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Technology tools for teachers

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week I have decided to talk about technology tools for teachers.

Evaluation and assessment

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Hello everyone, i hope you are doing well. This week topic is about evaluation and assessment. We know that assessment is an important part in educational system. Assessment is a methodical way of acquiring, reviewing and using information about students to make improvement where is necessary. Assessment is an interactive process where both the teacher and students are involved. The process involves setting up goals, collecting information and using it for increasing quality. We as teachers collect this information about students progress and compare it throughout a period of time. Assessment make students feel better and encourage them to do more. Different types of assessment are :  Summative or Formative  Traditional or alternative Assessment help students build confidence in their ability to learn. Recognizing that there are many different ways to assess learning and become skillfull at Self-assessment are important lifelong learning skills. Self-assessment help us to...

Develop Phase - Media Components

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Hello everyone, i hope that you are doing great. This time I am going to share with you some information about the Develop Phase and Media Components. Develop Phase includes producing the media components such as text, graphics, animations, audio and video. In this stage we put all theory into practice. We know that multimedia apps are important in attracting students' attention, so as a future teacher i would like to use multimedia in my classroom. We should teach our students how to use technology properly in a way to be useful for them. In this phase we should use the media components that are very important for the project. They enhance visual litracy, make presentation interesting and is adapted to different intelligences and learning styles. Graphics: refers to images or any information in the computer that can be created with a computer program or imported from any existing file in computer, by using programs CarelDraw, Adobe Photoshop, Point Shop etc Animations: are m...

Design

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Hello everyone, this week i am going to talk about design phase of a project. Design phase is very important because it introduces you with a general idea of the project. This phase is also a challenging one, we should not rush in here and should be very careful. 1.The first step is outlining the content which is very important that determines what is going to include your presentation, the most important points, they should be clear and memorable. We should focus more on our slides and what do they need to convey to the audience. 2. Creating flowcharts: they are a productive way to show steps in a project, and I think for that important reason they should be practical and easy to remember. Making a flowchart with a picture is an interesting element in a presentation and also useful because it remains longer in memory. 3. Specifying screen design: that is also very crucial because we all want to find something attractive and which fit our presentation. The focus in that case is ...