Reflective Journal on Microsoft word Activities

I started my ICT Microsoft word activity (1-7) on 3/8 /2015. By just scanning through the question, the activities looked quite simple but were not as they seem to be. The toughest part for me was construction of triangle and the arrow. I tried it in several ways however I was unsuccessful to come up with the right shape. Similarly, I got stuck at other areas too and eventually I had to get help from other experts.

Though I rendered help from other, I have learned a lot from them and now I am confident that I can do it by myself from now. What I need to keep in mind is that I have to apply this knowledge frequently in order to get well acquainted with it.

Infect, the activities (1-7) were exciting each demanding various techniques and were very informative too. I came to realize how important each activity was for the teachers. All the activities were worth solving and these are going to help us a lot in our profession.  I am pretty self-assured now that I can implement all of these activities without anyone’s help, rather I would come forward to help others with confident. I appreciate the way the activities were set because each activity were well thought and are very appropriate. I wish we had enough time to learn similar activities during our last summer residential class at Samtse NIE. Anyhow, I would like to save this work for my future reference.

      Thanks to the tutor for making me achieve the intended objectives through these activities. The skills and knowledge that I have gained not only  make me easier for planning and preparing of lessons and designing materials but also enhance my professional image in the world of ICT.

Here are some of the benefits which ICT brings to Education according to the recent research finding  
 Benefits for Teachers 

• ICT facilitates  sharing of resources, experiences and advice.
• Greater flexibility in when and where tasks are carried out.
• Gains in  ICT literacy skills, confidence and enthusiasm.
• Easier planning and preparation of lesson and designing materials.
• Assess to up-to date pupil and school data, anytime and anywhere.
• Enhancement of professional image projected to colleagues.
• Computer use during lessons motivates students to continue using learning outside the school hours.

Benefits for students 

• Higher quality lessons through greater collaboration between teachers in planning and preparing resources.
•  more focused teaching,tailored to students’ strengths and weaknesses, through better analysis of attainment data.
• important  Pastoral  care and behavior management through better tracking of students.
• Gains in understanding and analytical skills, including improvements in reading comprehension.
• Development of writing skills (including spelling, grammar, punctuation, editing and re-drafting), also fluency, originality and elaboration.
• Encouragement of independent and active learning, and self-responsibility for learning
• Flexibility of  anytime, anywhere’ access (Jacobsen and Kremer, 2000)
• Development of higher level learning style
• Student  found learning in a technology-enhanced setting more stimulating and student-centred than in a traditional classroom 
• Opportunities  to address their work to an external audience