Monday, September 12, 2011

EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES


1.Scholastic has been a favorite educational website among homeschool families for many, many years. Parents and children alike can enjoy playing a variety of games, learning all about the best books, and gaining access to special downloads offered by this website. Children who require assistance with their homework can enjoy the luxury of having homework assistance through Scholastic online. There are many excellent tools and resources available on Scholastic that can help make homeschool classrooms more interactive, educational, and exciting!
2.PBS Kids is another excellent choice when reviewing the top educational websites for the homeschool family. Young children can enjoy interaction with their favorite cartoon characters on PBS Kids. This includes Barney and Friends, The Teletubbies, Arthur, The Berenstain Bears, Caillou, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Curious George, Boohbah, Dragon Tales, Maya & Miguel, Mister Rogers, Noddy, Reading Rainbow, and more! Children can play games, enjoy interactive challenges, hear stories, and even print out coloring pages for art time in the homeschool classroom!
3.Yahoo! Kids is an excellent website that many homeschool families use as a safe place for children to interact on the internet. Children can enjoy games, music, movies, jokes, sports, create ecards, read their horoscope, and study all in one place! The Yahoo! Kids Study Guide allows children in the homeschool classroom to learn about many different things. This includes news, animals, science, dinosaurs, reference, facts, and many other different lessons. If you are looking for an excellent website to supplement the lessons in your homeschool classroom, Yahoo! Kids is an excellent choice.
4.The website, edHelper.com, is an excellent educational website for the homeschool classroom. This website offers an assortment of material and lesson plans for children from preschool age to high school. This website even offers a special section dedicated to the homeschool classroom that educates children with special needs. Foreign languages are also taught on edHelper.com. There are also a number of important themes listed on this educational website that you can integrate into the homeschool classroom!
5.I Know That is a wonderful educational website for individuals who wish to integrate games, interactive learning activities, and many other components to the homeschool classroom. You can find activities by age group, grade, subject matter, and subject theme. This is an excellent choice among at home educators everywhere!
6.The Discovery Channel online is a wonderful tool that many homeschool families use in order to teach children about all aspects of their world. Inquiring minds can take interactive virtual tours of many different places, and even discover dinosaurs through one! Many news and science topics are detailed on this particular website as well. Children can even learn very important survival skills by playing games such as “Life or Death: In the Jungle”, “Man vs. Wild”, “Life or Death: Snow Survival”.
The American magazine covers a huge range of subjects, from space and the environment to animals and even world music (where you can listen to thousands of artists). What’s shared is a passion for the living world. Inspiring stuff, brilliantly presented.

Monday, August 15, 2011

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2 PRACTICUM:

For me EDUCATIONAL is have a beg help to the students especially to the teacher's to be soon. Like me a teacher to be  If  I'm  pass  the board exam. Education is help to me how can teach and enhance the knowledge of the students. But  I  I'm  not  expert to this new technology, or the microsoft  word  and the power point, but I'm really pursue myself  to learned about it. Hopefully I've  learned so many things in this new technology, about the computers.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

LESSON 16 - THE INTERNET AND EDUCATION

In lesson 16 It is true that the internet is educated because based on my experience it is really to help for me to enhance my capability to do so.  It  is good in our community that has a new technology  about internet system. The school today are gearing up to take advantage of internet access,where they can plug into the library of congress, make virtual visits to famous museums in the world. Even in the schools mostly of the teachers used a laptop to there students or the learners because to make an easy  or a past to be done their teach it. today , even elementary school grades in progressive countries like the United States corresponding via e-mail with pen pals in all 50 states. And the face book are so oriented to the public, most of that the student's.  

LESSON 15- UNDERSTANDING HYPERMEDIA

In this lesson makes it important to understand hypermedia in the educational context in order to ensure their successful integration in the teaching  learning process.  Hypermedia also use of the following events getting the learners attention, recall prior learning, inform learners of their lesson objectives introduce the software and its distinctive features. Guide learning provide feedback, assess performance, enhance retention and learning transfer. There are two characteristics in hypermedia, 1st is learner control it means the learner control make his own decisions on the path, flow or events of instructions. It is makes easiest the way to teach or making their projects and requirements. The 2nd is learner wide range of navigation routes, most part the learner controls the sequence and pace of his path depending on his ability and motivation. It means has guided on how to make your own decision and motivate.  

LESSON -14 - THE SOFTWARE AS AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURSES

True software's  must be checked for its contents and element .Event if they come from microsoft or any other trusted company, user must be check It its the genuine version.There are commercially sold ones that are good for instruction but still needs good expensive equipment. Some need more amount of memory and have to be practiced before presenting to the students still they are effective.And still, teachers must be creative on presenting it to them. 

Monday, August 8, 2011

LESSON 13 - COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH COMPUTER

Cooperative learning can be applied in doing projects. I think the reason why it is not to be adopted in all classroom learning situations is that the group may not be all the time organized.  Some may not work efficiently and may take time for teachers to work them out.  What I have experienced, some groups also work fine depending whether or not the members like each other's company.  But whatever they do, they can always make it a challenge.  They can always do it  positively even if they don't like their  group mates. This way, they will do their best making this a clean competition. Yes debated  may work but in a decent manner. This way, the student can enhance his / her own skills. He/she  learns respect  and "PAKIKISAMA", good values that must be acquired. The teacher is the one that checks and  looks for strategies to ensure each member does his/her work. Maybe he/she can take time to interact with the group at times.

LESSON 12 - IT IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

I was really disappointed that less developed countries have economies defend on factory workers who do repetetive work without thinking on the jobs and industrialized societies defend on ICT. Less developed  countries can also depend on ICT. As well, but not that efficient and not that advanced.They underestimated these pleasant countries, and the traditional approach  too much.The society really  have changed. I mean,  the traditional  classroom has also its share of advantages over the SCL. And the disadvantages at the traditional may also be noticed in SCL,such as its environment can also be noisy, students can also be bored,and that teachers have all the priviledge on the decision of how to make them be attentive on the class again, depending not only on mere computer capabilities. Even in SCL,it is in the teacher's discretion on how the class can be fun, memorable and healthy. He/ she may ask the class to do the icebreaker songs that the traditional classroom always does. I think it's better than staring act the PC all  period.