Week 3:

I'm beginning to realise how vital it is for learning managers to teach with and provide students with a wide range of ICT's. Being ICT literate is becoming almost as important for studnets to understand, as it is for them to know how to read and write. The eLearning lesson this week was focused on some Microsoft Office programs including "PowerPoint' and 'Windows Movie Maker'.

First we used Power Point to brows a range of pictures and sounds from ClipArt. We then saw how easy it was to break down the picture into its individual shapes and colours. This is an example of one of the pictures I rearranged.

We also explored a creative way to make our own question and answer game on PowerPoint. This involved writing a question and supplementing the page with buttons with can also have sounds when you click on them. This was great and I didn't realise how easy it could be. To retrieve the answers it was as simple as hyper-linking each button to a page which said you were correct or to try again. These pages could also have a sound such as a cheer if the student got the question correct. I believe this can be very helpful to personalise a computer activity to the individual class interests and topics.

Finally, we had a brief look at Windows Movie Maker. We imported a photo ready to make a movie and added some music. We were also shown how to finalise the movie, before we ran out of time in the lesson.