Educational Technology

10. Operating System

25. Custom
Software

26. a. Custom Software
Made for specific task
often by large
corporations

27. b. Commercial Software
Packaged for
computers that
helps with a
variety of tasks

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32. Instructional
Software

33.  Can be visited
on the internet or
can be bought
from software
shops or dealers

34. Evaluation
Guidelines:
Be extremely
cautious in using
CBI‘s and free
Internet materials

35. Don’t be caught up by
attractive graphics, sound,
animation, pictures, video
clips, and music forgetting
their instructional worth

36. Teachers must evaluate
these resources using
sound pedagogical
principles

37. Among design and content
elements to evaluate are:
Easy navigation from
section-to-section
Text legibility
Effective use of color
schemes
Attractive layout,
and design

38. Clarity in the explanations and
illustrations of concepts and
principles

39. Accuracy,
coherence,
logic of
information
Their being
current since
data/statistics
continually

40. Relevance/
effectiveness in
attaining learning
objectives

42. Prepared by:
Joan R. Atienza