Communicative tool

 Communicative tools are used for external, and internal communication. these tools include mail, email, telephones, video and web conferencing tools, as well as online collaboration and productivity platforms.

Q.1/ Discuss some of the most effective communicative tools the teacher has used during the pandemic time. How have teachers used collaborative tools during the pandemic time to enhance their learning? How have teachers maintained engagement with students through their communicative tools during pandemic?

Q.2/ Share your personal observations and experience about how the teachers adapted their communication methods during the pandemic to ensure effective teaching.

Q.3/ Provide your critical judgment about how the teachers assessed student learning and progress through their communicative tools during the pandemic?

Q.4/ Can you share some of the strategies the teacher used to ensure inclusivity and accessibility through their communicative tools during the pandemic time?

Answers

1. Some of the most effective tools the teacher has used during the pandemic time are zoom meeting, telegram, Gmail and google classroom. For the zoom meeting, most tutors come up with their prepared presentation slides and explain and discuss with students through zoom like it's in the real classroom. Through telegrams, tutors used to explain the contents that are hard to understand through voice and let students  do their presentations and findings. For some large files, we were asked to send it through gmail and we were given feedback instantly. And for the google classroom. They would  assign us work and all we have to do is do our own findings and upload the work.

         To enhance the learning, the collaborative tool the tutors used is a discussion forum in vle        where both the teacher and student can discuss  in live chat on a particular topic and correct instantly if someone misunderstood. Teachers maintained engagement with students throughout the pandemic by changing different strategies such as assigning work in groups and letting students discuss in breakout rooms in zoom meetings so that they can discuss on their assigned topic.

2. To ensure effective teaching, in zoom meetings tutors used to divide students into smaller groups to let them discuss in their breakout room, a teacher will come and check the progress of the discussion, when the assigned time completes everyone will come back to the main groups and each person form the group will share their discussion. It was effective as they could work in small groups. 

3. During pandemic time, tutors used to assess by letting us upload assignments in the vle, they provide feedback there and return the corrected assignment through gmail with the marks obtained.

4. To ensure inclusivity and accessibility the tutors used to record the meeting and upload it on vle so that the students who cannot join the meeting can watch it after and get updated with the information and discussions.

Google classroom as a Communicative  and constructive tool

Communicative tool	Constructive tool
-communicate information -notification -provide welcome notes to the students to meet the learners  goals. -communicate using social media apps. - sharing of web links in the classroom. -can do web conferencing using google meet.	- create learning resources (digital materials, such as ppt, PDF files, video tutorials, weblinks. - Design quiz, provide assignment, assign rubrics and add co-tutors.

There are two types of communicative tool;

1. Synchronous communication- face to face, real time happening, enables real time conversation, helps solving urgent problems or issues.

2. Asynchronous communication

3. Not real time happening, learning content can be learned as per their time and schedule conveniently, requiring more time to think, analyze and reflect.

Examples of video conferencing tool

1. Zoom

2. Webinar

3. Google meet

4. Skype

5. Chat (messenger, telegram, wechat, whatsapp, instagram)

Synchronous	Asynchronous
Like a traditional classroom online in real time.  Instant messaging Immediate feedback from instructor and peers. Phone call In-person training Live webinar Group paced learning Same time	Recorded class Email Sending questions and waiting for an answer. Recorded voice message. Online training courses (without live video) Recorded webinar Self paced learning Different time