fourth class reflection

FOURTH CLASS REFLECTION

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A successful learning experience requires certain characteristic that helps to improve and develop the potential as well as skills and knowledge of the students. This criteria such as non threatening environment and diverse teaching and learning approach helps to achieve the aims and objective of the lesson. This paradigm of effective classroom setting was practiced in the fourth class that sets it free from the conventional approach. In other word, I realized that the lecturer understand the needs of her students as some of us may not be able to fully understand and master the skills and knowledge about specific computer application such as Adobe Photoshop, U-lead and many more. In addition, the exploration approach encouraged by her was good in the sense that it requires the students like me to become an independent learner exploring the computer application with own effort.

Personally speaking, I believe that we were already become accustomed to the dateline of assignment and it was some of the important factor that pushed us to complete the work. But when the dateline was not known, it has provided different reactions which is on the positive side, it actually provide some ease of mind and encourage the successful learning experience for the student. In other word, we can enjoy learning and exploring the application and master the skills and knowledge before the lecturer decided on the dateline. While on the negative side, I think that some of us will become lazy and less effort on the application self-exploration. But, this negative side can be alleviate through classroom task that requires us to submit the work like for example, the photo editing task which must be uploaded individually in the photo bucket website. In addition, our the attitudes and perceptions of the course must also be in parallel with the lesson’s aims and objective so that successful learning experience can be created.


The fourth class was informative in the sense that, we were introduced to the Adobe Photoshop application. I am grateful to God for giving me the chance to learn one of His creations of knowledge. The application was impressive and I could have never imagined that it can make something impossible to possible and beautiful. The application was able to add effect on the picture, enhance the beauty and many more. The most important thing about this is that, we must know how to utilize it to the fullest and eventually contributed to the successful learning experience of the future primary school pupils. Apart from that, the lecture also presented on the how to create a story line particularly on plot creation. This was deemed necessary for completing the third assignment as well as recalling back what we have learnt in the previous years while in the teacher’s college. Time was also provided for the groups to discuss and clarify on the assignment with helps from the lecturer. This is important as in the classroom context; the teacher should not only impart knowledge but also assess the pupils’ progress and their level of mastery and understanding of particular topic.
Before the class ended, the lecturer summed up on today’s activity and the task that requires everyone attention. The submission of individual photo editing on the photo bucket is a must for all of us. This is to ensure that, what we learn and explore is not wasted.

All in all, the fourth class provides information, creation of new schemata (photo editing knowledge) as well as some clarification on the classroom activity and its flow. I hope that I can master this amusing and interesting application so that it will be beneficial for me and my future primary school pupils. Thank you to Pn. Foziah and my friends.

3rd class reflection

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For the third class, the lecturer started with clarification on the second assignment. This is important so that every group do not faced any problems or difficulty in completing the assignment. Besides that, with the lecturer introducing the third assignment, the understanding of the second assignment is vital so that it will hinder the progress of the other assignment. The topic of the third class was on the photo editing which I considered quite difficult for a new user but still interesting to learn and master the skill for future use.

In addition, the topic delivered was for the third assignment. It requires the formation of different group rather than using the second assignment group. The selection of the group members was done in a fair procedures acknowledged by the lecturer. The primary purpose behind this action was to ensure that everyone has the chance of doing their role and avoiding piggy rider in the group.

The third assignment is on preparing an interactive e-book using the photo editing. I think this skill is beneficial in the education sphere in the sense that it helps to create an effective and successful learning experience for the pupils that we are going to teach in the future. The images or photos can be adjusted, tuned, modify and even re-created to suit the learning subjects or topics. In addition it can be integrated with other teaching resources or material considered relevant and appropriate for the class subjects and the pupils’ need, interest as well as learning preferences.



Besides that, some of the important criteria for choosing good photo-editing software were also addressed by the lecturer. This is important for me as to help me determine the right application tools to be used in the assignment and my future profession. Thank you, Puan Foziah. The criteria included ease of use, familiarity with the user and many more. After that, we were given notes on development of the young language learner particularly on how to use appropriate and effective resources to achieve the aims and objective of the curriculum as well as fulfilling their individual needs and interest. Presentation of topics was conducted by six different groups representing six different sub-topics in topic of “working with Young Learner”. Due to my condition (fever), I was unable to give my best contribution to my group. I need to get fit quickly so that I will not be a hindrance to my group pursuit towards the completion of the assignments.


All in all, it was good to learn new things even though the sickness did prevent me from putting the best effort for the work. Thank you again to my friend and lecturer for the valuable knowledge.

2nd class reflection (part 3)

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In ensuring the quality of a work or product, the quality of the process must also be taken seriously. In other word, the second assignment which addresses the importance of process in getting the work done is good as it provide the understanding of the product development from the start to the end part. I believe this is relevant and vital factor in the teaching and learning process in the classroom where the skill or knowledge of specific subject need to be taught from the basic to the complex level based on their development. Even for me, I think that the teaching of software and computer application should be taught step by step so that I can understand and master the progress of every stage of the application.

As a conclusion of this short reflection, I believe the process is important as the product and the assignment help to address this importance so that as a teacher to be, vital factor in mastering specific knowledge and skill must be taken seriously. In addition, it must also be based on the individual development of the pupils and not merely generalization of abilities and progress of development.

2nd class reflection (part 2)

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We meet again. This is the continuance of the second day class (even tough not written on the exact date) which I considered relevant to be included in my blog (my own feeling). Basically, it is all about how I tried to understand the information on the second assignment. Before this, my friend had introduced me on how to use the search engine, finding images as well as animation. But when it comes to the encoder, I became blur on where to find it until I remember one website that provide free download named http://www.filecluster.com. It helps particularly in providing me with the encoding tools necessary for this course. Besides that, it is user friendly, systematically arranged, reviewed and graded for the ease of use.

On the website, I tried to download as many applications as I can, depending on the use and rating besides its availability (whether it is a shareware, freeware or commercial). After that, it came to the testing time where the application will be tested based on the ease of use and other criteria provided by my friend. The trial and error approach was a good way to test the application in the sense that event though I tried doing it individually, I still require others help particularly when it comes to the setting or difficult application.


After some time, I managed to understand the use of specific applications that are required for the second assignment. Again, I am thankful to the God for giving me the chance to learn from one of His great creation of knowledge. Alhamdulillah.

2nd class reflection (part 1)

Second class reflection

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Firstly I was grateful to God for giving me a chance to learn something new and amazing from one of His creation. The second class proved to be a valuable experience as it contains lots of information regarding assignment as well as computer application. As the class started, lecturer asked us to select a group of five or six which must be comprising of multi racial and multi gender. I selected group number together with Izyan, Fara Filzah, Arina, and Tan Ai Choo. I was the only male in the group but it never hindered my effort to work and learn with them. Before that, we were introduced to the assignment for this course. The first one deals with the blogging particularly on reflection of the class activity and events besides the addition of new information that are considered relevant to the improvement of the class. The other one is on the portfolio where we have to find the resources by using web search, downloading, encoding, storing and saving files.

On the second class, we were taught on what are the differences of the non technology resources and the technology resources. This is important as it provide a warm up exercise for us before understanding the deeper knowledge of the technology. In addition, the education expert claimed that for the students who are exposed to a new knowledge that are not background based, it is mandatory to have a warm up exercise that are related to the student’s background. Apart from that, the use of peer-assistance in the learning process was also encouraged as demonstrated by my group members when they help me to understand the intricacies and complexities of the computer application. I am grateful and believe that everyone should work together to achieve the aims and objective of the group. In other word, it is what we called “cooperative learning”.

The lecturer showed important slide about how to create a tutorial. I believed this is important for the future teaching as it helps to systematically deliver the knowledge particularly on how to use a specific application or software. It also helps me a lot as it improves my knowledge of the technology. The cooperative learning is applied again when my friend showed me how to put the images needed in the creation of tutorial by pressing Ctrl, Alt and Prt Scr. Beside that, they also showed me how to add an element to the blog site. I chose to add link of internet website which I considered relevant to the blog. Personally speaking, the blog application was user friendly and applicable in the sense that a new user like me can understand the basic of blogging.

In addition to that, they also taught me on how to download videos from youtube using the keepvid website. The knowledge was valuable in the sense that I don’t have to take on the hard way of downloading the videos which I considered an ease and grateful for it.
All in all, I’m thankful to God for His great creation and to my lecturer as well as my friends because without them, nothing can be achieved and I will still be on the same pace of knowing only the hardware but not the equally important software. I believed that I have to strive more to improve the knowledge and skill so that I will be able to be on par with those good computer user. Thank you again to all the parties concerned.

first class reflection

First class reflection

The utilization of creative and interesting material in the teaching and learning process is vital to the creation of successful learning experience in the classroom. In particular, primary pupils in the ESL classroom required effective teaching and learning resources that helps them to master the target language proficiently and fluently. The first class of using and developing resources for ESL classroom helps me to realize the importance of creating creative and interesting resources as well as material which is up-to-date and in parallel with the era of globalization.

The introduction of blogging was a new experience for me although I have heard about it before. Some of my friend already familiar with the blogging and it helps a lot when it comes to creating the new blog site for the class. Personally speaking, I cannot understand much about the internet application or software partly because I am not really fond of trying the software (afraid of interrupting the system in the computer if the new software is installed) and I prefer to learn it hand-on rather than reading it from the book or explained by the expert. In addition, since I am an avid reader of computer of computer hardware, inevitably, I have to learn it so that it helps me to become a good computer user who does not only possess the knowledge of the hardware but also the software.

Before entering the class, I was hoping that I can learn how to create a website. In other word, I believe it can be utilize for the education purposes in the sense that, it can become an interactive programme that provide constructive and interesting experience for the primary school pupils. There is a lot of website building tutorial found in the internet but as I said earlier, it will be more helpful if someone shows me how to do it. I found about how to make a basic website in the only Malay language computer magazine named “Majalah PC”. It used the hyperlink application to connect between the pages. I was very impressed with the creation of website in the internet but the scanty knowledge of the software involved hindered the interest.

All in all, everything was still new to me and I need to be accustomed to the creation of blog for every class. The reflection of what I have learned and acquired along the way will definitely benefit me in the future as it keeps me from forgetting the valuable knowledge as well as experience. I hope to learn more from my friend as well as lecturer so that I will be able to become up-to-date hypermedia user in this era of challenging globalization. Before I end my first blog, I want to say that it was nice to meet with the lecturer and being introduced to this course. Thank you again to my friend and lecturer.

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