Top 10 I C T Tools 4 Education

Top 10 ICT Tools for Education
by
Dr. Ms. Kumuda Gururao

Top 10 ICT Tools to Achieve 3Cs of Tomorrow

3 Essential Qualities
The 3 essential qualities required to face the challenges of tomorrow are :
Creativity
Competitiveness
Collaboration

Can be achieved through ICT as it acts as a useful tool to enhance knowledge and learning of students.
The internet provides an opportunity to
Think and share their ideas collaboratively
Seek the guidance of experts beyond the boundaries of classroom.

The 10 ICT Tools essential for tomorrow are:
Google Groups
Blogs
Google Docs
Slide share
Wikis
Jamuse, Museworx
Google Maps
Virtual Earth
Book Marking
FreeMind

Google Groups

Where you can create or join existing groups.

You can invite your friends or join by clicking add members.

Similarly you can access http://groups.yahoo.com/
You can start your own group or join the existing ones.

Blogs
Blogger:https://www.blogger.com/start
Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/
Watch this video to create blog from blogger.

Google Docs
Use the URL, http:// docs.google.com to access Google Docs.

Google Docs

When you click New, it enables you to create new
Document
Presentation
Spreadsheet
Form
Folder.
It would also enable you to share them with students / team members and offers control as to who can edit them.

Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/
Enables you to share / find slide shows.
Found the following interesting ones relevant to social studies:
Social web in the geography classroom .

Animoto : http://education.animoto.com/
Some of the opinions about slide share are;
"Can be a nice resource for getting ideas
and finding presentations for remixing and re-using”
Michele Martin
"Perhaps dangerous as a way of proliferating bad
presentations, but also a great resources for
finding and sharing great content" Jeff Cobb

Vietnam’s Geography
http://www.slideshare.net/duemer/vietnamese-geography-history
ICT in Geography 2008 – 2009
http://www.slideshare.net/olliebray/pgde-ict-in-geography-2008-2009-presentation
Urban Land Use
http://www.slideshare.net/RCha/urban-land-use

PBWiki
PBwiki as a central, secure, searchable workspace for files and text.
http://pbwiki.com/personal.wiki
It allows multiple people to collaborate the same page and also enables you to add multimedia content with a few clicks.

Jamuse, Museworx
Jamuse:
It is a Web 2.0 based automatic collaborative system that enables you to
Blog
Participate in forums
Act collaboratively.

Museworx
Museworx enables you to
Create and manage digital assets.
Create / edit portfolio
Collaborate
Share files instantly
Available at http://www.museworx.com/

Museworx

You can access Museworx from http://www.museworx.com/museworx/register.asp My portfolio is given below http://member.jamuse.com/kumud

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/
Enables you to travel from one place to another, helps you with directions and provides important details about the place.

Virtual Earth
Google Earth can be accessed from http://earth.google.com/
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to
view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings
and even explore galaxies in the Sky .
You can explore rich geographical content,
save your toured places and share with others.

Book Marks Internet Explorer Google Book Marks Then I shall introduce Social Book Marks.

FreeMind
Access FreeMind from following URL
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Uses
To plan project and to present the curriculum outline to students
To structure and arrange the ideas in coherent manner
Tool for visual representation of ideas

Major Industries: (Sample work done by me)

Thank You
Dr. Ms. Kumuda Gururao
Email Id: geekum@md4.vsnl.net.in

Top 10 I C T Tools 4 Education

by Kumuda Gururao on Apr 19, 2009

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