SUPERPersonal Blog

all of you viewers must be wondering what the heck am i babbling about various ict stuff in the previous posts.fyi,this blog was used as a requirement for my CALL(computer assisted language learning) class (to submit assignments & such).since ive created this blog,might as well proceeding to write stuff(s) about God knows what i could think of.so from now on,this blog will be used as my personal blog!yeahhh!!finally!!(my sis used to talk me into creating a blog..nah hambik kau!nk sgt!).the process of updating & decorating is still in progress tho.huhuhu!so,please bear with me..TQ!

SUPERcall class

i miss U8C CALL class...
i miss Dr Izaham's sarcasm
i miss the early morning walk to the lab
i miss the awe hearing Farous speaking in Malay
i miss Eliyas's laugh
i miss everyone in that class

SUPER WWWLesson Plan!!!

LEVEL: Form 1
TOPIC: Fairy Tales
THEME: People and social issues
TIME: 70 minutes
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Listening, Reading, writing & speaking skills
LANGUAGE CONTENT: Literature, past tense
EDUCATIONAL EMPHASIS: Thinking skills, Learning how to learn skills, Information & communication, Technology skills, Knowledge acquisition, Sequencing, and Multiple intelligences
AIMS:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Follow instructions given by teacher
2. Practice their listening,reading and writing skills using the information from the web
3. Use email application
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
1. one desktop computer per group (2-3 students)
2. speakers
3.internet connection
4. web browser
WEBSITES:http://www.leapingmatch.com/flash/story, http://www.leapingmatch.com/game_enter, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/hansel_grethel.html

PROCEDURES:
SET INDUCTION(5 minutes):
1. Teacher recaps the previous lesson which is on mind mapping and past tense
2. Teacher begins the lesson with the topic of the day
3. Teacher asks the students about the fairy tales that they know or remember

TASK 1(40 minutes):
1. Teacher assigns 2-3 students per group for each computer
2. Teacher explains the instructions to the students
3. Teacher asks students to open the website http://www.leapingmatch.com/flash/story
4. Teacher asks students to read and listen to the story
5. After finishing reading the story, teacher asks students whether they understand about the story
6. Teacher distributes tasksheets to student



7. Teacher asks students to fill in the task sheets with the information from the leaping game story(discuss in groups)

TASK 2(20 minutes):
1. Teacher asks students to play the game that provided on the same website
http://www.leapingmatch.com/game_enter



CONCLUSION(5 minutes):
1. Teacher recaps the lesson on fairy tales
2. Teacher inculcates moral values through asking questions and reflecting session

FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY:
1. Teacher asks students to read the story on this particular website http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/hansel_grethel.html
2. Teacher asks students to write brief and short summary of the story
3. Teacher asks students to find as many past tense in the story and write as many as possible past tense that they can find in the story
4. Teacher asks students to use mind map in accomplishing the task
5.Students to can find pictures of fairy tales and clipping it with the task will be given extra marks
6. Teacher asks students to use Microsoft Word application to do the task and email it to the teacher
7. Teacher gives email address to students [mizzshyleen@yahoo.com]

SUPERNelsonMandela!!

NELSON MANDELA
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.
Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.

SUPER ARTICLE REVIEW

Title: Trends in Digital Media 2007

Journal: TESL-EJ Volume 11, Number 4

Author: Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, professor emeritus at CSU, Sacramento, was lead designer for the Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive and pedagogical consultant for Live Action English Interactive. She wrote Constructing the Paragraph, a free, online tutorial for composition. With Mike Marzio, she co-moderates Real English Online for video-using students, and EVO Video 07, a group supporting language teachers using video. Author of many articles on CALL pedagogy, Hanson-Smith's books include Learning Languages through Technology (co-editor Sarah Rilling, 2006), and CALL Environments, 2nd ed. (co-editor Joy Egbert, 2007), both available from TESOL Publications. Website: Computers for Education.

Summary:

The article is about three major trends in digital media that can be important to language learning. The three trends are Convergence, Searchability, and Collaboration. Convergence is the fusion of different media (mobile phones, televisions, computers, etc) due to technological innovation, that can be used to mix media in new ways, such as uploading mobile phone-captured video into a computer an into the Internet, or watching television programmes from a mobile phone or other handheld device by remotely transmitting from a television equipped with a transmitting device (Slingbox). Users can also use this technology to transmit their own content to the internet (podcasting) Not only would this motivate learners, it also enables learning to satisfy a wider range of needs (text and video for the hearing impaired, etc). This also gives teacher in the near future new tools to construct language lessons (grammar exercises, listening/speaking practices) using instant content that is generated through television programmes. Also, through podcasting, teaching and learning becomes something that is not only limited to one classroom, but can be shared worldwide, simultaneously, such as done by a lecturer from the University of Oregon with two different locations in Thailand. Not only can it widen the context of a classroom, it can be saved and reused as material for future learning. The second trend, Searchability, uses a feature currently employed widely throughout the internet called Tagging, which enables users to bookmark content according to a keyword or term that they create. This feature enables much easier and smoother acquisition of information online, as typing a keyword into a search engine such as Google will result in a conveyance of findings that not only include sites that have the text that was typed but also content of websites that have been tagged by their creators using the same keyword typed into the search engine. in the future, this feature will enable users to share the tagged content with friends as well as store the tagged content locations as favourites. The third trend is Collaboration, which encompasses the use of combined media (audio, video, pictures, text) on the internet to create content that is more interactive, interesting and allows more information to be fitted into a single page through the use of readily-available and easy to use media editing software (Windows Movie Maker, Dreamweaver, etc). This would not only motivate teachers, but also students to integrate the use of their digital cameras, video cameras, mobile phones, computers and the Internet in their language learning environment. This method of learning would facilitate student centered learning, and develop long-lasting, even long-distance friendships. There are already a few websites and online communities that are doing this (EVO Video 2007)

My reaction towards the article

I believe that the author can be talking about how education would be shaped in the future. The use of classrooms may be replaced by the home environment through the use of computers and the internet. I feel that by using the three trends explained in the article, language learning can become a borderless experience where anyone can learn whatever they want and whenever they want. The use of video conferencing or podcasting can further enhance language learning as a meaningful experience as learners can learn language from a teacher who is a native speaker of the language, teaching from the native country of the language. They also inspire more learner centered activities by allowing learners to choose whatever content they would like to learn from an extensive list of available lessons online and material searching would be made much easier and faster through the use of tags, such as the ones featured in my blog! In my opinion, the use of the three trends would ultimately lead to a language learning and teaching experience that is more interactive, more meaningful, and more entertaining, which all points to the final goal of making learning, as a whole, more effective. And although it may seem like a stretch to expect learners and teacher of our country to reach a level of learning this technological, it is by no means impossible. Students nowadays already have access to computers and the internet. Not to mention the fact that most teenagers these days have their own mobile phones that are capable of capturing and transmitting media such as audio, video, text and pictures along with the knowledge of how to perform these actions. So, I believe that by simply creating awareness of the cast possibilities of learning created by the presence of these trends, learning can take on a whole new meaning in the future of Malaysia. I end this review with the ,ink to a video posted by the author that perfectly sums up the possibilities created by the integration of the three trends.

SUPEREngliSH Exercise

second entry peeps!!!im so sorry for the belated post..i got carried away with swine flu phenomenon.hehehe!!sorry sir!selamat hari raya! ;)

SUPER In-Class TASK 1

Hello!My name is Shaileen binti Mohd Jarjis (2005755356)

Computer software that i know to utilise are Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint. I have the knowledge in using these software because i have been using those to do my assignments & those software are the simplest software that i have ever encountered since my knowledge about computers stuff are quite mild. I'm still learning on how to use Microsoft Excel.i really need to improve myself in this because i do realize how important the use of Excel in our daily life.

I don't have computer hardware skills such as building custom computers. I wish someday i could master the skill of building custom computers or other computer hardware skills.

Computer / Internet activities that i oftenly engaged in includes downloading songs, uploading videos,searching for educational websites/articles/journals, sending emails and blogging(most recent).

Unfortunately, I don't have much opportunity to use the computer in my teaching during my practicum because i had some problems in getting appropriate computer slots that matches my English period.Plus,the computer room was fully booked most of the time.Hence,i integrate the use of computer in my class by asking the students to go back and search required articles on the internet and use them in class activity.

I did participate in few online learning such as educational websites to search for educational journals or articles pertaining to my subjects. From my point of view, engaging in online learning is a condusive alternative way for learning for we can search for various knowledge from different continent and be more open to other method of learning.During my secondary years,i used PMR/SPM educational websites to search for extra notes or exercises.

I wish i could learn more from this CALL class and improve myself.