After we have completed our short semester(Semester 3b), now we are having our new semester which is semester 2. In this semester, we are taking four subjects that we will be learning througout this semester namely Linguistics for Language Teacher, Learners Strategies, Teaching Profession, Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia(TITAS) and Educational Technology. I personally believe that these subjects are very tough than what we had on the previous semester since they are more to thereotical kind of subjects which require us to read extensively. Thus, we need to put a lot of effort in order to be able to master all the subjects very well. I am so afraid that I might be facing problems in coping with these subjects in terms of understanding the concepts of it but I hope that I can make it easily.
For Educational Technology, our who will be teaching us is Mr. Norsarihan Ahmad and we have attended his classes in this week. For the first lecture, he just explained to us briefly about the introduction of the course such as what is educational technology all about, types of assessments, lecture hours and so on. From this lecture, I managed to get a general idea on what we are going to learn in this subject. Actually, this subject is quite similar with the GGGE1155 Computer In Education which we have already taken last semester but I do not know why we were asked to take this Educational Technology subject again. I think maybe the reason why they do so is that they want to emphasize more on the importance of technology in our education system since our education system now is evolving so Chalk and Board technique is really effective in improving and enhancing our education system. Thus, we as future teachers should be internalized with all these skills or knowledge in order to be able to impart them to our students later on.
He also told us about the assignments that we need to complete and get it done before we sit for the exam. Basically, the assignments were divided into two parts which is indvidual assignment and group assignment. When I looked at the questions I was so shocked that the tasks that we need to do in this particular subject are even harder than the one in the Computer In Education subject. So for the group work, we have already divided ourselves into few groups so that it would be easier for us to get the tasks done. One sad thing that really made me feel so depress is that we need to create a new blog again for this subject and we also need to write reflections for every week but I did not take it negatively besides, I perceived it from the positive side. I am in complete agreement that writing reflections would help me to improve my writing skills and thinking skills.
On Thursday, 15th September 2011, our lecturer has taught us about few topics on how technology help TESL teacher and its importance in our education system. Generally, I managed to get a good grasp of it even though it was the first lecture that I have attended for his class. Besides, we were also asked to create our own blog as I have mentioned just now,design it based on our own creativity, complete ouur profile, upload podcast in our blog and create our own wikispace. Just imagine, a first lecture with thousands of tasks have been assigned to us and I do not know what would happen in the few months ahead.
As a start, I tried to get all the tasks that have been assigned to us for this particular week done so that it will not give too much burden to me. I will try my best to finish my tasks on time every time when we are given work or tasks by our lecturer.
I think thats all for this very first week and more reflections will come soon and hopefully it would not burden me too much. Happy reading my reflections and happy learning!!!
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