Review of course.

The course had come to an end... Its time to review....
1. What I like about blogging.
What I like about blogging? Well, I can share my thoughts and feelings freely here and also
keep a record of the progress and also what have i done over the semester. It helped me to
check on what should i compile into my portfolio as well..

2. What I do not like about blogging.
I do like blogging when I am forced to do so. When i have topic or intersting events to share
i'll be happy to blog but when i dont find anything special or significant to talk about I'll hate
blogging when it is made compulsory for us to blog.

3. What have I gain from blogging eg. Language skills, improved fluency, critical thinking,
improved thought processes, technology skills etc.
Firstly, I learnt how to blog! I havent had an account on blogspot until I started this course.
The more i blog, the better my flow of writting is. I am able to convey the meaning clearly
through words now... Besides that, when i start to blog, i will also read blog post from others
and improve my vocabulary.. If you are interested of my source of vocabs, come to me for
further information.

4. How?
By writing more and reading more help me develop writing skill. It also helps to improve my
organisation skills for writing. It also helps me learn new words when i read other blogs...

5. what I like about the course
I learnt how to ensure how to make photos, videos and audios appear at its best. The course
is structured to be not as acedemic as others courses and i feel as though i am taking an IT
course.

6. what I do not like about the course
As we are suppose to learn more about using and developing materials for classroom and not
only focused on technology knowledge. We were merely taught on how to use resources in
the classroom but did a lot of technological work such as photo editing and audio editing
which i dont see any significance in teaching in a classroom.

7. what I have learnt from the course
I learnt to be coorperate better with my friends, to be able to follow datelines, learnt about
many types of software for photo editing, audio editing and video editing.

8. what I do not expect but have learnt from the course
Technology knowledge. Did not expect to learn that much of technology things in this course
as we are having another core course which is technology in ESL classroom.

9. what I expect but have not learnt from the course.
To evaluate effectiveness of teaching aids, using newspapers in classrooms, ensuring
effectiveness of teaching materials.

Compliments to...

I shall hereby announce the end of our course PBEY 3102, Using and Developing Resources has come to the end of the semester. The completion of the port folio is as though the marking point of the end of the semester....

I would like to take the chance in my blog to thanks those who had helped me a lot in the course... First of all, I would like to thank Bak Zi yang, as he is always the motivator for my gang to complete our assignments.

Secondly, Connie and Rubini, as they are my beloved roommate + housemate + classmate+..... and they had always make sure that i am able to complete my assignments and tasks before they go to sleep the night before the assignments.

Thirdly, Afiq, as he was willing to be our group member for the meterial developing assignment when we had problems looking for group members after the raya break... thanks to him for his help and everything for the assignment.

Next, is my group members for video editing task as they did not have any complains although I was not able to do any parts of the task set by my lecturer. I was lucky to have such understanding groupmates that they understand that i had tried my best though i did not contributed anything at the final product...

Not to forget my senior that has given me all his notes to help me study for my test... It helped me a lot...

Last but not least, the most important person in this semester is our beloved lecturer, Pn Foziah. She had taught us true heartedly and set lots of task to ensure that we are able to benifit from her lessons. I learnt a lot throughout the semester from Pn Foziah not only knowledge on developing technology resources but she had also inspired me a lot on how we should be professional and how important issit to work according to instructions and also meeting datelines. I also learnt that I need to work hard on completing my assignments to obtain my degree and not sit back and relax.... I also realize that as an educator, i need to develop good planning skills so that i am able to manage my time and get things done in the shortest time...
Still thanks to Puan Foziah for being able to inspire me to change my view towards the role of an educator...

Finally!!! Port folio is done!!!

I am officially announcing here that I have completed compiling my portfolio!!!

It was indeed a very difficult task for me to ensure that the thickness of my portfolio to be presentable as all my tutorials were all short and simple and i did not do much extra other than the task assigned by our lecturer....

Maybe the quantity of work compiled in it is not that satisfying, but at least i manage to ensure that i had completed all the task assigned and did all of them properly which i believe should be able to contribute to improve the quality of my portfolio.... I also hope that it is able to meet the requirements of my lecturer assessing it which is neatness, quantity and quality...

Most important, it reveals the number of skills that i have learn and task that i have done over the semester. Although some of them are skills that i already know like audio editing, photo editing, producing a video out of a collection of photos but still i enjoyed doing them as they are not as academic as the rest such as writing lesson plans.... Yet, i still hope that i can learn more about resources in classroom that are non-tech cos we are only focused on technology resources.

Hard time getting my portfolio done...

I am currently having a hard time to get my port folio done....

There are so many files to be printed and in order to ensure that i am able to present my port folio at its best, i'll need to print them in colour... I just changed a new cartridge after the Raya break and my ink has gone low even before i am done printing my materials for the portfolio.... Aiyo.. Pity my printer....

It is also hard for me to search for all the materials that i have produced to be printed out into my portfolio as i had lost more than half of my files and are only able to get some of them from my group members that i worked with... Thanks to them...

I was also lucky that our lecturer is mercyfull enough to extend the date to hand in the port folio as i am facing quite a number of problems getting my portfolio done....

Pray hard that i am able to complete the portfolio...

Course Final Test!!!

Yeay!!! We had finally sat for the test for the course. Since this is the one and only test in this course, it carries a heavy percentage of the overall marks for the course. I was quite stressed up because i do not really have much notes to study for the test. Notes that was uploaded on ADEC was not sufficient as it does not cover all the topics that was discuss and presented by my coursemates in class.

Fortunately, I manage to get some of the notes from our senior which was quite similar from the ones discussed and presented in class. The notes was as though a savior for me as i did very badly for both my assignments for certain reasons that was mentioned in my post earlier. I am very thankful that i have quite a number of helpful seniors who are willing to give me advise and assisstence... Credits goes to Julia Choo, Moo Yong Yun Mun, Jarrod Sio, Chin Ming Kiat and Joey Yap... Thanks again to these people...

The test questions turn out to be unexpected. Firstly, it was because they are quite ambiguios and I find it quite hard to understand some of the questions as the expectations were not really clear to me... Maybe it was because I have poor interpretating skills. Should check with my coursemates if they are having the same problem as I do...

Sadly, I couldn't finish answering the paper in the time allocated for us which is two hours. I faced a lot of problems planning the storyline and designing the story board in half an hour as there was so many story boards to draw. I found out that i did the story board wrongly as i did not include wat was required by our lecterer which is to describe the effect and music used for the story board.

Anyway, it is too late to be sad over the test as there is nothing i can go to change my results now... The only thing that i can do is to pray reeaal hard to be able to pass the course as i donot have much time to spare for repeating any courses. One more port folio to go... Just work hard and try to make sure that my port folio meets the lecturer's requirements....

Assignment 3

This assignment had help me think and plan carefully lessons to teach a topic for a week by working on all four skills which is listening, speaking, writing and reading. It was indeed quite a hard one as I have no idea what is there that i can do that much with the topic 'Food'.

After looking through several workbooks and activity books for young learners and not to forget some help from my seniors and friends, i finally came out with a few ideas what do i need to do with my lessons....

I was easy to type out all the lesson plan but my problem was with the printing part.... OMG!!! I just got a new rim of A4 paper and new cartridge for my printer... Half of my paper was gone because i needed to print out a lot of visual aids and tutorials for developing my materials... It was a hard time for me printing all those.... What to do? My printer is not a laser printer... It is too slow....

Finally, the assingment is compiled with my other group members and it is handed in.... Phew..... Blood pressure back to normal now.....

Assignment 2

At last, I am able to shout out load to the world that i had completed my second assignment in time!!!
Wait a minute, still too early to be happy... The assignment is not handed in yet....

I tried my very best to apply knowledge and skills that i had been learning throughout the semester like editing videos, editing audio downloading software and using it to convert files from one format to another... So I thought that it would be good if i am able to add in the latest technologies in teaching aids which is the SMARTboard as it has several features that are cannot be found in conventional power point presentations.

I got permission from my lecturer and start working on my E-book which is done on SMARTboard. Happily working on the assignment and feeling very satisfied that i had put an effort on my assignment as i always do last minute work but I started working on it more than a week before the due date!! I am proud of myself! =P

Sadly, I found out from my lecturer that my assignment is not accepted because it does not use the conventional software such as microsoft office.... Disappointed as all my effort on the assignment is dumped into South China Sea... I wonder secretly if it will find its way to Selangau so that schools there can adopt my work in their teaching and learning? Looks like my imaginations are going to far.... What to do? Just hope for the best and prepare for the worst...

Pray hard for me that i don't need to repeat this course!!

Moral of the lesson:Play safe with conventional stuff around and don't try anything new in assignments...