Saturday, March 19, 2011

LB#18

Roles and function of an educational media center





Educational Media Center functions as a visual instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the school's educational process. It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.It involve in the teaching and learning process.It is a source center .It is a learning laboratory.It is a teaching agency. It is a service agency.It is a coordinating agency.It is a center of recreational, viewing, and listening and it is a stepping stone to other community resource centers.
It serves a myriad roles and functions  and services  such as:
  • Orientation-All teacher are given an orientation on the Educational Media Center.The students are also given an orientation on their first Media Instructional Program class.
  • Selection of print and non-print materials-The librarians continually select and acquire print and non-print material that suits the needs, interest, and special abilities of the students and teachers.
  • Organization of print and non-print materials- A technical librarian organizes all the purchased print and non-print materials for easy retrieval.
 

LB#17

Assessment in constructivist , technology-supported learning


          Authentic assessment is the most appropriate for the constructivist classroom.It measures collective abilities,written and oral expression skills,analytical skills,manipulative skills,integration, creativity, and ability to work collaboratively.With the kind of assessment, students perform real world tasks. It is an assessment of the process or a product.The performance is the reliable measure of skills learned and the product is the proof of the acquisition of skills. In doing authentic assessment, the teacher should make use of of the scoring rubric in order to objectively observe and evaluate student's performance.With scoring rubric, the standards are clearly set at the beginning the teacher and the students. With rubric,the student can assess her or his progress.In this case the much fear foe the test gets dispelled.Assessment is the natural and normal part of the learning process. There are no more secrets on how students will be tested,what kind of question will be asked.The students themselves know how their progress gets assessed.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

LB#16

USING THE PROJECT- BASED LEARNING MULTIMEDIA AS A TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGY
This project based multimedia has many steps to be used.We used this strategy to enable the student to remember  and understand better content as they perform real world tasks.As a future teacher i would  choose to use the  best strategy that fits on my lesson so that we will end up the class where learning of my students are present.

LB#15

PROJECT- BASED  LEARNING AND MULTIMEDIA.WHAT IS IT?
Project based multimedia learning is a teaching method where students acquire new knowledge and skills in the course of designing, planning, and producing multimedia product.The elements of project base multimedia  learning are Core curriculum from the word core to  emphasize that project based multimedia learning should address the basic knowledge and skills all students are expected to acquire, and should not simply  be an enrichment or extra credit activity for a special few.
The disadvantage is that don't lose track of your lesson objectives because the technology aspect has gotten the lime light.

Monday, February 21, 2011

LB#14

MAXIMIZING THE USE OF THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR AND THE CHALKBOARD
We are now in a generation where  technologies that makes our life comfortable were developed.Just like overhead projector  where most of the teacher used, although  it is very versatile equipment they used it because it is simple to operate and no need to write on the board and it is time consuming.Chalkboard  is present in all school , it is also used by the teacher. In using  this make sure that you will follow the correct  practices of a dedicated professional teachers it is very needed in its effective use.