simulation as constructive tool

We were asked to include local events, sports, adventures, and places all in one slide ppt to attract visitors in our locality.I was unaware of how to create a simulated advertisement initially. But as these topic emerged in the ICT, it gave me zeal to explore further about it and it finally was an effective and the time I spent in exploring information was worth while.  I could come up with a page simulated advertisement about my locality using power point presentation program.   I had no clue about how I can include all these information in page power point presentation program. However, as I explored and looked for information on how I could make the advertisement with all the information in one slide ppt and an effective one. It took me half day but I was contended with my effort ultimately and that counts the most in learning I suppose. 

Therefore,  I must say that constructive tool is of great significance owing to its application in the schools later. We can create such simulation during club exhibition including activities and program carried out in a year. We can also use it to deliver weekly news and health talks, etc.  All in all, I must say it was a good experience and the time I spend in it was a worth one. 

Creating google classroom as a Situating tool

Situating tool is a system that lay the students in the environment where it involves a context and the occurence of a situation. For this, we have created a Google classroom where we have to choose a grade and pick up any topic from any of the primary school curriculum. We were asked to upload a pdf, a web link and a video on the topics we have chosen in the Google classroom.  We were also asked to create a quiz on each of the five question types to check if the students really have understood the concept well or not.

feedback on video tutorial (constructive,co-constructive and communicative tool)

Feedback on tutorial and applying it as construction, co-construction and communication tool.                     

  

Having done with the video tutorial, each of us was asked to comment on all the videos uploaded by our mates. For that matter, our tutor created a group on face book called ‘IV PCA Edu Tech 2020 consisting of twenty nine members including the tutor. The group was purely for educational purpose. Through this group, I realized how social Medias can be used as communication, construction and co-construction tool. I had a look on each video tutorial uploaded by my mates and I gave constructive feedbacks for each of the tutorial. I became much appreciative of my work through the feedbacks given by my friends and I believe so did my friends as well.   I received twenty seven feedbacks for my tutorial as well. I could see some good features which are lacking in mine and some tutorials lack features which are in mine. So, through this, I can make improvement and add those features in my tutorial next time.

Reflecting on my experience, I feel this is a great platform to learn from each other and expand our knowledge. Further, constructive feedback also stimulates growth and professional development for learners. 

 Through this experience, I realized how we can make effective use of social Medias. Such practice helps in constructing and communicating each other's ideas. We can also co-construct ideas. This was a very good and a worthy experience owing to its applications in schools in the future as well. All in all, I must say it was a good learning experience. 

IV PCA GROUP 

Feedbacks on my tutorial

Mates and my comments on a tutorial

 

ICT integrated lesson plan as a communicative tool

We were given a task to design an ICT integrated lesson. We were a group of four including our tutor and we chose 'seasons in a year'  from class four science text book. We discussed about the lesson through google docs. We discussed and commented on each other's thoughts about the lesson. We could also get our tutor's feedback instantly  I had a good experience working on the ICT integrated lesson plan through google docs. From my experience, the  drawback of google docs is that it requires internet access. Unless we have access to internet, we won't be able to use the google docs. And the advantage could be we can have access to files anytime, anywhere with internet access. We can easily share files with other google account users which makes our work easy.  I think such skill is very important especially as a teacher.  I will make effective use of it in the future as a teacher.  We can create google docs and invite our friends to discuss about a lesson or other activities without having to meet physically.
Integrating ICT in lesson was fun and I am sure the students will have more fun than we did. This was a very good and effective experience as we can apply it in the field later. Such lessons will evoke an enjoyable atmosphere in the classroom. From this experience, I realized that adding a bit of fun into the education of children has positive effects in their development. Thus, it is vital as a teacher to implement such practice. All in all, it was an effective and enjoyable experience for me.



ICT integrated lesson plan

Topic: Season of the year

Class: Four

Subject: Science

Lesson Objective: at the end of the lesson, each child should be able to tell that the revolution of the Earth and the tilts of the Earth's axis are the cause of the seasons after teachers' explanation. 

1. design/ arrange the pictures of four seasons correctly.
2. tell that there are four seasons correctly after watching the video clip.
3. identify four seasons after the group activity.

TLM: short video clip, globe, chart paper.

Lesson Introduction (05 minutes)

The teacher will ask the students to look outside and tell" what is the weather today? how do you feel?" 

Expected answer: "it is sunny and cold",  "it is cloudy and cool"...

Then the teacher will ask why do you feel hot and why do you feel cool?? 

Expected answer: because it is summer, the weather is cloudy and we feel cool. 

Because it is winter, the weather is sunny but cold.

The teacher will tell the student to guess what would be the topic of the lesson. 

Expected answer: we are going to learn about different seasons. 

Teacher: yes we are going to learn about four seasons of the year.

Lesson development: (10 minutes)

Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter are the four seasons of the year. All these four seasons make a year. For most places on the Earth, a year can be divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each season has differences in weather, temperature, and the length and amount of daylight as shown in the figure below. The seasons are not the same everywhere. 

Spring starts from  March 21 and ends on June 20.

Summer starts from June 21 and ends on September 20.

Autumn also is known as 'fall' starts from September 21 and ends on December 20. 

Winter starts from December 21 and ends on March 20. 

I will show you an example. I will use a globe and a torch. Now see carefully as I rotate the globe and light the torch. The place on the globe which receives the direct light of the torch experiences Summer, the places which receive partial light of the torch experience Spring and the places which receive least torch light will experience Autumn and Winter.

Now we are going to watch a short video about how seasons are caused by the revolution of the earth. Watch the video carefully, later you have to attend an online quiz.

video on causes of seasons

Activity 1(10 minutes): questions and answers

Instruction:

1. Divide the class into six groups of five members each.
2. Let them to Discuss the questions in the group and write the answer

Activity questions:

1. What will happen if the Earth does not revolve? 
2. Name the season.
3. What will happen if there is no tilt on the earth's axis?
4. What will happen if the earth revolves around the sun the same distance throughout the year?

Follow up

Let one student from each group share their responses. 

Activity 2: (5 minutes)

memory game

Now you are going to play a game online by clicking on the above link.

This game shows how good your memory is. 

As soon as you click on the above link, numbers of flashcards will appear. 

The flashcards are spread facing down. 

Go on clicking all the cards once. 

Make sure you keep in mind the position of the cards and the information on the cards. 

Example: if a card shows the word 'season',  then you must recollect where the picture of season is on the flashcards and click on it respectively. 

If the cards are matching, there will appear a sound, if not the cards will face down automatically. 

Likewise, carry out the same process throughout unless you get all the cards paired. 

But your time is limited to five minutes. 

If you are done before time, say bingo. 

When you are done pairing up all the cards, you will get cheers automatically.

Follow up 

Let a few students tell the matching cards to the class.  

Activity 3 (7 minutes

Instructions: 

 Now you are going to do a fun activity again. 

You are going to attend an online quiz through the given link. 

challenge friend quiz

-Click on the 'practice' green box. 

-Click on play.

-Close the page which shows sign up with google. 

-After that, three options will appear. (Play quiz, flashcards, challenge friends). 

-Click on the third one (challenge friends).

-Enter your name box will appear. 

Ģ-Then you enter your friend's name. 

-Then click on 'start the game'. 

Note the game code. Eg:61337587

-Click on 'join my quiz.com'.

-Enter the code

-Then click join.

-Click on start over.

-Enter your name. 

-Now click on start. 

-The quiz will start at the count of five.  

Your points will be awarded on the completion of the game and will be shown. 

Follow up

Ask students if they have got the answers correct or not and let them tell where they have gone wrong. Let them copy the quiz questions along with the answers in their notebook.

Let them compare their scores and their friend's scores. 

 Closure

The teacher will use the 3,2,1 prompt, to sum up, the lesson.

Let the students;

1. List the  new things they have learned from the lesson in their notebook, 
2. Write TWO interesting things they have come across,
3. ONE thing they are doubtful of. 

Use of gmails,google meet, google hangouts, as a communicative tool

ICT can be used as a tool for communication. From my learning experinece, ICT aa a tool for communictaion, is a platform which provides great opportunity for teacher-to-teacher and student-to-student communication and collaboration.  If I am to reflect on this, we G-mails to share important documents, use VLE as a source of learning material and many more. Gone are the days where teachers literally teach their students. Now, with the help of various ICT communicative tools, distance learners country wide get access to online educational materials without having to meet literally. We have used various apps like google meet, google hangouts, google classroom, VLE etc. which are of great help to the distance learners without which the learning would have been withheld.

To make effective aplication of we have created a google docs to discuss about a lesson. We discuss and comment on each other's thoughts about the lesson. Such practice is very effective because the members need not have to meet physically. They can work distanced from elsewhere which saves time. In a nutshell, ICT as a communicative tool is an indispensable tool in 21st century and both student and teachers are ought to leverage ICT to assist and facilitate learning for the benefit of all learners and teachers across the curriculum.


Link for google docs.https://docs.google.com/document/u/0




Google meet with ICT tutor

Camtasia ( Constructive tool)

My learning experience on working with Camtasia software. 

Camtasia studio is a software created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Micro soft power point. To make effective use of the Camtasia software, we were asked to prepare a video tutorial using Camtasia studio which was a part assignment. The topics for the tutorial was given by the tutor. I got a reader titled 'At the market' for grade one. The tutorial should be
 ten minutes long. Before proceeding with the tutorial, our tutor uploaded few samples and tutorial on how to record and edit the video with Camtasia. Further, I have also explored and looked into tutorials on recording screen with Camtasia studio.
Using camtasia to make the tutorial was  quite challenging for me initially but gradually, as I explored and went through the tutorials uploaded by my tutor, I got familiar with the software and I could  finally come up with one. I knew how to record power point  screen, how to import media, and how to cut out mistakes. I must say it was a very experiential learning. Use of such tools in schools not only helps the teacher but it also helps students on a larger scale. Students get to access it any time. They also get to learn on individual pace unlike in real classroom. It also provides a great opportunity for self study. Moreover,  it substitutes both teacher and student's presence. It is very helpful during nation pandemic like the situation the nation is facing at the moment.  Hence, owing to these advantages, it is crucial that as a teacher, we must have good knowledge over it and I must say we had a good experience which for sure would be implemented later in the field.

Click on the following link to view my full video tutorial.
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/551278225532386/permalink/551850065475202/

From the tutorials uploaded by my tutor and exploring through other tutorial on how to record screen with Camtasia, I knew the steps to record screen on Camtasia.

The steps are as follows;

1. Design power point presentation.
2. click on add-ins plug option.
3.  Choose to record the full screen, or select the arrow and select area to record as shown in the picture below.

4. Click start on the record option. 

5. Click on begin along with voice narration. 

6. when you finish recording, press F10 to stop recording, or F9 to pause or resume recording.                                                                                                                                                  

    7/ You can click onto 'import media' if you want any background music to be added.