous which they might not have told them before or something meaningful which they can talk about later on and follow up. Some part of yourself which you maybe have not spoken about which you can share, you know, makes other people also feel comfortable that look I am not the only one, right. So, what we will do today is you all know the groups that you are in, incidentally, they have been put up on the website. Who does not know what the group number is? Okay, so I have a sheet here you can refer to that and see what group you are on. And it is quite interesting, I went through all the feedback that we have been recording on video and one thing is consistently the theme. Most of the things is stage fright, right and most people want to be able to talk publicly effectively, right. I guess that is what you mean by communication skills. So, we have something interesting lined up now, okay. So, you have to pitch an idea. So, we thought of this nation building theme, right. Social innovation, technology innovation, some hadsa or anecdote which has some meaning that you want to recall. You might refer to that, right. And you have to pitch it to an audience which comprises someone who is going to who you want to believe in this idea, right. Some angel investor or some social investor or whatever it is, right. If you can't think of any great idea, see, all of you have come from very interesting backgrounds. I feel that urban existence is pretty boring, right. If you come from a small town, you had the opportunity to see life in the raw and much more of it. So, you have something interesting to say you might not think it's interesting but others might think it's interesting, right. And if you put that up on YouTube, there'll be millions of people who think it's interesting. Because what you have experienced is very unique, which is very different and distinct what other people have experienced. Like for instance, I saw a program last night on how global warming is affecting farmers in Greece. And they took ordinary people from a little village which has been affected by a big fire that broke out in the forest which affected all their olive trees and what happened as a result of that. Global warming means less bees and less orchards and how the entire economy has changed. Tourists have stopped visiting that place and so on. And these ordinary villages, Greek school girls, school children, people from that town, I found it very interesting. Because they are echoes of similarities of this experience, if you like, all over the world, okay. So you might not think that what you have to say is interesting but actually others might think. And if you see the great novels which are written, the novels are written about everyday life, what goes on say in a small town. But you put it in a very descriptive way so that someone else can get into your shoes and experience that life. Which might be very, very different from what somebody else might experience, okay. And if you are still hard pressed for ideas, right. So I feel that you all have an interesting story. Each one of you has got not one but many interesting stories to tell. It's just that when we put you in a group of six, right. All of you might have ideas and you'll have to come to a consensus as to what is the story that you all can agree to tell. If you are still short of ideas, right, here's another idea. Professor Sridharayar has written some very interesting articles in Jantar Mantar magazine. How many of you have heard of Jantar Mantar? Jantar Mantar is a magazine which is put out by a bunch of IIT students and an alumni from various IITs, IIT Madras, especially. And this is about 25, 30 years old and so on. It still might exist. So Sridhar wrote some articles on computer science, concepts, explain to children, right. So like for instance, he explained networking to children. How do you explain networking, a TCPIP network to a nine standard child, right? You can't use buzzwords, you can't use mnemonics, you can't use jargon because often people hide behind jargon and they don't know anything, they just give jargon and that person doesn't understand but is afraid to ask, right. We do it all the time, maybe, right. It's very different, it's very different and it's very difficult to explain complex things in a simple language and it's a very good exercise. Because then you have to really understand what you're saying, right. So here's the idea. Sridhar has written some 12 articles on computer science concepts. Like for instance, he's explained networking as how there's a princess who's in a tower. I remember him discussing this story with me. Princess is in a tower, her kind of prince wants to communicate with her. So he finds the medium of pigeons. So the pigeons, what he does is that he takes his long message to her out and breaks it up in small, small chits because the pigeon can't take an entire notebook, you know, right. So he breaks it into small, small chits and the pigeons take the chits one by one to her. Then she has the problem, what order do I look at these messages in, right. So how do you sequence that and get the order right and stuff like that? That's what networking is all about. So he introduced the concept in a way at a level that children could relate to and explained it in terms of that. Just imagine if others would explain things to us like that, how easier it would be to understand concepts, right. Same thing which you use mathematics for, you can explain like this. So Sridhar has got 12 stories if you like. Your job is to think of how to make a TED talk about it. So how to explain this in a TED talk, okay. So think about that. And to explain this concept you can take advantage of videos from here and there, right, because it's much easier to see animation and understand things. So his Oscar project has got lots of technology animations, which maybe you can use as part of your TED talk to explain, right. But the burden of explanation, simplifying and all that. Much of the work has been done here. But you have to now present it on stage to nine standard kids. And I warn you, I'm going to get nine standard kids that day to attend the talk. And we'll take a poll, right. That's one. Sameer Sasarapudya, a colleague here, he's worked a lot in distance education and all that. He's got some YouTube videos. There are three videos that came to my mind. One is fun with science. The other is on technology-enabled agriculture, which is the work of a company called Agrocom and the Aqua project which emerged out of our department. And sunlight at night, right. This is how some village school kids in Madhya Pradesh were given the opportunity to study at night because of the work of faculty at IIT Bombay, Chetan Sholanki. Have you heard of his project, solar PV-based lighting for villages and so on? He gave a very interesting talk about how to solar energy equip an academic campus, right, how to figure out how to do it, right. This was yesterday evening at about five in mechanical engineering, very interesting. So he gave the entire scope of the technology of solar, how to essentially design a system to service, say lighting requirements or other requirements that an academic campus might have, right. The reason I'm interested is that if we have lots and lots of distributed greenhouses and we have to drive the power in those greenhouses, then it makes a lot of sense to have solar panels, right, in this kind of setting, right. So I was interested in attending that talk. So these are three talks from there. Then there's another site which is very interesting called arvindguptatoys.com. So he has little toys made from everyday items like straws and cork and wood and this and that which you just find anywhere. And he makes toys which illustrates some scientific principle, right. He doesn't tell you what the scientific principle is. It's up to you to decide like there could be something with straws and you spin it. It's meant to demonstrate centripetal force, right. He won't tell you that, but that principle is embodied in that toy. So here's an idea that you can pick a toy like this and he's got a video of that toy, right, and pitch that concept to a nine standard child, okay. So you have the visuals already. So you can incorporate that in your talk, in your material and you can make your presentation. So here you have a bunch of ideas. So we didn't want to constrain you saying that do this, do that and all that. Do anything that excites you, but it should excite you. You should be passionate about it and at the end we want a nice presentation which we shall put up as our contribution to YouTube which illustrates something important and interesting which we feel others will also want to see. And we'll give you all the help along the way, right. So that's what I have to say here. Any questions? So what we'll be doing now is that to just get you started in the process. So what I'll do now is, let me just finish with the concepts that Professor Vedya spoke. I'll just review this with you, right, how you speak now because we want the next or the as many remaining people as they are there. So what we'll do is, it's almost nine o'clock now, right. I mean, 10 o'clock now. And for the next, say 15 minutes, we'll continue with the video presentation. I'm hoping by say about just after mid-sem we complete all the videos of all the individuals and then we should have another lot at the end of the course when you actually do your TED talks. And hopefully then we'll see before and after also, right. So again, when you come now, speak deliberately, speak slowly, have some cue cards if you like, and be explicit in your articulation. Don't slur. Aram se baat karo. Don't vocalize things like R, all those kind of things, all that kind of stuff. Nobody likes to hear that. Don't fiddle or twitch, right. It shows nervousness. And look at the audience, right. Don't look down. Don't look at the wall or something. Find some people who you know are your friends and friendly. And just talk to them if you like, you know. But pan the audience, okay. And don't exceed time and don't go on for minutes. So anyway, this is where we are. And what we'll do now is that we'll take the remaining students who are not represented, and 10-15 is the timeout for that, right. And for the next 10 minutes after that, we will break up into the groups and get started with our discussions. So let me have a feel for what each group wants to do. If you don't know what your group is, I have a list here and you can see it. This promises to be an interesting exercise. And then from after mid-sem, we will have only one hour of contact a week. So we'll split you up into two batches. One batch will come on Tuesday, one batch will come on Thursday. You don't have a choice which batch you'll belong to. We'll just go by roll number order, otherwise it gets very confusing, okay. So I'm going to close my shop here. And we'd like the rest of the people to come. I have a list of people who haven't come, by the way. So if nobody volunteers, maybe we'll start from the back this time, right. So who's right at the back? Not the TAs, the ones after the TAs. That person who's looking away, have you come? Yeah, have you spoken? Achha, next to you. He needs a minute to just make some notes next to him, yourself. So while they're getting ready, any brave people, well other than them, who have scheduled to talk last time, Amanthi, if I've already spoken, right, okay. Anybody here that I don't recognize here? You've not spoken, right? Okay, maybe you can come next. In the meantime, we'll start from the back now. Yeah, so we have one here. You're saved by. This is Durgesh. I'm from Mumbai. I'm a new PhD student over here. I have been working as a lecturer in Bits Goa for about a year. And before that, I did my BTEC and MTEC from there. So one example of good communication is when I was able to motivate my students to, you know, think of the algorithms, the way we study algorithms, we just learn it. You know, we don't think it out. So that was a really good example of good communication. One really horrible example of communication is when I was in standard eight, I think I had a typical three idiots moment. I had to give a Marathi my speech and I had just memorized the entire speech. My parents had written it down for me. I understood no word in it. I just marked it up and in the middle, I just forgot, forgot as in I was blank. So I just said, I'm not going to continue this anymore. I went back and then the teacher called me back again and I had to complete it. So it was really embarrassing. But that day I decided I'm not going to memorize any speech ever in my life. Whatever I do, I'll do it, you know, whatever I can think. So what I expect from this course is the tidbits of wisdom that the professor says in between. Like that day he said a very interesting point that people are very interested in honesty. They don't care what accent you have or how many times you are slurring as long as you stand there and you are honest, people don't really bother about how you speak. So from this course, I'm looking for such tidbits of wisdom. In addition to that, if we can have some tech talks, it will be really good. So that's it from me. Good morning to all of you. I'm Bholanath Rai. I'm a PhD student in computer science. The last day I attended the lecture, how to be a public speaker and I tried to apply the same thing in the presentation by it was total mess. Although I have knowledge about my project, but when I just present the concept I just totally miss, I mean I was in a hurry and after finishing my talk, when I was sitting in the bench, I thought, oh, this concept I can explain in a better way. That was a recent disaster, but one funny communication disaster was in first year of my BTEC because actually I'm actually Bengali, the tilled 8th, 12th class I totally studied in Bengali, so nothing about Hindi. So I was in first year, one senior came and he just told about my senior and I thought he is actually telling everything good and I just said yes and he just slapped me and he said that all I just tell about your senior, it's a slang language and the good communication about it is that the interview faced during my PhD, that communication, I gave the interviews totally, I never fail, tensed, it's a, before this interview, every Viva or interview before going to the lab means room, my heartbeat actually means every time it increases, even this is the day before every time it comes that my turn will come, my heartbeat actually turns means it's increasing. Today I just say that nobody is coming, then I just say better to finish my introduction otherwise every day I will see it there and my heartbeat will go on increasing. And my wish list is I want to be a good leader and for every good leader is a good speaker, I want to be a good speaker and every talk I just listen and attend that their body language, the way they speak and we just, I just listen carefully and I thought that one day I will become that good leader, that's why. Hi, my name is Rucha Kulkarni and I am from Solapur, Maharashtra and about good communication skills, the examples for good communication that I have had are actually thankfully many like some presentations in seminars all usually go well, about bad examples or disasters I don't remember any and about the wish list I would like to learn about group discussion skills because it is very important that I learn how to put my points assertively in a group discussion without barging in or cutting through anyone else who is speaking. Hi, this is Riharsha Mohapatra, I am from NPCIL Bombay, I have been here for around 8 years, so my worst things I have done in communication lacking lacuna are the missing places going to wrong places where address is correct and writing wrong text where the question is different and understanding what are that say in a different level in a different problem. So, about good communications I have many good suggestions in our organizations and good project works, I want to learn from this course about verbal communication and listening and explaining what I am saying in words as well as in written, so that's it. Good morning everyone, I am Hemant Kumar Adil, I am from Raiapur, but good example of my good example of communication is my interview for integrated MSC program for NISA institute and bad example I had many, one was during my presentation in my BTEC, I prepared slides and I explained everything to my team mates, but I had no time to prepare for myself. I want to learn in this course about how to face unknown audience. Hello, I am Meghisham Prasad, I am from Kolhapur, I am working here under supervision of professor Sharath Chandran. So, the disaster I have in my experience is basically when I have a heated discussion with my colleagues regarding some technical, so I say some unintended words, so actually I had one bad experience that when I was speaking with my manager regarding our project requirements, I many times used word rubbish and it affected my appraisal very badly. So, another, so that is about disaster, so the good communication skill I don't have that good communication skill, but if I want to give good example of communication skills, I will say Obama winning elections in 2008 is a very good example of good communication skills and for my wish list I want to be a good summarizer, I am not currently that good summarizer mainly in return as well as public speaking. Thank you. Hello, good morning everyone, I am Ashok, so I joined PhD here in January just a month ago. I have a lot of good experience like, is this working properly? I am finding some kind of, okay now, yeah it is better. Ashok, I am from Tamil Nadu, a place called Salem, anyone know Salem? Yeah, okay I can talk with you afterwards. So, as far as good communication is concerned I have plenty of good communication, so we have to start. Okay, during my bachelor degree, so I talked for nearly some 3 hours, I ate up all the classes on that day, the speech was like, you know about the current scenarios of political issues and all those things and apart from that there was a lecture, there was a workshop in 2012 in Pune Defense Institute of Advanced Technology where I completed my MTech, so the lecture was, the workshop was on challenges in cloud computing, so I presented for some 45 minutes about the working of OpenStack and the issues in it, that was a good example and the worst example, I mean bad communication means during that, after that workshop there is a QA session, so one person was asking this question and I was not able to get the question and it was like, I was not even able to get what he is trying to say, I don't know whether it is because of the mic or his bad communication, I don't know, but I understood in a different way and I answered to him in a bad manner and I criticized him on the stage itself and I asked him sorry and another blender was, I didn't notice that mic is off, mic is on when I was off the stage and I was saying to my friend, I don't know how funny it is, I mean it was so embarrassing and after that I personally asked him sorry and it was quite a worst experience and the next thing is what I am, I wish to learn from this course, honestly I am not here to learn all the good stuffs, I am here to learn all the bad stuff, all the mistakes what people do, so I want to learn from the mistakes, I don't want to do that same mistakes which I know, most of the time we do, I mean for me doing mistakes is not a problem, but not learning from the mistakes is the biggest problem, repeating the mistake is like falling into the same hole again and again, I don't want to repeat that, so that's my thing, thank you. Hello friends, myself Surendhuhan, I am doing a PhD under Dr. Rishikesh Joshi, I am from Fahidabad about the bad communication skills, so when I was 10 or 12 years old and I was called for a chief guest in a function and it was a chess tournament and everyone knew me because I was a champion for about three years continuously, so I was being called for a chief guest for that particular tournament and I was a champion in that particular tournament also and I didn't know what to say on the stage and I didn't know what to do because till that time I was receiving the prizes from the other people and I was listening what they say, they say some motivating talks and some other things and now I have to present the things and I was on the stage sitting in the center somewhere between the other people and I was blank, then somebody called me, now the chief guest will say few words to you and I couldn't stand up, I was shivering, sitting there and doing nothing, so it was a silence in the hall for about two, three minutes and chief guest was about to say something and it's a silence in the hall for two, three minutes, then what they did is they brought up the mic to the desk itself so that he can speak something and still I couldn't speak anything and then after a minute or two I just said thank you and it was done, that was the best speech ever done by a chief guest which every audience will like, so it was the disaster, kind of a disaster and it was not like I was in the front of completely new audience, I knew everyone sitting there because I am playing for about three, four years continuously, I know everyone sitting there and still I couldn't speak on the stage and about the good communication skill was when it again goes back when I was young itself, seventh class, we were about 12 or 13 years old again and we had to present some speech on the stage, when it was a class, a classroom, I could speak very easily, I didn't take any notes and all on my hand and I had to go on the stage and I presented my speech, it was done, then it was just a class, fine, when I went to the prayer hall, exactly the main ground there we had to present it in the complete school and I was being called any teacher initially I was shivering and all again because I couldn't speak in front of the whole school, I knew my class but I don't know the other people, somehow I got the strength, I went to the stage and now I spoke completely different thing from what I spoke in the classroom and still it was somewhat related to what the topic was and I could present what the topic is to the people who are unknown of the topic, like similarly about the compilers, people who are not from committed science, if you tell about them what is the compiler is, you have to come up with different examples, so that thing started coming up in the mind and I started making new and new examples out of the field and I was able to present it to the audience which is not of the relevant field, now about the course, what remains here, is there anything remaining, there is a bad communication skill, there is a good communication skill, if something is remaining, yeah that's what I am saying, the wish list is there anything remaining, but I need to expect from the course, it's like HS 699 is mandatory for everyone, I have joined the course, now what is expected from the course, but all you guys are expecting is collaborate everything, just give it to me, like everybody is expecting something, something, something, something, something, club all thing, give it to me, I am expecting that, thank you. Hello, I am Bernali, I am from West Bengal, so I am just new joined PhD, I am working under Professor Kheerprasad and Professor Biswas sir in compiler field, so before joining here I was working in Qualcomm and to talk about best communication I had there is like I had to give a technical talk to my team and my, fortunately or unfortunately my manager was very buggy and he was never like satisfied with anything and during the appraisal meeting he always used to put the bad things first, so like he will get depressed throughout the meeting, so that time my manager was present and I was giving the talk, so first time he appreciated me, so I feel that was the best communication that I could make him understand what my point was and to talk about bad communication I remember I was in 10th standard and I was a participant, I was participating in an extempo and so it was something, the topic was something related to my school only and I was, while I was giving the speech, so suddenly I was giving it very well, it was going very smooth but suddenly I was blank and for, I spoke something but I didn't know what I spoke for last 30 second, so after that when my, I came to know okay my mind is totally blank, I was not able to relate what I talked about last 30 second, so then I abruptly stopped there, so that was the bad, I mean there is a disaster I had and wish list is what just last person told, just club everything and give it to us, okay thanks. Hello, oh sorry, hello I am Sukadeva from Sonu Badra Uttar Pradesh, my communication disaster was seminar presentation in B.T.A. for third year and I can't explain anything I know about, I know seminar topic, all topic in seminar but I can't explain anything in idea and but my good communication, I have not any good communication, I want to this subject get confident and how to manage the people, thank you. Now that Professor Fatak is here, I can quite confidently say that we won't transact any more business, he will speak for 5 minutes but he is come at the end work as they say and he's got some things that he wants to share with you, so what we will do is that we will take this consultation about what the groups, the topics that they will do offline and we will do it through Google spreadsheets and stuff like that, I have given you enough material to kind of go off and discuss, so really I didn't expect anything more in this class than forming you into groups but if you know who your groups are is not an issue you can go and have chai with them and kind of get started with your discussions. So we are happy to have with us this morning Padmasheri Deepak Fatak, Padmasheri is the least important component that is useful to us at the moment, this class is about communication, so let's talk about effective communication briefly, I will actually be engaging you in one or two lectures, I think post mid-sem is what we have planned but I wanted to share with you the theme that I will be speaking on and some homework that I want you to do. I will primarily be speaking on ethics very specifically commenting against plagiarism and how plagiarism happens even inadvertently, simultaneously my emphasis will be on increasing the quality of your written articulation, spoken articulation as many of you have seen yourselves, I think each one of you would know by now that you can do much better than what you are doing each one of you and that applies to everyone including me, so there is no end to the learning of effective communication it is a lifelong process but the earlier you do the better it is for you that is the idea. Now both spoken and written articulation one of the cribs that I have heard from students like you is that sir English is not our mother tongue and therefore we are not comfortable and therefore we use English language incorrectly both while speaking and while writing and I will tell you that is the biggest nonsense because if you claim that it is so because your English is not your mother tongue please try to speak in your own mother tongue please try to write in your own mother tongue do that and then get whatever you write or get whatever you speak checked by someone else who knows that language well. I can guarantee that you will have umpteen mistakes there and that is because this afflicts the entire society by the way so you are a sample of the same society from which I come all of you come this happens because we as a society have been much less careful about our articulation than what we ought to develop societies pay enormous amount of efforts to teach younger people how to articulate well both written and oral articulation. Unfortunately our syllabi in the schools and colleges are getting cramped with so called academic contents and therefore for such contents which are extremely valuable in life there is hardly any time that is why we are doing it at this late stage. Now the task that I want to give you is I was interviewed once modern technology am I audible still the technology is rugged that please keep it in the back. So, I was interviewed I think more than a year ago there is a magazine called Rain Tree are you familiar with that is the IIT Bombay magazine comes out every quarterly or something like that. Now I do not have the exact web reference but I think I had downloaded that pdf file of that particular article and if you have a course Moodle a Feroza I will request to put it on the course Moodle. So, that is an interview that was published it was it is a fairly long interview talks about ethical standards and so on. From a communication point of view I would like you to do two things one find out all errors in that write up fortunately I have not written it. So, I would not take the blame although I did speak on whatever they have captured and believe me people take reasonable amount of efforts to ensure that the written articulation particularly one which is printed in issues such as rain tree or whatever or they they are done very carefully and yet we find mistakes galore. Professor Prakash with the in fact has a special expertise in finding out errors in the final proofread releases of variety of brochures and so on. So, we there would be some errors there is only one request this error finding has to be done by each individual alone is not a group exercise. So, taking help of someone at a kya error mila jara idhar bhi batane is is plagiarism is absolute plagiarism you are stealing somebody else's work and posing it as if it is your own. That is not to be done period I do not mind if someone says look I did not get time and therefore, I have not been able to do anything that is acceptable to me, but anybody even consulting a friend obtrusely just to get some hints on what could be the errors is a no no the idea is not to find how perfectly you can find all errors that is not possible for any human being there will always be errors after errors have been found. So, writing English is not much different from writing software just as you know you can never prove that your software is bug free you can never prove that an articulated passage in written English or Hindi or Marathi or Telugu is bug free there will be bug, but so you have to you have to point out those errors. I will try and put out the mechanism that is a pdf 5 you can convert it to the word by all means use office assistance to find out spelling errors and grammatical errors or something, but I will warn you that English is a very funny language in a one page write up which I had given about 20 years ago for one of my promotional interviews I had written in my career and I had misspelled career as carrier and carrier is a correct English word. So, the software did not crib and when I saw Professor Mahabal was on the interview committee smiling at some point and then showing it to another expert I immediately realized that that was the mistake. So, these things happen be careful the second thing I want you to do is I have recounted a few incidents which happened in my life which buttressed my resolve to be very ethical in my behavior I am sure there would have been occasions in your life also somewhere sometime 1920 years is a lot of years that you have spent you would have come across someone it could be a simple person it could be a very important person whatever, but some incidents which showed to you that this is ethical behavior and you felt like emulating that person or that I would like you to write that incidents in your own words short story. So, I am asking you to write a story the second part you can start doing now there are lot of time of course, you have midsames. So, after the midsame, but I would like that to be submitted before the before the lecture that I think because I would like to go through those before I take that. So, is that ok or is it too heavy an assignment you have to write a story you will find English errors frankly that is the that is the problem. If you ask me story writing will prove a bit more time consuming because you can write the story in the first shot, but I would like you to make your best effort it need not be a long five page story although I have nothing against that could be a very short story, but a story which has hit you somewhere in nineteen years saying yes this behavior is a good human behavior and given a chance I would like to emulate that any incident whether it could be with your parents, your brothers, your cousins, your neighbors, young children, simple people that you meet on the street believe me ethics can be learnt from each and every human being. So, there would be some instance describe that in your own words is that fair thank you so much all the best.