Developing content-based material for lower primary

 Write up on the creation of content-based material

ICT integration is the use of ICT to reinforce, introduce, supplement and extent skills. I have chosen a PowerPoint presentation as the main ICT tool to develop the materials as it is often used for the educational or informal purposes. The presentations are comprised of slides which contain text, images, and other media like audios. PowerPoint presentation is an effective tool to present materials in the classroom and encourage student's learning. It can also enhance the teaching and learning experience for both the teachers and learners.

How should I used the materials

I want to use this materials in the lesson introduction for lower primary children (grade one) on the topic domestic animals in English. The main aim of creating these content-based materials is to help students to recognize the sounds and names of the domestic animals correctly. Regarding the usage of this material, firstly I will play the sound of each animal and let them guess the names of the animals. Through such action, student will develop curiosity and build positive attitude towards learning. For the learning activity, I have designed a quiz and short answer type questions. In the quiz questions, I have used hyperlink for correct answer and wrong answer. Further I have hyperlinked correct answer with YES and incorrect answer with NO.

Creation of the materials

Firstly, I have chosen PowerPoint out of other ICT tools for creating this material. I have downloaded images and sounds of domestic animals from internet to use in the later slides. I kept pictures of domestic animals in the first slide to give a gest of the topic. In second slide, I have shown the pictures of domestic animals and ask them question in order to define the concepts of domestic animals. rom slide four till eleven, I have inserted the sounds of domestic animals followed by questions mainly to guess the name of the animals. I have also used animations such as entrance and motion path. I have set a timing in which I kept the sounds of the domestic animals as ‘automatic’ and chose ‘with previous’ option for the questions. 

Then, I kept the pictures of domestic animals as ‘on click’ because I want to draw the concept from the students. The name of the domestic animals is kept with ‘after previous’ to appear as soon as pictures appear. I kept remaining slides for an activity where it is sub-divided into three different questions. From slide twelve till eighteen, I have made a quiz as an activity for the students in which slide thirteen and fourteen are hyperlink with the slides seventeen and eighteen. So, when we click on the option under each question, it will take you to slide seventeen and eighteen depending on correct answer.

I hope that through my content based materials, it would benefit few and make a difference in their teaching and learning. I would be grateful if more knowledgeable person can comment on the flaws of my materials as it is my own creation and in my coming blogs, I will try my best to come up with more creative and effective content based materials for lower primary students. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hrs9_lTlcYfHEhQVDgUuuIYVhJ2186Ys/view?usp=sharing

Introduction

Firstly I want to thank my Module tutor Mr. Ugyen Wangchuk for Providing this opportunities to showcase my talents in ICT. I am Yeshi Norbu, I am from Jurmey geog under mongar dzongkhag and currently I am studying in Paro college of Education under Royal University of Bhutan. So in this forum, I really want to share my experiences in childhood days, my family background, my studies line, aims and dreams of life and the life of trainee in the college.

Regarding my childhood experiences, since I am a youngest from the siblings I feel that I am a luckiest  child in the world as I got all kind of helps and care  from my parents. When I was a child I am not  interested for going to the school but I remember at the age of six my grandmother said that I have to go to school and I must stood first position in terms of academic performances. I went to school at the age of seven . In the school, though I was a one of the position holder but also I was naughty too. 

If I talk little bit about my family background, I was brought up in poor and humble family background. As a child of the poor family, my wishes and dreams were not fulfil. actually what I thought is that I have to get an equal things like my friends  got from their parents. When I did something unusual to others as I was a naughty, I always got a beating from my mother and since she was a strict mother I was always afraid to her.

I Studied my primary school in Jurmey Primary School in the year 2003 and the school is located on the top of the hill where students have to go upwards. so instead of going to the school, I used to come back from the middle of the way. And  I studied my lower secondary school in Kengkhar Lower Secondary School, in the year 2011 and 2012 and lastly I studied my high school in Gyelposhing Central school and there I took IT in grade 9&10 and Science in grade 11&12.

 

To  become an engineer is my ambition of life but due to my insufficient knowledge and bit careless in my studies, I didn't coalify to college of science and technology. After coming to this college I realized that I chose a best profession of teacher where teachers are role model of students and I think the main job of a teacher is to guide our younger ones in a right direction.