Week 12: Planning and Development

Dr. Rohaida led a discussion that would help us in designing our instructional material. It was about the factors to consider for technology integration in Science education. Some of the points are

1) Suitability of the topics

2) Accessibility

3) Time

Later, we were given a chance to discuss our Assignmnet 3. This is our task:

DEVELOPMENT OF SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS (GROUP WORK)

Develop an instructional material for teaching science. You can choose any mode (eg. On-line materials INCLUDING Web 2.0 tools, CD, etc ) You need to present the instructional material to class and submit a written report in the following format:

1. objective of the materials
2. flowchart
3. sample of hard copy of the materials

We have decided to choose blog as the learning platform for Year 6 classroom. The topic would be Endangered Species. The discussion was about the planning and development of our blog. Some of the aspects discussed included the layout, content and etc. based on our discussion, we came up with the storyboards.