Tentang Pelajaran TIK

Solusi untuk guru mata pelajaran (mapel) Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK) yang keberadaannya dihapuskan pada Kurikulum 2013 mulai mendapatkan titik terang.

Direktur Pembinaan SMA Ditjen Pendidikan Menengah, Haris Iskandar mengatakan, meski mapel TIK dihapus, namun eks guru TIK tidak akan menganggur.

Menurut Haris, para guru tersebut tetap akan memiliki peran yang penting di sekolahnya masing-masing. Rencananya, kata dia, mereka bisa membantu guru lain dalam mempersiapkan materi ajar.

“Jadi, guru TIK tetap akan berperan penting dalam Kurikulum 2013. Mereka bisa dimasukkan dalam Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan yang ada di sekolah untuk membantu guru dalam mempersiapkan materi ajar,” kata Haris, Sabtu (16/3), saat berada di kampus Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Solo, Jawa Tengah.

Haris Iskandar hadir di kampus FKIP UNS untuk mewakili Wakil Mendikbud, Musliar Kasim yang berhalangan hadir sebagai pembicara dalam seminar Pemetaan dan Pengembangan Mutu Pendidikan Menyongsong Pemberlakuan Kurikulum 2013.

Dalam seminar itu, Haris menilai, saat ini belum seluruh guru mampu menyiapkan materi ajar dengan memanfaatkan multimedia.

Padahal, imbuhnya, Kurikulum 2013 adalah kurikulum teknologi yang dalam pelaksanaannya banyak mengandalkan kerja sama tim.

Karena itu, lanjutnya, Kemdikbud akan menempatkan guru TIK dalam sebuah wadah baru yang nanti akan diberi nama Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan untuk membantu para guru mempersiapkan materi ajar secara multimedia.

Meski demikian, Haris mengakui masih ada persoalan yang terkait dengan sertifikasi guru TIK. Yakni, menemukan jalan keluar bagaimana caranya agar guru TIK yang sudah alih tugas itu tetap memperoleh tunjangan sertifikasi.

“Persoalannya, bagaimana agar mereka tetap mendapatkan tunjangan sertifikasi, sekarang tengah dipikirkan,” tandasnya.

Untuk diketahui, penghapusan mapel TIK pada Kurikulum 2013 telah membuat banyak guru TIK resah.

Selama ini, mereka belum memperoleh kejelasan dari Kemdikbud mengenai tugas baru yang akan diembannya, termasuk pula mempertanyakan masalah tunjangan sertifikasi bagi mereka yang telah menerimanya.

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Windows Live Programs

Windows Live is the best online service for email and messenger. This is software you need to download and install. You shall get a lot of services from windows live. It is a free service created by Microsoft. But there are many features that you will need to pay for like the Windows Live Call, which is something like Skype.

Windows Live Mail is the most important application. We can compare it to Outlook Express. It features email, contacts and calendar services. I really like this program. It is better than any other mail client, with a nice user interface. We can use Gmail, Hotmail and any other email services which supports POP and IMAP like the Yahoo mail.


Windows Live Hotmail is the email service that can be used with any Windows Live Service. You only need to create one Hotmail account and use it anywhere on Microsoft website.

Windows Live Messenger is the messenger which has a lot of features. But it lacks the chat room service like that in Yahoo Messenger. But I really am against chat rooms. You won't find one nice person there. Always there will be more than one person typing and doing crazy things.
Windows Live Call works as a part of Make PC-to-PC voice / video calls to your Messenger contacts.

Windows Live Movie Maker is an application to easily create your own movies by using pictures, music, and videos you have. The software is erally good.

There are a lot of other services too, which are being developed as a part. Windows Live Photo Gallery helps you share pictures. Skydrive offers free file sharing up to 5 GB and the size is being increased.

Windows Live Onecare is an anti virus. But it is not free. I have been using a version of this antivirus from Microsoft and have never been in trouble with a virus. The main feature of this antivirus is that it won’t report that a file is a virus un-necessarily. Almost all other anti viruses (excluding McAfee) finds many viruses that are actually not viruses. Live OneCare Family safety is a feature that can be installed to create custom settings for different users on your computer so that they can be protected against illegal and unnecessary content from the internet, including websites and people in the internet.

For Windows Live Register here or download here

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Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office

 

Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a great application. It focuses mainly on Students and Teachers to help in their school work.

It contains the following programs

(1) Learning Essentials for Students
(2) Learning Essentials for Teachers
They both include a lot of templates you could imagine to be useful in school work. Templates for book report, class debate, essays, etc are for students. All of them have different subcategories like different types of essays, and their formats with a short description on how/what-to-dos

For example,
"Subject:
In a short paragraph, describe the subject of the book.

Setting:
Explain where and when the story takes place.
Tip: it might be helpful to include maps, pictures or historical information about the setting. "
...................
is what I found for a book report.

Even while you are working on the matter in MS Office, a small window still remains on the right side, to help you remind what all things you need to add, the format/style you should follow, etc.

This is really cool

For Teachers, we see lesson plans and assignments, classroom organization, organization of field trips, charts and diagrams, math worksheets and even handwriting practice.
It includes provision for creating content for "Learning Essentials" to help students.

(3) "Learning Essentials Content Development Kit" is a program with a "wizard" interface to help us use the programs easily. It has step by step procedure for selecting the type of document, whether you are a student or teacher, what you want to do, etc.

Download Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office here

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Computer access fromTeamViewer

There are times when we want to access a computer that is not in front of us with ease, whether it is to solve problems, collaborate with each other, want to access data / programs on other computers or other. If both computers are connected to the Internet, then it can be done easily using the TeamViewer software.

TeamViewer is one of the Remote Desktop software is quite popular and widely used because of its simplicity, excellence and be able to run on various operating systems, like Windows, Mac OX X, Linux, IOS as well as Android. We can use the free of charge for non-commercial use.
 
Remote Desktop is a term for software or operating system feature that enables or allows us to access another computer or on the outside (originally connected to the Internet / network) remotely, as if the computer is in front of us.
 TeamViewer consists of two main programs, one program running on your computer and another on the computer that will be access through our computer (remote). Once they are connected then we can access your computer remotely with ease because it looks a remote computer desktop display (complete with the start menu, and program2 existing icon2).

Installer or portable version is available that we can choose. If you rarely use, or just want to try, you should choose a portable version that does not need installation. Besides the 2 main courses, there are additional applications that support or to get other features such meeting.

 
 
The use of TeamViewer
For computers that will be accessible, so easy and simple, can use TeamViewer QuickSupport portable applications. Download TeamViewerQS (about 4 MB) and then immediately run it, wait a while so we will get the ID and password.

This ID is unique so we can not change, whereas we can change the password or made a random (right click on the password field and select the "Create new random password"). Then we just give the ID and Password to the people who will be allowed to access our computer.

For the computer used to access remotely, install or download TeamViewer Portable TeamViewer. Next run TeamViewer.exe. To access another computer, on the Remote Computer Control, fill in the Partner ID corresponding to the ID that we will access your computer (which has given our friends).

 Then we can choose the Remote Control or File Transfer, and just click the Connect button to partner. After that if the computer that will be accessible online and TeamViewer Quick Support is active, then we will be connected and asked for the password. Once the ID and password is correct, we will be able to access the remote computer's desktop. With this TeamViewer.exe our computer was also available to other computers by providing the ID and password appears.

Originally both computers can access the Internet, usually both can run TeamViewer and can be remotely accessed. Because every time the program is sending the computer desktop is accessed, then they also have an Internet connection pretty quickly.

Download for a variety of operating systems can be obtained here.

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