Monday, August 25, 2008
QCX 521 - website review 2
Teachnology is an online teaching resource for teachers. One of the main focus of this website is that it endeavours to provide teachers with the option of incorporating technology in teaching and learning easily. As such, it provides professional development consultation services for schools with the intention of developing customised IT-integrated programmes, original software products for teachers to create instructional teaching materials as well as original publications by experienced educators for teachers.
At present, Teachnology is a web portal that offers a wide range of free resources and more (if one signs up for any of their membership programmes). Of the free resources available,
lesson plans and
worksheets are available for downloading and they can then be adapted or modified for use in the classroom.
On top of that, other useful functions include "
Teaching Tips" and "
Teacher Tools", the latter of which is extremely interesting and you can actually create endless possibilities with the tools. The
Crossword Puzzle Maker, for instance, helps in the creation of crossword puzzles which can then be used as a classroom activity in the reinforcement of the information learned under the topics in home economics. There is the
Classroom Materials page as well, from which useful forms for administrative and instructional purposes can be created easily to save time. As we know, teaching often includes the administrative side of things and worksheets have to be crafted as well. If things like a Parent-Teacher-Meeting form or rubrics for a TLLM lesson can be created with the help of a webtool, it will save us a lot of time and effort which can then be better used on other areas of education.
Lesson plans, worksheets and such are categorised under the following subjects and themes. This makes it easier for one in carrying out a search for the relevant information. Besides the already-crafted resources, there are also message boards in place for teachers from all around the world to exchange ideas and interact with each other, adding on to the functionality of Teachnology.
All in all, Teachnology is an extremely useful teaching resource for us educators as it can help us to generate more ideas for use in the classroom!
Labels: QCX521, Review, Teachers' Resource
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Ms Lim HM @
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