Google Docs

Google Docs

In my last post, I have uploaded about five criteria to look for sources, today I will be posting about Google Docs. In one of the class, our tutor familiarize about the Google Docs that the application has got numerous benefits in terms of its features like one time in many people can edits a text together irrespective of individuals distance and barrier the one cannot reach to each other. 

According to Google, Google docs mean work in a single document with teammates or people outside your company. See edits as others type, communicate through built-in chat and ask questions through including comments. To make us further more familiarize about Google doc, we were assign a task to edits a lesson plan in a group of three member each.

The good features that Google docs has got was we can edit, comments, discuss and make any changes as we wish if the leader allows the member to do so. I personally felt that, such tools are very useful because being a teacher we have to be more informative in any source of knowledge, to become resourceful person, we can create Google docs among the teacher in different parts of the country and we can use Google docs as a median to share and reciprocate the information.

So, with the advancement of ICT growth, the system that used to be once has no more then and there within a periods of time. If I am to become a teacher in future, I am sure that I will integrate all sorts of ICT knowledge that I could acquire till date from the day I seat in this college as a trainee and at the same time I will be also keep on growing as fast as the technology grows in order to avail the informative service for the upcoming little generation in the classroom. In regards to the topic of my blogs, I will attach some of the pictures about Google docs that I have created in my last class.

Five criteria to look for source

                                                   Five criteria to look for sources

In one of the class, our tutor takes us through some of the basics important of how to source and acknowledge the information that we have used to referred our academic work in order to avoid from plagiarism. So we learned that there are five criteria that are needed to be taken into consideration while we are using the information of others through the internet or web. The important criteria are:

ü  Accuracy

ü  Authority

ü  Objectivity

ü  Currency

ü  Coverage

We are informed with the criteria, the tutor assigns us a task to check whether criteria are fulfilled or not by referring one article about Massachusetts Information with given web link.  It is very important for the web to be evaluated before any type of information is gathering for any purposes. There are certain purposes that need to be considered while we are linked to various webs that required us to be visited, i.e, accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage. Regarding the articles called MIT (Massachusetts Information Technology) that we are asked to analyses whether criteria are included or not.

One of the criteria that need to be fulfilled is accuracy. If the information has accuracy then the articles will have a purpose that has got statics, well and clear and understandable. So regarding the articles that we are asked to read has got purpose like how they could discover a type of glass that is more preferable for the filmmaker. So regarding the author, we can assure and identifiable that Jennifer Chu is a mechanical engineer, researcher, as well as writer.

The article that has goal/objective, appropriate audience and certain clue from the domain is considered as one of the criteria of objectivity. In this regards the audience can be those who are undergoing students of mechanical engineering and the clue used was edu. The currency of the site is up to date because she has updated series of articles and stories every year and she has referred various sources.

Camtasia

Reflection

In one of the class during ICT learning period, we were taken through video editing on camtasia. Camtasia is software created and published by TechSmith. Before I was aware of cam tamtasia’s facilities, I was wonder how do they edits videos and audio in any forms and style having attractive visual for the audience in looks.

In this globalize world I found camtasia video edition is important either being teacher of parents in our near future because with the help of camtasia facilities we can manipulate the teaching style in the form of audio visual so the it cater all the students in regards of different learning style irrespective of abilities. There are two types of camtasia software, camtasia 6 and 8, so our tutor familiarized about camtasia 6.

Practicing is the key feature in development of and skills in our life and the numbers of practice directly proportional to our growth both physically and mentally. During one the class our tutor let us to practice how to edit a videos and audios using camtasia application. I had few videos collected within the college campus like student’s movements, environments and few attractive scene and views on Paro valley. 

So, conclude my reflection, I would like to upload few pictures and video that I have practice in my last class. The learning of editing and practicing the camtasia movie edition was fun at the same time I felt that this module would have introduce in earlier semester so that we would have developed more skills in usage of camtasia.