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the journey begins…

For this week, we have been introduced to the internet skills such as downloading, encoding, storing, burning and searching. Those skills are the basic skills that we need to know in order to search, develop and produce good materials in future.

In order to practice all these skills, we have given a task. Firstly we are asked to find our own groups with multiracial members. I was lucky to have Hafizah, Hedayah, Shahrul and Loi as my group members. Sharing is caring. I hope all of us can work together and share ideas for the better result.

Actually it is quite tough to do this task as we need to find resources in order to teach year five pupils. We sit together and brainstorm some ideas but then it is difficult to make decision on the topic to be chosen. “There are many people choose animals to be taught”. “Why not we choose topic clothes to teach them”. “I like the topic on transportations”. “ food also can be an interesting topic to teach”. But at last we choose this topic. “PEOPLE”… still thinking on the ideas to teach this topic…

We decided to search and download the video from www.youtube.com. There are many useful videos that we can download but of course we, as a teacher, need to consider so many things before we can use it in the teaching and learning in the classroom. However, we had managed to practice those skills.

Using and Developing Resources- The Beginning

First day of this course… I thought this course is very easy but then after Ma’am Foziah explained about it, I realized that this course is actually very CHALLENGING. There are many works that teacher needs to do especially to prepare MATERIALS or TEACHING AIDS to teach in the classroom. That is the purpose of this course which is to ensure that we can develop variety of resources using technology. At this point, once again technology becomes an important part of our lives. We should know to handle of these stuffs. I admit that I am not good in this area but I will learn it.

Resources- There are many teaching aids that can be use by the teacher to teach such as pictures, video clips, songs, story books and many more. Teaching materials can be in two forms which are using technology or non-technology materials. Both forms of these materials has their own pros and cons. For example, by using tehnology, the materials are easy to handle and will save the time but at the same time it will waste our time if there are any problems occur with the technology, it will demotivated pupils in learning process. I can't denied that traditional materials such as story book and puppets still have value in deliverig the content of the lesson. sometimes, this kind of materials will be more enjoyable as pupils can engaged with them in the teaching and learning process. However, all these kinds of resources can attract pupils' attention and promotes motivation for pupils to learn and participate along the lesson conducted in the class.

I also improved my skill to create my own blog. Blog! Before this, I don’t know anything about it. But now I have my own blog. This is also a good starting in my learning. Hope we can share ideas, opinion and comments via blogging…