Software as an Educational Resource
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The document discusses different types of software, including custom software made for specific tasks by large corporations, and commercial software that helps with a variety of tasks. It also discusses instructional software that can be accessed online or purchased, noting that teachers should carefully evaluate such resources using sound pedagogical principles to assess elements like easy navigation, text legibility, color schemes, layout, clarity of explanations, accuracy of information, relevance to learning objectives, and ensuring information is current.
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Software as an Educational Resource
- 10. Operating System
- 25. Custom Software
- 26. a. Custom Software Made for specific task often by large corporations
- 27. b. Commercial Software Packaged for computers that helps with a variety of tasks
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- 33. Can be visited on the internet or can be bought from software shops or dealers
- 34. Evaluation Guidelines: Be extremely cautious in using CBI‘s and free Internet materials
- 35. Don’t be caught up by attractive graphics, sound, animation, pictures, video clips, and music forgetting their instructional worth
- 36. Teachers must evaluate these resources using sound pedagogical principles
- 37. Among design and content elements to evaluate are: Easy navigation from section-to-section Text legibility Effective use of color schemes Attractive layout, and design
- 38. Clarity in the explanations and illustrations of concepts and principles
- 39. Accuracy, coherence, logic of information Their being current since data/statistics continually
- 42. Prepared by: Joan R. Atienza