DISCOVERING INNOVATIVE WAYS OF TEACHING

Educational videos became more promising with the incoming of PC, laptops, tablets, and smartphones, Internet, Web, open-source software and distance/open/online/ Blended learning.

why

-for better understanding of a topic to students, through video and audio.

-to motivate and reinforce learners.

-it could also be used as revision notes or work at home.

How to design and Educational video.

step 1. Think about a topic and how will students benefit from an educational video.

think about when and how you will use it.

set your learning outcomes.

step 2. Write a script of the video and discuss your textual interpretation with your peers for support and feedback.

step 3. Develop the video using pictures texts and audio using editing tools software.

step 4. Seek for feedback about relevancy on your video.

step 5. Diffuse the video in your class at the right moment and at the right time.

So, last week we were assigned to surf on the net for video and audio editing software which could be helpful for the creation of educational videos making it more innovative and to provide a feedback with a brief description of each in a spreadsheet.

Below is my spreadsheet research.

HOPE IT WAS USEFUL AND WORTH READING.THANKS.

With all the types of technological distractions that englobed students, teachers work is hardened nowadays .This is why within technology itself, educational environment is being created to assist teachers by the use of Classroom Management Software.

WHAT IS IT?

Classroom management software is a software that manages students device usage in the classroom, giving teachers the ability to see, manage, and track students device activity.

how does it helps educators

1. It can be used to monitor student work and as a way to eliminate distractions .

2. It encourages students to work independently on their computers ensuring that no students is being off task.

3. Teachers can assist students remotely from a workstation making it more like a 1 on 1 classroom management.

4. Multimedia tools and plenty of resources can be used to prepare presentations and lessons.

5. Of course ,it saves time. You'll just need to power on/off, login/logout and you are present at the classroom .

SOME EXAMPLES OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ARE: SOCRATIVE, EDSBY, TURNING, DYKNOW, NEARPOD, EDVIDI, SWIPE, SHOWBIE KANNU AND MORE..

CHECK OUT THIS SPREADSHEET WHEREBY WE WERE ASSIGNED TO SURF AND PROVIDING FEEDBACKS FROM EACH.

In addition, we had to discover CLASSDOJO in details and even create a classroom.

WHAT DID I DISCOVERED THERE?

CLASSROOM DOJO is a behavioral classroom management software which is very animative and innovative way to connect teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities.

It Creates a positive culture where Teachers can encourage students for any skill or value — whether it's working hard, being kind, helping others or something else

Students can voice out and can showcase and share their learning by adding photos and videos to their own portfolios

Responsible parties get engaged by sharing photos and videos of wonderful classroom moments

The app is available on Playstore and appstore where it can be downloaded freely whereby you'll be notify about any feeds and no need to login each time.

what is amazing is that, classdojo can be used alongside with google classroom .The main idea here is to help you create fun and meaningful remotely including LMS such as quizziz and kahoot

in addition, for each students, teachers sets up a profile with different avatars and sets up expectations for students. teachers are able to rate students behavior after any activity.

As you can see above, i add my own colleagues as my students and edited their avatars with repond to their characters.

As you know, each week we are assigned with new educational tools that will aid/helps us for our future professional career, by our Innovative and  technological use in our classroom module, for this week, we were given 'OUTLINER' as tools an topic to manage.

So, WHAT IS AN OUTLINER?🤔

An outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited. Outliners are typically used for computer programming, collecting or organizing ideas, as personal information management or for project management. Mind Mappers and Wikis are related types of software.

Reference:https://www.definitions.net/definition/OUTLINER

So, let's see how an outliner looks like.

And yes, DIIGO(check out my last post) consist of this feature, and its a very useful and efficient feature. Super duper easy to manipulate and easily sharable without login requirements.🤘

Above are images while creating an outliner with its different features, such as the keyboard shortcuts which makes it easier to edit words and many more. In addition, bookmark, images, PDFs, notes and kindle from Library of your DIIGO account, is used to insert information for the outliner. And to finish up the work, just share it where anyone can get access to it.

Diigo outliner is the best way to structurally organize your teaching resources. It forms part of the educational benefits of social bookmarking.

BENEFITS OF USING OUTLINERS

You will write faster.

it saves time on editing.

You'll recognize foreshadowing opportunities.

It helps you research.

You can still be spontaneous, or change your mind.

HELLO PEEPS,

for this week, we were assigned with the use of social bookmarking sites and how can we integrate them in our teaching and learning. Due to a second wave of the actual pandemic COVID- 19 crisis, we are under lockdown and was forced to have an online session for our modules.

so guys, WHAT IS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?

Social bookmarking allows Internet users to identify, label, store, organize, search,

and manage bookmarks of Web pages for later access. It enables users to collect and designate informational resources

both for their own use and for sharing with others.

Some examples of bookmarking sites are;

-Diigo

-Delicious

-Digg

-Reddit

-TweetMeme

-YahooBuzz

-StumbleUpon

-Mixx Channels;and others

But today we are going to focus on DIIGO since it was the materials that were given our our google classrooms.

DIIGO (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff)

It is the easiest way to collect the sites you want to get back to later.

Diigo combines a user-friendly social platform with bookmarking features, making it an effective research, integration, and collaboration tool for use in the classroom.

All that you need to do is to create an account and confirmed it via email. It has free options and consists of those innovative different features;

-Tags

Tag your collected web pages with relevant terms for easy future retrieval

-Personal Library

It is Your complete online knowledge collection, all in one place.

-Highlights

Highlight text directly on any web page for personal reference or collaboration.

-Sticky Notes

Add text, comments or reminders directly on any web page with sticky notes. [essential for my subject areas] for example; with sticky notes, i can agree/disagree with a statement and note it nearby for my students.

-Outliner

Structure your research by automated streamlining through Diigo or by your own personal customization.

-Groups

Share your research with colleagues, classmates and friends through our collaborative platform for knowledge sharing.

HOW TO USE DIIGO?

benefits of social bookmarking

-getting higher ranking in search engines while searching.

-your sites will increase ranking.

-it is indexed regularly.

so, this was all about my experiences on diigo and its features available. One thing is that, i would like to request you guys to share the different features of other bookmarking sites that u have visited.

did you know that my actual blogging site[tumblr] is a social bookmarking site?

LMS acts as a facilitator between both the parties and can be customized⚙️ to generate useful details such as informative analysis, tracking data, audience engagement, progress reports along with providing chat assistance and other related actions

LMS delivers all types of content such as documents, courses and videos online, just at the click of your mouse🖱️. You can access whenever you want, however your want, as many times you want!

Learning management systems use analytical data, tracking tools and reporting techniques to provide accurate information about the course or video which helps to get an in-depth knowledge about various aspects such as popularity course completion ratio.

I have seen schools and colleges adopting this even before.

I have been actively working with institutions and universities that deploy comprehensive LMS applications for their students and teachers. This way, the teachers👨‍🏫 can be relieved of repeating the same lecture multiple times, and also facilitate and help us to learn or ask questions either live or at my own pace🤘.

With the ability to present and model the course/tutorial/class, supported with chat windows for questions and comments, instructors/content creators/teachers👨‍🏫 are able to set up the lesson/course and guide their audience as they work through step by step.

We, seen as future teachers, should be able to master LMS as under any circumstances we might face any challenges where we will use those LMS to communicate and deliver messages /contents to students. Videos are far more engaging and personal than any other type of online content delivery. For our ICT modules🖥️, Google Classroom is concerned as our major LMS tools to be mastered with regards to other tools such as kahoot, hot potatoes and quizziz to be involved.

Some other LMS are: microsoft teams, moodle, canvas, edmodo and other more.

We will see a monumental change in adoption of such technologies for learning and development not only during this crisis but even afterwards as well.

What are your thoughts on LMS?🤔

Today, I'm going to share my moments for this week(4th) at my institute for the Badminton module. Normally, we are taken to the National Badminton gymnasium for practice and learning by the coaster of the institute but this week it was different since the gymnasium wasn't available.

So, we had to perform inside our small gymnasium. Everyone was ready for badminton when surprisingly a circuit training was planned at the institute's gymnasium by our tutor. No racket and no badminton equipment was seen; only mattress, dumbell, medicine ball, skip rop, bench and cones.

What is a circuit training??

Circuit training is a form of body conditioning that involves endurance training, resistance training, high-intensity aerobics, and exercises performed in a circuit, similar to High-intensity interval training. It targets strength building and muscular endurance.

12 stations were set up where some required to be done in pairs. Each of my colleagues were given a data sheet to record our results for each station setted up. We were given 30 seconds to complete each stations and after the time laps we shifted in an anticlockwise direction. After completing all the 13 stations, we had a 5 min resting time, wherby we had to repeat all the exercises but in only 20 seconds at each stations now. In addition, there was music included wherby we had to stop the exercise when the tutor paused up the music.

The different types of exercises which were set up are  :

Bench stepping, double legged jump, knee to nose touch, bent knee sit ups, push ups, back exercise, ball throw, arm exercise, trumk twist, rope skipping.

Below is my record sheet.

The class went quite fast since the gymnasium had to be handed over by another tutor but it was rather interesting and challenging since  during the 20 seconds, we had to perform the same number of repetition as the 30 seconds. Each time i was recording, my paper was getting with more sweat and after the circuit training i decided to record my data on Google sheet.

So this was a bit about my badminton module for this week.

Today i am going to share some of my notes and how i use internet platforms to reach and teach one of my friends who had issues pertaining his notes in physical education (circulatory system) while being in COVID-19 crisis under lockdown process.

Below are some notes that i prepared and used for my friend which could be helpful for others also now.

I used whatsapp for video call and explain him the topic and what should be known in order to be able to tackle the different issues concerning this chapter for the Cambridge International exams. But Later on, i realised that there were more useful programs and tools that i could have used for educational purposes.

Last week, in my ' bringing technological innovation in tge classroom' module of my B. Ed programme, we learned about the use of Google classroom which is one among the best Learning Management System (LMS) and how to invite members to share notes ;including video calls also known as google meet. Other alternative made by Microsoft: Microsoft teams and Microsoft 365 which is also a very popular LMS. They were very useful tools wherby teachers, learners and parents were able to communicate effectively during the lockdown crisis; delivering content ;providing feedback and reports;uploading assessment tasks; and due to the competition between Microsoft and Google, both apps were made free for all users and we benefit of all those features. Actually, these are the LMS being used for our modules by our lecturers since it is easier and beneficial with innovative options concerning education.

Another relevant contention is that, knowing how to use and manage those LMS will be essential for teachers in the near future since technologies has brought a wide impact in the educational system for example ; lesser paper is being used to copy notes since most of teachers will use those platforms or email to send it, at anytime ;anywhere.

So, isn't it(Google classroom) a proper system to bring innovative advancement in today's classroom ?

For my opinion, YESSSS!!! USEFUL. Free LMS with such features should be inculcated in the educational system, if not for all subjects areas but for some yes.

*SOMETHING YOU SHOULDN'T MISS !*

Since i am someone with loads of adrenaline and addicted to sport, I chose to learn and practice wakeboarding. I live near the sea where i had the privilege to ride with my Uncle from Germany. He used to learned wakeboarding from Sri Lanka and each year he brought a board or any attachments concerning the wakeboards. My uncle is an incredibly knowledgeable and patient instructor and being out on the sea with him is a guaranteed good time. Furthermore, the wakeboard conditions are truly unbeatable. It was a wonderful experience and unforgettable moments !

Wakeboarding is an extreme sport performed on water. The rider is fastened to a board and towed behind a speedboat. It’s almost like riding an endless wave and it is suitable for a wide range of people in terms of age.

Except the skills are different such as for the kneeboard(Black) you will need to kneel on the board to surf, with the wakeskate(Grey) , its similar to wakeboard but without boots which is more difficult, where im still unable to master since it requires a lot of technique and balance abilities. In the same line of thought, the kite surfing board(white), instead of using an engine, we use the wind power to blow a kite to pull ourselve which is very interesting and amusing.

After a thorough analysis of the different experience of the boards, it can be claimed that they are pretty fun and energetic sports that is why it's classified as extreme sports activity. I am lucky to live this moment at its best and following my experience combine with my actual Bachelor of education in Physical Education course, i could be among the rare practitioner and a coach in wakeboarding or knee boarding.