Co-constructive tool

It is my privilege to have got opportunities to explore and learn new applications such as blogs and Google docs that supports co-construction. In here I will discuss on “Google Docs, Blog and Face book” that we have learned and used to co-construct the work in ICT module.

Google Docs

Honestly, I had no idea what that Google doc was before I entered ICT module. I really felt lucky enough to have learned on such beneficial and inspirational app. I felt like such app should be made best use the teachers. I really liked working in docs in groups even from the distances. For example, planning a lesson on docs along with friends was not only fun but also a great learning. I like the features of the app that allows all people to write, edit and comment on each other’s work. Below is the short video clip on collaborative work on Google docs:

Face Book

Another app that we make use of was Face book. I liked the page that sir created in face book to upload our video tutorial. Even though we did not have space to edit other’s video, we had opportunity to watch and make comment on everyone’s video to bring further improvement. This is another alternative that helps improve and learn collaboratively through friend’s feed backs/comments.

Blog 

Blog is yet another application that provides space for friends to go through our page or vise versa and make comments on ours or others work. This is the blog that I have created to do the reflection on my learning’s in ICT module and I have couple of friends invited in my page to help me make necessary improvement. So, I would say that of all teachers should have good ideas on such applications to bring best learning in students.

Constructive Tool

With the growing ICT works are made less complicated and easier to comprehend. There are so many applications that allow ICT users to construct and present the works in more attractive engaging formats. Here, I would like discuss about constructive tools that I have got to learn and explore in this module. The tools are:

1.      MS Power Point  

It had being quite long that I had been using PPT to make presentation and I have always thought that MS Power point just have the features to make slides and add some animations. I had no idea that we can produce something like video, which is so called “simulation” with the use of PPT. It was my privilege to have got opportunities to learn that PPT also has the features to produce short videos called ‘simulation’. I thought like simulation can best lesson that teacher can have to deliver the content.  Below is the short simulation that I have created on “What makes my hometown popular”.

Camtasia Video Editing Apps

Another one is the use of ‘camtasia app’ to edit the video. Even though it requires using the features of PPT to make the video tutorials I like the additional feature that provides room to show the face of the speaker. Another one is more of PPT it also allows cut and edit wherever required. So I think that teacher should at least have good idea on such applications even if one cannot master.  Here is my camtasia video tutorial on ‘Multiplying by 0.1, 0.01 and 0.001’.

Communicative tool

ICT has made communication so easy unlike olden days. With a phone in our hand we can learn, talk, share, and meet even from the distances. There are so many applications that support online communication and in here I will discuss basically on three communicative tools that are “Meet VLE and We chat” which our tutor used much to communicative and deliver the lessons.

We chat

To share my feelings about the usage of “we chat” by our tutor, I would say that there is no drawback other than network issue. I felt discussion through “we chat” is no different than face to face classroom teaching as it provided all facilities to explain in either of the choices such as video, voice and text. Learning through ‘we chat’, I not only had opportunities to discuss along with the tutors and friends but also luxury to revisit the chat history and clarify my doubts.  Another thing I liked about the We chat is unlike other applications such as vle, zoom and meet it gives instant notification whenever there is new message.

Meet

Meet is another useful application that I have come to learn through due to these online sessions. I really liked the use of this app by sir to communicate the lessons as if like in the real classroom by inviting all and delivering the concept. I felt like, to learn a new concept; this application could be the best as we could watch while sir does the stuffs to teach the concept. I would say that liked learning through this application even though it required good network connection and enough data packages.

VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)

VLE is yet another application that provides opportunity to discuss. I thought like vle is also a good communicative tool unless the tutors do the honor to create link and forum to discuss. There is no draw backs about the features that vle provides unless one is lazy to visit the sit and check the links. Below is graphic of vle discussion: