ICT as in informative tool.

ICT Informative tools are applications that provide large amounts of information in various formats such as text, graphics, sound, or video. Informative tools can be regarded as a passive repository of information (Chen & Hsu, 1999). Examples include tools and information resources of the existing multimedia encyclopedia of the Internet. The Internet is a huge electronic database, and researchers consider the Internet as the most significant ICT tools in e-learning environments. Students rely on the internet to help them do their homeworks and assignments. In short, students consider the Internet as a virtual textbook, reference library, virtual tutor, learn to study shortcuts and virtual study group.
Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for information ahead of television, newspapers and radio.

Internet can give us many information that we want to seek, however in order to find the correct and relevant source we have to be careful of the source we are using to find the information. Through ICT as an informative tool, I understood that there are many sources that we can use in order to find the information. While using ICT tool in the class to find information, we have to make sure that we provide information on how to use them to the students. If not, the students can get wrong information about their findings.

Using ICT as an informative tool has its own advantages such as;

• integrate relevant idea
• analyze the information
• information search skills
• enhance critical thinking
• evaluate resource in the net.

Under this topic we were asked to do an interesting work. We were asked to make a 10 slide powerpoint slide on 'Was Hitler a Gay?'.

It is an interesting topic as we know that Hitler was a great orator in the history as well the person who was behind World War II. Though Hitler passed centuries ago, the topic came into discussion among scholars and philosopher. They had their own reasons as to Hitler being a gay or not, mainly due to Hitlers live being very private. I argued Hitler not being a gay which I will reflect in the next post.