Assignment from Mr Leong (12/3/09)

Year 3

Topic: Mother’s Day Card (Using Microsoft Paint)

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

Initiate Activities: Show the students the product of a simple mother’s day card that available in the internet. The teacher ask the students, have they made any cards before using Microsoft Paint and what are the tools in Microsoft Paint they should use to create specific shapes for example rectangle, circles, lines , colors, text (to create the words) and etc.

Sustain and direct activities: The teacher have to mobile around and to make sure they are doing the right task. Some students tend to do different thing. For the first task is asking them, what shapes and the layouts they want the card to be for example oval, circle, rectangle, big, small and etc. The teacher also can tell them, what they can design in the card by drawing their own images or images they got from the files, for eg. the images of balloons, cakes and etc.



2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

Year 3: Typing short composition (Microsoft Office 2007)
As usual, for ICT lesson, the students grouped in pairs. This is basically by giving them tests during the lesson, just to monitor do they know how to use the basic tools in Microsoft word (for example, changing the font type, size and colors). In words 2007, the interface is totally different from the normal MS Words they used before which is MS Words 2003.
For each group, there will be a paper for the test given and which they have to follow all the instructions, for example :

Topic: My Father
1. Change the font into Comic San Ms and the font size into 14.
2. Align the title to the center.
3. Start typing your composition.
4. Save your work into My Documents.


Once they read all the instructions, they should be plan and discuss to each other, how to do all the instructions. The teacher have to be monitoring and mobile around the class to make sure they do the right thing. Common mistake is the name and the name of the place should be start with capital letter. So, the teacher have to remind the students, by asking them, the name should be typing using capital letter. Then, they have to discuss to each other, how to create the capital letter. From the discussion, they will be learning new things and start to modify their mistakes.