My Classroom

 

I would like to say Microsoft Innovative Educator Program is absolutely best platform to develop my teaching skills with inspiration. It helps me establish new connections with other great educators in the world, attend inspirational webinars and learn new technology applications with my students and colleagues. As a Microsoft Expert Educator from Sri Lanka I have great experiences with most of the Microsoft technology tools and I have applied them in my classroom situations in an innovative way. 

Skype in the Classroom

 

Skype in the classroom is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom. Meet new people, talk to experts, share ideas and create amazing lear.

"I would love to make connections with other classes in the world throughout the Skype community to collaborate with my students!"

Kodu Game Lab

 

Teach programming, problem-solving, and more with a creative environment

                       Kodu provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing games. Programs are created on the Xbox 360 or PC, using either a game controller or keyboard/mouse actions, allowing rapid design iteration. Students create a range of terrains, worlds and characters, controlling the characters’ movement, sound and vision using an intuitive icon-based language. Once created, games can be shared and accessed by others. Use the easy-to-follow tutorials to quickly become Kodu experts. Programming has never been so easy for children.

 

Songsmith in the Classroom

                     Spark your students' creativity, engage their interest, and improve learning outcomes by creating and sharing music in the classroom with Songsmith. Songsmith automatically generates musical accompaniment for anyone's voice and can help you teach music, math, and many other subjects in innovative new ways. Sometimes helping kids “find their spark” is the hardest part of stimulating learning; Songsmith is a great way to encourage creativity.

                     In my classroom I use songsmith to keep remember some special facts in students minds with the music. Here is an example for using songsmith in my classroom. In a science lesson "nature of the earth and space" it was very difficult to keep in their minds about history of the astronomy with the names of astronomers and their views. So, it helps to keep their mind with a song they created and sing it with Songsmith. 

                      My students in grade 9 did a 3 months project for their science lesson "Nature of the earth & space" to identify the social opinion on unidentified celestial bodies . After that they made aware the teachers and the junior students of the school about their project. This project was helpful to develop their 21st century learning skills like collaboration, self-regulation, knowledge construction and use of ICT for learning etc.. Throughout this project they used ICT for their activities. While accomplishing the objectives of the project students have developed their English speaking skills, social skills, communication skills etc..This video shows the way they made aware the junior students in the school and about the activities and the ICT tools they used.

 

Chronozom

                       ChronoZoom is an educational tool for teachers and students who want to put historical events in perspective. You can use ChronoZoom to get a perspective of the extensive scale of time and historical events relative to what happened around the world. Become an author yourself! Simply log on with your social networking credentials to record your unique perspective or tell a story that needs to be told.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                     I have encountered Chronozoom in my classroom. In my project i wanted to show the historical events of the astronomy and their inventions.  So, I could show the history of the Astronmy with Chronozoom.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                History of the Astronomy

The Time for "Hour of Code"

                       The first step to introduce children to computer science is to participate in the Hour of Code, the largest learning campaign in history. In one hour, students (and teachers) can learn that computer science is fun, easy, and accessible at all ages.

 

I started a Robotic Student club in my school and sometimes while they are programming for their robots i challenged them to create their own game with hour of code.  Students in school robotic club, having great fun with it and learning Computer Science.