hyderabad a project that was expected to revolutionise teaching in schools and mark a shift from the traditional blackboard education to computer monitors has been shelved it was little over a year ago that the ap technology services prepared audiovisual compact discs covering various science subjects the project on eteaching was taken up by the ap technology services apts to demonstrate the possibility of boosting education standards by incorporating animated lessons in various branches of life sciences such as reproduction processes among different life forms photosynthesis and related issues covering syllabi from class vi to class x accordingly two cds containing the syllabi of biological sciences and physical sciences with the help of audiovisual aids were prepared given its financial constraints the apts successfully prepared the two cds with an expenditure of only rs 12 lakh a much cheaper amount compared to educational cds prepared by corporate firms like niit which cost anywhere around rs 25 lakh to prepare moreover the copies of the apts cds were to be priced at a lowly rs 500 each we have prepared the cds in the interest of the student community hoping that they would benefit by such demonstrations and graphic explanation of complex issues said a senior apts official the cds were sent to the school education department about eight months ago it is here that the project suffered a setback according to sources the apts has requested the department to use them in some schools and provide feedback on their utility in order to incorporate improvements leave aside testing the utility and providing feedback there has been no communication to us as to whether the cds have been used at all remarked a senior official who was associated with the project the officials are also sore that while apts was keen on preparing more such cds on different subjects the education department was not taking the issue seriously school education secretary i v subba rao was not available for his comment on the issue as he was busy with official engagements