7th week

This 7th week, we learned about “ICT And The Learning Principles Of The Primary School Curriculum”. I think, this topic is really beneficial for all educators. In Malaysia context, the integration of ICT in education is not really vast due to certain unavoidable problems. However, towards the developing of ICT in our country, everybody especially educators should know about this. Firstly, we should understand the three fundamental approaches in using ICT which are Learning about ICT, Learning with ICT and Learning through ICT. Before able to use it, we should know well how ICT can help us. Then only we can exploit the use of it to the most. Yet, learners or children should be exposed to this approaches also as they were our core product. In order for our country to develop as an ICT country with ICT literate citizens, learning using ICT play great role. This is one ways for children to be more open minded in learning. For instance, through ICT, they can be encouraged to be more independent learner as to find further information in the internet. They also can be exposed to distant learning and conference. Thus, they will not feel reluctant to use ICT for educational purposes. It is not to be used as entertainment purposes only. Further more, using ICT, teachers can enhance their teaching as they can adapt and adopt various latest teaching and learning technique from internet and by using ICT tools. This will help them to ensure the progression of students parallel with the needs of current requirement.
So, start updates our ICT knowledge so that we can impart the knowledge to our students and share with them. We shoulder a great responsibility to ensure our next generation is ICT literate.

take a look for a while:)

Impact of animated cartoon pictures Animated cartoon pictures are targeted mainly towards children. They can have a positive as well as negative influence on children depending upon the theme and the content. The animated pictures contain a wide array of content matter and messages that may influence children in many different ways. There are some cartoons that are neutral and purely meant for entertainment, some are educational but some are violent to the core. Take a peek at the good side of cartoon pictures, they are fun, entertaining and a good way to rewind oneself. Moreover, some of them even have a positive influence on kids. In the year 2005, Sesame Street, the educational puppet cartoon series, launched its Healthy Habits for Life series. This was televised with an aim to encourage young kids to lead more dynamic and nutritious lifestyles. Healthy Habits For Life featured Wyclef Jean, the rapper, singing and applauding the benefits of fruits and veggies. The puppets and animated pictures in Sesame Street were an instant hit amongst children since the time it was first televised in 1969. Many parents insisted that their kids remembered each and every word that was taught on Sesame Street.There are many other animated cartoon pictures that inspire kids to adopt healthy habits. Remember Popeye the sailor man, who gobbles on spinach every time he faces a difficulty. This cartoon character actually inspired many toddlers to eat spinach. Keeping in view the positive influence that cartoons have, teachers started teaching kids through cartoons. They used cartoon character drawings to teach several subjects. Did the kids found this method helpful? Sure they did! Cartoon characters inspired them to study the subjects with a deeper insight.Children also have a tendency to consider some or the other cartoon character as their super hero. It is alright till the time the animated cartoon super hero they adore are cute and cuddly like Dido and Yappy , sharp and funny like Bel, Abby and Kewl or cute and wacky like Tumo and Ian However, they may become aggressive and snappy if they start picturing a violent cartoon character as their idol. The drawings of cartoon as stated earlier may have a positive as well as a negative influence. The images and storyline can have a enormous negative affect on kids because the violence and fury is honored without aftermaths, is extolled and idealized. Such violent cartoons should be avoided at all costs.The good news is that there are many cartoons that are simply made for pure entertainment, like Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Mickey Mouse or even SpongeBob SquarePants, to name a few. Animated cartoon pictures are meant to entertain. It is more than acceptable if the kids learn a worthwhile lesson from them and are positively influenced. Utmost care should be taken to avoid young kid's exposure to violent cartoon pictures as it can harm their intellectual growth. Nevertheless, introduce them to the magical world of Dido, Ben, Kewl, Tumo, Ian and Yappy. With our six cool cartoon characters you simply do not have to worry about anything. They know how to make everyone smile.

http://www.d-six.org/Learn_Through_Cartoons/impact_animated_cartoon.asp

self satisfaction

It was a great relieve after completing assignment2 which is the video clip. Mine entitled “animals’ space / why animals are different”. Please check it out ya!....ermmm, actually this is my first time doing this thing, the video clip. Never came across my mind I can do it. Even it is not so good and so creative, but at least it does give self satisfaction that at last I succeeded doing it. At first and when I was doing it, it was so tough for me. Plus the thinking box was not functioning well. As the result, I kept changing my storyline.huhu…later, I had to face the challenging of converting different files which I just explored. Of course not really expert on it. But then, along the way of completing this first masterpiece, the lecturer, Prof Maznah, the facilitators and friends help me a lot. For me, Prof and facilitators were very concern as they kept reminding about the purpose of the video clip which I think is so very important. Whatever we want to do, we should have path right? It should be clear at first step so that we know how we want to proceed. I also had been introduced with new software such as power director which I think was my hero at that time since I really need this kind of software because I found moviemaker does not have many choices. To make it short, even though there were some difficulties in completing this assignment, but it worth when I got a lot of beneficial knowledge and the experience was so priceless.

Practice makes perfect!!!

Smart Board

Salam and hi everybody..
Today is a quite miserable day for all of us, I guess. I am just making my own interpretation as me saw the sleepless face of my friends and everybody looks so exhausted. Actually today we have to hand in our assignment and I think most of us had burn the midnight oil to finish up our work. Duh….this is the students’ life. Even me myself was so sleepy….even though I have to go to the class with this kind of high affective filter, still I manage to fall in love with today’s session. All My friends also looks enjoyed with this course especially during presentation where some of us get the chance to use Smart board. The Smart board course. So cool… effective…applicable…interactive….fun…..encouraging…..Words that can be related to Smart board. I think this course is very useful for the teachers as this software is begin to be used widely nowadays and in the future. This is the tool to help teacher promoting interactive learning. At the same time teachers also can assess their pupils’ understanding by letting the pupils involve during the teaching process. I really hope can use this tool but actually still not have the confident to do so. huhu…. It looks so easy to use it but when we want to use it seems distracted. But, I know the answer is only 1…PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT! "Knowledge without practice/application is like tree without fruits" .I hope when time we were given the assignment, I will able to explore the use of Smart Board and able to use it effectively. Not to forget, Thanks to Miss Fanny!

This week, the information I got was really teacher based. Actually, I was impressed that teachers can find so many information and resources via eduweb, tvpendidikan etc. At some point, I felt quite shame because I already 4 years at teacher trainee college but never take effort to check on it. But, better late than never right?hehe.. By the way after Miss Chin explain the way to find information via those web, I already determine and wish could get benefit from it and use them wisely.
At the same time, I am still in progress completing my video clip. Even though at some degree, I face difficulty, I am so grateful that my friends always help me. And now, I really thank iman and azirah as they introduce me ‘Power Director’ as initiative to ‘Windows movie maker’. Power Director relieve me a bit as it help me a lot in editing video, pictures and lastly to produce interesting video clip. Even though I have not explore all yet, but I will, step by step. For me, this course really helps me a lot in knowing all the software and link to improve my skill in IT. From a person who is not really know about IT, I am now learning towards it. Gambate!!!!!

ASSURE + ADDIE :)

The theories and model of instructional design; ASSURE and ADDIE model presented by Miss Chin were very beneficial as guidelines for me in preparing and completing my assignment which is video clip. For me, both models are practical and very useful especially for teachers before prepare any material to be taught to pupils. Both models start with analysis phase where I think is very important. We have to really know our learner and their characteristics before we design activities for them. Like Malay proverb, ‘tak kenal maka tak cinta’, thus knowing our pupils help us identify the purpose of our activities and what we want to achieve from them. Then, we end up with evaluation. Whatever we did, we have to think back and reflect whether it is success or not. If not, why so? And how we are going to improve it later. I think the steps involve in both models are useful guidelines so that we know what we are producing and later our pupils also benefit from it. And now, I am trying to apply the models while preparing the video clip. Throughout the process I keep reminding myself about my target learners, their proficiency, my leson objectives and the effectiveness of my video….really hope I’m on the right track….

the sunny bright day...