Final Reflection

As a whole, blogging is very useful in the sense that we update and reflect on what we have learnt for the week. In blog, we are able to express our thought and share ideas and experiences with peers and at the same time learn many new things. Thus, I am able to now think critically on the issues discussed in the class, develop the technological skills from many sources and improve my language indirectly. The course is reach with technological assets where we are able to acquire video, photo, audio, e-book and so forth. At first, I felt, there are too much of assignments in this course and I indeed struggled hard but when reflecting them now, I am actually pleased because at this point, I am considered to be a good technology user since I have knew a lot of items in it. It helped me a lot and going to do the same thing in future. I did not expect that I will be ale to know and use those technologies in my life. Apart from that, in the course, the exposure on the non-technology materials was very little. If we were asked to create materials like puppets, masks, pictures and so on. This will provide more fun as we are involved in the making of the materials. It would be better if a balance is created between these two technology and non-technology materials. To put into a nutshell, my resource world is now flying with many colours as I have learnt and grabbed most of the technological assets.

Last but not least................EXAM

We have come to an end to this course and it ended with the examination. The whole week before this was spent for the revision purpose. I prepared indeed quite well although there were not much clues given to study.I was confused when each people tells a different material to study and look for. Anyhow, I was able to overcome that matter.The two hour exam was quite a difficult one for me but I have tried my level best and applied what i have learned.The given time was just nice to complte all the 4 questions. It will be great if the time is extended a few minutes to give us time for self-correction.But, anyhow, it was fine. To reflect on the entire course...This course has a plenty of resources which are applicable for the ESL classroom. But, it is in the teacher's hand to use, modify, improvise or adapt as to suit the pupils' level of proficiency. I always believe in it!We have come to the end.Thanks alot for the lecture and my friends who have made my life easier in this course-on the assignments. Tq N tc!

Completion of assignent 3

Thank god assignment 3 has come to an end. I spent my entire raya holiday on this and completed my work without facing any difficulties and problems. I realised that, the process of creating lesson plans requires alot of time and thinking. Add to the point, if we have the interest in it, definitely it will be a success.I would say that i enjoyed the lesson plan making session. It was fun! Moreover, the topic given to me is 'story time again'. So, i worked hard to create new imaginary stories which requires pupils' intelect as well as to boost the pupils CCTS( critical and creative thinking skills).It is a way to educate pupils in a comfortable and non-threthening environment. Pupils will be relaxed and learn lesson effectively too. Apart from that, i also included many technology assets as it will grab pupils' attention and interest. E-books, videos, audios and animated pictures are introduced in my lesson. In addition, i also integrated the traditional methods such as puzzle solving, secret box games, authentic materials. These approaches are effective as well because they are more real and it remain in pupils' mind!So, in my opinion, i feel that a teacher should emphasis on both technology and traditional ways in their teaching and learning to create a balance.

Assignment 3- It's flood!

Assignmnet 3 is really very compact in the sense of workloads. We are supposed to create 4 lessons in different skills and we have to develop the lessons according to the topic given.I got Year 2 - Story Time Again. It actually sounds interesting and children love stories. So, i took this opportunity to create wonderful activities using stories. I explored stories well and attached games, puzzle solving, songs,animated pictures and digital cards as to make my lesson more effective in terms of the teaching aids as well as the entire lesson. It took about one week for me complete this assignment. Although at some points I got tired of the work but mostly it gives me excitement. I enjoyed it much!! Such assignment have provided me practice for my future lesson. I will never deny that i have gained plenty of ideas and methods on how to approach my pupils in future..Thanks to Ms Foziah!!

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 is a pair work and we are supposed to come out with two complete lesson plans for the primary classroom. My pair and I decided to divide our work as usual to make things easier. We have to use two video clips to use in our lesson. The first one is given by our lecture while the second one have to be found by us. So after much exploration in youtube, eventually I found a video entitled ' One two buckle my shoe'. It is a rhyme which contains numbers and the rhyming sentences for those numbers. I personally feel that it is very suitable to conduct reading lesson in the classroom. Since the video has two parts in it, it would be easy for teacher to divide the class into two and elect a group a role to read. Kids would love it because it is a new approach of reading. Add to the point, children will develop sense of competence by reading in group to perform their best. The entire process of attempting this assignment 2 wasd quite heavy for me because i got to prepare lesson plans and teaching materials and at the same time i had other course assingments to be done. But i took all that as a challenge and did my works by managing my time wisely. The next assignment is coming up and it sounds more challenging when the lecture gave us the description of it. Another big brigde to be crossed.

The Four Skills-Mine READING

We were required to be in groups of 4 and develop a lesson and activities for the chosen skill. As for me, i got reading skill. So, i decided to do e-book since it is very effective to deliver input in a more systematic and organised way. At the same time, pupils will enjoy and have fun with it since they are new to such materials. It is beyond the everyday classroom learning. Since the topic of my group is 'People', i planned to do about family because it is authentic and so much related to the pupils' real life. I explored deeply on a selected family where i introduced the family members and their interest. This can enable the pupils to connect the ideas to their own families. The journey into the process of completing my e-book and activities was just fine. I explored the pictures in yahoo image and add in animations of people to make the e-book lively. Not forgetting the fonts and background colour for the e-book.I feel that these elements play great role in a delivery of a lesson. I believe that students can be influenced by their emotions by looking at these elements. If a dull and dim colours are applied on the slides, for sure the pupils will be demotivated to even look at it.So, i tried my level best to make my e-book as colourful as possible by attaching animated pictures and wordings.

E-Book!

A new term is added into our resourse world. The "E-BOOK"! Actually, it sounds quite difficult and plenty of questions were cracking my head before i was actually exposed to it, but once we went through the lectures and some examples about it, it was not that BAD! I felt quite a kind of relief. Since, it was a pair work, i and my previous pair for video editing, Yana, joined again to make things much easier. Then, we took approximately one day for planning and discussion on what topic to be chosen. We came out with the topic "How do I go to school? ". It is very relevent to the primary pupils because it reflects on their real life. So, in my view, i believe that, pupils will pay more attention towards this topic. To add to the point, we tried our best to make our e-book the most colourful and attractive one by adding animations and audio music as to grab and remain their concentration towards the lesson.We somehow did it quite well...Since, the duration for this task felt on holidays, we divided the jobs equally and kept updating our work in e-mail and yahoo messenger. It helped us to keep track of our work.Then, after a while we got to know that we are to add story board and print out a copy of our e-book. With a rush, we were able to complete them as well. And at last, today we managed to compile the entire thing..