Computer 10 Lesson 6: Learning Through the Net
- 2. In the comedy Love’s labour’s Lost, King Ferdinand and his three lords Dumain, Longaville, and Berowne took an oath stating that for three years, they will devote themselves to education to become famous scholars. In olden times, education was more linear and in many ways, a lot more difficult. To be a scholar or someone great, you had to devote many hours each day reading books by candlelight while manually writing your thoughts and ideas until your hands hurt. Fortunatel, technology came to our rescue, and the computer, followed by the Internet, revolutionized the whole educational process. IT ALLOWS YOU TO GET DATA ON VIRTUALLY ANY SUBJECT IMAGINABLE. The Internet is a worldwide network of computer resources that facilitates information exchange. It provides an enormous wealth of information that continues to grow bigger each day. Some advantages to learning that the internet provides: 1. • The great thing about the Internet is that it provides a wide selection of resources. • This allows you to analyze, compare, and contrast various sources and materials to be able to see different perspectives or extractthe data you deem accurate, useful, or relevant to your learnin. 2. IT ENABLES YOU TO BE UPDATED WITH THE THINGS YOU NEED TO BE UPDATED ABOUT. • With the internet, Keeping abreast on current events can make your learning experience more meaningful. Aside from actual news, lots of commentaries and viewpoints are also readily available. The reactions and opinions of experts and everyday folks can deepen your understanding and widen your perspective of the ever-changing world we live in.
- 3. IT LETS YOU PLAN YOUR OWN LEARNING SCHEDULE 3. • You have the freedom to learn at any time with the Internet, unlike traditional settings like libraries. With the Internet, you can access encyclopedias and academic resources independently for continuous learning. 4. IT GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST INFORMATION • The Internet offers more than just searching for data; it enables asking questions on Forums, Yahoo! Answers, and MyLot to get diverse answers from ordinary people to specialists. It allows correspondence with experts and participation in educational discussions.
- 4. • Virtual Games • Quizzes and puzzles • Interactivity stories and animations • Mind mapping/brainstorming tools • Digital flashcards • Timelines • Interactivity Tools are helpful and valuable because these allows the learners to participate in the learning process and have more memorable learning experience. Effective Interactivity tools are attractive, help focus attention, and maintain a learner’s interest all throughout the activity. Interactivity tools also provide practice opportunities for you to develop your mastery of the subject. Most importantly, they enable you to connect to information in your own unique way. 1. Interactivity Tools Common interactivity tools used for online learning
- 5. Common media creation and editing tools online include resources for creating charts, slideshows, videos, photos, sound, slide presentations, graphics and visual effects, online drawings/paintings, animations, movies and flowcharts. The following are the examples: 2. Media Creation and Editing Tools • Field Museum (www.fieldmuseu.org) The field Museum is an actual museum in Chicago with a website full of learning activities. • WebQuests A webquest is basically an online learning activity that requires completion of a certain task. • Global Environmental Issues This webquest let’s you be informed of different environmental issues that affect the world. In this webquest, you are expected to show your creativeness by designing a presentation to attract others to support a cause. • What is a WASP? (http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=106750) The webquest seeks to educate and inspire you with the story of WASP. • Number Theory (http://www.mathgoodies.com/Webquests/number_theory/) In this webques, you are expected to use your knowledge through the application of critical thinking skills to be fully engaged in exploring Nunber Theory. • Benjamin Franklin This webques introduces you to the different scientific accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin. Here you can develop you ability to gather informatio, read for a variety of reasons, and write a letter of acknowledgmen. The use of various media has been proven time and again to make learning not just more interesting but also more effective. Creating different types of media and incorporating them into your presentations let you produce more creative projects that will benefit you in a lot of ways.
- 6. LucidChart LucidChart is an easy to use Web- based flowchart editing application. Aside from providing you with a standard set of flowchart block types and images of network components, electronic, and other graphics essential in flowcharts, it also allows you to upload your own images, collaboratewith classmates, chat with them so you can share your ideas while working on a flowchart, publish your document. (WWW.LUCIDCHART.COM) Go! Animate (WWW.GOANIMATE.COM) GoAnimate.com is a website that allows you to create unique compute-animated stories and more than can be published online. It offers a lot of customizing and enhancing features such as popular animations from comedians, writers, and animators as well as interesting backgrounds, sound effects, props, and music. Onegreat benefit of using this tool is that it allows you to create animations even if you don’t have a talent for drawing or a technical understanding of advanced software. Paint.Net (WWW.GETPAINT.NET) Paint.Net is a free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. CamStudio (HTTP://CAMSTUDIO.ORG/) CamStudio is a free and open source program distributed under the GNU General Public License terms. What it does is to enable the users to capture everything that goes on in a computer screen and save it as a playable AVI or SWF file. It is pretty useful in the creation of video tutorials and demonstration files for teaching and learning.
- 7. Social Media activities such as social networking and bookmarking have opened new gates for information and communication. Millions of Internet users around the globe are part of At least one social network, and every day the list grows. • Delicious Delicious allows you to bookmark your favorite websites, articles, or blog posts, tag them,save them for easy access later, and share them with you friends, classmates, teachers. (www.delicious.com) • Twitter Basically this lets you make a mini-blog where you can post random thoughts or shout-outs that canbe read by your followers and vice versa.
- 8. RSS (Really Simple Syndicatio/Rich Site Summary) is a convienient learning tool for students and professionals alike. It allows you to subscribe to updates of your favorite websites from one central Web location using a preferred reader such as one from Google or Yahoo!.
- 9. Virtual Classrooms expand learning beyond campus, serving as the main learning space for distance education. They enable communication, assignment distribution, tutorials, announcements, and discussions for students in both formal and distance education programs. • Plagiarism- use of the language and ideas of another author and claiming them as your own • WebQuest- a learning activity webpage or website where learners can learn by getting information from the Internet • RSS-format for delivering regularly changing Web content • Distance Education- delivery g education to students who are not physically on site
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