This is a practical unit of study where the individual will need to come up with some ideas on how a PowerPoint presentation can be used by learners who have never use it before.
In this tutorial we will use a spreadsheet package, MS Excel, to generate a class mark book to track student test performance throughout the year. The mark book should also calculate class average per test and derive a symbol per student based on their final year mark. Access the instructions below by working through the pages in sequence. Have both the tutorial and your spreadsheet program open and recreate the steps yourself. Once you have experienced the power of a spreadsheet program you will never keep a paper version again. Let’s get started.
In your orientation workshop your facilitator will show you how to use your laptop issued by the Gauteng Department of Education. This unit is intended to help you review what you have already learned. In addition there is short section that will get you thinking about how you can use your laptop to enhance your teaching and learning
Before completing this unit you will have been provided with face-to-face training on using the laptop provided to you by the Gauteng Department of Education. This unit will revise the basic icons that can be found on the bottom toolbar of your laptop.
Before completing this unit you will have been provided with face-to-face training on using the laptop provided to you by the Gauteng Department of Education. This unit will provide you with a quick overview on where you can locate the lesson plans and teaching resources that have been pre-loaded onto your laptop.
You already have SMART Board installed at your school and now you must learn how to use SMART Board. In this part of the self-study guide you will learn how to download SMART Notebook software and understand the basic features of the software.
Now that you have covered the basics of how to use the SMART Notebook you will now have an opportunity to work with the SMART Notebook side tabs.
Many of our classrooms now have an Interactive Whiteboard and our laptops have collaborative learning software installed on them. Are you using your Interactive Whiteboard effectively? Is it living up to your expectations? In this unit we will have a look at how to get more out of this technology.
Welcome to unit 16. In this unit, we are going to look at a couple of really creative ways in which you can use your SMART board or laptop to improve the learning that happens in your classroom.
By the end of this unit you will be able to:
List at least 3 creative ways to use your SMART board to improve the learning in your classroom.
Describe something that you can do with your learners using your SMART board.
Computers and other ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) can be very useful tools, however, sometimes they can develop problems that make them difficult to use. This unit will take you through the basic steps that you can undertake to find and solve simple software and hardware problems on your device.
Do you sometimes feel that your teaching materials are old fashioned or out-dated? Are you able to stimulate the interest of learners who have access to videos, graphics and interesting articles online? This unit will guide you through the process of enhancing your existing teaching materials by finding good quality resources online.
You should already be able to use the internet and search engines to find high quality resources that can supplement your current teaching materials. As you are searching for resources you may be wondering, am I allowed to copy or share this resource? Can I change or adapt it to better suit what I am trying to do?
This unit will take you through a special type of resource called Open Education Resources (OER) which are available for teachers to use, share and adapt as they need to. You will learn where you can search for these types of resources and to be aware of the different types of licenses that may apply to these kinds of resources.
Electronic Mail (e-mail) is a way of communicating with people by sending messages via an internet mail service to their mailbox. As a way of communicating it is fast, simple, and reliable. Because of this, knowing what e-mail is and how it can be used is a very important skill that can be used in the classroom and in daily life.
This unit introduces you to what e-mail is and teaches you about how it can be used in the classroom to support learning and teaching activities.
In this lesson we will study some simple methods to locate subject related teaching and learning resources. To be able to do this we will introduce advanced internet search skills, particularly Google Advanced Search
Assessment is an essential process that provides information about what learners know and can do. Assessment allows teachers to make recommendations for future learning interventions. Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering, analysing and interpreting, using and reflecting on evidence to make informed and consistent judgements to improve future learning.
In this unit you will learn about the different types of diagnostic assessment tools, when best to make use of them in your teaching and how ICT can benefit them.
The Internet and Internet-enabled technologies continue to develop very fast. This has many benefits, but it changes to the way in which learners learn, communicate and interact.
Learners are keen and avid users of the Internet and mobile technologies. They are seen as ‘digital natives’, always surrounded by technologies. There are many social, educational and economic benefits for learners in using ICTs. Learners need to understand what is acceptable and appropriate behaviour in an online society.
As we have seen, the internet is a very useful tool for the classroom. It gives you access to content such as videos, pictures, and research. It is also a communication tool. But the internet can be dangerous if you are not aware of the threats that exist.
This unit will teach you about internet safety. It is important to know how to be safe on the internet because you need to keep your private information to yourself and make sure that your students are not falling victim to crime on the internet.
Teaching with technology is not always simple, especially if our aim is to improve the quality of the learning that is happening in our classrooms. Because technology is generally pretty expensive and takes quite a bit of effort of organise and care for, it makes sense that we would want to get our money’s worth by making sure that the end product – the quality of learning – is as good as it can be and keeps improving. Otherwise, why bother?
In this unit, we are going to learn about one of the most popular and useful frameworks to help us think about teaching well and effectively with technology. It is called the TPaCK framework. TPaCK is short for Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge.
This unit is part 2 of a 2 part series. In the previous unit, we introduced the TPaCK framework and explored some of its basics. The assignment for the last unit was to play the TPaCK game which should have started to help you think about how you could apply TPaCK to your subject and classroom.
If you have not yet completed Unit 25, you should do so before starting this unit.
In this unit, we will take a much closer look at how to use TPaCK to think about the integration of technology in a number of different subjects as well as how to plan learning activities using the framework.
This unit will encourage you to think of ways in which you can change your teaching style from being mostly teacher- centered (teacher talks and learners listen) to thinking of ways in which you plan your lessons and activities to involve your learners more actively in lessons.