Final reflection

1. What I like about blogging? - I can write anything I like. I can share anything with others. 

2. What I do not like about blogging? - have to update every week. 

3. What have I gained from blogging? 4. How? - I have improved my language skills especially writing. Writing blog also has been a medium for my critical thinking since I have to think outside the box when writing on something. At the same time, I can improve my thought processes. Technology skills? Of course has developed since I never had a blog before. 

5. What I like about the course? - I like to learn so many skills using technology. 

6. What I do not like about the course? - I focused more on products and not the process. I do not like to do the tutorials. They distracted my thoughts and ideas in my process of completing my work.

7. What I have learnt from the course? - Producing varieties of teaching aids to be integrated in class. 

8. What I do not expect but have learnt from the course? - Audio editing & 'So You Think You Can Dance' 

9. What I expect but have not learnt from the course? - Creating traditional materials, smartboard.

10. If I can change anything about the course, state what it is and explain. - Grouping. I do not like to be in a same group with those who did not want to give cooperation to me. Mix gender and race is useless when they did not cooperate with me. I could develop better work with my old own group.

Exam..

This would be the last post for the blog. Finally we came to an end. For week 14, we did not learn any new topic or skill. We did have final exam. The exam was held in the Computer Lab. We were given two hours to answer all four essay questions which each of them carries 10 marks. The questions were not as hard as expected but I myself find difficulties to answer them. I hardly wrote what I was thinking because my hand wouldn't work as I wish. For this semester, today's was the first essay I wrote by hand and this had caused me troubles in writing. My handwriting was too bad to be read. It had spoiled my mood in writing and I could say that I did not do the exam well enough. Hope the marker will be able to read my writing and give marks which I deserve without being interrupted by my bad handwriting.

That's all for this time. Thanks.

Softwares for children

13th week was the day where we supposed to submit our assignment 3. Most of us did not sleep on the night before, finishing the assignment. If I alone did not sleep, all could blame myself but if most of us couldn't finish it earlier, what (or who) was to be blamed? Most of us found that the process of creating the materials (teaching aids) took a very long time. Usually it took not more than half an hour to create a teaching aid but for this task, we took longer time than usual. There were cases that took more than two hours to complete creating a particular material since we had to do two products in one time which were the aid itself and the extra task which was the tutorial for creating the material. We had struggled for days to finish the assignment and we managed to hand in the work in time. Thanks to God. Praises are always for Him. 

Then, during lecture hour, we did play educational games and manipulate some softwares which were designed for children. The softwares were developed long long time ago and it supported Windows 95. Windows XP could not process the softwares. Luckily there were 'techno-savvies' in our group and we managed to generate them after some adjustment processes been done. Maybe we should update the resources reliable in the store =P  

raya.!!

We were having our raya holidays for this 12th week of study but we had to post something in our blog. We had to say something here in order to send all our posts in our portfolio later.

So here, I did not want to say anything complex since I am still in the mood of raya. Maybe I could share my experience about my day in school last week. I entered two classes on that day. The 1st class, my friends did an experimnet on the pupils where they were given a set of questions and they had to complete them in a given time. My friends switched on their laptops and played songs (in intention to distract their attention) but it seemed like they were not distracted by the song and they managed to complete the questions in time.

Secondly, I went into a standard two class to observe a lesson carried out by an English teacher there. From our observation, teacher did not integrate any technology or any electrical appliances during the teaching and pupils still interested in their learning.

So what I am trying to say here is pupils do not care much about this technology things in class. They have their own styles and preferences in learning. We as future teachers have to know when to use technology in class. If we integrate technology all the time but the learning points are hardly understood by pupils, what is the use of it? It would be better if we just teach them using traditional method.

Lastly, friends, think of the use of technology everytime you want to use it in class. Be wise in making decision k.

Thanks.

absent..

For the 11th week, I didn't come to class for an inevitable matter. I had made an appoinment with a teacher from Sekolah Rendah Taman Segar for a lesson observation for my assignment. We had tried to adjust to have the session at other time but it semeed like we failed to do so. Both parties had our own businesses and that was the only time available.

Although I didn't attend the class, I asked my friends if there was any new task to be completed. Like I expected, we were given another task which was to search for a research paper or article about the use of technology in teaching English at school from the internet. Then, we had to send the link of the article to Pn Foziah in ADEC and she would have a look at it and reply if the article was acceptable. I had posted the link for my article before Raya and I didn't see any words mentioned if my article was acceptable. As the result, I ignored it and I did nothing about the article.