Reflection Week 2

          Okay, so now we have come to the second week of lecture, we mainly studied about the ASSURE model. ASSURE model is an acronym which stands for:

          A - Analyze Learners
                By analysing the learners, we study our learners identity, including their characters
                and competencies. In our case, it would be their language proficiency.

          S - State Objective
                The objective of learning must be specific by stating terms of what student will be able to do   
                under certain conditions.

          S - Select Methods, Media and Materials
                To plan a lesson, we have to select an appropriate method with suitable format. Hence, by using
                available materials, teachers can come out with their lesson plan by creating or modifying
                suitable lessons with activitites.

          U - Utilise Media and Materials
                 Before carrying out the lesson, teachers should be fully prepared by previewing the flow of 
                 their lesson with working teaching  aids.

          R - Require Learner Participation
                 Teachers have to ensure that their students actively engage in the lesson. By doing that,
                 learners are allow to practice, providing learning feedbacks to the teachers.

          E - Evaluate and Revise
                 At the end of the lesson, teachers have to reflect on the lesson, doing self-evaluate and revise
                 the weaknesses for further improvements.

          Why are we learning the ASSURE model? For our lecture next week, we are going to teach a lesson in video form. In a group of five, we have to plan a lesson before hand by referring to the ASSURE model. Our targeted students will form 2 students on topic of our own preference.

XinTxin

Reflection Week 1

          For the first week of lecture, we had have an introduction to educational technology which involves Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, regarding their differences and also their evolution across time.

          We were then given our first task by our lecturer, Mr. Norsarihan, to create an official blog for the course GGGE2153 Educational Technology. This is to ensure that sharing of course materials as well as online discussion can be carried out fast and easy at anywhere and anytime of the day. This blog also will acts as an online portfolio in order to keep track of my personal progress in this particular course. And so, here I am.

          I do not have much problem in creating a blog as I have already experienced it during our last semester where we took up the course Computer in Education. However, I would try to improve my skills by exploring more ways of personalising a blog, making it as attractive as possible. Previously, I am not so sure in downloading template from websites which offers free blogger template. Hence, I am now discovering about how to download and edit the HTML of a blog's template. Besides that, we also received a task which is to add a podcast (a brief self-introduction) to the blog via PodOmatic. I managed to record my voice and uploaded it to my podomatic account and then published it. Next, I embed the clip and hope to obtain the code to be pasted on my blog. However, the clip do not seem to work properly on  my blog. I have no idea what is wrong. It appears to be just a black blank box. I will try again and look up for a solution.

          The second task would be to create a wiki account through http://wikispaces.com/. Wikispaces allow us to as well share materials and hold online forum or dicussions. Doubts and questions can be posted online to seek for the lecturer and coursemates' opinion. Everyone would be able to be involved and contribute ideas. I have created mine too.

          For both my blog and wikispaces, I updated my profile and picture. Let's get started! Have fun!

XinTxin
     

Welcome back!

Making through the last semester, we are now in Semester 1 2011/2012. Once again back to blogger for another course for this semester GGGE2153 Educational Technology. Time to continue our journey to explore more and more new stuff in the world of ICT.




CHONG XIN TXIN
B. Ed TESL IPGKS-UKM
Faculty of Education
GGGE2153
Educational Technology
Tel: 0198759717
E-mail: cxintxin@rocketmail,com / cxintxin@gmail.com
Blog: http://xintxinc.blogspot.com/ .