publisher...

i was not really familiar with this actually but i have heard the software quite a long time and had a chance to use it when i'm doing tentative programme at college. However, the experience was not enough as i have discovered that there are a lot of things that we can do using publisher.really a lot!
just name it: pamphlets, posters, bussiness cards, brochure, newsletters and many more. for this, i again choose fadzli as my pair in exploring this new software. we manage to do bussiness card and a brochure using the publisher.so i think i need ore time to explore as there are quite many new things that i haven't tried yet. i'll try to explore as much as i can and show the work to you next time, in the portfolio. hopefully i can =)

being realistic

For the presentation that i have mentioned earlier, my group had to present on the topic "being realistic". We have divided the task among our group members where everyone of us need to present our part so that the work will be less burden for everyone. in fact, i find it is one of the good way of reading, we call it jigsaw reading: we read our part and others read theirs and finally we can combine the things that we have read so that we can have a better understanding on the topic and have a better view about it..maybe this way can be applied in the primary classroom as primary pupils as we know should be given short passages to be read. if we as teachers plan to give them long passages, maybe jigsaw reading will be more suitable as pupils can have better communication at the same time. so reading and speaking skill can be integrated simultaneously.

Back to the presentation, i was quite scared because this is my first presentation after a long time in the college. so i feel quite uncomfortable when all the members in our cohort look at me when i'm presenting. but at last i feel relieved as i can now adjust to the situation again =) so after this, there should be more on presentation coz i find it's a good way of undersatnd the theory part. i mean, it's effective than the usual lecture that we normally have: at least to me.
plus, it's a good way of learning on our own: self learning, learning autonomously.

back again

i'ts been a long time i didn't update my blog..i admit it was my mistake for delaying things. at last i was burdened with bundles of assignments, tasks and other works to do. hopefully i can still recall what i have been doing in this course so far. In the previous post, i had mentioned about the two tasks that i have got. it was four language skill tasks and preparation for the presentation on the topic "being realistic". we had to do the task in groups of four which the members are: me, fadzli, fahmi and loi choi yee. each of us had to choose one particular skill in the language and prepare a lesson plan for that skill. i have chosen writing skill n select a particular stage that is the pre writing stage. i have prepared on the topic hobbies. so what basically i have done was an e book for the presentation stage. since e-book was the latest skill that i have learnt, so i think it was a good idea to start doing another e-book so that i can practice making good e-book for my primary kids soon.
i felt quite blurr at first because since i came to um, i have never done any lesson plan yet. so this task is going to be a good task to keep me alert about lesson planning. i think that's enough for now. read in next post =)