Reflection day 4 and 5

Day 4 and 5

On the 4^th Day, the lesson on Co constructive tools like Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Forms was carryout by our tutor Mr. Tandin Wangchuk and Changa Dorji. The ICT course has truly paved the way for the learner like me to become aware, appreciate and equipped to use ICT in the Teaching-learning. The computer serves as a teaching tool in the sense that the teachers used computers as their instructional materials in supplementing the cognitive development of the students when it comes to technology. ICT has great help for both the teachers and the learners, for the teacher it facilitates our instructional method and improves the teaching-learning methods and materials. For students, it contributes a lot to their cognitive development and learning experiences.

By making use of co constructive tools, we can share our understanding with others and gets lots of new ideas from others too. It serves as a plate form where anyone can co-edit the same documents without having to meet an individual. To be frank, before I enroll in this module, I have no idea about the co-constructive tools and what it means and used for. Our tutor explains and demonstrates how we can keep our documents and important files in the drive. Even we are given hands-on practice, how we can open word, excel and PowerPoint which store in the drive. The tutor also demonstrates how to create survey forms and questionnaires and told us that it will automatically analyze our data in Google. After that, we were given the task to create a survey form of our choice using all the components and ask us to share it with our tutor and friends. This constructive tool in fact would be very useful for me as a teacher and administrator whenever we wanted to conduct surveys and developing questionnaires. Therefore, I will make the best use of the tools if I ever had to conduct a survey or research.

I feel that working with Google drive is very useful and comfortable especially by knowing the following benefits.

1.      We get 15GB free so that we can store files, save email, attachments, and backup photos directly to drive.

2.      Keep any file: Photos, videos, presentations, PDFs- even Microsoft office files. No matter what type of file it is everything can be stored safely in the drive.

3.      Share how we want: Files in Drive are private until we decide to share them; we can quickly invite others to view, comment and edit any file or folder we choose.

4.      Safe and secure: Our file security is crucial. That’s why every file in Drive stays safe no matter what happens to our phones, tablets, or computer.

5.      Save Gmail attachment: However an attachment in Gmail and look for the Drive logo. Here we can save any attachment to our drive to organize and share them in a single, safe place.

6.      Powerful Search: Drive can recognize objects in our images and text in scanned documents. So we can search a word like “Eiffel Tower” and get text documents with the word, as well as images of the actual Eiffel Tower.

7.      Google photos: Store our photos in drive and see them come to life with Google photos. Get that expertly edited look without the effort, plus animations, movies and more.

8.      Chrome books: Google drive is built- into chrome books, so our files and photos are automatically backed up. We ‘ii get 100GB of free storage for two years with most new chrome books.

9.      More Drive Apps: Edit our profile photo, do some landscaping create a mind map, and more. Over 100 Drive Apps can help us do more with our staff. Try them by installing one from drive collection in Chrome web store.

1.  Docs, Sheets, Slides: Create and collaborate with others, share documents and files, build out spreadsheets and make a presentation on the fly with our Docs, Sheets and Slides Apps.

1.  Google form: Lets we run a survey or quickly create a team roster with a simple online form. Then check out the results, neatly organized in spreadsheets.

1.  Google Drawing: Layout diagram, create flow charts, and then easily add them to other documents or embed them on a website with Google Drawing.

1.  Scan Document: Scan all our paper documents with a drive for Android. Just snap a photo of documents like receipts, letters, and statements- and drive will store then instantly as PDFs.

1.  Work offline: Make files available offline. So you can view them when your phone or tablets losses service, like on a plane or in a building with a bad connection.

1.  See Old Version: We can look back as far as 30 days on most file types. Making it easy to see who has made changes and go back to previous versions. That’s file versifying made easy.

Without the support and encouragement from my tutor, I won’t be able to know the above benefits. To be frank, now I am very much used to it and I will continue using it throughout my carrier. So, it is important that every individual take responsibility to recognize the different contributions that ICT can make to teaching and learning and acknowledge the importance of each of them, and make wise use of it.
Learning the Google apps really made me easier to handle my professional and personal work where I would rather say "a complete Package" to problem-solving of handling any documents and their availability- anywhere and anytime. In the school's PD program, I share with my colleagues the convenience and handy tips in storing and publishing our documents using these apps. Some were aware of the apps but didn't have an idea of how to go about it. I had a perfect opportunity to provide hands-on experiential learning and many of them did make use of it like storing their important documents by scanning Identity Card, School certificates.....