It seems like a
lifetime away, but it is been only about five years ago that I have completed
similar task of learning ICT and its components. Although I had carried out
today’s activities during my online course as I have mentioned earlier, it was
a lesson that enhanced my little idea on; Co
constructive tools, Google Drive, Google Doc and Google Forms. Unlike my online course I had opportunity to interact
with my tutors Mr. Chenga Dorji and Tandin Wangchuk who were available to us
almost entire residential class.
The usage of
computers in our country is still young, yet we are trying to cope up with
financial difficulties and accessibility of computers for all the schools for
our country. Having had limited knowledge and accessibility to computer
world, we teachers are trying equip our self in helping our young generation compete
with other world.
Co constructive tool
The computer are
used for manipulating information, visualizing others understanding and
creating new ideas. The computer itself is a machine where we are allowed to
present our ideas in attractive forms using various application software
installed in it. Making use of constructive tools we can corporately
construct and share our understanding of
new ideas. We and also use these tools as green board where anyone authorized
can co edit the same documents without having to meet individual.
Google Drive:
Without knowing that this as
constructive tools I had been making use of this application as I created my
Google account since 2009. Our tutor explained and demonstrated how we can keep
our documents and important files in this drive and open them at any place at
any time. Making use of this device to
work from our desktop was new knowledge to me, I didn't knew this application
can be lunched from our desktop and could be directly save in our drive. The participants were also demonstrated on
how we can open Word, Excel and PowerPoint which is stored in this Drive, then
save any changes back to drive once we are done with it.
Working with
this application is very useful especially for sharing files with items or for
accessing our files while getting the benefit from the security and convenience
of this Google drive.
We do not
need any kind of software to create this docs, we can create and edit text
documents as we browse internet. Many people can work at the same time and
changes are made automatically. By creating this documents we can import our desktop
documents to make changeable and editable, convert our work to pdf, ppp, html
format. One of the interesting thing that this application has is, we can track
changes made to our documents and undo anything we wanted. Original files are
always stored for future use. 
I
am sure this application was there itself when I had my account created but
never thought of using it. With today’s lesson we were made familiarized in
using this application too. Our tutor
demonstrated on how to go about it in detail. This application helps us in
creating survey forms and questionnaires which automatically analyze our data
in Google sheet.
The
application also provides Select from multiple
question types, drag-and-drop to reorder questions and customize values as
easily as pasting a list. By using this application we can send professional
looking surveys questionnaires to our friends and clients.
After the demonstration
and explanation we were asked to create survey form of our choice and share
with our tutor. This constructive tool in fact would be very useful for
teachers like us when every we wanted to conduct a simple survey and research
activities. I therefore, will be making best use of this tools if I ever had to
conduct a research or a survey.
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