Thursday 20 June 2013

To be a good teacher.....


Presentation Tools

As a educators, we are familiar with power point presentation but with Web 2.0 user can push the boundaries of traditional presentations, mix things up, and make learning more engaging than ever before. Web 2.0 is all about ease of use. Whether you're presenting to students, parents, or colleagues; or enabling students to create presentations themselves, Web 2.0 makes it simple and accessible. User can upload, create, edit and share their presentations anytime and anywhere......
                                                             Available Presentation Tools

Web 2.0 Tool
URL
Description
SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/
280 Slides
http://280slides.com/
User can create stunning presentations from scratch (and for free) with 280 Slides. There's no software to download—and when you're done you can share it any way you like
Prezi
http://prezi.com/
Break out of the box! Prezi.com throws the slide-show model out the window and presents a giant canvas instead. (It also throws paint brushes out the window in favor of bubbles.)
Picsviewr
http://www.picsviewr.com
Just export and upload it to Picsviewr and add some unexpected touches


Sample Presentation using Prezi

Wednesday 19 June 2013

Traditional Teaching and Learning Tools

Are your still use traditional method in class? Sometime yes...but nowadays with generation "Y", we need to change teaching and learning styles.

Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. I believed...most of the lecturers in Malaysia (I cannot mentioned the IHLs here)  are still using this method. They still use marker and write down to the white board. Sometimes print the handout and give to the student before start lecture. Now everything is GREEN..... no paper at all!!! Why we still follow the traditional way....do your first step today......



What is Web 2.0?

            We always heard about Web 2.0... but did you know that this web 2.0 is very useful for all educators like us to prepare any of teaching activities or materials. Just a few click we can generate our interactive quizzes, games, assignments, chat, interesting poster and so on... So, today i just give the definition of Web 2.0:

Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way messages spread across the Web. A number of online tools and platforms are now defining how people share their perspectives, opinions, thoughts and experiences. Web 2.0 tools such as weblogs, RSS, video casting, social bookmarking, social networking, podcasts and picture sharing sites are becoming more and more popular. One major advantage of Web 2.0 tools is that the majority of them are free.
There is a large number of Web 2.0 tools, some of the more popular ones are:
  • ·         Blogger
  • ·         Wordpress
  • ·         Myspace
  • ·         Youtube
  • ·         Metacafe
  • ·         Del.icio.us
  • ·         Digg
  • ·         Furl
  • ·         Twitter
  • ·         Flickr


Welcome Notes

Salam and Hi to all educators...

I just want to share my knowledge with all of you. Hope this blog can facilitate academicians to find the right tools for teaching and learning in classroom...