Two Sites Helpful:

Brochure maker.com

I find this site very useful for information especially in making publication. It gives us options to choose designs according to our wish. It’s time saving, effortless and easy to produce at a minimal cost. This is just what I need to advertise and promote our institution and even useful for advocacy … in proclaiming life’s purpose.

Edutopia.org

For beginners like me… this site has helped me understand the fad of technology in our time especially in its integration to education. There’s more to understand and discover of its use and relevancy. I am learning to appreciate as I go through the connections. It is indeed very interesting to know how young generation even at an early stage are expose to technology, its fun and enriching as well to know that learners and teachers find meaningful mechanism in relationship through a new approach, opening doors to a culture of trends, creating products of enhancement and advancement. This is where we are heading in the next century… where we religious have to be open and read the signs of the time.

How to improve teaching practices

using power point.

• The use of visual aid in any classroom setting is a helpful tool to influence student’s interest. In this age of technology, learners listening capacity is diminutive ,where students’ span of attention is 5 minutes or the longest is 10 minutes. PowerPoint is indeed a great tool for learning; that is if teachers concern for students’ learning is clear. Using PowerPoint will always depend on the one preparing the content of the presentation; the heart of the message is important, added clips or any animations are just motion to capture audience impact but then a condense information that explicitly presents the content or substance of the subject is all that matter for learners.

• Too much use of PowerPoint could also abuse the mind and tire the eyes; it would already serve as boredom. I think the teacher has to know when and which topic has to be presented. And, since it is a teacher –student directed situation, an interactive discussion on the slides would develop critical thinking and add to learning.

• ·PowerPoint is just one of the means to arrive a certain goal in education; a skilled teacher must be able to determine its effectivity. So, let PowerPoint be at its best usage, at the right time, and the right points to empower learning.