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.