Reflection Week 15

Hello everyone! It's the last blog and i cant help to feel NOSTALGIC albeit the immense RELIEF!

This last blog is an OVERALL REFLECTION regarding our course, helping us to improve on the things that needs more effort on, and to keep up the efforts that were beneficial.

First of all, blogging has been a good REFLECTOR for me personally. It helps me sum up what i have learnt during a partcular lesson during the week. The blog also acts as an FILE STORAGE where i can always look back and look for whatever is useful for me in the posts written.

The downside however, is the EFFORT required to put in to write a blog post. At times when my hearts' desire is in contrary with my mind, i have a difficult time to push myself to write a blog post as i do not want my post to end up like an essay, ready to be marked by the teacher.

Blogging has helped me in terms of my LANGUAGE SKILLS-where i would always double-check my spellings and sentence structures, CRITICAL THINKING-where i get to internalize the input given during the lesson, as well as TECHNOLOGY SKILLS-where i would include videos and pictures into my post to make it more interesting.

As for the course itself, it has provided much input regarding KNOWING and PREPARING the resources for use in ESL classrooms. I like this course as it is truly relevant to our profession as a primary school teacher. It exposes us to practical TEACHING AIDS that could be beneficial in classrooms as well as how to put the teaching aids into full use.

Though there are no tests or quizzes for this course, the ASSIGNMENTS were truly in the amount that just about exceed our capabilities! It did not help that most of the assignments were assigned nearing the end of the semester and that the due dates are well after our exams. It would benefit us alot if the assignments were evenly distributed along the whole semester.

Overall, my COMPUTING and TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS before taking up this course may be at the scale of 3 to 4. However, after immersing myself in the techno-world so to speak for the whole semester, i felt that the scale has increased from a mere 3 or 4 to at least an 8 thanks to Ma'am Foziah and coursemates.

Reflection Week 14

It's the last week of classes! Gosh that reality hit like a slap when Ma'am mentioned that she forgot to bring her camera to snap some shots before each of us go our separate ways =')

In spite of the fact that it's the last resources class for us all, the workload still continues, well after our exams in fact. So far we have assignment 3 (lesson plan), assignment 4 (portfolio), as well as a special blog post awaiting us to complete all before the 9th of November, 2009.

The fact that we have so much to accomplish in such a short period of time reminds us all of the importance of good time management. With the exams coming hot on our heels, it is impossible for us to have the luxury to slack back or procrastinate any longer.

The only consequence that we will face would be a harsh one: heartbreak and a very very bad dent on our results! Thus, to avoid these to happen, you bet i'm going to try my best to plan things out, attempt to finish them all, and admist the seemingly impossible tasks, find time for revision!

All the best to my comrades out there! Thanks to Ma'am for a resourceful semester and all that you've offered us. Till then, God bless and good bye!~

Reflection Week 13

Today's class is interesting! Why? Because we have hands-on tasks to accomplish! Nothing sets me on more than an aim and an end ;)


We've been introduced to Microsoft Publisher, not a new software for us techno junkies. However this time, Ma'am Foziah brought us into a new perspective of manipulating the publisher.




All these while we've merely used publisher for the main purpose of creating a brochure for assignment purposes. Ma'am challenged us to view publisher as an aid to us in creating useful teaching aids. Imagine, creating greeting cards, invitation cards, advertisments, menus etc. as teaching aids! How interesting!


After a general introduction to the software, we were left to explore and create a few teaching aids using the software. I created four wonderful products: 2 greeting cards, a menu, and an advertisment.



Through this experience, i'm now more open to the usefulness of publisher and how it could help me enhance my teaching as well as my preparation for teaching. It certainly provides attractive and easily made teaching aids that could save me tonnes of time and effort!

Reflection Week 12

Wonderful week everyone! This week is so much more relaxing compared to last week's class. Today, all of us exhibited our hard efforts: video production. A total of 18 videos were viewed and my personal opinion is that ALL the videos were fabulous!

Above of the creation of Fendy and I. I'm sorry to inform that we did not manage to come up with the video content that we would delivered all these while. We found out that video shooting took up too much of our time, as we were faced with unexpected situations at the same time.

A little comment of the videos we all made: i picked up quite a few language/grammar errors along the way and i sincerely hope that our friends would edit and correct the mistakes. As future English teachers, we have to keep up to the standard and not show our 'bad' side to other. It is even more crucial to do so as we are uploading our videos to YouTube for everyone out there to view!

Other than that, i found that all of us really put in the effort to look for the pictures and video clips, edit them, and nice audios were inserted too. All in all, kudos to all in tuesday's group! All the best to our comrades in the thrusday group! =)

Reflection Week 11

Oh no! This week Ma'am Foziah came in sick. Too add oild to fire, there were little little things like people coming in late, slow responses and so on, making the class atmosphere very tensed =(

Since we from the tuesday group joined the thursday class, the class was almost chaotic with the noise level. Despite of that, the class got on with the thursday class presentations regarding the articles assigned by Ma'am.

When the presentations were done, we thought we could finally break away from the tensed atmosphere. But lo and behold, there're more waiting for us to endure.

Firdaus, our classs rep, suddenly asked us if we remembered that we have an assignment dued on the 15th of October, two weeks from now. Of course, all of us were shocked as we totally forgot about the assignment!

Thus, chaos broke out once again as 'lost' groupmates looked for each other, questions were raised regarding what we should do for the assignment etc. While doreen took up the brave responsibility to coordinated the whole situation.

And so, after an hour or so of discussion and clarification, we got back in our groups, discussed about the assignment task for assignment 2, as well as divided ourselves into another group for assignment 3.

Though the process was nerve-wrecking and tensed, i was gald everything was accomplished by the end of the class. Special thanks our gracious lecturer and class rep for the reminder, my groupmates for their cooperaiton, as well as everyone for making things go smoothly as they were.