Day went by so fast and now it’s already second week. There were a lot of things that happened in this week where we were assigned with a lot of tasks that need to done and handed in shortly such as PowerPoint presentations, assignments and so on. These tasks are for subjects such as Linguistics for Language Teachers (Madam Ira), Learners Strategies (Madam Hairani), Teaching Profession (Mr.Ranjit) and Educational Technology (Mr.Sarihan). I am pretty sure that this semester is going to be the toughest semester compared to the previous semesters so it really requires our perseverance and determination since we have no choice but just to endure it patiently.
For Educational Technology, Mr.Sarihan has entered the class and gave us few important inputs about this subject. He has explained to us in details on how technology benefits teachers and students and also our roles as future teachers in order to be able to utilize technology fully in our teaching later on. Besides, he also mentioned something about the importance of Web 2.0 which really plays an important role in this modern world. The examples of Web 2.0 including social networking such as Facebook, Blog, Twitter, MySpace and so on which are now among the most popular websites among the teenagers. I personally agree that Web 2.0 really gives us a lot of benefits but we must not misuse it for wrong purposes because it can cause negative consequences to ourselves. For example, for those students who have their own facebook account would might spend most of their time chatting with their friends rather than doing their homework or use facebook to discuss with their friends about academic stuff. In my opinion, the introduction of Web 2.0 has its own advantages and disadvantages depending on how a person perceives it.
Coming back to the main topic which is about the things that I have learned this particular week where I learned how to create videos used to teach students. I think this is one of my favorites lessons in this subject as I like to deal with graphics, animation and video editing. In relation to that, our lecturer has asked us to work in groups of 5 and come up with a video that will be used in the teaching and learning processes. For this particular task, I worked with Nigel Lawai Willie, Norhilman Bin Hussin, Josman Ghani Ak Robert and Vanessa Cordilia Ak Paterson. In order to complete this task, we have discussed with each other on what are we going to put inside our videclip and also the topic of our videoclip which must be based on the Form 2 syllabus. We chose Adjectives as our topic and our videoclip will be more on how to teach adjectives to the Form 2 students. In addition to that, we have also borrowed the Form 2 textbook from the library to get a good grasp about the syllabus. Apart from that, we have also recorded our own voices to be included inside our videoclip and also a short presentation where we sang “Dan Sebenarnya” by Yuna but we have translated the lyrics into English Language so that it would be more appropriate. This videoclip needs to presented on Monday. Throughout the process of completing this task, I learned about collaboration and cooperation skills when working in a group. Besides, I also learned on how to improve my social skills especially when it comes to a group discussion.
In short, the tasks that have been assigned to us encouraged me to be more diligent and put a lot of effort in making sure that the tasks are done successfully and I hope I would manage to get more opportunities to improve my weaknesses in the coming weeks ahead.
Happy learning everyone!!! and
Have a nice day!!!!
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