Reflection 8

Salam,

Last week was like heaven for me. It was holiday. The best part was that I went back home and spent my holiday to the fullest with my loved ones. To tell you the truth, a week holiday is not enough for me but yet I am still grateful to be able to be home.

 Let’s just drop the subject and move to our prime business. For Educational Technologies, we are working on our very last assignment which is group assignment- the article review. There were five of us in a group, Barbara Kath Anak Nipo, Halil bin Siri, Khatika Ho and Muhammad Haziq Fahmi bin Iberahim. Honestly, this assignment was the toughest of all assignments given.

Basically, we were told to come out with a critical review based on the topic Web 2.0 in Education. This topic is not something new to us anymore as we have learnt about it in our previous semester with Mr. Fariduddin Wajdi Anthony. This topic is actually very interesting and very important for us as future teachers to really internalise it in deeper.

 We have had quite hard time in getting the article review done as some of us went home for holiday and some were not home. However, we have delegated the tasks fair and square among all of us. So, everybody did give their contribution and was indeed very helpful in getting the job done.

Before I pen off, once again I would like to thank my group members who have been really helpful and willing to lend their hands in getting this job done. Not forgetting, a bunch of thanks to our lecturer, Mr. Sarihan as well for giving all the guidance to us.

 Thank you!

Reflection 7

Salam,

Time passes by just in a blink of an eye and it simply means that new week has come. New week signifies new learning lesson and new learning lesson just simply means that I have to come out with a brand new reflection.

 So, for this particular week, we were asked to present our ASSURE Model Lesson Plan and video presentation. Frankly speaking, we have had such a very hard time to come out with the lesson plan as it has to be based on the ASSURE Model one. Besides, we also required to edit our previous video presentation where we have added in few things here and there so that the video becomes more interesting and comprehensive.

It was such a huge relief to finally finish up with the presentation. Honestly, there are lots of things that my group members and I have learnt throughout the preparation time. We now realise that it is crucial to integrate the use of technology, such as the video in our teaching and learning process so that we as teachers are able to attract students’ attention.

 However, from the presentation, we also learned that teaching is not solely based on what topic that you as a teacher plan to teach about. It is about how you are able to tackle the diverse needs of your students. Students differ from their background, cultures, needs, abilities and so on. Therefore, it is really fundamental for a teacher in particular response to able to incorporate the multiple intelligence skills in their teaching and learning process in order to address this diversity.

As a conclusion, this assignment has taught me a lot especially things related to ICT. I really am so grateful to be able to work with such helpful and dedicated friends. A token of appreciation I would like to bid to my group members Barbara Kath Anak Nipo, Halil bin Siri, Muhammad Haziq Fahmi bin Iberahim and Khatika Ho. They were indeed very helpful in making sure that we came out with a very good product of output.

Thank you!