Ms. Janet Montero has been teaching for 5 years. She currently teaches Grade 4 Science and has an advisory class at Tañong Elementary School in Malabon City. She finds technology helpful in her science instruction by making invisible processes visible through videos. However, she notes that a lack of electricity, incompatible video formats with school equipment, and time needed to set up can be setbacks to using technology.

1. Interview Ms. Janet Montero
A public school teacher and Instructional Technology Practitioner
Jefferey Gil M. Caber
Interviewer

2. Who is she?
 Ms. Janet Montero is my aunt. She graduated
from University of Caloocan City with a Bachelor's
degree in Science in Elementary Education
 She is a professional teacher and currently
serves as a Teacher 1 in Tañong Elementary
School located in Malabon City.

3. Interview
Interviewer: So Ms. Janet, how long have you been
teaching?
Ms. Janet: I've been teaching for 5 years now

4. Interviewer: What subject/s are you currently handling
ma'am?
Ms. Janet: I'm currently handling grade 4 Science and i
also have an advisory class.

5. Interviewer: how does technology help you in your
Science instruction?

6. Ms Janet: a lot! from grading students to instruction itself. I'm
using Excel for grading my students, i'll just have to put the
formula for my grading then it'll do rest of the work. using it
is such a huge relief for me, you see if you are handling 7
sections with 80 students each it is next to impossible
grading those kids manually. For Science instruction,
Technology helps me by making the unobservable things
visible through YOUTUBE videos. for example, our topic is
about photosynthesis, its hard for a student to grasp a
lesson if they can't see it right? what i do is i'll just search a
time lapsed video of a plant undergoing the process of
photosynthesis, download it and show it them through my
laptop or sometimes the school's television . It really
makes the students more attentive and engaged.

7. Interviewer: having heard of the advantages of
technology in your science instruction, for you,
what are its setbacks?

8. Ms. Janet: first, if there's no electricity, no matter
how "technologically prepared" i am for
instruction, its useless. next is that sometimes the
videos that i've downloaded can't be played on
regular DVD players that the school have, luckily I
have my laptop but the students should try to
settle for a smaller screen. third is, sometimes the
time that is needed to set up the equipments eat
the time for instruction, so i'll have to work on
that.

9. Interviewer: well, thanks a lot for your insights Ms.
Janet.
Ms. Janet: no problem!
(this interview is done through FACEBOOK chat)