Looking for information in the YouTube

Second blog for October, 2019

Using YouTube for the information!

I taught a lesson on Zed’s Bread. It is a text for grade three students. This books talks about a boy who loves to bake bread.

Text -Class 3

We read the book together discussing every detail of the book. 

Reading through the line

We talked in length about the likes and dislike of eating bread. I had to talk when a bread is eaten since many of my students come from villages where bread is eaten as snacks. Some of my students were amused how bread is baked. We shared how breads can be eaten in different ways. All students wanted to try baking bread in the class but since we were lacking resources for the process, we dismissed the idea of baking.

Instead we came up with the idea of watching other bake bread and cake on YouTube. Children were divided into smaller groups. They were given 10 minutes each to watch a baking process and take notes on it. They reported what they watched on YouTube. 

Instruction for the activities:

1. Go to Google

2. Type YouTube

3. Type" How to bake a cake?"

4. Watch the video 

5. Take note of all the ingredients

6. Report to the class

Watching YouTube how to bake a cake

Watching YouTube

Taking notes of the ingredients 

Enjoying the video 

Children now want to bake a cake for themselves. We are planning for a baking class next week.

Note* Look for our baking report update in my next blog.

First Post of October

1st post of October-Reflection on my teaching

Teaching is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and intervening so that they learn particular things, and go beyond the given. According to the definition, we as a educator need to cater to every children to learn better. Teacher need to equip children to cope up with different learning approaches. Hence, I have taught my children to get extra information about the topic they are learning from the net. 

I gave my children to use my computer. Children took turns to use it to find information they were asked to find.

Instruction Given:
1. Go to Google

2. Write "long I sound words" and enter

 


3. Read the words given on the page.

4. Cope few interesting words to share to your class.

Helping Children with basic computer

Giving Hands on Parctise

Demonstration on how to use web

Reading the information 

With this type of opportunity, children learns a lot. First, they learnt how to handle the computer. Typing was another experience, and they were so amazed to see the information displayed after they typed their question. 
Each group were given enough time to explore and learn by themselves. My children really enjoyed the activity and they want to have such activities in their next class. I am planning to create such plans in the future for more learning for my children.

Lesson with a Video Tutorial

September Second Post-Lesson with a Video Tutorial

I have planned a lesson with a Video tutorial. I am planning this revision lesson with a video tutorial on tenses. I have already finished teaching the tenses. I have given lots of activities to give hand on practice. 

Many of my children could do the given activities well. But there are always a group of children who can learn with difficulties. If I reteach this topic again, children who already knows will be restless since they know. So to engage whole class with just one lesson, I have to come up with something catchy things. This is when I came up with this video tutorial.

I will let my children watch this video first. Then, I will let them get ready with their notebook. .They are going to watch the video for the second time and take notes of words they could grab from the tutorial. 

Next, they are going to watch the video for the the third time and do the activities together with the tutorial.

Finally, watch the video once again and do their own correction. 

*** This is my plan for my upcoming class. I will write my reflection after carrying out the lesson in my next blog.

Smart Phone as my monitoring tool

Smart Phone as my monitoring tool

This time I have come up with use of my smart phone as a monitoring tool. I taught my usual topic on the day. We had a meeting before I could complete my activity in the class. Engaging higher class students was not possible since they were also given enough activity to stay engaged until their teacher comes out from the meeting.

So, I gave my children to do their activity in groups. They will present their group activity in my absence. They can present their group work by coming in front of the smart phone I kept in recording mode. I was super excited to see what children must be doing in front of the camera.

I informed them that my smart phone will be acting as their teacher. It will record everything they do until I am back from the meeting. I told them to be good children in the class especially when their teacher is not there with them in the class.

Eagerly waiting while I was installing the camera for the recording

The video below is what my children were doing when I was away in the meeting. I edited few clips in between using my little knowledge of camtasia software. I loved my children more after watching the recording because they can maintain their discipline by themselves.  And I am happy with myself for coming up with the idea of using phone as monitoring tool. It helps us in emergency and maintain 

our children well in the class in our absence.

                                          Video recording while I was attending the meeting

A Planning using ICT

ICT Diary-2

A Planning using ICT

It is important to acknowledge that students are already interested and engaged in using technology, this creates many amazing opportunities for schools and teachers to benefit from integrating some forms of technology in the classroom and to make teaching and learning more effective.

As such I always take chance to bring some interesting lesson to my class to make my children learn more effectively and joyfully. One such activity I prepared is a listening activity (audio).

I selected a song for my children of their level. Looked for the lyric on net and printed out. Each child was given a piece of song lyrics. I tried with different fonts so that children get familiar with different book prints.

This is one task using ICT which helped me to lighter my workload while preparing my lesson.

I have downloaded a video on same song with the lyric so that children can sing along with the video 

I would love to share how effective my lesson was in my next article.

ICT DIARY ONE

Why ICT in our daily teaching learning process?

Information and Communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audiovisual systems, that enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age ere. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. It is also very important in our daily lives. The lack of information at the right time will result in low productivity, low quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information. Nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our daily needs.

ICT is the mode of education that uses information and communications technology to support, enhance, and optimize the delivery of information. One way to improve the quality of educations is to make use of efficient technology in an institution. This will open up more opportunities for teachers and students as well.

The use of ICT in teaching-learning process is a relatively new phenomenon and it has been the educational researchers’ focus. The effective integration of this technology into classroom practices poses a challenge to teachers and administrators. However, the presence of all these factors increased the chance of excellent integration of ICT in teaching-learning process. Therefore, the training of teaching staff in the pedagogical issues and administrators in administration are convinced of the value of using ICT in our teaching-learning process and administration.

P.S; my next blog will be will be experience on using ICT while teaching-learning process.