This week was our group presentation. I was very nervous for I was suffering from toothache. (Producing a new wisdom tooth). I was very much in pain and not much help i could get from the painkillers given by a doctor before. Initially, I just sat there and did not even bother to come to the front to join in my group presnetation for my tooth ached badly. As my group member presented, the guilt started to crawl in. I was beginning to feel bad. I felt myself selfish.How could I expect my group members to know what my slides were? How could I expect them to do all the presentation when I just sat there and listened? Lastly, I could not bear the guilt anymore that I walked up to the front. Not long after that, my slides came in and I tried hard to present my slides. I did not want to disappoint my group members for they had presented the previous slides really well. Initially,I tried hard to ignore the pain and fortunately, I managed to. I felt great and proud of myself.And of course, my group members were really proud of my as well.
After the presentation, we were given a chance to ask anything regarding the third assignment. I felt I had something to ask but i could not think of one. Maybe it was due to the fact that i had not started on it yet and also because i am already in the raya mood.I felt guily again for if only I had started on it,I would have had all my doubts (if there are) answered.
I am now half way through the third assignment. So far so good. I have not encountered any doubts yet and I hope this will go on until I hand it in.Haha..
P/s Selamat Hari Raya...
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Wish 30 hours a day
Expectedly, I received a new assignment today. It is undeniably a task that requires a lot of work. I need to write four lesson plans!!!!!!!!!!! Oh no... I wonder if I could manage my time well. This was because Madam Foziah gave us additional weekly tasks namely creating namecard, pamphlet and newsletter. Besides, I need to discuss with my group members to come up with a power point presentation based on the handouts she gave us. All these were too much. I wonder if I could finish doing everything. To add, I had many other assignments for other subjects. Ssomehow,I wish there are 30 hours per day or if only Madam Foziah would consider giving not too much work at a time.
I somehow know Madam Foziah meant well. I seriously have learned a lot throughout this course. I am no longer as iliterate as before. Honestly, I was proud to teach my little brother the other day on how to extract and convert an audio. I felt good when he said I was awesome. It was a big deal for me for I have learned and known a great deal about softwares. However, I really wish Madam Foziah could give those work a little at a time for it seemed impossible for me to manage. I slept little (I am suffering from insomnia) for I tried my best to do everything she required. This was because I knew she meant well.
All in all, I wish to learn a lot from this course but hopefully the time given is sufficient for there are many other tasks of another courses waiting for me. Just the time...
I somehow know Madam Foziah meant well. I seriously have learned a lot throughout this course. I am no longer as iliterate as before. Honestly, I was proud to teach my little brother the other day on how to extract and convert an audio. I felt good when he said I was awesome. It was a big deal for me for I have learned and known a great deal about softwares. However, I really wish Madam Foziah could give those work a little at a time for it seemed impossible for me to manage. I slept little (I am suffering from insomnia) for I tried my best to do everything she required. This was because I knew she meant well.
All in all, I wish to learn a lot from this course but hopefully the time given is sufficient for there are many other tasks of another courses waiting for me. Just the time...
'Idea-less'
I was so stressed. My pair partner, Mark too had no idea how to extract video and also on manipulating the video "Earth Song'. Honestly, we felt that this video was of a little higher level for primary kids. We felt that the main message of the video was about 'deforestation' and 'global warming' but could we teach kids those terms?
The due date was nearing and yet we had not started anything on the video. We then tried to calm each other down and focused on another video we found. It was 'The House Song'. This video was good except for a part of the song that we did not really like. it sounded like "... Kitchen. Not chicken". At times we laughed but at times we felt annoyed too. No choice because it really can make the pupils beware of the most common mistakes of diffentiating the two words.
We were still waiting for the good idea to come in. We thought about it hard until two days before the date due, we forced ourselves to crack our head.By hook or by crook, we tried to come up with an interesting idea since early morning. Until when the hot sun got hotter (afternoon), the idea came in. We were so thankful that we got started rightaway. We divided the task and much co operation was there. We decided to create an e book on that. Teaching animals might sound easy but we felt it the most appropriate thing to teach to primary kids for it is simple and can be absorbed easily. The storyline was created fast and so did the animations as well as the tutorials.
The only things that required much of our time were the lesson plan and its rationale. It was fortunate that it was a pair work. Things became so much easier with two brains. HAHA!!!!!!!!!
All in all, we are contented with whatever we produced for this second assignments.We felt it excellent enough (haha...) and flawless. Of course, we really hope this assignment reaches madam Foziah's expectation.Pray hard!!
The due date was nearing and yet we had not started anything on the video. We then tried to calm each other down and focused on another video we found. It was 'The House Song'. This video was good except for a part of the song that we did not really like. it sounded like "... Kitchen. Not chicken". At times we laughed but at times we felt annoyed too. No choice because it really can make the pupils beware of the most common mistakes of diffentiating the two words.
We were still waiting for the good idea to come in. We thought about it hard until two days before the date due, we forced ourselves to crack our head.By hook or by crook, we tried to come up with an interesting idea since early morning. Until when the hot sun got hotter (afternoon), the idea came in. We were so thankful that we got started rightaway. We divided the task and much co operation was there. We decided to create an e book on that. Teaching animals might sound easy but we felt it the most appropriate thing to teach to primary kids for it is simple and can be absorbed easily. The storyline was created fast and so did the animations as well as the tutorials.
The only things that required much of our time were the lesson plan and its rationale. It was fortunate that it was a pair work. Things became so much easier with two brains. HAHA!!!!!!!!!
All in all, we are contented with whatever we produced for this second assignments.We felt it excellent enough (haha...) and flawless. Of course, we really hope this assignment reaches madam Foziah's expectation.Pray hard!!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
An Unexpected New Task
We were alot noisy today. Why? This was because Madam Foziah was not around. Some of us were already in the raya mood buying and selling bus tickets, tudungs and also kuih-muih. They seemed to be so happy. I was happy to see them happy because we had not been feeling happy lately. Too many assignments lately. Having assignments and tasks from this resources course was already more than enough. What more from the other subjects? Besides, I felt happy because my malay coursemates did not get affected at all by their fasting mood. They felt energetic still and I was grateful.
However, there were some of us busy doing and discussing the second assignment. Wah... There was indeed too much work to do. Thus, we were quite surprise to receive another new task from Madam Foziah. Honestly, we were quite worried if we could finish everything on time.
As a result, we stopped doing the second assignment. Instead, we started concentrating on planning our time and the new task well. We tried hard to discuss on how to deal with all these.
Fortunately, we could still think rationally after all the hustle we were going through. We divided our task well and I was in charged of producing a material on reading. The real problem came when we needed to decide on the topic. I did not really mind about this for I was very flexible to any changes. So, my members took such a great time to come up with a topic 'interest'.
Having to do the reading part was not a problem for me. I did an e book before this. So, all I needed to do was to apply whatever skills I used on e book in this particular task. I faced no problems. Thus, I came up with an e book and its tutorial very fast. The only problem I faced was to explain on how this ebook can be used in a classroom.
I needed to imagine on how to make the lesson flowed the way I wanted it to be yet to make full use of the resources I came out with. This was actually a big task for me. What if it would not work? Worrying too much just would not help. Thus, I used all those knowledge I have gained in the previous institute and tried to apply them in this situation. Hopefully, Madam Foziah accepts and loves the idea. Pray hard!
However, there were some of us busy doing and discussing the second assignment. Wah... There was indeed too much work to do. Thus, we were quite surprise to receive another new task from Madam Foziah. Honestly, we were quite worried if we could finish everything on time.
As a result, we stopped doing the second assignment. Instead, we started concentrating on planning our time and the new task well. We tried hard to discuss on how to deal with all these.
Fortunately, we could still think rationally after all the hustle we were going through. We divided our task well and I was in charged of producing a material on reading. The real problem came when we needed to decide on the topic. I did not really mind about this for I was very flexible to any changes. So, my members took such a great time to come up with a topic 'interest'.
Having to do the reading part was not a problem for me. I did an e book before this. So, all I needed to do was to apply whatever skills I used on e book in this particular task. I faced no problems. Thus, I came up with an e book and its tutorial very fast. The only problem I faced was to explain on how this ebook can be used in a classroom.
I needed to imagine on how to make the lesson flowed the way I wanted it to be yet to make full use of the resources I came out with. This was actually a big task for me. What if it would not work? Worrying too much just would not help. Thus, I used all those knowledge I have gained in the previous institute and tried to apply them in this situation. Hopefully, Madam Foziah accepts and loves the idea. Pray hard!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)