Reflection on How and Why [BIT item two]

Explain in detail of HOW and WHY you have used ICT with a blog/ Web site in your lesson plan

HOW:

With my teaching topic of "series and parallel circuits", first I borrowed several textbooks from the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) library as I found the CD accompanied includes PowerPoint files and worksheets.  By referencing the same topic from different book publishers, I screened, selected and consolidated a new PowerPoint file and worksheet for my students.  Moreover, through Google with keywords "series and parallel circuits" and also tried "teaching electricity", I found and downloaded several software applications from http://www.etcai.com/ Web site and used them in teaching.  Meanwhile, I also encouraged my students to explore the software at home to enhance the concepts of electricity. ... bla bla bla ...

Screenshot of the Web site:

WHY:

Generally, I think blog is very easy to set up and manage.  As a teacher, I don't need to spend a lot of time to learn HTML code for the Web page layout design.  Instead, I can focus on the content and publish my teaching and learning materials easily.  With free WiFi hotspots in Hong Kong, it is easy either to update the blog content related to electricity such as taking and uploading pictures through my smart phone or even interacting with my students through replying blog posts.  Using PowerPoint file is also good for teaching productivity as I don’t need to bring several textbooks.  Instead, I scanned and compressed the images from different textbooks and integrated into a single PowerPoint file (with proper referencing).  Specifically, I found the shareware applications I selected are free-of-charge, very comprehensive, and easy to manage the concepts of electricity that I think they are very suitable for teaching. ... bla bla bla ...

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Knowledge vs. Skill

When we are writing a reflection for our competence in educational practice, we might talk about "skill" and "knowledge".  Sometimes we may put them as the same stuff but actually "knowledge" refers to a particular concept in certain domain, while "skill" refers to the ability of manipulating the knowledge in a particular context.  That is, "knowledge" is about the theories, but "skill" is related to application.  There is a great passage with a detailed explanation on both terms at http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-knowledge-and-skill/

Demo: Embedding Flash game in Blogger

This is a demonstration by adding Flash educational game:

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A demo of adding a Flickr album

This is the photo taken in school open day that I am going to teaching "narrative writing" in my lesson.

A demo of adding a PowerPoint file at SlideShare

This is the PowerPoint file I have used in the lesson plan at Intermediate (IIT) Level:

Creating online questionnaires with Google Docs for quality feedback

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Sample lesson plan with Google Docs and Blogger

This is a sample lesson plan that I used to show how to UPLOAD and EMBED a MS Word file in Blogger only.

Sample lesson with an image and a YouTube video clip

A group of students are new to science laboratory.  Please look at the diagram below and answer the questions by giving comments:
Q1. Find three behaviours that are unsafe.
Q2. Find three behaviours that are safe.
Watch the video clip below and draft a list with five safety guidelines that you think are important in science laboratory.

Materials adopted from: http://www.heumann.org/u1/lab_safety.html

Finish and Start - Using online avatar makers [Abi-Station]

Just finished the first tutorial sessions for FT PGDE(S) today. Although some of you might be confused but have a general impression that there are a lot work. Please don't worry and let's start creating the profile image on your blog by using an online avatar maker as below:
http://www.abi-station.com/english/

Try googling with keywords "online avatar maker" and create your own avatar. My selection criteria of such Web applications (henceforth, the Webapp) will be:
1. No subscription is needed;
2. A "squared image" can be produced;
3. Few clicks to generate and download image.

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Hello ... please share me your learning and teaching experience

Hello my friends ... let's start here to share learning and teaching experience one another! It will be painful at the beginning but fruitful at the end in this academic year!