Video lesson

 Creating and recording video lessons was deemed the most appropriate and suitable to reach out to our learners during the pandemic. Educators had to resort to teaching children with the aid of ICT, however the teachers faced a lot of challenges due to accessibility and for not having the required knowledge on ICT. The teachers had to learn how to blend or incorporate ICT and had  to use ICT as an alternate to contact teaching. I learnt that there are various ICT tools to reach out to my students. However, I experienced issues as a portion of my children didn’t have the access to internet or the gadgets. The only forum applicable to all my students in general was the ‘WeChat’ and ‘Telegram’. Therefore, I had to make use of the most appropriate and accessible tool. I recorded short videos on my phone and shared them through Wechat and Telegram. This served the purpose of teaching out to all the students but I am yet to find out the effectiveness and helpfulness of these videos. 

PowerPoint presentation

 Class 4                 Subject English

Competency

Use handwriting and IT effectively, making appropriate choices of presentation to prepare writing for publication.

The children of 4A were reading a short story - ‘The Monkey and the Crocodile’ and they were interested to carry out a story mapping to publish their understanding of the story. Therefore, they made use of ICT and prepared ppt for presentation. PowerPoint was used as the mode of presentation to fulfill the above stated competency and the children also enjoyed the task.

I made the following observations from the class;

1. Children enjoyed and everyone was engaged.
2. Children who were weak in writing also took interest in the activity as they could replace writing with pictures.
3. Children utilized their leisure time in IT room preparing slides. 
4. Children had the opportunity to showcase their creativity and innovations.
5. Children were punctual to the class- came before time and stayed back even after the bell.

I used the following rubrics to assess their story mapping and ppt.