Today I was absent.. because I was having a bad stomachache. I felt so sick when I just got up and finally I had decided not to go to class. However, when i felt better which I thought I could go to the class already, it was already too late for me to go :(
However, this week we were given the task of material analysis.. Actually I dont really know what is that all about.. Anyway, I will find out from friends..
It's going to be raya soon, even myself, i am already in raya+holiday mood!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Another Assignment knocks on my door...
The Assignment 2 was a very good practice for me in terms of creating materials. From that assignment I got to practise on choosing appropriate material to be used. Besides, I too learned the way that I could turn something which is not so educational to educational ones. There is also another new software that I had learned, which is AoA Audio Extractor. This software can be used to extract sound file from a video clip, to a MP3 file. Well, at least I learned something new..
Handing in Assignment 2 signifies the coming of another new assignment. I somehow feel that this (new) Assignment 3 is almost the same as the previous assignment. The only difference is that this time round, in stead of one lesson plan, we have to design 4 lesson plans together with the materials.. Another thing that I cant really understand is the group work thingy. I understand that each person is assigned a topic and then based on the topic each member has to come out with 4 lesson plans each. Basically it sounds like the meaning of group work is just to gather on the day to submit the assignment to compile everything together...
Besides the assignment 3, at the same time we were given two other tasks to do which is developing business cards, flyers, pamplets in pairs, while newsletter in group and preparing for the presentation.. So much of work to do at the same time! I feel that I am going crazy!
Handing in Assignment 2 signifies the coming of another new assignment. I somehow feel that this (new) Assignment 3 is almost the same as the previous assignment. The only difference is that this time round, in stead of one lesson plan, we have to design 4 lesson plans together with the materials.. Another thing that I cant really understand is the group work thingy. I understand that each person is assigned a topic and then based on the topic each member has to come out with 4 lesson plans each. Basically it sounds like the meaning of group work is just to gather on the day to submit the assignment to compile everything together...
Besides the assignment 3, at the same time we were given two other tasks to do which is developing business cards, flyers, pamplets in pairs, while newsletter in group and preparing for the presentation.. So much of work to do at the same time! I feel that I am going crazy!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Four Skill? Are you sure you have them all?
Even though the submission of Assignment 2 was postponed, life is still never easy. This week we are given another task to do, which is the four language skill task. In groups of four, we are to take a language skill each, and design an activity for any stage of the particular skill lesson.
What I did for this task is just to go online and search for recording because i am doing listening skill. It was not easy to find a suitable recording to be use. I have to cater the level of proficiency of the primary ESL classroom in Malaysia. Here, choosing the appropriate material is important as in out of many recordings online, I have to choose something which is suitable for the children in Malaysia. For instance, if the accent of the recording that is chosen is too different from what the children hear daily, they would definitely find it difficult to listen to the recording.
I spent some time in front of the laptop and after a few hours only I managed to find a suitable recording. I understand that we have to be very careful as in choosing the wrong materials is definitely not going to benefit the pupils.
What I did for this task is just to go online and search for recording because i am doing listening skill. It was not easy to find a suitable recording to be use. I have to cater the level of proficiency of the primary ESL classroom in Malaysia. Here, choosing the appropriate material is important as in out of many recordings online, I have to choose something which is suitable for the children in Malaysia. For instance, if the accent of the recording that is chosen is too different from what the children hear daily, they would definitely find it difficult to listen to the recording.
I spent some time in front of the laptop and after a few hours only I managed to find a suitable recording. I understand that we have to be very careful as in choosing the wrong materials is definitely not going to benefit the pupils.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
I'm working on Assignment 2
For this Assignment 2, we are required to download Michael Jackson's Earth Song from Youtube and develop teaching materials from that video. At the same time, we have to choose another video that we think suitable to be used in an ESL classroom, and also develop teaching materials from there.
I think that developing materials from the Michael Jackson's Earth Song is quite tough because basically there is no any direct teaching point found in the video. I looked at the video, the video looked at me. When I was having headache did not know what to do, I was just so lucky that Kom actually offered to develop materials from Earth Song! :D
Hence, my job is to search for another suitable video from Youtube to be used. In fact this is tough too, as in there are so many videos in Youtube, until it was too many for me to choose! When I was searching for video, actually I started to regret for not taking the MJ video. haha.. I find that I always face dilema in making choices.. same goes to choosing video on Youtube.. ZZzZZz
However, these two weeks had been a very busy week. And I was very glad that the submission of Assignment 2 had been postponed to one week later. There are so a lot to do.. have to choose video, then develop materials, then design lesson plan, and then write rationale.. It was good that the deadline was postponed.. I am very glad :) or else i wouldnt have idea how i am going to hand in this assignment...
I think that developing materials from the Michael Jackson's Earth Song is quite tough because basically there is no any direct teaching point found in the video. I looked at the video, the video looked at me. When I was having headache did not know what to do, I was just so lucky that Kom actually offered to develop materials from Earth Song! :D
Hence, my job is to search for another suitable video from Youtube to be used. In fact this is tough too, as in there are so many videos in Youtube, until it was too many for me to choose! When I was searching for video, actually I started to regret for not taking the MJ video. haha.. I find that I always face dilema in making choices.. same goes to choosing video on Youtube.. ZZzZZz
However, these two weeks had been a very busy week. And I was very glad that the submission of Assignment 2 had been postponed to one week later. There are so a lot to do.. have to choose video, then develop materials, then design lesson plan, and then write rationale.. It was good that the deadline was postponed.. I am very glad :) or else i wouldnt have idea how i am going to hand in this assignment...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I love E-book!
As mentioned in the previous blog, the task for last week was to create an e-book. In fact there is nothing new about it as all of us are already very familiar with PowerPoint presentation ever since the time that we were still in the college. We used to do PowerPoint for our oral presentation, remember?Well, basically that was a pretty easy job for us. The only new thing is the idea that making an electronic story book by using PowerPoint presentation.
Ok, it's time to be serious. The next thing that is waiting for us is Assignment 2. Yeah, Assignment 2. Initially I got a shock and I was quite speechless too as all the while I thought that the Internet Skills assignment was our Assignment 2.. Suddenly Assignment 2 was transformed to designing a lesson plan with teaching materials developed from Michael Jackson's song..... My partner of this task is Komathi. I hope I would have fun doing the assignment...
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