Thursday, September 27, 2007
Just to drop by...
There is informative and useful websites for educators which is http://www.homeroomteacher.com/index.html. Feel free to retrive some teaching resources for your future use.
BLOG 9
Do the best for your TEST! (Do not copy your friends’ answer…)
Examinations for the PKEY 3101: Technology for Primary Education.
We have to answer only 2 questions only and I had decided to answer questions 1 and 3 which are:
Question 1: Describe how you would use the following tools to engage the children at the primary school level. Give examples of how the tools can be integrated into your teaching subject. What advise would you give to a teacher who would to use the tools?
I have trying hardly to answer that particular questions.I do not know whether my explanation on Blog and AirSet.com as the teaching tools that engage the children at the primary school level is clear or not. Based on one of the websites at Yahoo.com, the application of AirSet.com is quite similar with Moodle. Basically, AirSet.com helps educators create effective online learning communities and it full-packed of pedagogical principles. Nowadays, educators could access vast informative sources or teaching materials from various internet websites.
According to Wikepedia, a blog or also known as weblog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order. Blogs generally represented the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the Website that hosts the blog. Usually,the blog sound academic, include brief philosophical musings, commentary and could be linked to other websites.
Question 3: Brennan in his chapter 1: ICT and the learning principles of the classroom curriculum outlines 14 learning principles which a primary school teacher should follow in order to successfully use technology in teaching and learning.
Based on Brennan in his chapter 1: ICT and the learning principles of the primary school curriculum, I have chosen one of the Principles out of 14 learning principles which is higher thinking skills and problem based. Luckily, I have read and go through that particular note before the test. (However, I’m quite nervous during attempting the test + worried that I cannot do well in the test).
Meanwhile, I had suggest some of the resources and tools that are suitable for use with the principle which are content-based free software, educational websites, Adobe Photoshop and fun-learning games and etc. There are many ways teacher could manipulate those tools in order to engage young learners into higher order thinking skills. For instance, the teacher should promote pupils’-centered activity which the pupil could actively involve in the tasks. Pupils learnt better by doing things instead of just look at their teacher’s demonstration. Besides, the activities also stimulate their critical and creative thinking skills since they have to think critically, make analyzing, evaluating and so on. Do you realize that pupils that always learn by themselves are independent learner? They know on how to manage their own learning as well as their lives since they anticipated in various ICT thinking skills activities. However teacher should always facilitates and monitors his or her pupils so that they know what is good and bad for them.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
PRESENTATION WEEK
Blog 8
SHOW us....
On that fine day, all of us have to present our SMARTboard activities. Most of the group came with superb masterpieces.Walla... Some of them inserted videos and audio in oder to make the activity more interesting and captivating. It's clearly shown that they apply the knowledge they learnt during the lecture .In my point of view, they look alike expertise in this field.
Somebody told me that there was a person from US came to the class to take a look to our presentation and her name is Elham. Perhaps, she wants to see the development of technology in Malaysia and on how Malaysian trainee teachers handle with the SMARTboard. It's proud to say that most of us did very well.However, we shoud always improve and enhance our work in order to educate our future pupils to the world class level of education. PHEW...it's seems hard...but 'try the best' is the best word.
SHOW us....
On that fine day, all of us have to present our SMARTboard activities. Most of the group came with superb masterpieces.Walla... Some of them inserted videos and audio in oder to make the activity more interesting and captivating. It's clearly shown that they apply the knowledge they learnt during the lecture .In my point of view, they look alike expertise in this field.
Somebody told me that there was a person from US came to the class to take a look to our presentation and her name is Elham. Perhaps, she wants to see the development of technology in Malaysia and on how Malaysian trainee teachers handle with the SMARTboard. It's proud to say that most of us did very well.However, we shoud always improve and enhance our work in order to educate our future pupils to the world class level of education. PHEW...it's seems hard...but 'try the best' is the best word.
The Progression of the SMARTboard group tasks. (HI-Tech)
BLOG 7
The CHRONOLOGICAL of the SMARTboard making….
What I’ve done…
29th August 2007
Divide tasks between group members. I was appointed to do the activity for science
subjects. Brainstorming what is suitable topic for the science activity. I had selected SOLAR ECLIPSE as my topic. Besides, I understand the topic very well so that it’s not a big deal for me to construct science activity based on that particular topic.
1st SEPTEMBER 2007
I have selected the material for SMART board activity. I had retrieved several information of solar eclipse from internet.The websites are very useful for my Smart board making. According to Ms Chin the facilitator, for the one who do the science activities, he/she should incorporate with some notes of the topic that had been chose. Due to that. I had make 3 slides of the notes (which is info of the phenomenon of the Solar Eclipse). To add, I combined my pastimes group science project with this SMARTboard slides in order to make it useful and meaningful.
5th SEPTEMBER 2007
Furthermore, I have found some animated pictures and photo which is all about Solar
Eclipse. There were numerous animated and colorful pictures to grab from the net. I believed that young kids learn better by the assistant of pictures or diagrams. Since I teach them the science concept, I have to put more diagrams to show the clearly the concept of the formation of the solar eclipse. Based on Piaget, children learn fast and get clearer view by looking at concrete material rather than abstract material.
7th SEPTEMBER 2007
I managed to complete my work successfully. However, I have to check my work for many times and I realized that I should ‘touch-up’ few of my slides in order to make it captivating instead of an eyesore.
8th SEPTEMBER 2007
6. Gradually, my mission ACCOMPLISHED!
10th SEPTEMBER 2007
Road to FINALE…
The FINALE….SMART board group work formation (The process where we have to combine the work together and recheck our masterpieces if there are any mistakes found) Thank you for my dedicated friends…Your ideas and comments do help me to improve my work.
The day is coming….12 SEPTEMBER 2007 - My heart pounding very fast. Nervous..actually. All of us have to present our job for the last 2 weeks in front of the lecturers and the facilitators.
The CHRONOLOGICAL of the SMARTboard making….
What I’ve done…
29th August 2007
Divide tasks between group members. I was appointed to do the activity for science
subjects. Brainstorming what is suitable topic for the science activity. I had selected SOLAR ECLIPSE as my topic. Besides, I understand the topic very well so that it’s not a big deal for me to construct science activity based on that particular topic.
1st SEPTEMBER 2007
I have selected the material for SMART board activity. I had retrieved several information of solar eclipse from internet.The websites are very useful for my Smart board making. According to Ms Chin the facilitator, for the one who do the science activities, he/she should incorporate with some notes of the topic that had been chose. Due to that. I had make 3 slides of the notes (which is info of the phenomenon of the Solar Eclipse). To add, I combined my pastimes group science project with this SMARTboard slides in order to make it useful and meaningful.
5th SEPTEMBER 2007
Furthermore, I have found some animated pictures and photo which is all about Solar
Eclipse. There were numerous animated and colorful pictures to grab from the net. I believed that young kids learn better by the assistant of pictures or diagrams. Since I teach them the science concept, I have to put more diagrams to show the clearly the concept of the formation of the solar eclipse. Based on Piaget, children learn fast and get clearer view by looking at concrete material rather than abstract material.
7th SEPTEMBER 2007
I managed to complete my work successfully. However, I have to check my work for many times and I realized that I should ‘touch-up’ few of my slides in order to make it captivating instead of an eyesore.
8th SEPTEMBER 2007
6. Gradually, my mission ACCOMPLISHED!
10th SEPTEMBER 2007
Road to FINALE…
The FINALE….SMART board group work formation (The process where we have to combine the work together and recheck our masterpieces if there are any mistakes found) Thank you for my dedicated friends…Your ideas and comments do help me to improve my work.
The day is coming….12 SEPTEMBER 2007 - My heart pounding very fast. Nervous..actually. All of us have to present our job for the last 2 weeks in front of the lecturers and the facilitators.
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