Reflection 6

Salam,

This week, we have been bombarded with tonnes of works. With the deadlines are just about to come to an end, we are still busy with a lot of sort of works! For this entire week, we have been focusing on our Drama Workshop which is actually a part of our community service.

Nevertheless, I really am so grateful that we managed to carry out the workshop with triumph. Everybody had put in a lot of effort in making it a big success even though at the end of the end everybody was worn out and frazzled.

We have learnt a lot of things throughout the 2 –day workshop. We shared a lot of new ideas, opinions, knowledge and so forth. We were hoping that the participants gained if not all, few things that we have imparted throughout the whole drama workshop. It was indeed such a very meaningful learning experience for everyone who involved in the workshop.

Even though we were busy with the drama workshop, we did not even forget to get our assignments done as well. I believe this is just a mundane life as a student where those with strong courage will only survive at the end of the day. By hook or by crook, I have to get my works done despite feeling very exasperated. The task that awaits us for next week is our video presentation of teaching and learning English as second language using multimedia.

However, frankly speaking, there is a whole long list of work-to-be-done has been listed in my note book which needs to be done before the end of this semester. Fingers crossed; hope everything will go as planned.

Thank you! 

Reflection 5

Salam,

It is time for me to keep my blog updated! Well, for my fifth reflection, it is about our first individual assignment which is our blog presentation. Before I move on with my topic for this week, I would like to share some interesting things that have been going on for the past few weeks. Last week, everybody has been busy as our institute was responsible to become the host for the ‘Pertandingan Drama Piala Ketua Menteri’. So, most of the lecturers were very busy with their very own tasks and some of us also were quite busy with some given tasks as well.

Let us get back to our main business. As I aforementioned, this week we were supposed to present our blog-a part of our individual assignment. Everybody was given about more or less than 5 minutes to present their blogs. I shall say I am really impressed by the blogs shown. 

As for my blog, well I have come out with a very simple one, since I am not really fond of creating a blog in the first place. But what matter the most is the content-the reflections. So, what do I have in my blog? Firstly, of course I have my weekly reflections. Then, there is music player which I purposely put it in the blog so that I can tune in to it once I get bored of posting my reflection. In addition, there is also a chat box which can be used by any visitor in case if they want to chat or discuss some issues. Last but not least, there are few other things that are basically already in the blog such as the blog archive, follower, about me section and so forth.

After we have done with our blog presentation, then we were given another new task which is supposed to be done in a group work and be presented the week after. I guess it is not a big deal as it is a group work.

Thank you!

Reflection 4

Salam,

First of all, sorry for not being able to keep my blog updated week by week. Well, I have been keeping myself really busy with lots and lots of works. Let us get back to what I have learnt from the previous weeks of lectures. In the fourth week of lecture, we were taught about the Instructional Models-ASSURE model to be specific.

We have done with our video presentation which was actually a part of our assessments. So, this week, I have learnt about ASSURE model which I believe is an effective model which can be incorporate in designing lesson plans. This will ensure that the lesson plans will be more interesting, attractive and more importantly will address the needs of diverse students in the class.

 One thing that really grasps my attention is that in order to make the lesson plans become more interesting, a teacher should integrate the use of ICT in their teaching and learning process. As an illustration, our previous video presentation is actually one of the means that can be used to be integrated in our teaching and learning process. A teacher should not only use text book perse but also should able to add in the use of ICT so that the students become more interested in learning something new.

I personally think that, students nowadays are more into things that are related to technology. In fact, I believe that their command of using technology might be much better than some of the teachers. Thus, it is really fundamental for us as a teacher to keep enhancing our ICT knowledge so that we can make use of technology to the fullest.

Thank you!