Notes for Technology for Teaching and Learning 1

1. Non-Digital and Digital skills
and Tools in Delivering
Technology -Enhanced
Lessons
MODULE 3

2. Lesson 4. Technology
Collaborative Tools in the
Digital World

3. Lesson Outcomes
1
Identified and explored collaborative tools
or application that can be integrated in
instruction.
2 Built a platform or an online account that
can be used for a collaborative work.

4. Explore
One way to engage student is to give them a
challenge and a chance to work together. An
example is when you give them an issue to
discuss which they can continue talking about
even if they are outside of the class.
Technology as a Collaborative Tool

5. Tools and applications that can
be used to work collaboratively:
1. Skype
-is a software application
allowing you to do a
videoconferencing for free. All
you need is to create an account
and can be used for a video
meeting.

6. Tools and applications that can
be used to work collaboratively:
2. Wiki
-is a software that allows you to
create a page or a selection of pages
designed to allow you to post or write,
edi, or upload a link quickly. This is
good when students need to work
together to complete a task even if
they are not physically together.

7. Tools and applications that can
be used to work collaboratively:
3. Blogging
. - it is journaling your ideas to which
others can react allowing a thread of
discussion to take place and which can
be used online. It is the abbreviation
of weblog .

8. Direction when using a Weblog :
Use a weblog with a clear instructional objective . It is a
opportunity to explore the skill of communicating
ideas. Like in a writing class, you can guide students
on how to design the whole blog or upload materials
and support students in developing critical
communication.
Guidance on what and how to post will be needed.
Teach the students that the blogging is for
educational purposes and is different from personal
blog.

9. Direction when using a Weblog :
With easy access to information, a major obligation is
to teach the students to use multiple source and to
cite them appropriately.
Writing about your ideas is a personal act but it is
important that you are taught to make blogs personal
without revealing too much personal information such
as contact information and personal pictures. When
writing blogs, you write your reflection but
safeguarding yourself is also important consideration.

10. Direction when using a Weblog :
It may help if you can look for very good examples of
blogs . These are online and print publications that
review blogs and you can use the information to guide
you toward getting good models.

11. Tools and applications that can
be used to work collaboratively:
4. Google Group or Google Form
- is an application that can be used
in a collaborative documentation of
ideas contributed by members of the
team. Having a Google account will
come very handy and you can easily
have access to a variety of
applications.

12. Thank you for
listening!
Don't hesitate to ask any questions!