Last April 28 to 30, I attended
the Philippine Governance Building Programme – ICT Training for Teachers at
Ateneo de Manila University. I was so blessed that my head teacher sent me in this
training because I got the chance to learn some of the most useful ICT tools that
can be used to enhance my students’ learning experience.
Day 1
We met our trainers: Mr. Red
Prado, Head Teacher in Division of Valenzuela; and Mrs. Rebecca, Master Teacher
in Division of Quezon City. They were both energetic trainers. They immediately
conduct the opening routine and facilitated a dynamic and engaging
“getting-to-know-each-other game.”
As an introduction for the
training, Mrs. Rebecca talked about the background of this training. We learned
that Policy, Governance and Capacity
Building (PGCB) Programme for Philippine Educators is an initiative of
TEMASEK Foundation, in cooperation with Ateneo de Manila University. It aims to enhance
the skills and knowledge of teachers when it comes to content and pedagogy of
elementary and secondary teachers in Science, Math, English and ICT.
She also discussed about the ICT Affordances. It was my first time
to hear the word “affordance.” Mrs. Rebecca defined it as an actionable
property that exists between the object and the actor. During her discussions,
we learned the different affordances of ICT tools from pedagogical, social and
technological perspectives.
In the afternoon session, Mr. Red
trained us on how to utilize Edmodo
as a course learning management system. Although I am quite acquainted with
the features of Edmodo, I still learned a lot from the training because the
environment of this site has changed since the last time I used it.
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| I'm with my great grandfather's statue :D |
Day 2
Hot Potatoes, CMap Tools and
Blogger were the “star ICT tools” during our second day. After demonstrating
how to use these tools, the trainers gave us a lot of challenging exercises. They required us to develop interactive and online examinations using Hot Potatoes, concept maps about our
lessons using CMap Tools and we even
created a blog site account using Blogger
(of course on this part I am quite at ease, since I already know how to manage
a blog site in Blogger).
When Mrs. Rebecca asked for volunteers,
who would like to conduct a micro-teaching demonstration as our culminating
activity, I didn't hesitate to raise my hand. I would also like to share the
things I learned and how I could apply it to actual teaching. But, since many
were interested to conduct a demonstration teaching and only four teachers will
be given the chance, Mrs. Rebecca did the selection through a raffle among
those interested. I was so blessed to get a slot.
Day 3
I was so excited (and quite
nervous) to attend the last day because of my scheduled demonstration. I just
told myself that it was a chance for me to share also my strategies with my
co-participants on how to effectively use those ICT tools that we learned and I
should make the most out of this opportunity.
During the morning session, Mr.
Red trained us how to use Audacity,
which is a sound-editing program that can actually help us record and edit our
voices for instruction or for interactive learning module development. He also
shared a lot of websites, wherein we can access interactive
educational games.
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| Micro-demonstration teaching in ICT integration |
My micro-teaching demonstration was
indeed a success. Although, I was cut because our time was just limited, I
believed that I covered the essential parts that my co-participants should
capture. In my micro-teaching instructional plan, I used the ASSURE model.
This was something that I would really like to share to them. With ASSURE
instructional design model, we can integrate technology tools more effectively.
