REFLECTION WEEK 9

           

  

         This week was such a wonderful and exciting week since I had a great time from some of the events that were going around in this institute such as annual dinner, the election of the JPP and also our choir performance during the dinner which I think the most valuable experience in my life. Indulging myself in those activities and events have given me the chance to learn new things especially the choir and at the same time helped me to reduce my stress. Many people came during the annual dinner which was held at the ballroom at Mega Hotel, Miri and each one was wearing their own beatiful and fashionable costumes. The event started at 7.3opm until 11.30pm and it was officiated by the Director of IPGKS, Madam Hajah Nuri Binti Udin. There were so many performances during the annual dinner such as contemporary dancing, singing performance and also our choir. It seemed that all of the students and lecturers have enjoyed watching all of the performances including our performance. I hope that we will this kind of enjoyable moment next year.

       Meanwhile, within this week we had no classes to attend since all of our lecturers have gone for several affairs and for that reason, we were asked to use that time to do our assignments and so on. I used most of my time to finish up my assignments in order to make sure that i would be able to complete them before the holiday. I realize that being a teacher trainee is not an easy thing to ponder about as we need to really internalize the skills and real attitude as a teacher including the way we think, speak and walk. If we are not aware of all these things, we would end up as an ineffective teacher. On the other hand, for Educational Technology, our lecturer, Mr. Sarihan just asked us to use our free time to carry on with our assignment on article review which will need to be handed in shortly. My group has finally finished after each and everyone of my group member has put a lot effort in completing their own parts of questions. 

       In addition to that, we were also asked to prepare a powerpoint presentation on our article review and we have presented it on Friday.  Initially, i was so scared to present our powerpoint since our lecturer has asked many questions to the previous group and that's why I scared if he do the same thing to our group but at last i managed to control my emotion and be more confident when i was presenting my part. When i was presenting, i tried to explain my points clearly and confidently so that my lecturer and my friends will understand it even though i know that I am not good enough in oral presentation but i believe that there is always a room for improvement for each and everyone of us. I am so grateful because after we had finished our presentation, our lecturer has only asked few questions compared to the previous group and all the questions that he asked have been answered correctly by my group members and I. After giving some comments on our article review presentation we decided to edit our essay so that it would be more organized and flawless.

      So, that's what basically happened in this week. Wait for my next reflection and i could not wait for the year-end holiday which is on the next week .:)

       

REFLECTION WEEK 8

          

                                                                 

        We have attended lectures after a week of break (Deepavali Holiday) and it is undeniable that we were still in the holiday mood especially for those who went back home during the holiday. As usual we we spent most of our times in the classroom to do our tons of assignments since some of the lecturers were not around such as Madam Ira, Mr. Sarihan and Madam Hairani, so they just asked us to use that time to work on our assignments.  I am so happy and grateful for being able to finish up some of my assignments and some have not been completed yet. The most tiring day was on the friday where we attended for the TITAS lecture for about 6 hours which started from 3.00pm until 8.00 pm luckily we had some tasks to do during the lecture which was to present our TITAS assignment. 

         Meanwhile, there were also some events that were going around in this institute during this particular week such as talks on Gagasan 1 Malaysia, BSN and so on. We attended for the talks just to learn something new and to gain meaningful experiences. Not only that, my friends and I were so busy with our choir practice for the annual dinner which will be held shortly which is on the next week. This is to brush up our performance and aso to make sure that we are able to perform well during the upcoming dinner. I had such a great time during the choir practice as I managed to mingle around with different students from othe classes and got to know them all and had a nice conversation with them. They were so friendly and easy to communicate with especially the new juniors who also join our choir team. Besides, this will also help me to improve my social skills and the importance of making friends regardless of their race, religion and so on.

       For Educational Technology, our lecturer was not around in the institute but he has assigned us to use the free time to do our assignment. Our assignment for this subject which is the last assignment that need to be completed is to write an article review about any topic which is related to educational technology issue and we decided to choose Web 2.0 as our topic. We have already divided the tasks to each of our group member. For that particular assignment, we were required to find different information from different sources such as journal, book, magazine, newspapers and encyclopedia. Even though the topic that we have chosen was quite vague and for the fact that its too general so we have narrowed it down to the implication of web 2.0 on the education 1.0. Not only that, our lecturer also asked us to update our respective blog by posting our own reflections for every single week. 

      I think those are basically the things that were going on in this week, so wait for my next reflection next week!!! Happy Learning and Have a nice saturday morning!!!

      

                                                                               

 
     

REFLECTION WEEK 7

                                         Week 7- Deepavali Holiday

         After having 6 weeks of interaction hours, finally we managed to get some rest in this particular week where a week of holiday was given to us in conjunction with the Deepavali celebration. Some of my classmates went back to their own hometown on the 21st  October 2011 and 22nd October 2011 since all this while we were suffering with terrible homesickness. Unfortunately, I did not go back to my beloved hometown at Kota Marudu, Sabah during this holiday because the flight ticket was so expensive and besides the year-end holiday is coming soon and I would rather go back during that particular holiday which is on the 19th November 2011 until 2nd October 2011 so that I would not waste too much of my money. Altough, it was very upsetting to see the others dragging their own luggage to go back to their own homes, but I tried to control my feelings and sometimes my tears just falling down on my cheek. Everyone of us miss our parents right?? and I myself too and for that reason I called my parents everyday within this week to ask them how are they doing and so on.

       Maybe the holiday was too short for the others but for me it was too long because I spent most of the time by staying alone in my room and it was so boring that I almost wanted to go insan. Luckily, some of my juniors went to my room to accompany me and we had some conversations with each other. The worst thing is that we were showered with tons of assignments to be completed for all of the subjects. The worst of all is that we need to hand them in next week.Perhaps, some of my classmates did not have time to spend their holiday with full of enjoyment because of completing their assignments. In order to fulfill my free times during the holiday, I decided to start working on my assignments and I managed to complete the Teaching Profession's assignment, Linguistics' assignment and TITAS. I was so happy for being able to motivate myself in doing my work as to avoid myself from procrastinating my work and I am still in the process of getting rid with that behaviour. 

        Meanwhile, for Educational Technology's assignment, we were asked to write an article review based on any articles which is related to Educational Technology subject. The information in the article review must be from 10 different sources and consists about 15-20 page. For this assignment, Nigel Lawai Willie, Norhilman Bin Hussin, Josman Ghani Ak Robert, Vanessa Cordilia Ak Paterson and me were in the same group. Before we start doing this assignment, we have discussed with each other to choose the topic for our article review assignment and finally we came to a consensus to choose Web 2.0 as our topic. The reason why we chose that topic is that we already familiar with that topic during our Computer In Education last semester. I think we have been exposed widely about this topic so it would be easier for us to write our article review.

        Last but not least, I would like to dedicate my warmest Happy Deepavali greetings to all of Malaysian citizens who are celebrating deepavali. Have Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)