ICT learning

In this module, I've discovered that there are now so many new ways to explore and learn and I do not want to ever stop learning ICT. The more I attained this module, sir gave me more opportunity to learn and explore, and all the topics taught were valuable and interesting. More significantly, I have also learned that it is not just about me and my knowledge nonetheless, how I use those learned skills and inspire and motivate my students with their learning that uses technology as a catalyst becomes important here.

ICT integration into teaching and learning mainly depends on creativity and motivation of the teacher. There are lots of advantages of using ICT in the classroom such as; it makes teaching more easy for the teacher. ICT is also fun learning and interesting as it motivates the student and creates an interactive class and makes the lesson more enjoyable. But there are also some disadvantages such as setting up device; it is also hard for the teacher if he or she doesn’t have experience of using ICT. What I have experienced from my teaching practice is that the school has the computer lab but they were still not enough for all the students to accommodate. That is why students feel that ICT has very less value and they lose interest. ICT is all about enhancing the teaching and learning process through integration of different information communication technologies. Therefore knowing how to use ICT is very important for us as a future facilitator.

I came to know that technology can help us to perhaps learn more easily and on a higher level and it helped me to develop a love for lifelong learning. The use of technology creates many opportunities for self-directed learning as in each lesson sir introduced us to a new topic and we were given an activity to create and do something that was related to the topic. By doing those activities, I was able to explore more and I learned how to use it in the classroom rather than using technology as baby sitting. I have come to understand that learning is dependent on interaction with others (hearing and seeing the ideas and experiences of others, sharing my ideas, discussing and learning from each other).

By using ICT in classroom, both teacher and the student can develop essential skills for the 21st century. ICT has the ability to enhance the relationship between teacher and the student. When teacher effectively integrates technology into subject areas, teacher grow into the role of adviser and it makes teaching and learning more meaningful and fun. It also motivates students.

ICT act as a source of information where a user can access information from anywhere, any time and any type of information. Thus, technology makes the learning easier and comfortable. Through ICT we will be updated with the currents news because it is a common place where we can view any information.

Technology has been incorporated into the classroom to make the learning as child-centered. Where the child will explore the information based on the topics through video tutorial and YouTube. Encourage collaborative skills by getting involved in different online activities and active participation in the classroom. When student are taught with the various method, they will take an interest. Since every student is different, what works for one may not work for other just because one student benefit from the particular lesson, therefore when student use variety of resources it can encourage individual learning.

Thus, in this module I have learnt a lot and as a learner I found all those topics interesting and beneficial in our future as a teacher

Camtasia" as a new concept I learned.

Camtasia is one of the constructive tools that help us to construct our own knowledge or produce anything that we want to. It makes the learners more active and engaged fostering critical thinking and creating motivation to learn independently. It is a screen recorder and a video maker and editor. I found that it helps us in creating powerful, interactive, and professional videos that are useful to us. 

I have also learned that it supports us (learners) to manipulate information, visualize one’s understanding, and we can construct one’s own idea. It is multimedia authoring tool where we can record our voice, record PowerPoint presentation makes our own video and can be published.

There are steps to record PowerPoint presentation or record screen. The following are the steps for recording.

1. From within PPT

- Click on Add-ins option

- Then record.

From within Camtasia Studio

- There is task list shown, so click on record the screen option.

- Then, select record PP option.

2. After setting up for recording

- Recording toolbars will appear- click on recording option icon to set up specific options for recording.

3. During recording

- Click record to launch the slideshow.

- Check the microphone input level and when ready, select the click to begin recording.

- Control the PPT normally during the recording.

- Press ESC or Ctrl+shift+F10 to stop recording.

4. After recording

- Choose whether to stop recording or to continue recording.

- After you save the file, choose to produce or edit your recording.


I really liked using this constructive tool because I can plan and record videos on my computer screen. So, by using these steps I made one video tutorial on ‘How animal adapt in their habitat’. I would say that I really enjoyed using camtasia and I have learned a lot on how to use it when I go as a teacher in the school which can help me in making my classroom learning more engaging and fun.
Given video is a video tutorial that I made using camtasia for class four science on How animal adapt in their habitat

Camtasia is one of the constructive tools that help us to construct our own knowledge or produce anything that we want to. It makes the learners more active and engaged fostering critical thinking and creating motivation to learn independently. It is a screen recorder and a video maker and editor. I found that it helps us in creating powerful, interactive, and professional videos that are useful to us. 

I have also learned that it supports us (learners) to manipulate information, visualize one’s understanding, and we can construct one’s own idea. It is multimedia authoring tool where we can record our voice, record PowerPoint presentation makes our own video and can be published.

There are steps to record PowerPoint presentation or record screen. The following are the steps for recording.

1. From within PPT

- Click on Add-ins option

- Then record.

From within Camtasia Studio

- There is task list shown, so click on record the screen option.

- Then, select record PP option.

2. After setting up for recording

- Recording toolbars will appear- click on recording option icon to set up specific options for recording.

3. During recording

- Click record to launch the slideshow.

- Check the microphone input level and when ready, select the click to begin recording.

- Control the PPT normally during the recording.

- Press ESC or Ctrl+shift+F10 to stop recording.

4. After recording

- Choose whether to stop recording or to continue recording.

- After you save the file, choose to produce or edit your recording.


I really liked using this constructive tool because I can plan and record videos on my computer screen. So, by using these steps I made one video tutorial on ‘How animal adapt in their habitat’. I would say that I really enjoyed using camtasia and I have learned a lot on how to use it when I go as a teacher in the school which can help me in making my classroom learning more engaging and fun.
Given video is a video tutorial that I made using camtasia for class four science on How animal adapt in their habitat. Given below is an example of the video tutorial that I have created using Camtasia on the topic 'How animals adapt in their habitat'

Use of Google Classroom

Google classroom is the easiest way to blended learning and it is exactly like VLE discussion forum where the teacher can assign work to the learners, grade them and invite the students for discussion. A teacher can post a information here and let the student do assignments and read notes from here. However, in VLE discussion forum it is only accessible for teacher and students cannot post announcements and students cannot create a group here. Whereas in Google classroom, a teacher can assign a task to students individually, to a group of students or to all the students, collect for review, grade their assignments in one place but one should have a personal email address.

Through Google classroom, the teacher can see who did the work, give feedback to our students, and ask questions even out of the classroom and make announcements. It helps the teacher and students in distributing handouts, enhances student-centered learning.


Nonetheless, there are limitations of using Google classroom.

- Both the teachers and students should have personal email Id to be logged in and since most of the people do not have access to this App, so, even for the teachers, it can be confusing to use.

- Google course app does not consider the involvement of the entire learner because of economically draw backed students cannot have access to such facilities. (Students need to have access to the Internet in order to engage in Google Classroom.)

- If we encourage more of Google course learning, future is already foreseen to be a robotic learning rather than a constructive learning.

- And as to talk from the psychological point of view, there is limited interaction between learners and the teachers, thus it results in failure from the teacher's side to an emotional bond with the students. the teacher won’t be able to recognize the different learning style of the students thus leading to low quality of learning.

- Google classroom cannot be effective without the support from both teachers and students. So, I have a big doubt whether I can use it in my school in the future.

 This is an example of my video tutorial for googleclassroom which I made using camtasia.

 To know more about how to create google classroom you can click on the give URL.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6L-nZGIUTE