Why we need blog?

 Isn’t it interesting that some of the most significant ‘revolutions’ of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing? How retro is that? First we had email, then web pages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs. All this reflects a trend whereby the world is becoming more formal in how it communicates. Instead of body language and endless conversations, communication has shifted towards endless words on a screen.

 Bloggers are people with attitude. They say there’s a book inside everybody. Well, the Web and blogs have let the book out! There has literally been an explosion of opinion. Traditionally, public relations were about honing a silvery message that communicated exactly what the organization wanted us to hear. Now, we can hear all sorts of voices on the subject. It’s true democracy at work. The advantages of blogs that I can see are we can share knowledge within organization and with the outside world. Besides, blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback regarding one particular thing that we post or discuss in our blog…Thus, here I am, writing in my blog to share and seek for knowledge particularly knowledge about the use of technology in ESL classroom…

10th class reflection...

Creativity requires a challenge to start a flow of new ideas, then a way to capture them.

It all about creativity…Being creative…The tenth class continues on the presentation of SMART board activity. From the presentation, I can say that we need to make a creative activity to be used in the classroom so that can attract pupils to learn. The activity that we create is not necessary complicated. It can be simple as ABC yet it creative and interactive… 

9th class reflection...

The ninth class was about the presentation of SMART board assignment by one representative from each group. We need to choose the best SMART board activity in the group thus present it to the class. I leant a lot from this presentation. I now become aware that any activity that be carried out with pupils need to have pictures or concrete object so that they can understand batter. Another point that I learnt was things that we think good and look nice may become very irritating for children. This because the children seeing world in different perspective. For example, the use of abstract picture and stylish font (that I think look good and nice) is not suitable for the pupils. What they need is a colourful, big and clear picture and simple font in order to attract them towards the activity or lesson in the class. Therefore, we as teacher-to-be need to consider the factor mentioned when constructing any activity to be used in the classroom so that the teaching and learning process ran smoothly.

From all the comments given, I learnt that producing a good SMARTBOARD presentation is not an easy work to do. I will use the comment and suggestion that I got from the lecturer and friends to improve my SMART board activity. 

8th class reflection...

Thank you…

Thanks to the lecturer and tutors for giving us more time in doing SMART board application assignment. The extension time was definitely a relief and brings joy to me as I am not good at technology.