Sunday 20 December 2015

WEEK 7 19th October, 2015

This week Presentation of tools continued under the guidance of prof. Jamaludin  with class members introduced the new web 2.0. the tool presented were Edynco, Socrative and Schoology.
                                                                                                                                                         Eidynco   
Edynco is an online tool for both teachers and students for creating learning maps and engaging students with them to perform tasks and activities. Edynco is a richly designed collaborative mind mapping instruments where users can link their ideas and embed video, PDF images, slides, links and even html. For instructional use teacher can add tests and also record lectures videos instantly.
Socrative
Socrative is an application which empowers the teacher to engage and assess students in a the teaching and learning process.  Instantaneous questioning, result collection, and visualization can be used to have immediate understanding of students. It assist for collaboration and develop a community. Students can share their knowledge by responding to formative assessment questions in different formats: quizzes, matching, objective tests. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be urged to link the teacher's room thru the teacher's exceptional code.
Schoology
Schoology is an online course management system that lets teachers to produce and manage academic courses for their students.  It offers teachers with a process of handling lessons, engaging students, sharing content, and linking with other educators.
Logging in to Schoology I a simple task, there are three ways to log in:
•Teacher (Sign up for a free Schoology account)
•Student (Requires an access code that is provided by the teacher)
•Parent (Requires an access code that is provided by the teacher)
Students & Parents as indicated above require Access Code, when a teacher creates a Schoology account, they are delivered with an access code that permits students and parents right of entry to the instructor’s course in Schoology. Schoology is similar to e-learning, is a substitute of LMS. You need a server before you can use e-learning but schoology is a free tool. The major shortcoming of schoology is that the user has limited control.
Furthermore, after the lesson Prof. Jamal threw more light on the ILE Project.
Designing principles tips:
Design is very important in the creation and maintenance of innovative learning environment project,
·         Epistemology should be consistent with constructive learning theory.
·         Create flexible tasks and tools for knowledge sharing
·         Ensure different support for within and outside the community.
·         Establish flexible and responsible students’ roles and responsibilities
·         Provide communication and interaction tools for learners to construct learning.
·         Create tasks for self-direction, ownership and collaboration
·         Ensure flexible tutoring and mentoring roles
·         Create access to different resources.

·         Provide flexible learning goals.

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