3rd Week

It's the third week and it kick off with the 1st chapter of our textbook - Working With Young Language Learners. We were divided into groups and each of the groups was assigned with a particular topic. What I would like to share is the experience going through the group discussion. We divided our work evenly and share our findings. Through sharing, we managed to get a handful of information regarding the topics that we were assigned to. So what i would like to stress here is the importance of sharing information with friends. Through sharing, we will be able to gain extra knowledge.

When we were presenting, we received comments and feedback from the lecturer and also from our friends. These feedback will definitely be helpful in our future presentation besides helping us to be a better presenter in the future.

Besides that I think we should integrate technology into our lesson. By doing so we will be able to make the learning process interesting and attract the students attention to learn.

A successful lesson is when the pupils understand what the teacher is teaching.

2nd Week

For this week, we were exposed to the course background and what are expected from us. We were told that there are few modules that we need to complete in this course such as audio editing, video editing, picture editing etc. After completing these modules we will be able to produce teaching aids hopefully of capturing the children’s attention.

Besides that, we were also introduce to skydrive. This is the place where we can share our documents with our friends. We can upload the document to our sky drive and share it with the rest of our friends. Here I realize the importance of technology nowadays. With technology we can share information with our friends without difficulties.

The lecturer also shows us a sample of our senior’s work. I was quite impressed on the assignment shown to us. The assignment was well organized and beautiful. To be able to produce such a wonderful portfolio will require hardwork and paying full attention during classes. Hope that I will be able to produce such wonderful assignment.

We were also introduce to moyea software, which enable us to download videos from youtube. I find that this is a very useful software as I can download the videos from youtube in just a few seconds. Previously, I had never heard of this software but now after this week lecture, I had tried to download a lot of videos via moyea youtube downloader.

1st week

Teoh Jen Sen PEH080069

Its a new semester, a new start. We were introduce to PBEY3102 which is Using and Developing Resources for ESL Classroom. Pn. Foziah bt. Mahmood is taking charge of this course. Straight to the point she is technology savvy, even some of the program mentioned by her have never been heard by me. Anyway she is warm and friendly with us.

She set us a few task such as

i) to install the Adobe Photoshop CS3,

ii) to buy an 8GB pen drive to be used in this course

iii) to create this blog.

The purpose of this blog is for academic purposes. I am looking forward in discovering more about this course. From time to time i will update this blog.

Till then..