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Teach With Technology workshop was conducted for the Home Economics teachers and In Service Advisers of the Central Province at the Provincial ICT Education Centre (PICTEC) - 18th and 19th January 2017




Presenting my experience at the event organized by Microsoft Sri Lanka ,Are You TWT? .The event  was held at Hotel Taj Samudra, Colombo , Sri Lanka ,on 8th December 2015.I shared my experience on PBL with ICT tools, Using OneNote Notebook for PBL,Skype in the Classroom and sharing lesson plans with teachers from overseas in order to better learning take place.Sharing experiences of Microsoft Innovative Expert Educators Chamila Bandara,Pradeepika Rupasinghe and Shiroma Weerathunga was done during the presentation.
(Photographs by Microsoft Sri Lanka Facebook Page)






Microsoft Tools in Classroom Teaching-Workshop at Kengalla Maha Vidyalaya


Web Designing Workshop organized by the Nikaweratiya Education Zone,conducted by me 



Java Fundamentals (Oracle Academy) workshops for IT teachers and ISAs  at NIE and Royal College IT lab 
(Work as facilitator from Sri Lanka ,with the Indian lecturers)



Alice is a 3 D Animation Software (Oracle) which is easy to handle by any teacher without a very good knowledge in computer programming.Subjects teachers can use the too for creating animations for their lesson presentations as well as guide students for the lesson targets.Teachers of the Wattegama Education Zone  and Katugasthota Education zone were trained to use software.




Integration of ICT in teaching:
Introducing technology and tools into school has been done through out years.During the implementation level at the schools ,some problems occured.Resistance to change ,time factor,school priority level ,staff confidence and skills are some key factors which affect ICT -based education.The children are digital learners as they are born into a digital world.Hence the traditional ways of teaching ,learning ,assessing and evaluating are to be changed.

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