My blog post about sway.com

How I used sway.com to drive and publish my learning activities that are project based.

Teaching and learning that is driven by technology is always inspiring. Every day I learn a lot of innovative ways to drive my lessons and make my teaching and learning message well conveyed to learners. From one of the webinars that I attended on line ,I learnt how sway can be used to present the learning activity as compared to power point.

Ever since I learnt about it, my sway post have been over flowing in my face book and other groups like Microsoft partners for learning  time line.

This is how I used it in my learning activities:

Step 1

I logged on sway.com, sign in and start creating my sways

Step2

I create it either by using media or uploaded information .I click on media, choose some of the work in want to  put on sway and create. I then click remix to choose from different and exiting  layout .

Step 3

I then share it with colleques either on facebook, twitter or any other social media

Step4

You can also sway video, songs or poems

Step5

In my learning activities I put all my information about my projects on sway.

e.g my presentations, videos, poems, various resources like window movie maker, animation, stick sorter, songs smith, mouse mischief and auto collage etc

to view my sway get to

https://sway.com/VTGrHtQHxS9nWaw3

In conclusion, teaching and learning has changed. Learners enjoy doing work summary using Microsoft resources like window movie maker or animation. They enjoy creating songs about their lessons, they love learning poems on U tubes, they get more inspired talking to people  outside their world through skype, They get fulfilled collaborating their lessons with their peers using social media, they want to take their learning outside beyond the classroom. They create knowledge and not absorb it in order to reproduce it during examination or assessment time.

Why can’t we drive  curriculum with technology resources to improve, rejuvenate and enhance quality teaching. We are teaching a mobile generation that is competent in using the Technology resources.

Its time to transform our way of teaching. We need to move with the tide, other wise we will find ourselves out of the ocean being flown away by the tide! Time and tide wait for no one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

                        Project title: Today’s learners! Tomorrow’s great thinkers and scientists!

 

What I learnt in life is that one of the powerful tool of learning is through sharing of knowledge so that we can harvest some innovative ideas from each other and use them in our various learning institution. I want to share with you how I used Window Movie maker in my learning activity to summarize the lesson in class with learners.

How I used Window Movie maker to convey the message of my lessons to learners.

This is one of my innovative project that emerged from my lesson in class with  learners. I am offering Economics and Management Sciences in grade 7. The theme of the lesson was poverty and inequality in South Africa. I taught them on how the new democratic government came up with various projects to alleviate poverty and bridging  the gap between the have and the have not(Gini Coefficient). After theory I challenged them to think  and create  projects that can be used by the local community and learners to alleviate poverty and bridge inequality. Through the skills from Food and Trees for Africa, University of Limpopo , various website like Khan Academy, educators and support staff learners used the backyard garden to plant vegetables and some green herbs. They harvested and made some herbal medicines through green herbs as way of benefiting the needy who cannot access professional doctors due to unemployment.. Through vegetables they learnt on how to dry surplus vegetables to preserve food for longer use as a way of fighting poverty. My main objective is not just to teach but to equip learners with the survival skills that will benefit them and inspire their future career plans. Today’s generation learn best by doing not by absorbing the knowledge.

Get into my blog :http://itandiksproject.blogspot.com/

My sways: https://sway.com/q1BMnYZek9jiD3ZI

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From the Microsoft free resources that I downloaded to beef up , enhance, rejuvenate and transform my lessons I used an app called Window movie maker. This is one of my favorite app that I en and learners enjoy so much. This is how it is done:

Step 1

First use your camera, video, memory sticks, PC/tablets whenever you are facilitating your learning activities in class

Step 2

Have time with learners to teach them on how to download the images from camera to PC/tablet. I taught them on how I download free resources from Microsoft in Partners for learning network. We downloaded sticky sorter, songsmith, auto collage, shape collage, animation, window movie maker and many.

Step3

I opened the programmes, clicked window movie maker and start uploading the images according to how we did our project step by step according to our project plan time table

Step 4

On the first slides I inserted the title of the project, participants and role players. On the last slides I inserted the place where the movie was done and thanked various people who took part.

Step 5

I recorded my voice through built n  microphone on top of my PC

Step 6

I inserted the words on images so that when the film roll, the words do the explanation. I saved it and uploaded in my resources to be published

The lesson I learnt after this activity

·         Today’s learners learn by using all their multi sensory organs to make sense of what they learnt

·         They want to create knowledge and put it down the way they understand

·         Teaching and learning should not be theory only but should be followed by practical work to convey the gist of the lesson hence project based learning approach

·         Manual way of doing things in class should be faced out and give way to a classroom filled with gadgets for learners to enjoy their schooling

·         “Teaching and learning has changed” said Anthony Salcito in Barcelona global conference in March  2014. It is true. I witnessed it several times in class with my learners.

·          They way they learn is not the way I learnt.” As educators we need to change our way of teaching” said Phuti Ragophala  the principal of Pula Madibogo Primary School in Limpopo province Polokwane South Africa.

View the video and enjoy!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ljNs5lc-I

Solving poverty through education

MIEE2015 -Today's learners! Tomorrow's great scientists and thinkers

This is one of my learning activities I came up with as I was teaching in my class, grade 7 Economics and Management Sciences. One of my principles in teaching is that I do not teach but I expose some conditions of learning survival skills to learners so that through those skills ,they are able to learn what I am trying to convey. That can only happen if I use Project Based Learning approach.

During my times I use to listen to my teachers teaching, I will absorb their knowledge and reproduce it during tests, homework, classwork and examinations. Teacher centeredness, theory and academic achievements were the most important aspects in teaching and learning.

 

I learnt that today's generation differ a lot from us. You teach them, give the classwork ,home work and examination  about the work you taught them, they are unable to give the correct or relevant answers as required. When you teach them, they are unstable, fiddling with other things or loosing concentration. in such that this affect their performance at the end of the year hence high failure rate. I then realized that they cannot learn by absorbing the knowledge but by creating it hence project based learning approach.

 

It comes to my principles of saying we need to guide or expose learners to conditions that will assist them to acquire learning through things like technology tools. Not to teach them. One wiseman once said all learners  have wings . It is the duty of the educators to give them skills on how to fly.

Educators must be the wind beneath learners wings.

 

From the lesson I taught in class, I challenged learners to come up with innovative projects that can be used to fight poverty and bridge the gap between the have and the have not(Gini Co efficient)(inequality)

 

Through the help of Food and trees for Africa , University of Limpopo and Khanya Africa development services learners were able to come up with  an ointment that can be used by needy community members who cannot access professional services. Beside that they acquires skills and they sell the ointment to augment needy and unemployed community members who renders service in the school yard. The ointment is called "All purpose ointment"

 

Through this project I am sure of inspiring young scientists, doctors ,researchers , environmentalists and pharmacists.

Learners need survival skills for their future. The only way to secure their future is through PBL approach which emphasize more of practical work that theory.

 

NOT ONLY GREENING TECHNOLOGY BUT INFORMATION OMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AS WELL. Learners are able to integrate their lesson with many apps from the Microsoft. apps like movie maker, auto collage, shape collage , skype, painting, songsmith, digital story telling using animation and many apps that they discovers themselves.

 

We are teaching a mobile nation. we need to turn the tide in order to learn more from learners.

For more information visit the following links:

 

www.pulamadibogoprimary.co.za

www.pulaointment.wozaonline.co.za

 

 

-http://www.pil-network.com/Resources/LearningActivities/Details/d5968eb6-6285-45bc-b7c2-eb8dc95917ac (To be presented in MIEE2015)

 

 

-http://www.pil-network.com/profile/resources/483020f6-92bc-4682-921b-de015cd9c28f

( Presented in Barcelona  in 2014 march during Microsoft global conference)

-https://www.theschoolinthecloud.org/soles/by08ky3uses

-http://www.trees.co.za/pula-madibogo-limpopo-fabulous.html

 

Our country is in poverty of skilled people. Let s us groom our own and utilize them maximally. That is why the title of my project is Today's learners! Tomorrow's great thinkers and Scientists!

Proudly South African!!!

Thank you

Phuti Ragophala  the principal of Pula Madibogo primary school in Mankweng Limpopo province South Africa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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