The submission of assignment 3 and THANK YOU MA'AM

This was the last week of this particular semester. This week was the time for us to submit assignment 3 which was the compilation of one week English lesson plans.

Thank God, ma'am gave us time one hour to 'wrap up' all things which was undone. So, we used the time perfectly to combine all the works form each and every group members and we went to bind the assignment neatly.

We felt so glad that at last we submitted this piece of work form us as a group as we poured quite an endeavor to make certain that this assignment is a success. In this assignment, there were loads of discussions and hardwork integrated. There were loads of interesting activities, games and teaching material embedded in this package of one week lesson plan.

We also provide some comments and justification about the lesson plan done so that it will be clearer to be used. So, in this assignment, i can see the link of the previous assignment as we need to integrate the skills and knowledge that we gained in order to prepare teaching aids to suit with lesson plans.

Therefore, this course has given me a complete learning and strong grasp of knowledge from designing, planning and preparing technologically teaching aids for ELT classroom. Apart from that, we also learned the reason underneath the making of each and every teaching aids and this has added to my journey and development of being an English teacher.

THANK SO MUCH TO MA'AM FOZIAH FOR TEACHING AND GUIDING ME IN THIS COURSE. I HAVE BENEFITED SO MUCH AND I HOPE TO UTILIZE AND MANIPULATE AS MUCH SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE LEARNED AS I COULD TO MAKE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF ENGLISH LESSON EFFECTIVE AND INTERESTING.

The submission of Assignment 2 (the collection of teaching aids)

This week was also the week that i waited because this was the week that we needed to submit our assignment 2.

After so much of hardwork and sacrifice poured for the accomplishment of this assignment 2, we felt so relieve and glad that at last we manage to submit the thick assignment which combines all sorts of technology teaching aids like, edited photos, gif and animations, videos, sounds, e-book, powerpoint presentations as well as microsoft publisher.

This was a very good assignment as for the reason that in the process of completing this assignment, we leraned loads of things and skills that enriches our holistic development of a teacher especially in terms of preparing teaching aids and materials. Not only that, we also provided justification of each teaching aids produced in terms of the audience (year six for example), how to use it as well as the advantages of the software used to make that particular teaching aids.

Therefore, form the skills and knowledge learned, i hope that i can manipilate them and use them well in to make a particular lesson effective and memorable for the pupils so that they will be motivated to learn English more.

Microsoft Publisher

This week, ma'am taught us one more way to enroll with resources in primary schools. This was about Microsoft publisher.

Ma'am taught us about Microsoft publisher, the use of it, how it can be utilized to make loads of resources for teaching and learning in the primary schools. There are loads of things that we can do using microsoft publisher. From postcard, to advertisement, greeting cards, banner and so many more. From here, we can utilize these templates to make many sorts of teaching aids, for example teaching materials in terms of reading skill whereby we can produce advertisements and broucher for comprehension questions.

Then, ma'am assigned us to integrate Microsoft Publisher under the module of Software for ELT as to be submitted together in the portfolio. So, i felt that, by knowing to use Microsoft publisher well, it will somehow or rather help me in preparing matrieals for teaching and learning sessions especially in primary schools. So, it is quite significant for teachers to know to use this software as it would help a lot in terms of planning and preparing teaching aids for the pupils.

The submission of the video

This was the week that i have been waiting. This is for the reason that i was eager to watch the videos produced by my friends.

First and foremost, in this class we were uploading our videos to ma'am's main computer first as that is the only computer connected to the LCD projector and to the smart board in front of the class. It is for the purpose to show the videos to the rest of the class members.

That was the time that i waited which was the showing of the videos. All that i could say after watching the videos was thumbs up to all of my friends. We have created variety of videos with variety of ideas and storyline. I was happy to watch those videos with some funny faces of our friends, Malaysians festivals and so on. Apart form that there were also videos that gave messages to the viewers and made us alert and learned something from the videos.

All that i can say, congratulations to the all of us. The comments that we received were meant for our improvement but all in all i could say all the videos produced were good and interesting. Therefore, i learned that from the hardwork and pure endeavor that we put to a particular, we will find success and wisdom as the payment for the hardwork that we had performed.

The Presentation of the Article

After raya, we did not have class on Tuesday (for those who are in Tuesday class), this was due to ma'am's state of health which was not quite well. So, we had to replace the class and join the Thursday class.

In this class, we heard the presentations about the article of the using of technology in teaching by Thursday group members. I gained loads of information regarding the use of technology in teaching and learning. This had alerted me that technology is important and pertinent especially in this 21st century world whereby children are exposed to so much kinds of technology equipments and gadgets. This is a good sign for teachers to employ technology as much as they can depending on circumstances so that the teaching and learning will be more effective.

After the presentation, we requested for postponement of the video editing pair work assignment. After considering some factors, ma'am gave us the one more week before we could submit our pair work video editing project. Here, i learned that it is good to be considerable and what ma'am did was great as it would us more time to search for more good materials in order to produce good piece of work.

Video Editing assignment (pair work)

This week, ma'am assigned us to find our pairs to do the video editing assignment. For boys, the pairs should be girls and vice versa. Therefore, i chose one of my best friends Ryna to be my pair for the pair work of video editing.

In this class, we discussed the storyline of our video, the story board, the software to be used as well as how the collection of materials should be done. Then, we chose to do a video about Malaysian Bad Habits. The video will portray Malaysian habits especially littering, vandalisme and dirty toilets.

After the discussion, we showed our storyboards and ideas to ma'am. Thank God she accepted the idea but we need to do some improvement and editing to the storyline of the video. We divided works for the video and it was the time we sat together and watch videos on Youtube to find ideas and ways to produce the videos.

Here, i learned that making video will need quite a good planning and preparation especially to produce a storyboard. This is because by doing this, we can have a reference and guidance of each scene of the video so that we will not be off the track and everything will run smoothly. So, in terms of making a video for kids later after we master the skills for this assignment, loads of considerations need to be concerned. Foe example, in terms of the storyline which needs to be simple and comprehensible, the pictures, sounds and songs as portrayed in the video. So, this video editing skills will help me a lot in preparing resources especially video for the teaching and learning of English for primary school children.

Let's make a video...

Videos can portray loads of things.
Through video, our hearts will be touched, our feelings will be spurred and our emotions will be triggered.
So, can we imagine the usefulness of it for teaching and learning purposes.
Videos will be a good teaching materials and stimulus to attract pupils.
In fact, this week, we learned about video editing.
From producing a video to cut, split, convert the format, add sound clips to adding pictures and video clips to videos.
We were showed variety of seniors' videos which gives us insights and ideas on how to produce our own video.
The videos shown also made us want to do something better and high quality video.
They really awakened us that there are loads of things that we can do using windows movie maker and other softwares.
Other than that, it also gave us new skills on video which we can use to produce, edit or adapt videos in order to suit the teaching and learning sessions well.
This is for the reason that videos will be the interesting and momentous aids and stimulus for children,
They will really help to enhance teaching and learning.
Thus, i am glad that we got the opportunities and chance to learn about video editing as one the new skills that we learned in this course. In fact, as future teachers that will face the cyber and technology world, we will be quite knowledgeable in this line and we will be ready to apply and use the skill as well we can to upgrade the teavhing and learning sessions.