Week 6

~Module 1 Touchdown on MK2!~

It is the 6th week for the course. A cooling morning. Pn. Foziah gave us the first module. I started to feel that work is coming and I should be more serious now in this course. The module is on Conputing and Internet Skills. She explained step-by-step to us on how we should start doing our modules. We then used the time we have to start doing our modules.

As I look at the module, it is quiet thick. I asked myself "Is it ever possible for me to finish this?" However, I am still required to do it. So I braced myself up and take on in this journey of modules. Pn. Foziah also mentioned that tehre are 5 modules altogether. I told myself that night, "Just do it! You can Woo!"

Although the workload is heavy, I view it as a challenge and goal to be accomplish for myself. As I go thorugh the journey of Module 1, I realized that I began to learn more about downloading from the internet to create resources for students. I began to enjoy it!

Week 5

Back to MK2. Pn. Foziah taught us how to download a music flv. video using Moyea Youtube downloader.

We were divided into pairs, a men and a women. A KBSR list of chapters are being sent to all of us. After that, we were assigned either three or four chapters each. Each pairs are then given the task to search for adequate and interesting teaching aids from the internet for the allocated year of student.

After that, we started on the chapter 2 of Halliwell book.

We were then asked to borrow one text book, year 1-6 content page and scan it.

Week 4

Week 4 started with the continuation of the presentation. My group was the fifth. We presented on sub-topic 1.2: Children's creative use of limited language resources. In the presentation, we explained that children are actually creative with grammatical forms and concepts. For example, a child who said "don't unring" when she wants to tell a telephone caller to wait. This happens when the need to communicate has been temporarily intensified by some activity which regenerates real interaction or calls on the imagination. This means that when there is a spontaneous need to response to what someone have just said. Even as adult, when our mind do not know the exact, for example, English words, we will use other words from other language or a newly creative word to communicate with others. There are a few ways to enhance children creative language skills. One is to provide occasion for them to express themselves and the other one is to encourage children to construct language game actively.

Personally, this is a very interesting fact which educators can utilize to help students learning. Language games like hot seating can gives children occasion to express themselves as questions are being posted by teacher and students spontaneously. Teacher should focus on every word that the students speaks and when any "creative" grammatical forms and concepts came out, teacher should take note and correct the students indirectly. Perhaps teachers can identify the most common "creative" mistake made and he/she can teach that to the whole class as a short lesson itself. On the other hand, if it is just one student, teacher can meet up with the student one by one or just whisper to the student the correct concept or word to be used.