16th September 2008

Stepping into the 10th week of this semester is not something so pleasing to me as I'm not prepared that I should be having 9 weeks of knowledge in my head pertaining this course. I was aware of we have exams for this course in the end and I found this surprising as it isn't stated when I first registered this course online. The worst part is I don't have any knowledge in my mind to sit for the exam except for the steps to download, store files, edit images, audio and video files. I really hope our lecturer would help us on this by focusing on the scope of the exam
to ease my anxiety.

I'm feeling relieved today as we've just handed up our assignment 2 and that's only temporary as immediately we were briefed on assignment 3 which carries a similar nature but with more lesson plans and resources. Personally I feel that the need to prepare tutorials is slightly unnecessary as we all know how to do the stuff and preparing all the tutorials on the resources development really take a lot of time and effort. We should spend more time focusing on how to produce a quiality lesson with appropriate and creative teaching aids rather than how to produce the teaching aids. Well that's my personal thought. Take care all !

9th September 2008

Things seemed to be more organized today since our lecturer has briefed us on the requirements of respective assignments and the weight age of them. At least I have a clear direction on what I have to do for this course to fulfill the 100% mark. It also helped me to plan my time as I still have assignments from 6 other courses to be dealt with.

We went on with our group presentations after that. At first I did not take this task seriously as I wasn't aware of when we had to present but fortunately I spent some time over the weekend to go through the notes. As I presented on 'Deciding how frequent and how long language lessons should be', it really gave me a better understanding and improved my knowledge on this because if I wasn't given the task, I would not bother to read it. So, thanks to my group members who assigned this topic to me ^^

Regarding the assignment 2, just want to thank those who taught me which software to use (you know who you are) and it's really easy to extract the images, audio and video files that I want to develop as teaching aids. That's 1 more week left, all the best to everyone !

My presentation slides

2 SEPTEMBER 2008

Looking at the date, that marks the 2nd day of the month of Ramadan. This somehow explains some absentees in the class today including our lecturer.

After everyone was busying submitting their E-book, we were given tasks again and were asked to form into groups of 4 and 6 respectively. Honestly speaking, I'm feeling worn out as we have a major assignment for this course to be submitted in 7 days yet we were given endless task to be done.

Another thing to be mentioned here is regarding the forms of submissions. I think it's sufficient if we hand in the burned CD as we included everything in it and having to upload it to the internet storage as well as printing it out, I'm feeling slightly troublesome to cope with it. That's why there are always some people (including myself) having problem with meeting the dateline. After all, these are all my own opinions and how I'm feeling deep in my heart and I think this is the right place to voice it out. Adiosss