Reflection
of RS class
On 3/7/2015 the first day of our
RS class began with brain storming activity of writing expectation from the
module ICT in Education.
Then the tutor briefed us on minor assignment,
major assignment and project works.
After that tutor took us through
the topic “How can the use of ICTs help improve quality of education”
a. Use of ICT in classroom
teaching will make teaching and learning meaningful and lively.
b. Students will be motivated and
curious to learn through the use of animation, simulation etc.
c. Saves time and resources of the
teacher students will become independent learners by browsing information from
different authentic sources.
d. ICT can substitute teacher
shortage.
e. It helps students to explore
more about the topic.
On 6th of July, tutor
flashed out a video clip on teaching in 21st century. The video
clips tells us that teachers are no more a source of information in 21st
century because students are accessed to many sources like internet, online
journal, books etc for any kind of information they need.
Therefore, we must teach our
students skills and values. It is also very important to educate our students
on reliable sources of information and inverse impact of harmful sources.
The skills our students require in
21st century are critical thinking, media literacy, communication,
collaboration, information and creativity.
ICT in education is defined as a
way or technology to provide information and a way to communicate with people
living in different parts of the world. We can communicate through email,
messenger, weechat, video chat, video call and endless sources. We should
encourage our students to use these communicative tools to share information
and solve their problem.
We get information from the
internet in various forms as per our need and requirement. Teachers’ sites are
useful for teachers to meet the need of teachers. There are different sites for
different subjects. We can download ready made lesson from the internet to
teach in our classroom in power point, word document, excel etc. We can also
browse and down load audio, video, graphics, flash, text etc. for any purpose
but we should know the correct procedure to browse. As teacher we can browse
information to teach like basic of computer from the website baycon group.
On 7/7/2015 we looked at web
research like basic search and advance search. Some of the new information I
got from the lesson was different types of web browsers. I came to know that
Google is the best web search tool for various purposes and provides range of
useful features and products. We can
simply type the topic you want to explore in the search box and click on google
search button and the result will be displayed in the screen within a second.
The lesson of 8th July
was a new topic about google forms, google documents, google slides and google
sheets. I used it for the first time and
I had tough time get into the page.
On 9th July we learnt
more about google drive as online drive to save, share and synchronize. It was
further discussed on how to use google forms, document, and drive in our
classroom teaching. I came to know that google drive is used in storing lesson
plan and T/L materials. We can use it to
save and share resources. We can use it anywhere where there is internet and to
use the saved documents.
The google docs is of immense use
for teachers for collaborative lesson planning, improve the writing process,
reading response journals, track students homework and many more.
We tried using google forms to
carry out a small survey as a part of assignment during RS class and it is very useful to distribute survey questionnaire and collect response and do the
analysis of the result. It will save our time, energy and resources having not
to print, circulate and collect back the forms which is time consuming and
lengthy process. We can use googles forms to maintain formative and summative
assessment of children in the school.
On 10th July 2015, the
lesson was on blog and wiki which is yet another new thing I learnt after
joining this module. Blog is the website to maintain and share information. In
the blog we can give comment but cannot edit on the page. I even created
blogger address of mine as http://gangzorps.blogspot.com.
Use internet to share and edit materials to
consolidate their ideas
Wiki is the website to maintain
and share information to our friends whereby viewers can comment and edit on
the web page.
We also carried out minor
assignment and it was to search ten useful educational websites related to our
area of studies and discuss how each one of these will help us to improve
quality of teaching and learning.
Some of the website I have browsed
and found are as follow:
Thus
the above are some of the websites which I found it useful and authentic. This
experience indeed will enhance the knowledge of both teachers and learners to
learn whatsoever as per the changing need of time and techno-world. Many are
being misguided by unauthentic web sites. Therefore it is very important for
teachers as well as the students to select the appropriate website to get
factual or meaningful information. In due course of doing this assignment I
have learnt how to go about with authentic websites.
MS
word activities:
The first activity was to create a
teaching time table which I found comfortable because I have been preparing
such table in my school for a week for different classes.
The second activity was to do with
different fonts styles like Times New Roman, Arabic, Calibri, Arial and increasing and decreasing font size and
making it bold, Italic, changing colour, striking different lines. This
activity was also not very difficult but one should read the instruction
carefully before attempting to do it.
The third activity is about
formatting the paragraphs, which was little new and to be honest I have been
using left alignment, right alignment, center alignment and justify but after
doing this assignment I have learnt many more regarding spacing, indent,
paragraphing etc.
The fourth activity was to put
triangle and an arrow over it and group them together which I found, which I
found little tough. I had to seek from my friends over the phone to complete
this question correctly.
The fifth activity was similar to question
four but the shape is circle. It is a new thing I have learnt from these
activities.
I thought sixth activity will be
tough but when I actually attempted, it was not very difficult and it was just
to insert by selecting from the option given under equation.
I found the seventh activity very
interesting except mail merge which I am still doubtful. I enjoyed designing
certificate, header & footer, invitation card, news paper but mail merge
was the toughest one.
This activity on ms word really
helped me and widened the horizon of my knowledge.
We have done two project works in group by
communicating to our group members over the email and phone to complete it
successfully.
The projects works are to use educational soft wares
like Wonder Share Quiz Creator and Camtesia studio to design teaching and
learning activities.
We did both the project works simultaneously because
the due date was same that was 10th October. First of all I down
loaded the soft ware wonder share quiz creator to design quiz questions and
looking at the sample questions designed questions from our textbooks using
different question types. It was not an easy job to set question as per the
requirement. Of course to write a question from different question type is easy
but inserting audio and clips was very difficult task. Any way we could
complete it with much difficulty and submitted on time. In fact it was very
interesting and worth learning which can be used in our school to design
questions for quiz competition among the houses to make it more sparkling and
interesting to the participants and audience.
The second project work was to make video tutorial
which is yet another interesting and most difficult job to me. Firstly we
discussed and planned a lesson from class IV maths and the topic was quadrilaterals. We agreed to teach different components by different members
of the group and my share was to carry out students’ activity to find congruent
sides and angles of quadrilaterals. To carry out this activity, I had to call
and ask the students to show congruent sides and angles of a given
quadrilateral drawn on the board. I had to teach the lesson more than three
times to reduce the size of video clip because I could not share it to other
group members who was suppose to put in Camtesia studio software to publish the
complete video tutorial by collecting from all the group members and upload it
for assessment. When I carried out for the first time it took me more than nine
minutes which I could not send through email and I tried to share from google
drive but unsuccessful. Then I tried for second time with mobile which took me
more than six minutes but image was upside down and could not rotate. When I tried for the third time it took me
about five minutes which I could not upload again. Finally I tried my best to
make the activity as short as possible and it took almost three minutes and the
file size was 315 MB which I could share through google drive. To complete this
project on video tutorial I had to run three times to Community Information Center which is about 5km drive because I am using data card and I could not
upload and share at all.
Thus
the above are some of the interesting activities I learnt from the module ICT
in education. In due course of doing this assignment I have learnt many things
like using google drive, google doc and google forms. Now I know how to store information
and documents on google drive which can be stored forever without a risk of
getting corrupted. Herein, I would like to thank the module tutor for giving
such kind of opportunity in which I would not have learnt if this opportunity
was not given. Once again, I would like to thank sir for the inspiration and
support and looking forward for the same.
