Group 6: Computer Ptask 10-St. Thomas Aquinas

1. LESSON 6
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2. In the comedy Love’s labour’s Lost, King
Ferdinand and his three lords Dumain,
Longaville, and Berowne took an oath stating
that for three years, they will devote
themselves to education to become famous
scholars. In olden times, education was more
linear and in many ways, a lot more difficult. To
be a scholar or someone great, you had to
devote many hours each day reading books by
candlelight while manually writing your
thoughts and ideas until your hands hurt.
Fortunatel, technology came to our rescue, and
the computer, followed by the Internet,
revolutionized the whole educational process.
IT ALLOWS YOU TO GET DATA ON VIRTUALLY ANY
SUBJECT IMAGINABLE.
The Internet is a worldwide network of computer resources that
facilitates information exchange. It provides an enormous
wealth of information that continues to grow bigger each day.
Some advantages to learning that the internet provides:
1.
• The great thing about the Internet is that it provides a wide selection of resources.
• This allows you to analyze, compare, and contrast various sources and materials to be
able to see different perspectives or extractthe data you deem accurate, useful, or
relevant to your learnin.
2. IT ENABLES YOU TO BE UPDATED WITH THE THINGS YOU
NEED TO BE UPDATED ABOUT.
• With the internet, Keeping abreast on current events can make your learning
experience more meaningful. Aside from actual news, lots of commentaries and
viewpoints are also readily available. The reactions and opinions of experts and
everyday folks can deepen your understanding and widen your perspective of the
ever-changing world we live in.

3. IT LETS YOU PLAN YOUR OWN LEARNING SCHEDULE
3.
• You have the freedom to learn at any time with the
Internet, unlike traditional settings like libraries. With the
Internet, you can access encyclopedias and academic
resources independently for continuous learning.
4.
IT GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST
INFORMATION
• The Internet offers more than just searching for data; it
enables asking questions on Forums, Yahoo! Answers, and
MyLot to get diverse answers from ordinary people to
specialists. It allows correspondence with experts and
participation in educational discussions.

4. • Virtual Games
• Quizzes and puzzles
• Interactivity stories and animations
• Mind mapping/brainstorming tools
• Digital flashcards
• Timelines
• Interactivity Tools are helpful and valuable because
these allows the learners to participate in the learning
process and have more memorable learning
experience. Effective Interactivity tools are attractive,
help focus attention, and maintain a learner’s interest
all throughout the activity. Interactivity tools also
provide practice opportunities for you to develop your
mastery of the subject. Most importantly, they enable
you to connect to information in your own unique way.
1. Interactivity Tools
Common interactivity tools used for online learning

5. Common media creation and editing tools online include
resources for creating charts, slideshows, videos, photos, sound,
slide presentations, graphics and visual effects, online
drawings/paintings, animations, movies and flowcharts. The
following are the examples:
2. Media Creation and Editing Tools
• Field Museum (www.fieldmuseu.org)
The field Museum is an actual museum in Chicago
with a website full of learning activities.
• WebQuests
A webquest is basically an online learning activity
that requires completion of a certain task.
• Global Environmental Issues
This webquest let’s you be informed of different
environmental issues that affect the world. In this
webquest, you are expected to show your
creativeness by designing a presentation to attract
others to support a cause.
• What is a WASP?
(http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=106750)
The webquest seeks to educate and inspire you
with the story of WASP.
• Number Theory (http://www.mathgoodies.com/Webquests/number_theory/)
In this webques, you are expected to use your knowledge
through the application of critical thinking skills to be fully
engaged in exploring Nunber Theory.
• Benjamin Franklin
This webques introduces you to the different scientific
accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin. Here you can
develop you ability to gather informatio, read for a variety
of reasons, and write a letter of acknowledgmen.
The use of various media has been proven time and again
to make learning not just more interesting but also more
effective. Creating different types of media and
incorporating them into your presentations let you
produce more creative projects that will benefit you in a
lot of ways.

6. LucidChart
LucidChart is an easy to use Web-
based flowchart editing
application. Aside from providing
you with a standard set of
flowchart block types and images
of network components, electronic,
and other graphics essential in
flowcharts, it also allows you to
upload your own images,
collaboratewith classmates, chat
with them so you can share your
ideas while working on a flowchart,
publish your document.
(WWW.LUCIDCHART.COM)
Go! Animate
(WWW.GOANIMATE.COM)
GoAnimate.com is a website that
allows you to create unique
compute-animated stories and more
than can be published online. It offers
a lot of customizing and enhancing
features such as popular animations
from comedians, writers, and
animators as well as interesting
backgrounds, sound effects, props,
and music. Onegreat benefit of using
this tool is that it allows you to create
animations even if you don’t have a
talent for drawing or a technical
understanding of advanced software.
Paint.Net
(WWW.GETPAINT.NET)
Paint.Net is a free image and photo
editing software for computers that
run Windows.
CamStudio
(HTTP://CAMSTUDIO.ORG/)
CamStudio is a free and open source
program distributed under the GNU General
Public License terms. What it does is to
enable the users to capture everything that
goes on in a computer screen and save it as a
playable AVI or SWF file. It is pretty useful in
the creation of video tutorials and
demonstration files for teaching and
learning.

7. Social Media activities such as social networking and
bookmarking have opened new gates for information and
communication. Millions of Internet users around the
globe are part of At least one social network, and every
day the list grows.
• Delicious
Delicious allows you to bookmark your favorite websites,
articles, or blog posts, tag them,save them for easy access
later, and share them with you friends, classmates,
teachers.
(www.delicious.com)
• Twitter
Basically this lets you make a mini-blog where you can
post random thoughts or shout-outs that canbe read by
your followers and vice versa.

8. RSS (Really Simple Syndicatio/Rich Site Summary) is
a convienient learning tool for students and
professionals alike. It allows you to subscribe to
updates of your favorite websites from one central
Web location using a preferred reader such as one
from Google or Yahoo!.

9. Virtual Classrooms expand learning beyond campus,
serving as the main learning space for distance
education. They enable communication, assignment
distribution, tutorials, announcements, and
discussions for students in both formal and distance
education programs.
• Plagiarism- use of the language and ideas of another author and
claiming them as your own
• WebQuest- a learning activity webpage or website where learners
can learn by getting information from the Internet
• RSS-format for delivering regularly changing Web content
• Distance Education- delivery g education to students who are not
physically on site

10. Members:
Christian L. Dominguez
James Alfred DG. Fernandez
Catherine Joy B. Calitis
Lexandria Lhian D. Ferrer
Shara Andrie Q. Rosuello