We had a great fun during Educational Technology class today. After spending about a week for the video making, finally today we got to watch every group’s output. It was all interesting and fun and I guess, the videos presentation managed to grasp everybody’s full attention. The first video was done by Doris, Chong Xin Txin, Ting Suk Hua, Leon and Ting Tiew Keng. The 8 minutes video was about Poetry Recital. They prepared slides on the ways and tips for good poetry recital. Besides, they also presented the crucial aspects that the persona have to have such as body language, eye contact, body posture and voice tone in presenting a poem excellently. Personally, I think that their video was very interesting with beautiful and colorful slides as well as sweet and clear background voices.
The second group on the other hand has come out with something very different from the first group. This group was presented by Aileen Tiong, Abang Joharizal, Rachel Chin, Tie Yin Yin and Ilanggo Kanan. Their video was apparently about natural disaster. They had pictures and downloaded videos on flashfloods and tsunami. It was so touching to see how people die because of natural disaster. And as an additional point, they utilized soft music that could really touch our heart deeply inside. Thumbs up to the second group for their great job.
Apart from that, it was not a disappointment from the third group either. They presented an awesome video on adjectives. The third group was presented by Hilman, Nigel, Freddy, Vanessa and Josman. It was very contained, informative and easy to understand. Plus, at the end of the video, they added in a wonderful singing performance by Freddy. It was very entertaining since Freddy has such a very pleasant voice.
As the third group, my group that was the last group also presented a video on adjectives. It was an accident of course for we did not know each other’s topic to be presented before hand. Though it was the same topic but we came out with different ideas of presenting it. Maybe ours was more precise and I could say that we covered almost every important thing to be known for the topic Adjectives.
Though every group did a great job for the video making but still there are some areas that need to be polished up. Mr. Norsarihan proposed us to work on the transition of the slides. Like for our group, then transition for some of the slides are rather too fast. Besides that, he also pointed out about the physical features of the slides such as the fonts and size, they have to be clear and readable and also the colours used. Colours should be light and not too striking in order to make sure that the information on the slides are easily being seen and read. Despite commenting on the things to be improved, he was actually satisfied with our work. Our first attempt was not disappointing. We managed to come out with fun, interesting and informative video. I think those video are very reasonable to be employed as teaching materials for secondary school students. The materials included are actually parallel with Form 2 syllabus.
Experiences gained are always priceless. There are a lot of things I learnt through this mini video presentation that I am very sure not to hard to be gained in any other venue. From the task, we are actually being exposed to the real teaching world. It is not going to be easy to teach the new breed of students who are mostly well versed in computers and technology. They are expecting much from the teachers. They are hoping to see new fun and interesting teaching and learning materials. Thus, it is very important for us as the teacher trainees to be able to utilize ICT such as video in our teaching.
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