Activity 10: producing the resource

Producing the resource

This activity basically brings out the creativity in me and I believe the other teachers as well. Having to create interesting activities which engages the students and caters for their needs is a fun thing to do as a teacher; especially using  a digital resource. I used Microsoft to create the activities for the students which would be inthe form of tables/worksheets if I am to create the lesson i would need to add another digital resource which would make life easier for students and teacher. I enjoyed the activity simply because I am a teacher and this is what I love to do- gather work and create diverse learning activities for my students. 

Activity 6

using office software with subject learning

This was quite an interesting activity, comprising of three parts where with each I had to use a different type of office software; I am capable of using the office software competently so what  I really learnt was using my skills to prepare Teaching/learning activities to better enhance my students abilities. The activity help show us that regardless of the subject area, we can still use office software to produce documents for our students and if we do not know how to use them, then we have the opportunity to learn so we can be better equipped for this technological age with the inclusion of ICT in our teaching.

Activity 5a

I am impressed with the amount of resources that are out there on the Internet readily available for teachers, it is just left to us to seek, find and make use. As a math teacher I always want additional resources to use in class, curriculum and lesson plan help; this activity helped point me to some of those websites and with the checklist provided and could have assessed websites for content and other material. websites like: www.khanacademy.com ,mathsnet.net  and discoveryeducation.com.  so during this activity I found some websites useful and some not so useful because they were lacking in quite a number of sections while I assessed them with the check-list.
In general websites can be useful for assisting students and teachers to enhance learning.

Module 5 Activity 3

This activity was one that was needed and reminded me of a previous activity where we had to assess websites to see what makes a good website, but in this case I had to evaluate educational software. I came up with ten criteria for evaluating educational software and I believe they were adequate. This activity allowed me to look at what really is important when it comes to students using software for learning purposes. I learnt a few things from this activity because there were teachers who included some criteria that were very interesting, a few I would not have thought of and so I will  use all of the ideas so when i am ready to recommend software for my students, it will be software that is of top quality and matches all or most of the necessary criteria.

Module 5 Activity 2

The activity basically allowed us to use software that can be used in class with your students and so did I, It was quite enjoyable, I used the website/app Edmodo and it was very interesting, i was surprised to students used it and I am guessing it is because it resembles Facebook and it also has an app for android and ios. I will  say it was a fruitful activity and it encouraged some of us teachers who never used educational software to get on board. in addition I was able to look at some of the links other teachers posted and take a look at them; indeed they were also good links to interesting educational websites/programs.

Module 5 Activity 1: Refection on the value of social bookmarking

This module began quite interesting with the use of social bookmarking, right away I learned how to use the site diigo and how it can be used to in lessons.  I created my own link and here it is: https://www.diigo.com/user/maximryan  I have bookmared sites and i understood that with diigo I can share my link with other teachers and students which makes it a very useful tool for me. I would suggest to other teaches to use this tool with  other teachers to share resources and websites because thus far I have gotten links from other teachers that I intend to use.

Assignment 3

Welll I cant even say much about this module but I must state that in my opinion it was the most challenging assignment in modules 1-4. I had some difficulty at start and also I had some problems at home but I tried my best to finish on time, I had to really think hard to come with a lesson then to make the adjustments for thinking and questioning skills, it was quite a task but eventually I got it done. I finished the assignment realising that we as teachers need not to deliver lessons simple when there are technological tools available to enhance delivery and increase students attention span and learning.