Field Study 3

Technology In The
Learning
Environment

FS 3 PRT
Naomi M. Tabudlong
Dr.
R.G.
This field study course enriches student’s
Gomez experiences in developing and utilizing
appropriate technology to facilitate learning. It
also provides opportunities for students to
practice their skills in ICT.

The observations for this field study were done

at Echavez Elementary School, San Roque,
Iligan City and Iligan City East High School, Sta.
Filomena, Iligan City
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Field Study 3
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EPISODE 1|THE SCHOOL’S LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OBSERVATION REPORT

School Observed: Iligan City East High School

List of Available Learning Resources in their Library and Computer Center

Characteristics and
Available Learning Resources Unique Teaching Approaches
where the Resource is
Capabilities Most
Useful

The books are used

1. Print Resources The books age mainly
 Books in Science, for research purposes
(Biology, appropriate, relatively of
Chemistry and Physics),
also new and is used by a the students for their
for English, Litereature, good number of
Values students reports in class.
Education,
for their studies.
 Encyclopedia,
 Research studies of
students
2. Audio Resources
There were no audio
recordings
present
3. Non-electronic visual The non-electronic The globe and the
resources visual map
resources like their are used in their
Globes, maps globe history
and their maps are class as an
still in instructional
good condition despite tool.
being used widely by
the
students in their
history
class.

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LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OBSERVATION REPORT

(continued)
School Observed: Iligan City East High School

List of Available Learning Resources in their Library and Computer Center

Characteristics and
Available Learning Resources Unique Teaching Approaches
where the Resource is
Capabilities Most
Useful

The ICT resources of The computer units

4. ICT Resources their are
school are relatively
 Several computer units new used for hands-on
 Overhead projector but still in tip-top computer laboratory
condition. activities, while the
overhead projector is
for
transparency slide
presentations.

Impression:

In all, the Iligan City East High School (ICEHS) has a very good number of
available learning resources, which are still very relevant to the needs of the
students and the teachers and the same time it is also congruent to their
curriculum. Hopefully, when budget warrants, they will be able to obtain
more resources to fully establish their science, arts and basic education
curriculum.

ANALYSIS

1. Were the learning resources/materials arranged properly according to

their functions and characteristics?
At ICEHS the learning resources/materials are arranged properly according to
their functions, although they were assigned to different areas.

2. Do the guidelines and procedures facilitate easy access to the materials

by the teachers? Why? Why not?
Yes, the guidelines are pretty much simple and the teachers can easily access
the materials because the in-charge of the facilities is always around.

3. What are the strengths of this Learning Resource Center?

The main learning resource center of ICEHS is their library. One good thing about
it is that it is always open even though the persons-in-charge are teachers. They
have arranged their schedule well so that they can accommodate library users
anytime of the day. Aside from this, the library also has a good number of books
and encyclopedia that the students can use.

4. What are its weaknesses?

The library needs better lighting especially during cloudy days and better
ventilation on warm and humid days.

5. What suggestions can you make?

When finances can suffice, it would be better to add more lighting fixtures and
ventilation measures to the library.
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REFLECTIONS
1. Which of the materials in the learning resources caught your interest the
most? Why?
Among the materials in the learning resources at ICEHS, the books really
caught my interest because ever since I was a kid I really love reading books,
despite some difficulty in relating to some topics.

2. Which gadgets/materials are you already confident to use/operate?

Among the gadgets that I am confident to use are the computer and the overhead
projector.

3. Which ones do you feel you need to learn about?

Although I am confident that I can use the computer as an instructional tool, I
definitely would like to learn more about the Web 2.0 tools like blogging and
social bookmarking as well as the issues that may be encountered in using them
for distance learning.

4. Read an article about your answer in number 3. Paste a copy of the article
here.
The article I have read for my answer in number 3 is from the Internet written by
Laddie Odom, the multimedia producer of the Center for Support Instructio,
University of Maryland University College. Its URL is http://deoracle.org/online-
pedagogy/emerging-technologies/mapping-newly-identified-web2-benefits.html

*the pdf version of the article will be submitted along with this portfolio
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EPISODE 2|BULLETIN BOARD DISPLAYS

BOARD DISPLAYS EVALUATION FORM

Topic of the Board Display: The Smoker’s Body

Location of the Board Display in School: School Clinic of Iligan City East High School,
Sta. Filomena, Iligan City
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BOARD DISPLAYS EVALUATION FORM (continued)

Shade the column that indicates your rating. Write your comments to back up your
ratings.

3-Very
4-Outstanding Satisfactory 2-Satisfactory 1-Needs Improvement

Criteria 1 2 3 4 Comments

The over-all impact of the display

Effective Communication would
Conveys the message quickly really make you think twice about
and or do
not even consider smoking as
clearly habit.
Attractive Although the depiction of the
ness diseases one
Colors and arrangement would suffer due to smoking is very
catches and vivid
holds somewhat morbid even but the
interest chosen
colors for its design compliment it
in a way
giving it aesthetic value.
Balance
The design itself has stability but
Objects are arranged so somehow
stability is
lacks elements of balance.
perceived
Unity
Repeated shapes or colors or There is unity among the elements
use used in
the display. There are no repeated
borders holds display together shapes
because the design does not call
for it.
Interactivi
ty The style actually entices learners
to do the
The style and approach entice reverse of so that they will not get
sick.
learners to be involved
The letters are not that visible from
Legibility a good
Letters and illustrations can be distance; the viewer needs to one
seen to two
from a good distance meters from the display.
Correctnes
s Despite its scientific nature, there
Free from grammar errors are no
misspelled mistakes, grammatically and
conceptually.
words, ambiguity
Durability The display is very durable because
Well-constructed, items are it is
securely
made of tarpaulin.
attached

ANALYSIS
1. Did the board display design reflect the likes/interests of its target
audience? Why? Why not?

Yes, the display actually reflects the interests of its target audience because
teenagers actually like to experiment on things like smoking.

2. Was the language used clear and simple for the target audience to
understand? Why? Why not?

Yes, the language used is clear and simple – in fact the diseases are written in
Filipino and in English.

3. What do you think was the purpose of the board display? Was it effective?
Why? Why not?
I think the display is very effective, in a sense that one would not smoke or
even inhale secondhand smoke because of the visual message it delivers.

4. What suggestions can you make?

Although the display is very effective, there must be another display to
balance its somewhat negative impression, like perhaps what happens when
one maintains a healthy lifestyle.

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My Proposed Board Display

Theme: Physics In Everyday Things

Board Title: Going To School With Physics

Rationale:

This board display is intended to stimulate appreciation of physics concepts

in everyday situations so that they will understand their physics lessons.

Objective:

To teach students about the concept of kinematics or description of motion

as they travel from their home to school.

Best features of my proposed bulletin enhancement:

An example of a student’s route in going to school.

Content Resources (Name each needed resource and give each a

brief description):

The display shall contain pictures depicting the following content resources:

Time – the duration of travel from home to school

Distance – the amount of space travelled from

home to school Speed – the rate of travelling

from home to school

It will also include a map showing the hypothetical route from home to
school of a certain student.

Materials for aesthetic enhancement:

Pictures, Printouts of concepts, special papers, and strings aside from glue
and scissors.

My Board Display Lay -out

Time

Distance
Student’s
route

Speed
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REFLECTIONS

1. Name at least 5 skills that a teacher should have to be able to come up

with effective board displays. Elaborate on why each skill is needed.
The skills that a teacher should possess in order to come up with an effective board
display are
 Creativity – she/he must be able to come up with unique ways to portray
lessons or concepts.
 Elegance – she/he must strive for balance between vibrant and conservative
design so that the message will be delivered properly.
 Ingenuity – she/he will be able to apply problem solving skills in coming up
with a display.
 Resourcefulness – she/he will be able to come up with an effective board
display using the available resources at hand.
 Innovativeness – she/he will be able to introduce contemporary topics to
his/her board display.

2. Which of the skills do you already have? Recall your past experiences in
making board displays. How do you practice these skills?
The skills that I already have are creativity, resourcefulness and innovativeness. I
do not have much experience in making board display, the one that I could clearly
remember was in elementary, but I am able to practice these skills through the
lessons in the EdTech course I am taking right now.

3. Which skills do you still need to develop? Reflect on how you can improve
on or acquire these skills.
I feel that I need to develop more elegance and ingenuity in coming up with
designs not only in making a board display and other instructional materials. I
can improve on these skills by constant practice and by research on various
designs helpful in coming up with instructional materials.
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EPISODE 3|SEE AND SAY (UTILIZATION OF TEACHING AIDS)

UTILIZATION OF TEACHING AIDS FORM

Grade/Year Level of Class Observed:

Pre-school/kinder, afternoon session at Echavez Elementary School, San

Roque, Iligan City

Date of Observation: October 10, 20011

Subject Matter: English

Brief Description of Teaching Approach Used By the Teacher:

The teaching approach used by the teacher is the individualized teaching

approach – the students read the syllables on the board and at the same time
write on their pad paper the syllable they have read. Then the teacher used a
big book for storytelling to augment their focus on the lesson at hand.

Comments on the
Appropriateness
Teaching Aids of
Used Strengths Weaknesses
the Teaching Aids
Used

It is appropriate to
the
lesson in reading;
it
Word Charts Clearly written Not stored properly encourages
 participation.

Some of the
Very colorful, age students Telling stories is an
cannot relate to
Big book appropriate and some effective way to
insightful of the things integrate values.
mentioned in the
story.

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ANALYSIS

1. What do you think prompted the teacher to choose the

materials/learning resources tha t she/he used?
The one thing that prompted the teacher to use the materials in the lesson is
appropriateness in fulfilling the lesson objective of the day through a method that
the students will enjoy.

2. What difficulties, if any, did the teacher experience? How can this be
managed?
The difficulties that the teacher had while the class was going on, is primarily on
making the students relate to the story (it was “Ang Tipaklong at ang Langgam”,
although the story was relayed in Cebuano by the teacher). She was able to
manage by gently explaining the story and by pointing out experiences that they
may have that relates to the story.

3. Over-all, were the learning resources/materials used effectively? Why?

Why not?
Yes, the big book really was effective in keeping the students attention at the
same time it enhanced their imagination.

REFLECTIONS

Put yourself in the place of the teacher. What would you do similarly and
what would you do differently if you will teach the same lesson to the
same group of students? Why?
I would probably do the same with the recitations of the syllables and I would
also have a storytelling session using a big book because of the positive response of
the students. But I will probably not include the writing activity after the recitation
because some students found the activity not so interesting, so they began standing
up and began talking.
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EPISODE 4|TOOLS OF THE TRADE (TEACHING AIDS BANK)

LEARNING RESOURCES ON A SPECIFIC CONTENT

AREA

TOPIC: MECHANICS (Physics) Grade/Year Level: 4th Year High

School

Projectile and
Rulers and Free fall
Curved Track
Calipers Apparatus

Stopwatch Blow dryer

and meter and ping
stick pong ball

Cart and Video camera Marbles and

frictionless and video a frictionless
track analysis surface
software
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ANALYSIS

Give at least three benefits of doing a survey of available materials before

making your own materials? Explain each.
If I do a survey of available materials before making my own, I can save time –
instead of making my own and figuring out how my lesson will proceed, I can just
focus on how to use the available materials for the lesson. Another is I can save
money and material resources. Why do I have to spend when there are already
appropriate resources available? Obviously, this is very trivial in these times of trying
economic times. Third, I can also find out what other resources are available which
can be used in the future lessons. This way I only need to have a yearly inventory and
then plan the materials I will use throughout the school year.

REFLECTIONS
1. Which of the materials did you like making the most? Why?
Although most of the materials I have listed are not fabricated nor synthesizes
personally, I especially liked the using the video analysis software because it
enables the class to analyze the components of motion of a certain object.

2. What difficulties, if any, did you encounter in making the materials? How
did you overcome them?

Making most of these materials on my own would be really difficult but some can
be made with the help of professionals who have expertise and the proper
equipment. In order to overcome such difficulties, I will just find alternative
materials that are readily available and affordable.

3. What tips can you give teachers regarding preparation of teaching

materials?
The best tip I can give to teachers regarding preparation of teaching materials is
make use of the resources available at home, in the school or can be bought at
the convenience store for a low price. They can also search the Internet for
creative ways to utilize such commonly found items in their lessons.
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EPISODE 5|PAPER WORKS! (PREPARING HAND-OUTS)

circuits which also includes circuit
diagrams.
MY HAND-OUT PLAN
Subject Matter: Series and Parallel

Grade/Year Level Fourth Year

High School Students

Outline

Resistors in
Series Circuit
Parallel Resistors
Circuit Examples

Type of Graphic Organizers/flow-

chart/schema to use

Diagrams showing the circuit

Real circuits using light bulbs

References

Conceptual Physics by Paul Hewitt

Modern Technical Physics by
Arthur Beiser

ANALYSIS

1. What are the good features of a

handout?
A good handout helps students
prepare for the coming lesson. Also,
it must give the students a clear
description of the activities or
procedures that they have to do in
order to understand the lesson.
Another, it should include pictures,
graphs and other illustrations
related to the lesson.

2. Which of these features are

present in the handout I made?
In the sample, I have already given
a good contrast between the two
 — Current has alternative routes so current
through each resistor is not equal.
=
1 ,2= ,3=
1 2 3

— The total current is the sum of all current

through the resistor is
SAMPLE HAND-OUT
Resistors in Series = + + = + +

— Single current path between points, so 1 2 3 1 23

current through all the resistors is the same. +

1 1 1

= +

— The voltage difference across the three resistors

are
1 2 3

— The reciprocal of the equivalent resistance of

resistors
=1,=2, =3

— The total voltage across the three resistors is

=
= +
( +
+
+ 3)
= +2+3
1
in parallel is
— The equivalent resistance of resistors in series
1 2

is 1 1 1

= =1+2+3

— In a series circuit, the equivalent resistance is = = + +

equal to the sum of the individual
resistances. 1 2

— The equivalent resistance is greater — In a parallel circuit, the reciprocal of the

than any individual resistance. equivalent resistance equals the sum of
the reciprocals of their individual
Parallel Resistors resistances.
— Potential difference is the same across each — The equivalent resistance is always less
element (it does not depend on the path than any individual resistance.
taken).

3. Which features are not present in the handout I made?

The sample I made lacks concept elaboration and examples for application and
problem solving.

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REFLECTION

1. What difficulties, if any did you encounter in making the handouts? How
did you overcome them?

The difficulty that I encountered while making the sample handout is in drawing
the circuits. I was able to overcome it with the help of drawing tools, but it took
me a while to finish it. But it is definitely better than drawing by hand.

2. What tips can you give teachers regarding preparation of handouts?

In making handouts, it is always best to start with an outline so that one will
be guided on what topics to include. Now, it might be time-consuming to
create one’s own illustrations, but then you can always use this illustrations for
other instructional materials like exams and slide presentations.
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EPISODE 6|SLIDESHOW BIZ (SLIDE PRESENTATIONS)

SLIDE PRESENTATION PREPARATION ACTIVITY FORM

Title of My Presentation: Series and Parallel Circuits

Objectives: To compare series and parallel circuits in terms of its structure,

Subject Matter/Topic: Physics/Electricity

Enhancements (Check Appropriate Box):

☒Graphics ☐Music ☒Hyperlink

☒Animation (Slide transition) ☐Voice Narration ☐Others, please specify
☐Sound Effects ☒Stylish Fonts ___________________
Description of Appropriate Use:

This slide show presentation will be used to present the contrast between
resistors in series and parallel resisors.

Presentation Story Board:

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3

Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6

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SLIDE PRESENTATION PREPARATION ACTIVITY FORM (continued)

Presentation Story Board (continued):

Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9

Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12

Slide 13 Slide 14

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ANALYSIS
1. What are the features of a good slide presentation?
A good slide show presentation must be concise, direct to the point and
insightful at the same time. It can have transitions and animations to
emphasize a point but should not be too much. Its design, lay-out and
formatting should be balanced with the concept presented.

2. Which of these features are present in the slide presentation you made?
Among the features mentioned above, the slide presentation I made has
appropriate transitions and animations, where the format and design is
congruent to the concept presented – it does not clutter the slide.

3. Which features are not present in the slide presentation you made?
I am afraid that the slide presentation I made is neither short nor concise. Also,
the text lay-out that I have made does not follow the rule on “six lines per slide,
six words per line”.

REFLECTIONS

What difficulties, if any did you encounter in making the slide

presentation? How did you overcome them?
In making the slides, so far, the difficulty encountered is choosing the
information that should appear on the slide, since there is a lot of information being
discussed in the reference materials. To overcome them, I read the summarized form
of the lesson and from there come up with an outline that would make the preparation
of the slide easier.
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EPISODE 7|MY E-WORLD

WEBSITE VISIT ACTIVITY FORM

Tony R. Kuphaldt (he is the author of the textbook used on-
Name of Author: site)

Name of Site: All About Circuits

Posting or
Revision
Not mentioned on the site
Date:

Organization
All About Circuits published through Design Science License
represented:

Date of Access: October 15, 2011

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_
URL: 5/1.html

Brief Description The above URL is just a portion of a series of textbooks on

of electricity and
the material in electronics that they have published online. In this part, it
the gives a bird’s eye
view of the contrasting characteristics of a series circuit and a
website: parallel circuit.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
It is very informative and it really
gives the Since it is part of an online
Evaluation of the reader a good head start about textbook, it assumes that
the the
Website: similarities and differences reader is familiar with the
between the terms
two circuits. being used by the author.
 REFLECTIONS
Through this episode, I was able to come across the role of the teacher in making a
responsible choice in determining the appropriateness of the instructional tools
especially when it comes from the World Wide Web. The teacher has to spend time in
previewing and evaluating prospect sites to be used in the class. Although, the
teacher has all the help he or she will need when looking for materials to use in class
because there are a lot of sites that cater to their needs.

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