Second tool: ICT as a communicative tool

            

Welcome back to my blog. I want to reflect on the second tool that is a communicative tool.

Second tool: ICT as a communicative tool

My understanding of the concept of ICT as a communicative tool

  

In the next lesson, we learned about ICT as a communicative tool. Through my tutor presentation, I came to how ICT acts as a communicative tool with examples. Communicative tools are systems that allow easy communication between teachers and students or between students outside the physical barrier classroom. It is including e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, chat, teleconference and electronic whiteboard.

Synchronous communicative tools such as chat or video conference enable real-time communication while using the tools of communicative asynchronous (eg e-mail and electronic whiteboard) is a system in which exchange of messages between people is not 'live' but somehow delayed. 

There are many communicative software or programs but I want to share how we use Skype and blogs. Due to the coronavirus outbreak of in our country, meeting or going to the class is strictly prohibited by the law. So, we used the following two communicative software for effective communication, to carry out our class and keep update ourselves on the lesson.

Knowledge and experience that I got after using Skype as a communicative tool

To have effective communication between teachers and students, my tutor guide all of us to create an account on Skype. After numerous processes and guidance from my tutor, I can create an account on Skype. After having a session using Skype software, I found that software allows easy communication between teachers and students or between students outside the physical barrier classroom. 

The picture below shows how we use Skype software for effective communication between teachers and students.

                    

The picture below shows how I used Skype software to communicate with my classmate to clear the doubt on any topic or module that we faced.

My future plan to use Skype software 

After experiencing the lesson using Skype software, I am going to use this software to clear the student's doubts during holidays. Maximum students cannot get time to reach to the teacher to clear the doubt that they faced. Moreover, it is time-consuming and risky to travel a long distance to reach to teacher's place. For instance, if teachers use and create a group on Skype to clear the students to doubt during holidays, it is less time consuming and all the students will get a clear concept on questions that they asked. Hence, in the future, if I get a chance to work in the education sector I will use skype software to clear the student's doubt during holidays.

Knowledge, skills and experiences that I got after using blog as a communicative tool

From my tutor's presentation, I came to know the blog is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order. It is a platform where a writer shares their views on an individual subject.

To use the blog as a communicative tool, my tutor has given us an activity to create a blog. The image below shows the activity assign to us to create the blog. The picture below shows the instruction on how to carry out the activity on the blog.

After using the blog for almost two weeks, I found that it is a great opportunity platform to share my views and reflect on what I learned in the ICT module. Through this blog, I got a chance to read my friend's article and reflection on any topic. Moreover, after reading my friends reflection from the blog I learned how to write interesting reflection with relevant evidences.

The link below leads you to my blog

https://pemaictintegrationatschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-reflection-on-ict-as-informative.html

What I learned after receiving the feedback from friends in the blog

After receiving the comments from my friends in the blog its really motivate me to write more in the blog as the maximum comments I received were positive comments. Few friends have given comments to improve my language structure. I took a friend's comments into consideration and tried to improve my language structure by reading a grammar book and searching for important grammar rules from YouTube. The below picture shows the comment that I received from my friends.

In the future, if I get a chance to teach in upper primary I will let the students use blogs to maintain their take away message from the topic that I teach. To make possibles to write in the blog by the students I will approach individual student's parents on blogs. So, every parent will let their children write in the blog.

                                     Thank you and Happy Reading