~Life where Module begins~

In this week's class, we were given self-preparation from last week's class on the coming module, which was the 1st module. Well, luckily all the modules were not complete yet. So, we were given only the first module first to complete. Guess what? The thick 1st module had to be completed in two weeks time! I wonder if I could finish all of it but I'm certainly going to try my best. So here I am, almost 1 am, but I'm here writing this blog because I had to rush all the tutorials for 1st module. Hopefully I could finish it soon...

Well, all these work were actually to train us, who were the future leaders to be techno-savvy in finding resources or teaching aids using technological tools like internet, different kinds of downloaders and so on.. All these were actually to equipped us to be able to master all the tools before we graduated and off to teach in school.

Well, it was not a bad idea actually. Although the work would be hectic and tiring, the outcomes would certainly be satisfying.. So, let's just do our best and let our skills developed and expanded! That's all for today. =)

Cooperation in Pair Work

In this week’s lesson, Pn. Foziah started the class with the excitement of graduation event that had just recently passed. One advice from her was that to study well so that in the next two years, she would be able to see all of us graduating as well. Then, we were back to real business. This lesson’s task was to find a pair, which consisted of a male and female student so as to make the pairing balance. Then, each pair was given three topics based on the Primary school syllabus.

My given topics were Year 4- Looking Good, Year 5- Travel and Adventure and Year 6- I’m Proud to be Malaysian. What my pair and I needed to do was to find as many technology’s teaching aids as possible for example like songs, videos, flash cards, games, stories and so on. This task was given as a preparation for our assignments yet to come. So, here were some examples of software used to search for my assignments.

Through this task, I learnt that communication was vital in making sure that each of us understood what we had discussed and planned. Then, from there, cooperation with my partner took part. Cooperation was very important as it assisted us in guiding and helping each other. Without the spirit of cooperation, we would not be able to produce a good quality task and pass it up on time.

All in all, this task had taught me many things, not only finding for teaching aids but also in terms of the value of group work.

Exploration in Learning

Today Puan Foziah started the class with the continuation of last week’s presentations on the topic, ‘Working with Young Learners’. By listening to my friends’ presentation, I gained an insight that students do really enjoy play and fun in their learning. Well, when I talked about ‘play’ and ‘fun’, many people might have a mindset like ‘WHAT? Go to school just to play and enjoy?’. Well, play was actually a biological, psychological and social necessity that leaded to healthy development. Hence, what I had actually gotten from this topic was that children could have enjoyment in their lesson as it was part of their indirect learning. Children actually engaged in many indirect learning, either in or outside the school through real life situations, play and fun.

Besides, another presentation of my friends talked about children’s creative use of limited language resources. In here, I could see that children actually did learn and that they were very creative with the grammatical forms. They knew on how to use the language, but somehow just confused with the forms. For example, ‘Don’t unring me. I’m not around’ or ‘Switch off the dark’. This showed that students could use the language but the usage was very limited. Hence, the role of teacher was very important as he/ she played an important element in prompting the students to understand better.

Moreover, another suggestion for students’ learning would be the imaginative play.

This was whereby students indulged in make-believe play. Through this, they would be able to practice their usage of proper language while engaging themselves in self-dialogue. For example, in make-believe play with friends, children would use language like, ‘How much would a muffin costs?’ and so on. This helped children to practice language as if in a real life situation. Hence, it acted as a basic foundation to prepare students for daily life conversation.

Well, all this of course, would be useless if the element teacher was not there. Hence, teacher needed to play their part in assisting them as well so that students would not side-tracked or go astray from their learning. That was why Pn. Foziah emphasized on the role of teachers in teaching and guiding the students.

After the presentations, Pn. Foziah again, brought us to a new exploration. We were asked to search and download songs and videos from any downloader, except from youtube. After letting us to explore on our own, we were then introduced to a downloader called ‘MOYEA’.

This moyea was a fast and efficient downloader.

Hence, our task for today was to find Shakira’s World Cup song, download it, together with video and lyrics. We could also add on any additional songs that we like but we needed to state out the steps on how we downloaded them one by one on powerpoint. This was to show our understanding and skill on how to download them.

Pn. Foziah then, patiently and slowly guided us on how to write out the steps and so on. This helped to make our work easier as every step was guided by her. So, today’s lesson was indeed very interesting and I wish to explore more of it. So, I better get going. Bye!

Working With Young Learners

This was the third week and the third lesson for this course. This time, Pn. Foziah had used Constructivist approach to teach my class, whereby we were told to construct our own learning with the guidance of lecturer as a facilitator. Well, today’s lesson started with a short introduction by our beloved lecturer. After that, we were asked to form into seven groups, whereby each group was given a subtopic, based on the main topic of ‘Working with Young Learners’. This was introduced to my class because we would be future-teachers, and sooner or later, we would have to deal with children in classroom. So, this topic was actually a preparation given by Pn. Foziah to build our foundation. Hence, every lesson in this course was really vital in shaping our lives in becoming good, creative and innovative teachers in future.

Thus, the task for today was to discuss the topic given, explain explain it in a powerpoint show and then present the knowledge that we knew to the class. Each group was given one hour to do the task and members were each assigned with different roles. For example, for my group, my leader had assigned three of my friends to find the information on the internet after our discussion, while one would type out the powerpoint slides and another became the helper of the typer and lastly, the leader guided and controlled the situation to make sure that everything was organized and in their place.

Through this type of group works, I felt that I could learn better. During the discussion with my member about the subtopic, ‘1.3: Children’s Capacity in Indirect Learning’, I could feel the bondage between my members and I while we were doing our work. I learnt that in a group discussion, team work and cooperation were very important. With good team work, we were able to produce a good piece of presentation. This of course came with a rule, whereby no member should be a passenger as it would delay the progress of work. But this did not happen in my group as everyone was eager to participate and excited in making the slides presentation a successful one.

Through my presentation, I had learnt that there were many methods in conducting indirect learning. My group had presented this subtopic based on 3 questions, which were ‘Why children need to have indirect learning?’, ‘What are the types of indirect learning activities?’ and lastly, ‘How children indulge into indirect learning?’. Based on these questions, we came to know that children love and learn better through guessing game like Charade, Hangman, Blind Game and also not to forget, language games like Broken telephone, Scrabble, Crossword Puzzles and many more exciting activities. As a future teacher, I had to know the existence of indirect learning so as to be able to promote students’ learning and also to bring them into independent learning through discussion and full involvement in throughout the activities or lessons.

Today I had learnt not only from my group but as well on other group’s presentation. Through presentations, I was able to absorb more information into my brain through the main points being pointed out by my friends from other groups. Besides that, we had feedbacks from the listener on how well we did our part. Their feedbacks showed on how well they had grasped on what we had been presenting.

Hence, all in all, this lesson was a meaningful one as it taught me things that I should have known as a future teacher. The feedbacks given also helped me to improve on my presentation and skills in becoming a good, systematic leader in future. So, I am here looking forward to the next class. That was all for today.

Introduction of the Course

Today’s lesson gave me an introduction on what this course was all about. With a fresh mind, I learnt that in order to become a good teacher, I needed to be resourceful in not only finding information online but also learning to search for exciting learning materials for my future lesson. Through this lesson, I gained an insight on the importance of being a media-saturated person by always keeping myself updated with the latest information and ideas.

The purpose of this course was to teach me on how to get resources from the media and the application of different types of software to obtain materials for teaching and learning in pupils’ classroom. Besides, in this lesson, I was required to have a blog, which helped me to keep a list of my own reflections and also keep a public view to others on what I have been doing and achieved throughout this course.

I personally believed that this was indeed a great idea as I believed that the education world today needed to be collaborated with the advancement of technology. So, in order to equip myself, firstly Pn. Foziah taught my class on touch typing. Have you heard about it? Well, it was my first time to hear about touch typing. So, you could imagine how ‘out-dated’ I was. It was actually learning how to type using the keyboard, by placing the fingers at the correct keys.

Then, I also needed to have the correct sitting posture in order to type well.


Well, it was a good start for me as after all the years, now I realized that I was typing the wrong way. So, I would like to give a big applause to Pn. Foziah. Then, I was again introduced to Window Sky Drive. Well, not to mention of the knowledge that I had, it was again a new thing to me. So, particularly, in this lesson, I had learnt many things. So, I believed that this course would be able to help me to become a techno-savvy future teacher.

Moreover, Pn. Foziah had also briefed my class on the five modules that we would be doing this semester. The five modules were internet and computing skill, photo editing, audio editing, video editing and lastly software for ELT (English language teaching). Pn Foziah mentioned that it would be useful to equip myself well with this course as it could help me in my future teaching and lesson planning. She said that we should not only view ourselves as normal teachers but must always update ourselves and have the initiative to go into higher learning like Master or PHD in order to have more knowledge in life.

All in all, it was indeed an eye-opener for me as this course could help me to become a better, globalised teacher in future. Today’s lesson had indeed ignited a passion in me to explore more about this course.

First Day of Class

Today was the first week and the first day of my ‘Using and Developing Resources in Primary Classroom’ course. Well, by looking at the title of the course had already brightened my curiosity on what this course might bring. As this was the first day in class, the anxious feeling came to my nerves even before the lecture started. Well, it was not because I was scared but it was because I was excited on what the lesson may bring me. The lecturer for this course was Puan Foziah. I was greeted by her smile and warmth when she first spoke. She was indeed a person of the intelligence as this course was not an easy course. It involved using the modern technology of this globalization era to find and search for the best resources and materials for school teaching and learning.

Well, first day in class was not much a burden as I was not given any homework except three tasks that needed to be completed during the weekend. The three tasks were :

1) Create a blog





2) Get a 8gb pendrive





3) Install Photoshop CS3 in laptop




One last thing was that I was told to think about my own expectations for this course. After much thinking, my expectations for this course were to learn as much knowledge as I could so that I could be a techno-savvy future teacher and I also hoped that I would be able to master the use of technology that was available and be able to be creative and innovative in searching and creating new resources for my teaching materials in future.