Chapter 5 - SOFTWARE FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS

Chapter 5:

SOFTWARE FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS

Documenting the Software in      Practice

            This activity aims to determine the various software available in school and software that teachers use in the instruction and in school as a whole.

            This activity will be accomplished by pair. Interview the school’s laboratory technician and find out the various software acquired by school, then determine its purpose. Also interview at least four (4) teachers of different discipline to find out the software or program they use in instruction and other school related activities.

Name: Jhoana Rose R. De Leon                    Section: A

Name: Khenneth Sherwin A. Avilla              Date: July 25, 2018

Name of Laboratory Technician:

School/Department: Mount Carmel College Baler

List of software that were acquired by the school administration for instruction, productivity, and administrative use.

Software		Purpose
Word Processing Software Electronic Spreadsheet Software Presentation Software Graphics and Multimedia Software		·         This software like MS Word is used in making documents, memorandum, tests and the like. ·         Software like Microsoft Excel is used in computation of grades and charts and the like. ·         Like MS PowerPoint, it used to make presentation for making lessons and reports. ·         Photo Gallery and Cyber Movie Maker are examples of multimedia software that could enhance their presentation well. Auto Cad is also present, which is good for the engineers.
Are there other software being requested by teachers for new acquisition?
Software	Purpose
Instructional Software	·         Having free instructional software and its availability could make the teaching process easier since, our school premises have this software to integrate inside campus.

Find out the teachers’ assessment of the different productivity software they use in their instruction and other school related activities. Also, find out what productivity software they wish to use in their instruction.

Productivity Software	Teacher 1: Reymundo Villapando Discipline: English	Teacher 2: Gerry Vargas Discipline: Science	Teacher 3: Berna De Leon Discipline: English	Teacher 4: Jocelyn Balagtas Discipline: Filipino
Word Processing Software	Name Of Software: MS Word Assessment: It helps me in making my documents and data. Also, for my visual presentation as my visual aids.	Name Of Software: MS Word Assessment: This software tool helps me to make test papers. It always comes in handy for all teachers.	Name Of Software: Publisher Assessment: Very helpful software especially in making class programs and other program activities in and out of the classroom.	Name Of Software: Adobe Assessment: Helps me to read my downloaded files especially with regards to my subject.
Spread Sheet Software	Name Of Software: MS Excel Assessment: Data recorder and chart builder.	Name Of Software: MS Excel Assessment: Grade Encoder	Name Of Software: MS Excel Assessment: Class Recorder	Name Of Software: MS Excel Assessment: Grade Recorder
Presentation Software	Name Of Software: MS PowerPoint Assessment: It helps me to make my reports.	Name Of Software: MS PowerPoint Assessment: For my reports, instructional games and data encoder.	Name Of Software: MS PowerPoint Assessment: For reports.	Name Of Software: MS PowerPoint Assessment: For Reports and visual presentation.
Other Productivity Software	Name Of Software:  Movie Editor Assessment: It is a lot help since it improve my teaching styles in presenting some edited videos.	Name Of Software: Kine Master Assessment: It is another set of video editor and a lot of help in terms of creatively presenting lessons.	Name Of Software: Publisher Assessment: For further enhancing documents, it is very helpful for designing more attractively and vividly.	Name Of Software: Sheppard Software Assessment: This is software for students for educational entertainment.

Name: Jhoana Rose R. De  Leon                  

Section: A

My Kiosk Presentation that Holds Attention

           

This activity aims to bring out the creativity among the students in making his/her hand-outs using MS Word and designing a kiosk using MS PowerPoint following the given specifications. His/her work will be presented through a short demonstration.

            Think of any topic of your field of specialization. Create a 3-page hand-out that will be distributed to your teacher and classmates. Also, create 10-slide kiosk which shows the logical units of the lesson. The kiosk must consist of text, graphics, animations, video, music, and button links. Place the title slide of your presentation below. You may review the guidelines and principles in creating hand-outs and presentations learned in Educational Technology 1 or Basic Computer course.

Topic: Objectives in Teaching Essay

Jhoana Rose R. De Leon

MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE

Baler, Aurora

OBJECTIVES IN TEACHING ESSAY

The following are the general objectives that should be known by the teacher in teaching the genre of essay:

Teacher should:

1.      Clearly define what essay is.

-          Before anything else, make sure that your students have no confusion about this genre. Explain them its differences in terms of its features among other genre of literature so that, your students will know what they studying for.

2.      Identify different essay formats:

-          Since, the very basic in teaching essay is to teach students how essay could be written therefore, by identifying different essay formats they will be able to make one easily.

3.      Explain the basic structure of a five-paragraph-essay:

-          Teaching essay especially in the beginners, they should know the basic structure in making an essay and this five – paragraph essay format is the commonly known among all.

4.      How to write an essay:

-          Together with the explanations above, we teach essay basically because they need to know how to write one and since learning it could be a very big help that they could use in different aspect.

5.      To differentiate the different types of essay:

-          Learning the types of essay could be a very big help in determining the styles and techniques to use in writing essay, it will serve as their guide in creating a good and creative output. Therefore, it is a must to teach the different types of essay for it will determine the features to follow that one type should be.

6.      Drafting and Outlining Essay: Essay Structure:

-          One basic move in making an essay is by creating an outline to determine the positions of ideas to be presented in the essay itself. Through the help of drafting students will be able to build ideas comprehensively. They should also remember that essay comes with the title, introduction, body and conclusion.

7.      To understand various styles and approaches in writing essay:

-          With regards to the explanation in number 5, it is also a must to learn the different styles in writing an essay though sometimes we have our own style of making one.

8.      Citing References in the text:

-          Most important is we should teach them the importance of referencing to avoid plagiarism.

(Slide Presentation)

 

 

Name: Jhoana Rose R. De Leon

Section: BSED-4A

            This activity aims to teach students to constructively criticize someone else’s kiosk and help his/her classmate in enhancing the product.

            Your teacher will assign you to rate your classmate’s work. Using the rating scale below, rate honestly the kiosk created by your classmate. Suggest ways to improve his/her work, then discuss with your classmate the result.

3-agree      2- neutral     1- disagree

Component	Rate	Comments/ observation	Suggestions/ Recommendations
The kiosk is impressive.	3	It is quite impressive, the design is catchy and interesting, it is suited to the learners in terms of the content it is informative and could gain knowledge that could use in understanding and comprehending the topic very well.	Use colours that could be seen easily, it should be readable and not bad in the eye of the readers.
The graphics/pictures/images used in the kiosk are appropriate to the topic.	2	The images and graphics are relevant to the topic, the picture promotes better understanding and it helps in terms of easily comprehending the topic, it makes the lesson easier to understand.	Download high definition (HD) images that are easy to be seen and clear.
The graphics/pictures/images used are clear	3	The graphics are connected on what the content is all about; it gives impact on the better understanding and perceiving the information very well	Download high definition (HD) images that are easy to be seen and clear.

Component	Rate	Comments/ Observation	Suggestions/ Recommendations
The animation, transition and other effects are right in timing with the music.	2	Yes, it is timing but use a music that is pleasing to the ear of the listener and can’t distract the attention of the listener from learning.	Applied transition and animation that is suited to the content of the lesson.
The video is clear and can be played easily.	2	The video is connected to the lesson but it’s too long but the content is very good, it is informative and makes the lesson easier to understand.	Use a video that is short but effective, concise in terms of information and mostly relevant to the topic.
The button links are clickable and directs to the correct slide	3	She is master in terms of using links or hyperlink in a presentation; it is effective and could lessen the time. It is really effective.	You are master in using links or hyperlink in a presentation.
The font style is appropriate with the lesson.	3	It emphasis on what is need to be emphasis in terms of the single content of the presentation; she used bold, underline and italicize effect to highlight the given and necessary information.	Use a colour word to highlight the important facts of the content.
The texts are clear and readable.	2	Some words are readable most especially the headlines and the important facts of the lesson.	Make it larger to be able to read easily and understand well.
The effort in making the kiosk is highly evident.	3	It is very evident, she use different effects that makes the presentation more catchy and effective. Hyperlinks, colours, transition and animation are highly effective and evident.

Component	Rate	Comments/Observation	Suggestion/Recommendations
The kiosk made can help learner increase their knowledge about the subject matter.	3	The content is informative and it gives awareness, and the content is effective it could acquire information that helps the learner to grow and gain knowledge. It helps to increase the student learning and it help teacher to present the lesson more effective and interesting.	Use a colour that is easily to read and use a combination that is pleasing to the eye to catch the students interest to listen but do not over use a design because it tend to distract students attention and gives more focus on the design and not on the content.