Reflection 6

Every new dawn on Monday marks a new chapter of my journey here. After we have successfully completed the Drama Workshop, I felt like a huge burden flew off my shoulder. There are no more external activity to be worried about and busy with other than focusing fully on our assignments. But don't judge yet. The assignments assigned were not just two or three but we are having like five to six assignments in hand now. That sounds unpleasant but I am hoping that everything would be fine since all of them are group assignments.


For Educational Technology, I felt very relieved the moment we have done with our Assure Model Lesson Plan and video presentation. We have gone through a hard time to prepare the lesson plan and the video. Frankly speaking, it was not as easy as we ever imagined. To start off with the lesson plan was not a problem for us since we have done a few in other classes before. But one thing that really messed up our heads and chocked our breath was how to make the video flow smoothly with the designed lesson plan. We realised that the video was not only meant as audio visual aids though it was actually one of it. We realised that it was actually as the medium for teaching.


So, the first step that we made was to choose a theme for our lesson. Each and everyone of us in the group agree upon the People theme. When we had a theme to be focused on, the vision for further steps become clearer. We managed to design a lesson plan of double period lesson (80 minutes). After we have done with the lesson plan, we then started to come out with our video. We made the flow of the video exactly like the flow of a real teaching. We had the set induction, pre-speaking, while-speaking, post speaking, activities and closure arranged in sequence in the video. Besides, we include other aids such as songs and videos in the video. That was what we called as a video within a video.


This assignment really meaningful to me personally. I learnt a lot about utilizing ICT in teaching specifically, language teaching. The lesson plan design and video making made me become richer in experience. I learnt a lot and i gained a lot as well. Ideas and skill sharing are always beneficial as we worked in groups. Thus, I would like to take this opportunity to dedicate credits to our lecturer, Mr. Norsarihan for guiding and supporting us throughout the process of doing the assignment. Besides, credits to my group members,Barbara Kath, Ahmad Azrul Afeze, Halil bin Siri and Ilanggo for your endless and awesome cooperation. Lastly, thanks to other classmates for the sharing of knowledge, skills, materials and sources.

Reflection 5

This week was not that good for me and I don’t think it’s off beam to say that it was not good for everyone in the class too. We were too busy with classes, assignments and also the biggest event for this semester, the Drama Workshop. Everything was cramped to less than one month time.

I am so grateful that we finally manage to end our Drama Workshop with triumph. Everybody was so tired. We spent two days working at the hall together with the juniors as the participants. As participants, maybe the tiredness was there too but frankly it could not beat the tiredness of the 20 of us in the class as the organizer as well as facilitators. From the starting point till the end, we worked together as a team. It was tiring but really fun.

I reckon, everybody did gained a lot during the workshop. There was a lot of sharing of ideas, opinions, knowledge and skills. Besides, all of us indeed had fun regulating the activities planned by the 20 of us. During the activities such as vocal tapestry, fashion show, drama presentation, choral speaking and beat the rhythm, we could see that all of the participants are very talented in art work. They are indeed creative and innovative.

Despite the hectic time planning and managing the drama workshop, we didn’t forget about the assignment that we are going to present to class for evaluation on this Tuesday. It is video presentation of teaching and learning English as a second language using multimedia.

Besides, we also have another nearly 10 tasks in the list which are to be done within these two weeks time. Although we will not sit for our exam in a short time, the assignments given are super a lot. I just feel that how good life is if we are to be given extra time to make done all the tasks. Life is indeed can be disappointing at times.

Reflection 4

Finally the most hectic life for everybody in the institute is over. Lecturers and students were equally busy and I reckon the lecturers were more exhausted with everything that was going on in the institute especially the auditing. Besides the auditing, a big event was held at Dewan Muhibah for three days in a row. It was the "Pertandingan Drama Piala Ketua Menteri". All the teacher training institute in Sarawak took part in the competition.

Back to business, for Educational technology class, I could say that it was cool. We were not burden by too much work. Mr. Norsarihan simply knew how to put down the igniting flame. He knew that everybody was busy so he did not want to add in some more of it. On Tuesday, we presented our first individual assignment that was our personal blog. Personally, I was really amazed by most of the blogs that were being presented. They were just awesome.

What do I have for my personal blog are firstly my reflection. Then, I put on links to my Facebook account, my blog profile, my Flickr, and my podcast. Besides that, I did added in "chatbox" to provide a platform for visitors and followers to leave comments or ask questions. Apart from that, I put on "Health Tip of The Day" as an additional point. People nowadays seem to enjoy their life so much till they forget about their health. So, if anybody visit my blog, at least the tips will indirectly remind them to take care of their health. Also, I have education quotes in my blog.

After we were done with our blog presentation, he gave us a new task. We were asked to work in groups of 5 people and prepare power point slides for each of the topics assigned. This task will be presented next week and the the other week to come. Since it is a group work, I don't see any excuse for us to not making it done satisfyingly.

Reflection 3

Days by days, weeks by weeks passed me by and that marked new beginning each time dawn meeting the dusk. I could never escape from learning new things and encountering new challenges. Almost every lecture would surely be accompanied by numbers of tasks.

For this week, the Educational Technology class was fully occupied and we had being given numbers of task to be done. On Monday, we were presenting our video and to our surprise, that was actually the first part of our group assignment. Mr. Norsarihan was rather satisfied with our work but he would be glad to see better videos during the real video presentation for evaluation later.   

Besides the video presentation, we also learnt about Instructional Models. One of the examples of the Instructional Models that we are focusing on is ASSURE Model. ASSURE model is an effective model to be used to design lesson plans for more attractive, interesting, meaningful and workable lesson plan for teaching heterogeneous classrooms. As an add-on point, the corporation of teacher aids based on media and technology, the lesson will surely be more fun and attractive. Students’ attentions are drawn to the lesson and thus will make the objectives for the day are successfully achieved. However, despite its brilliant points, we should realize that technologies can disappoint us anytime and anywhere. So, as teachers, we should be ready with few back-up plans. Beautiful and animated slides, attractive videos and songs for set induction mean nothing when the electricity fails out of sudden. So, besides preparing all the fun and interesting stuffs in the notebook, we as teachers should prepare the hard copies for everything. Apart from that, we can still utilize our handphone or radio with batteries to play the song we intend to use for our set induction. Thus, at least things don’t go zero at all.

Last but not least, Mr. Norsarihan also reminded us to keep on updating and customizing our personal blog as he wanted to see us presenting it on this coming Monday. It is of course merely for fun. It is our first individual assignment. So, friends, if you have forgotten about that and you are reading this post, please do update your reflection and customize your blog as attractive as you can. Please kindly be noted everyone!