LaST WeeK...

The semester has come to an end and this is our last week of the course..
I learnt a lot in this course regarding things on the net.
About blogging, i learnt a lot, and what do i like most is the fact that you can share your opinions and drop by at your friend's post to give comments. However, what i dislike is that the post were all narrowed to the subject of ONLY reflecting the studies and not to actually relieve our tense and steam...

I gained a lot of knowledge from blogging, i learnt how to edit pictures and link to websites, i also learnt about to make interesting layout and change the settings.

Talkking about the course, i had a great time finding new things that can be integrated between technology and resources, working in groups and learning new topics.
What i dislike are the fact we were grouped by the lecturer and not by ourselves. the reason is some of staying in different part of KL and tend to having hard time to meeet for discussion. End up, there were no meaning of group discussion, as we do not really gather and discuss, we merely do our own part and just attached it to amke a whole and submit it on the due date. there were no group working at all.

Another thing is that the fact that there were too many tasks and assignments bombarding us at the same time, i tend to get confuse which to give more focus. Thus, the tsasks which suppose to help us to improve became like a buredn to us to finish on time. we were more to finish it up in a rush rather than learning from it.

I have learnt a lot of things from the course, such as blogging, photo editing, video and audio editing and all the things regarding technology. Of course i din't expect myself to be good in doing all these things, but now i found myself capable of editing, encoding and decoding, thanx to my friend who were always there to tell me what to do and to guide me.

What i wanted to learnt but did not get a chance would be the trraditional method as i did not really get a chance to do anything traditionally, all the resources were more to technology.

But i learnt a lot and thanx for a ll the knowledge!!

TQ..

CoLLaGe

Greetings..
In order to make collage, i went through an interesting time..
i alwz wonder how they had actualy manage to have time to do this collage.. It seems to be so difficult, however, i manage to do the collage within 5 to 10 minutes..Of course my collage was simpler than those you will bump into on the net..but what i am trying to say here is that, it is not hard.. but you have to be sure of what software you are using. I used, photoscape..everything was there and i only need to drag the pictures to the ready made frames and done!
It is interesting easy and fast!

Technology does make things work easier and faster. i really appreciate it and admire those who have genius ideas to come up with softwares as such which makes your life easier..

Don't wait long, go n try yourself!

Four Skills

Greetings..


I have totally forgotten to reflect about the assignmnets on the four skills that we had done. the assignmnets which were actually quite hectic and strssfull (due to the load and criteria that have to be achieved), had actualy became an eye-opener to me that not all teaching materials need ot be technology. It was very hard for me ( i am not sure how others feel) to think about good teaching materials that can integrate technology. This is because the lesson plan is only a half an hour lesson plan (except for writing of course). in half an hour, thinking of setting up the laptop, Lcd, projectors, smartboard had actually give me an idea of thre goes half an hour burned just to set up those things. I didn't mean to say that it is not good to integrate technology as it is actually fun and interesting to use the technology. i believe personally that integrating technology will actually stimulate the interest of the pupils towards the learning of the day. However, i do think that the traditional will be more practical due to the time consume. we can still make use of paper, pencils, newspaper, brochure, magazines and so on to make the pupils drawn to the teaching and learning. it depends on how we manipulate those interesting resources. it does not only save time but it appeals to the daily life approach as well.
Thus, i tried my best to integrate both technology and non-technology resources in my four lesson plans of different skills. i do hope that those lesson plans will be very useful for those who would like to use it for their teaching practice. i really do hope to get back the lesson plan so that i can try it out in schools later when i go for teaching practice in order to access which is more efficient... hope you guys try yours as well..(no point you put so much effort PLANNING how to do a lesson plan but NOT CARRYING it out) Good Luck!!

Ways to Integrate Technology iN classroom

All teachers and students who face the daunting challenge of integrating the many facets of computer technology into their daily lessons. Computer usage goes well beyond simple word processing and games. In business, computers are indispensable productivity and presentation tools. The Internet provides new modes of communication, easy access to vast information and multi-media resources, and allows us to become instant publishers.

Powerpoint is a presentation tool that makes it easy to combine text, graphics, charts, sound clips, ideas, data, and all sorts of information into interesting and effective graphical slides, handouts, or web pages. Teachers can create interesting and interactive lessons that can be easily modified. Students can design and present research projects in a new and exciting format and learn more about computer usage and applications.

Hyperstudio is a software package for creating your own multimedia projects and presentations. It is designed for non-technical users and supports color, live recording of sounds, animation, Quicktime, laserdisc, and CD-ROM.

Placing documents on the web is a new and exciting format for publishing documents. You can produce creative web sites using plain HTML or any web publishing software appropriate to your ability and skill level. Teachers can design web sites that contain their assignments for the week, goals for the year and pictures of their classroom. Designing a web site could be a year long activity for an entire class. Included below are some popular web designing software programs.

Thus, i learnt that there are many ways to integrate technology inot he teaching learning. what matter is how you are exploiting it. The way that you maximize the usage of the software actually reflects your intelligence in integraating hte technology. Well, i hope that i am intelligent enough to manipulate all what i have learnt in this course in order to produce a good teaching and learning packages for my future students in schools!!

Resources...

Greetings..

Resources are available in two different categories; technology and non-technology. Both are have the pros and cons. It is not denied that both are useful for the teaching and learning. Having a hectic time and hard time in managing tasks, materials and learning, an e-book will be handy enough for one to be systematic. An e-book contais everything and is linked to the previous page and next page. It can also be linked to the home page and the best is you can link ot the website that you wanted to enter. Having tedious of works and piles of tasks, e-book atually manage your working style.
However, if e-book is the only accessible item that you have, then you are sensing trouble if there is a sudden power cut or blackout in hte school when you are at the peak of presenting an important message using an e-book. the traditional method will come to save the day. this is why having a back-up is like having a saviour for the day. Thus, both materials ; technology and non-technology can be integrated with one another in orer to have a seccessful teaching resources.

FiNiShed..Yet HaVeNT>>>

Greetings.. I was very happy to know that the exam was done before Deepavali..giving me a great relief that i do not nee to think hard and tense myself about the exam. everything ends before my festival of lights..then this portfolio assignments coming..knowing nothing about it, now i am really pressured to do all the work in rush before i catch my flight on only TWO days before Deepavali..haih!! I do hope my work done for this portfolio would nopt be wasted or thrown away as i will be very sad to see my effort settling in the rubbish bin. i do hope that this portfolio will not be used to BENEFIT others. Thank you for everything and even though i am stil not clear about being a techno savvy, i had a great experience working with people i trust and i REALLY LEARNT a lot!!