Lesson on Situating Tool

                                        Situating Tool

To my understanding, i will define situating tool as a system that situates students in the environment where it involve a context and the occurrence of a situation. It gives real experiences to the learners or explorers with 3-D images on display. This tool can be used when a certain real-life experience is impossible or difficult to attain. We were introduced to three situating tools in ICT module and i am surely going to make good use of these tools in future.
1. Google map.
 Through google map, we can travel to different countries, states, places, continents and to the whole world.  It was my first time exploring on google map when our tutor Mr. Ugyen Wangchuk demonstrate on using google map. It was really mesmerizing and I should say it gave me realistic experience since i got to travel to different countries in the google map with a 3-D display.

                                           fig:    Google map
we can do street view in google map, where we get to see a real picture of it.

                                              Street view of Paro Nyamay Zampa.

street view of college gate. 

There are three types to view google map.
i.  satellite view - where we can view places and buildings as it is in 3-D display as shown below.
                                               Paro valley in satellite view.

ii.  Terrain view - shows 3-D elevation of natural geographic features, such as mountains and canyons as shown below. 

iii. Map view - viewing in the form of map as shown below. 

2. Simulations
We did an activity on designing activity on the topic basic and acidic solution by exploring in the simulations. In that simulation, we get to do hands on experience on identifying acidic or basic solutions. This kind of simulations surely will help the students understand better, rather than confusing them with numerous solutions and blended pH papers. It can help to those teachers and students who lacks resources on acidic and basic solutions and pH measuring instruments especially by the simulation on pH scale. There are thousands of simulation on different subjects created by experts to be used in teaching.

                              Simulation we have explored during ICT class on the topic pH scale.

3. Graph Calculator
It is a handled computer that is capable of plotting graphs, solving simultaneous equations, and performing other tasks with variables. Graph can be plotted within a short period of time, with many equations without any error. It gives correct variations and patterns among different equations. If we were to be solve four graphic equations, it may take two to three hours to solves it and we may have to tear hundreds of pages. But with the help of graph calculator, it can be solved in two to three minutes.
In graph calculator, there's a space to type equation and as you type equation, the graph automatically gets plotted. Not only linear equations, it can also help us with different equations such as quadratic and cubic graph.

 The figure above shows different graphs plotted with different linear equations.

Lesson on Google Classroom

               Lesson on Google Classroom

It was my first time getting exploration on Google Classroom and it was worth studying. I have seen my sister using google classroom when at village but i didn't care to explore on it. But i should say, as a future teacher and our country being expose to online learning, we should be equipped with such kinds of knowledge so that we can use it in any kind of situations. As we were all aware of the situation we are in, schools around the country was closed and google classroom is the main tool used for interaction between tutors and learners. I should say, the pandemic is a blessing in disguise since it helps our Bhutanese learners to explore more learning tools and pedagogues to  integrate ict tools in their teaching. 

We should posses an email Id in order to create Google classroom be it teacher or students. If we enter as an students, there are features that can help students to get exposed to notes provided by their teachers individually and it gives a platform where students can interact with other friends and teachers to clarify doubts. For teacher, it provides features to upload announcement, assignments, materials and quiz assignment. Different forms to upload the files and materials were given and we can link it the the google too. Grading, and marking features were also provided to grade students assignments and quiz automatically after having attempted by students. 

 Announcement i have made for my class in google classroom and promotional video on the topic Rotation of the Earth. 



Materials i have uploaded in google classroom on the topic rotation of the earth. 
1. PDF file 
2. Video 
3. link 

Quiz i have created for the class based on five questions. 
1. multiple choice questions
2. short answer questions
3. long answer questions
4. check boxes
5. drop down questions. 

I have opened a Google classroom using my university mail on the topic Rotation of the Earth from class four science. There i have made one announcement welcoming students to the session, post one assignment, materials and a quiz assignments to be done by my students. Learning with our tutor helps me to understand it better and was scaffold-ed when ever needed. 

Not only can we upload materials and assignments in google classroom, we can also upload videos(promotional video) to familiarize students with our session in a short period of time. This kind of features can help students to extract the notes and information faster as they don"t have to go through every notes since every students have different learning styles. 

3 minutes promotional video that i have made for class four students on the topic Rotation of the Earth in my google classroom. 

As a future teacher, i am going to use google classroom as a main tool to interact with my students and i would strongly recommend my friends to use this platform as it can give great opportunity for both learners and teachers to explore. 

My experience on Camtesia studio

My experience on Camtesia studio

One of our major assignment was to construct a video tutorial using camtesia studio on any topics.
I should say, working with camtesia studio wasn't an easy work since there are different types of features to be used while constructing video tutorial and being my first time to work with such kind of apps really pushed me into difficult times.  It took me four hours just to install the camtesia studio in my laptop. Then we were given topic each by our tutor to work upon our tutorial and the topic that i have got is "how the life began earth" from class five social studies.

Before taking video, i have made a presentation on the topic i have got using the information in the text and had retrieve some information from google. As and when i explore for the information, i get to know more about how the life had began before 3500 millions years ago apart from the information given in the text. Then i have proceeded on constructing video tutorials on the given topic.

            10 minutes video that i have constructed on the topic "how life began on earth".

It was really frustrating when i was unable to use the features in camtesia studio, but with the help from my friend, i was able to use those features and had learnt a lot in the process of constructing video. And i am confident that i will be able to make any kinds of videos using this camtesia studio and i would reccomand every individual to use this studio since, every feature in the studio were easy to use and  it make easier for the user to browse the file and increase retention.


                                 Some of the features in the camtesia studio.

                                fig 1: sound management features.

                               fig 2: sound and video adjustment features.

                               fig 3: track adjustment features.

Let me share some of the benefits of using Camtesia studio:
 1.  It can record high quality videos in the shortest time possible and there is no time limit to any video which is recorded. this can make easier for people who often have to develop tutorials which are varied in duration.
2.  it is very easy to arrange videos, audios, and images on an unlimited number of tracks.
3. there are interesting visual effects like cursor effects, shadows, coloring objects and borders allows to customize videos and make it look more professionals.