Exam Day

Honestly, I only read the notes posted in adec as the preparation for today's exam. of course, I felt insecured that I kept asking my friends what they had read for the exam. Only a few of them did read the notes given by our seniors.

As usual, we rushed to the tables for we knew the tables would not be enough. Lucky for me. i managed to get one table. I got seated and was soon ready for the exam. However, the fact that some od my coursemates failed to get chairs were asked to find chairs somewhere else. I got anxious for I couold not wait anymore.

At last, we got the question paper. The questions sounded tough for me. Initially, I had no confidence to attempt those questions but since i was able to answer the first question well, the confidence was built. I answered the other 3 questions well but time was lacked. This lacked of time management made me very anxious. This anxiet did influence on the quality of my answers. I kept rushing and my ideas kept diminishing. So sad...

I was in fact the last person to hand in the answer sheets. Thanks to Madam Foziah for being so considerate. She gave me more time to rearrange my answer sheets and she was patient enough to wait for me to tie all my answer sheets up. All in all, i could not comment much on my answers for I was really exhausted.

Now, 3 hours had passed and I could still feel the exhaution. This proved how much energy and thinking I had put on in my exam and hopefully madam Foziah will b satisfied with my answers.

Tired and Exhausted

I was among one of the earliest to reach the computer lab today. Well, honestly it was quite predictable to have many latecomers for today because the day for assignment 3 submission was finally here.

Once madam Foziah opened the doors, most of us rushed in and busy compiling our assignments according to our groups. Seeing us so busy and messy, Madam Foziah gave us half an hour's time to do it. However, the time given seemed not to be enough. There were some members who were late. Thus, the compilation of the assignments were never complete.

Having waited for long enough, Madam Foziah began to ask us to form groups. And she started distributing a cd each to a group. Those cds contained interactive games and lessons which can be used in our lessons in the future. We were to explore whatever softwares contained in it and we were successful. Those softwares have successfully grabeed our attention and we could not stop exloring them further. Sadly, time was insufficient. MAdam Foziah then downloaded some softwares in the only lecturer computer and any of us who was interested could download it from there. Of course, I did not fail to retrieve the software. Hehe... Thanks to MadamFoziah for she was the one who guided me through the process of retrieving the file.

And of course, i was totally exhausted after all the hurdles i went through the day before to complete my assignment. Now, I want to concentrate more on my coming text and portfolios. Hopefully, I do not procrastinate this time for procrastinating had made me really really tired.

I rushed to the class today worrying i might be late for the class. Once i was late, the doors would be closed and I would be left outside the class and missed the lecture rightaway. Fortunately, the doors were still ajar and i let myself into the lab. Madam Foziah was seemed to be so excited sharing her raya experience with a few girls while other busying themselves talking among themselves. Sharing their raya holiday too, perhaps? i had no idea. i was more to thinking how i could get rid of all my sweat. I felt so hot due to the rush.

At last, Madam Foziah started talking to the whole class. Honestly, I disliked this moment for i was very worried to receive another new task for the week. Thank God...she instead gave us the whole lecture time to proceed to our assignment 3. I was so happy that I moved to 'my computer' rightaway to continue with my assignment. the fact that I saw Fikri showing Madam Foziah a school text book worried me. I did not even refer school textbooks for my assignment. i then asked Madam foziah about the matter and sadly I was told to do so. My mood became worse when I was told that my topic must be the one i drew lot a few weeks before. Oh.. I needed to start the assignment all over again.

MAdam Foziah advised me to use materials or teaching aids which are applicable to the present situation of teaching in shcools. Thus, i erased my plan of integrating smartboard in my assignment for it is not applicable to all malaysian schools at present. i instead starting asking ideas from Fikri for any interesting ideas which i could use in my lesson. Edore joined in our conversation and i could not thank her enough. they both gave me an exceelent idea using video or songs as set induction.

Of course, i worked on my assigment rightaway after class. it was obviously too much work to handle but i think i can manage the tension for I know I will not be the only one to experience all this tension. All my course mates as well as myself will go thorugh this hurdles and hopefully we can make it.

Wrong mood, wrong time

This week was our group presentation. I was very nervous for I was suffering from toothache. (Producing a new wisdom tooth). I was very much in pain and not much help i could get from the painkillers given by a doctor before. Initially, I just sat there and did not even bother to come to the front to join in my group presnetation for my tooth ached badly. As my group member presented, the guilt started to crawl in. I was beginning to feel bad. I felt myself selfish.How could I expect my group members to know what my slides were? How could I expect them to do all the presentation when I just sat there and listened? Lastly, I could not bear the guilt anymore that I walked up to the front. Not long after that, my slides came in and I tried hard to present my slides. I did not want to disappoint my group members for they had presented the previous slides really well. Initially,I tried hard to ignore the pain and fortunately, I managed to. I felt great and proud of myself.And of course, my group members were really proud of my as well.

After the presentation, we were given a chance to ask anything regarding the third assignment. I felt I had something to ask but i could not think of one. Maybe it was due to the fact that i had not started on it yet and also because i am already in the raya mood.I felt guily again for if only I had started on it,I would have had all my doubts (if there are) answered.

I am now half way through the third assignment. So far so good. I have not encountered any doubts yet and I hope this will go on until I hand it in.Haha..

P/s Selamat Hari Raya...

Wish 30 hours a day

Expectedly, I received a new assignment today. It is undeniably a task that requires a lot of work. I need to write four lesson plans!!!!!!!!!!! Oh no... I wonder if I could manage my time well. This was because Madam Foziah gave us additional weekly tasks namely creating namecard, pamphlet and newsletter. Besides, I need to discuss with my group members to come up with a power point presentation based on the handouts she gave us. All these were too much. I wonder if I could finish doing everything. To add, I had many other assignments for other subjects. Ssomehow,I wish there are 30 hours per day or if only Madam Foziah would consider giving not too much work at a time.

I somehow know Madam Foziah meant well. I seriously have learned a lot throughout this course. I am no longer as iliterate as before. Honestly, I was proud to teach my little brother the other day on how to extract and convert an audio. I felt good when he said I was awesome. It was a big deal for me for I have learned and known a great deal about softwares. However, I really wish Madam Foziah could give those work a little at a time for it seemed impossible for me to manage. I slept little (I am suffering from insomnia) for I tried my best to do everything she required. This was because I knew she meant well.

All in all, I wish to learn a lot from this course but hopefully the time given is sufficient for there are many other tasks of another courses waiting for me. Just the time...

'Idea-less'

I was so stressed. My pair partner, Mark too had no idea how to extract video and also on manipulating the video "Earth Song'. Honestly, we felt that this video was of a little higher level for primary kids. We felt that the main message of the video was about 'deforestation' and 'global warming' but could we teach kids those terms?

The due date was nearing and yet we had not started anything on the video. We then tried to calm each other down and focused on another video we found. It was 'The House Song'. This video was good except for a part of the song that we did not really like. it sounded like "... Kitchen. Not chicken". At times we laughed but at times we felt annoyed too. No choice because it really can make the pupils beware of the most common mistakes of diffentiating the two words.

We were still waiting for the good idea to come in. We thought about it hard until two days before the date due, we forced ourselves to crack our head.By hook or by crook, we tried to come up with an interesting idea since early morning. Until when the hot sun got hotter (afternoon), the idea came in. We were so thankful that we got started rightaway. We divided the task and much co operation was there. We decided to create an e book on that. Teaching animals might sound easy but we felt it the most appropriate thing to teach to primary kids for it is simple and can be absorbed easily. The storyline was created fast and so did the animations as well as the tutorials.

The only things that required much of our time were the lesson plan and its rationale. It was fortunate that it was a pair work. Things became so much easier with two brains. HAHA!!!!!!!!!

All in all, we are contented with whatever we produced for this second assignments.We felt it excellent enough (haha...) and flawless. Of course, we really hope this assignment reaches madam Foziah's expectation.Pray hard!!

An Unexpected New Task

We were alot noisy today. Why? This was because Madam Foziah was not around. Some of us were already in the raya mood buying and selling bus tickets, tudungs and also kuih-muih. They seemed to be so happy. I was happy to see them happy because we had not been feeling happy lately. Too many assignments lately. Having assignments and tasks from this resources course was already more than enough. What more from the other subjects? Besides, I felt happy because my malay coursemates did not get affected at all by their fasting mood. They felt energetic still and I was grateful.

However, there were some of us busy doing and discussing the second assignment. Wah... There was indeed too much work to do. Thus, we were quite surprise to receive another new task from Madam Foziah. Honestly, we were quite worried if we could finish everything on time.

As a result, we stopped doing the second assignment. Instead, we started concentrating on planning our time and the new task well. We tried hard to discuss on how to deal with all these.

Fortunately, we could still think rationally after all the hustle we were going through. We divided our task well and I was in charged of producing a material on reading. The real problem came when we needed to decide on the topic. I did not really mind about this for I was very flexible to any changes. So, my members took such a great time to come up with a topic 'interest'.

Having to do the reading part was not a problem for me. I did an e book before this. So, all I needed to do was to apply whatever skills I used on e book in this particular task. I faced no problems. Thus, I came up with an e book and its tutorial very fast. The only problem I faced was to explain on how this ebook can be used in a classroom.

I needed to imagine on how to make the lesson flowed the way I wanted it to be yet to make full use of the resources I came out with. This was actually a big task for me. What if it would not work? Worrying too much just would not help. Thus, I used all those knowledge I have gained in the previous institute and tried to apply them in this situation. Hopefully, Madam Foziah accepts and loves the idea. Pray hard!