Saturday, September 29, 2012

Children's Gameshow

Here's a gameshow designed for Kindergarten Students. It's a simple alphabet-phonics game. I made this gameshow for my daughter Naya and as a project in our Educ Tech subject. This is supposed to be animated but I haven't found a way yet on how to upload to blogger a powerpoint slideshow with the animations and transitions intact.

P.S.  Hey, I did find a way how to retain the links and animations. I used authorstream. It worked great! Watch and play my gameshow below.

Friday, September 28, 2012

NAYA AND ME SERIES: Don't Want To Go To School

Naya's cousins are with us these past few days. She is very, very happy since she now has a playmate at home. However, since she now goes to school everyday, she has to wake up early and has to wait until end of classes before she can play with her cousin, Ahyan.

ME: Naya, get up. You need to take a bath now.
NAYA: Nanay, why take a bath? Go to school or stay in Lola's house?
ME: Naya, you need to take a bath because you are going to school. Get up now or you would be late.
NAYA:   Ahaaay...Nanay, pwede lang (if possible), absent lang ko today (I'd just be absent today). Play Ahyan and me.
ME: (is having an "Aw, shucks!" moment). Naya, you need to go to school today. Don't worry, you can be absent TOMORROW. 
NAYA: Okay Nanay. Thank you. Yehey! I can play with Ahyan tomorrow. Absent ko ya no?

Hehehe...Tomorrow happens to be a Saturday. Bad Nanay - for fooling my Little Naya. 

Kids are kids. They always want to play. But kids need to go to school too. They need to know when is the time for school and the time to play. 

A Music Video as an Educational Tool?

Filipinos are said to be natural born singers and music lovers. This is not too hard to believe considering the many videoke bars that sprouted in almost every corner of our neighborhood. Consider also that a number of households own Magic Sing units. It's precursor, the Karaoke machine, was also popular. But ever since videoke existed, it easily replaced the former. Videoke not only provides the music but also visuals that will entice the wannabe singers to sing to maximum performance level.


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The ASSURE Model of Teaching

What is the ASSURE Model?

The ASSURE Model is and Instructional System Design (ISD) that has been modified to suit the needs of the teachers in side the classroom. It is a procedural guide for planning and delivering instruction that incorporates media. It assumes that training or instruction really is required and is meant for use by the individual instructor for planning everyday classroom use of media. Simply put, the ASSURE Model works like a systematic way of writing a lesson plan incorporating the use of media in instructional design.  To know more about this type, click on the slideshow below: