ICT TOOLS REYNANTE T. GUMILAB BEED 1 ICT 01 - LABORATORY

ICT TOOLS Mobile furniture ◦ One of the most important factors of designing a perfect classroom is the good selection of furniture. ◦ We wanted to have such tables and chairs, which allow for an easy and quick rearrangement of the room for different types of learning.

ICT TOOLS Interactive whiteboard ◦ We prefer whiteboards to blackboards. ◦ A whiteboard surface that displays digital files from a computer via a data projector. ◦ May function as a standard whiteboard. ◦ The reason for this is that the classroom is equipped with electronic gear and computers.

ICT TOOLS Personal Digital Assistants ◦ PDAs and Pocket PCs allow input of data via a mini keyboard or equivalent, they usually include a calendar, organiser functions, basic software functions such as word processing, , spreadsheets, data storage and wireless capacity.

ICT TOOLS Laptops ◦ A mobile computer that is operated with a battery away from power sources. ◦ Newer versions are now wireless and can connect to the Internet in wireless hotspots. ◦ This can also help people to acquire some topics that they need.

ICT TOOLS Electricity ◦ It follows from this that the first step to rearrange the classroom was the wiring. ◦ It had to solve the charging of the computers (notebooks, Ultra Mobile PC-s, tablet PC).

ICT TOOLS Colors ◦ In most of the cases faculties, prefer classrooms which wall color is "institutional" white. ◦ But white walls do not help to reduce tension and anxiety and do not produce a home-like atmosphere.

ICT TOOLS Multimedia Application design offers new insights into the learning process, and gives possibilities to represent information and knowledge in a new and innovative way. But technology alone will not result in higher achievement.

ICT TOOLS Wireless technology and multimedia ◦ The classroom of the future promotes not only a sense of well- being and produces a home-like atmosphere and its interior is technically well equipped and designed for effective learning as well. ◦ Mobility was among the main factors to choose the technical tools.

ICT TOOLS Blogs ◦ A web-based journal or log book. ◦ Logs are chronologically ordered web-postings by an author or group of authors. ◦ They may be personal, individual records, group collaborations or representative of an institution.