Online journal

 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 leart 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 msword really helped me and widened the horizon of my knowledge.

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 6^th of July, tutor flashed out a video clip on teaching in 21^st century. The video clips tells us that teachers are no more a source of information in 21^st 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 21^st 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. 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 baycongroup.com.

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.  

The lesson of 8^th 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 to browse it at first.

On 9^th 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.