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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;#039;     __TOC__ =Resources for recording= &lt;a href=&quot;/index.php?title=Special:Upload&amp;amp;wpDestFile=Basicmanipulation.zip&quot; class=&quot;new&quot; title=&quot;Basicmanipulation.zip&quot;&gt;Basic Data Manipulation&lt;/a&gt;   {| border=1 || VISUAL CUE || NARRATION  |- || Show Slide Number 1 Title Slide Sp…&amp;#039;&lt;/p&gt;
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{| border=1&lt;br /&gt;
|| VISUAL CUE&lt;br /&gt;
|| NARRATION&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show Slide Number 1&lt;br /&gt;
Title Slide&lt;br /&gt;
Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Calc&lt;br /&gt;
|| Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Calc – Basics of Data Manipulation.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show Slide Number 2&lt;br /&gt;
Learning objectives&lt;br /&gt;
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Introduction to basics of Formula&lt;br /&gt;
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Sorting by Columns&lt;br /&gt;
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Basics of Filtering Data&lt;br /&gt;
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|| In this tutorial we will learn about:&lt;br /&gt;
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Introduction to basics of Formula&lt;br /&gt;
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Sorting by Columns&lt;br /&gt;
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Basics of Filtering Data&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Show Slide Number 3&lt;br /&gt;
|| Here we are using Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 as our operating system and  LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show Slide Number 4&lt;br /&gt;
|| Let us begin the tutorial by learning about the basic formulas used in LibreOffice Calc.&lt;br /&gt;
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Formulas are equations that use numbers and variables to get a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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In a spreadsheet, the variables are cell locations that hold the data needed for the equation to be completed.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show Slide Number 5&lt;br /&gt;
|| The most basic arithmetic operations which are performed are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Open “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods”&lt;br /&gt;
|| Let us open our “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods” file first.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Point to “Cost”.&lt;br /&gt;
|| In our “personal finance tracker.ods” file, let us see how to add the cost of all the expenses mentioned under the heading, “Cost”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Type “SUM TOTAL” under “Miscellaneous”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on cell referenced as “A8”. Type “7”&lt;br /&gt;
|| We shall give one more heading as “SUM TOTAL” just under “Miscellaneous”.&lt;br /&gt;
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And we shall click on the cell A8 and give the serial number as “7”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Click on “C8”.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Now lets click on cell number “C8” where we want to display the total of the costs.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Type “=SUM(C3:C7)” in the cell “C8”&lt;br /&gt;
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Press “Enter”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Point to the total under “Cost”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| In order to add all the costs, we’ll type“is equal to SUM” and within braces the range of columns to be added,that is,”C3 colon C7”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now press “Enter” on the keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;
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You see that all the items under “Cost” gets added.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| Now lets learn how to subtract in Calc.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Point to “House Rent” and “Electricity Bill”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on cell referenced as “A9”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| If we want to subtract the cost of “House Rent” and “ Electricity Bill”, and display it in the cell referenced as A9, simply click on the A9 cell first.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Type “=(C3-C4)”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press “Enter”.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Now in this cell, type “is equal to” and within braces the respective cell references, that is, “C3 minus C4”.&lt;br /&gt;
Press the “Enter” key on the keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Point to the result in cell number A9.&lt;br /&gt;
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undo the changes.&lt;br /&gt;
|| We see that the cost in the two cell references get subtracted and the result is displayed in cell number A9.&lt;br /&gt;
Lets undo the changes.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| Similarly, one can divide and multiply data in different cells.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| Another basic operation in a spreadsheet is finding the “Average” of numbers.&lt;br /&gt;
Let us see how it is implemented.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Type the heading “Average” just below the heading “SUM TOTAL”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Lets give the heading as “Average” just below the “SUM TOTAL” cell.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here we want to display the average of the total cost.  &lt;br /&gt;
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|| Click on cell “C9”&lt;br /&gt;
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Type “=Average(Cost)”&lt;br /&gt;
|| So lets click on the “C9” cell.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now we type “is equal to”  Average and Cost within braces.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Press “Enter”&lt;br /&gt;
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Point to the average of the “Cost”&lt;br /&gt;
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undo the changes.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Press the “Enter” key on the keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;
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You see that the average of the “Cost” column gets displayed in the cell.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lets undo the changes.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| Similarly, you can find average of elements in a horizontal row.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| We will learn more about formulae and operators in advanced level tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let us now learn how to “Sort” data in a Calc spreadsheet. &lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Show Slide Number 6&lt;br /&gt;
|| Sorting arranges the visible cells on the sheet in any desired manner.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Calc, you can sort the data using upto three criteria, which are then applied one after another.&lt;br /&gt;
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They  are handy when you are searching for a particular item and become even more powerful after you have filtered data.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Point to “Costs”&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on  cell “Cost” &lt;br /&gt;
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|| Lets say, we want to sort the data under the heading “Costs” in the ascending order.  &lt;br /&gt;
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So first, we highlight the cells to be sorted by clicking on the cell “Cost”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Hold down the left mouse button, drag it to the cell which has “2000” typed in it.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Now holding down the left mouse button, drag it along the column till the end of the cell which says “2000”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| This selects the column which we want to sort.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on “Data” &amp;gt;&amp;gt; Click on “Sort” &amp;gt;&amp;gt; “Current Selection”&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Now click on the “Data” option in the menu bar and then click on “Sort”.&lt;br /&gt;
Next Select “Current Selection”&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Point to “Sort Criteria” and “Options”.&lt;br /&gt;
|| You see that a dialog box appears with tabs as “Sort criteria” and “Options”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| In the “Sort criteria” tab, select “Cost” in the “Sort by” field.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on “Ascending”&lt;br /&gt;
|| In the “Sort criteria” tab, select “Cost” in the “Sort by” field.&lt;br /&gt;
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In order to sort the “Cost” in ascending order, click on the “Ascending” option just next to it.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on “OK”&lt;br /&gt;
|| Now click on the “OK” button.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Show that the sorting is done in ascending order.&lt;br /&gt;
|| You see that the column gets sorted in the ascending order.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
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Undo the changes&lt;br /&gt;
|| Similarly, to sort in the descending order, click on “Descending” and then click on the “OK” button.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let us Undo the changes&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| Multiple columns can be sorted by first selecting all the columns and then applying the sort options.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Select data under “SN” and “Costs” together.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Lets say, we want to sort the serial numbers as well as the cost.  &lt;br /&gt;
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So first select these columns as we did earlier.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on “Data”-&amp;gt;click on “Sort”&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Now click on the “Data” option in the menu bar and then click on “Sort”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| select “Cost” in “Sort by”, then select “SN” in the “Then by” field.&lt;br /&gt;
|| In the dialog box which appears, first select “Cost” in the “Sort by” field.&lt;br /&gt;
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Then select “SN” in the “Then by” field.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on “Descending” in both the options-&amp;gt;click on the “OK” button.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on “ Descending” in both the options near them and then click on the “OK” button.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Show that the data gets sorted in descending order.&lt;br /&gt;
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Undo the changes&lt;br /&gt;
|| You see that both the headings get sorted in the descending order.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lets Undo the changes&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Show Slide Number 7&lt;br /&gt;
|| Now lets learn how to filter data in LibreOffice Calc.&lt;br /&gt;
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A filter is a list of conditions that each entry has to meet in order to be displayed.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on the cell named “Item”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on “Data”-&amp;gt;click on “Filter”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| In order to apply a filter in the spreadsheet, lets click on the cell named “Item”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now click on the “Data” option in the menu bar and then click on “Filter”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Click on “AutoFilter”.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on the “AutoFilter” option in the pop up menu.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Click on the arrow marks in the headings.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on down arrow on the cell named “Item”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| You see that an arrow mark appears on the headings.&lt;br /&gt;
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Click on the down arrow on the cell named “Item”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click on “Electricity Bill” in the menu bar.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Now suppose if you want to display only the data related to “Electricity Bill”.&lt;br /&gt;
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So click on the “Electricity Bill” option.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Point to “Electricity Bill” in the sheet.&lt;br /&gt;
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|| You see that only the data related to “Electricity Bill” is displayed in the sheet.&lt;br /&gt;
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The rest of the options are filtered out.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Click in down arrow on the cell heading which contains “Item”-&amp;gt;click on “All”.&lt;br /&gt;
|| In order to view all the data, again click on the downward arrow on the cell named ”Item” and click on “All”.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| Show all the data in the spreadsheet.&lt;br /&gt;
|| We see that we are now able to view all the data which we had originally written.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|| Apart from “AutoFilter”, there are two more filter options namely “Standard Filter” and “Advanced Filter” which we will learn about in the later stages of this series.&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|| SUMMARY&lt;br /&gt;
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Introduction to basics of Formula&lt;br /&gt;
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Sorting by Columns&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Basics of Filtering Data&lt;br /&gt;
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|| This brings us to the end of the Spoken Tutorial on LibreOffice Calc:&lt;br /&gt;
To summarize, we learned about:&lt;br /&gt;
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Introduction to basics of Formula&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sorting by Columns&lt;br /&gt;
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Basics of Filtering Data &lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show About Slide&lt;br /&gt;
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About the Spoken Tutorial Project&lt;br /&gt;
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*Watch the video available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial&lt;br /&gt;
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*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project&lt;br /&gt;
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*If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it&lt;br /&gt;
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||&lt;br /&gt;
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*Watch the video available at the following link&lt;br /&gt;
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*It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project&lt;br /&gt;
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*If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show About Slide&lt;br /&gt;
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Spoken Tutorial Workshops&lt;br /&gt;
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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team&lt;br /&gt;
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*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials&lt;br /&gt;
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*Gives certificates for those who pass an online test&lt;br /&gt;
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*For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org&lt;br /&gt;
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||&lt;br /&gt;
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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team&lt;br /&gt;
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*Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Gives certificates for those who pass an online test&lt;br /&gt;
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*For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show Acknowledgement Slide&lt;br /&gt;
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Acknowledgements&lt;br /&gt;
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*Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project&lt;br /&gt;
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*It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India&lt;br /&gt;
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*More information on this Mission is available at&lt;br /&gt;
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*http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro&lt;br /&gt;
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*Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project&lt;br /&gt;
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*It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India&lt;br /&gt;
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*More information on this Mission is available at&lt;br /&gt;
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*spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro&lt;br /&gt;
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|| Show About the contributor Slide&lt;br /&gt;
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About the contributor&lt;br /&gt;
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This tutorial has been contributed by ...............................(Name of the translator and narrator)&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for joining &lt;br /&gt;
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This tutorial has been contributed by ...............................(Name of the translator and narrator)&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for joining &lt;br /&gt;
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