Week 3: Working Under-pressure

It has been the third week, and I guess I’m working under pressure to get the internet access in order to finish my work. How I wish that our application for the streamyx access at our house is now approved. Only God knows how frustrated I am when the wi-fi at this café is not working. I guess I’m stressing myself for the assignment and perhaps I need some kind of refreshment after this. Well, I think it wouldn’t be a problem if I have the internet access at home. As for a person like me, I need to satisfy my psychological needs (a convenient place and facility) before I could concentrate and finish my work. Until then, I would feel motivated and comfortable to do the work. So, the moral of the story, I should be well-prepared before the semester starts for at least I won’t work under-pressure in case you need to work online most of the time.

Well, this whole week I’ve been working on the Assignment 2 which is the ‘Tutorial’ and ‘classroom procedures’. Though the Assignment 3 has been set-up by Pn. Foziah, but to be honest I still have not think about it yet. Photo editing sounds interesting and this is what I’m looking forward all this while, something I at least feel interested and motivated to learn….

Week 2

Well, it was the second week of the semster and for this week we started to form a mix races and gender group for our second assignment. Second class of "Using and Developing Resources in ESL Classroom", there are more and more terms that I learnt such as 'flashget',' bittorent', 'ares' 'FLV Converter' and so on. I was lucky to be in the same group with my group members since this is an opportunity for me to learn more about ICT from them through this subject. Task for this week was of course that we are supposed to work on Assignment 2 which is 'tutorial' thing. Now I know 'what print screen means'. As I go through the task, I was struggling myself what the task is all about and fortunately the group discussion had really help me alot and gave me a clear picture of what I am supposed to do.

Week 1

It was the first day when i entered Pn. Foziah's class for "Using and Developing Resources for ESL Classroom". We were supposed to have the class on Tuesday, but perhaps something came up. As I entered the computer lab, I wondered myself "Is it another technology class that I have to complete by the end of the semester?". As Pn. Foziah mentioned such words like "riva encoder", "keepvid" and "limewire", I totally cannot recall anything match to such computer terms in my 'schemata' as if I never come across to such terms before. Little did i realized that I am so left-out in the name of technology and this has opened-up my eyes that I really need to work on my ICT skills. As Pn. Foziah mentioned about buying at least a 4 GB pendrive for this course, I really cannot imagine that I have to spend that much (of course includes the cost on the streamyx access that we were about to set-up at our house) on the technology. all I can say is, the need of using technology nowadays, has given a big impact to my whole life. By hook or by crook I have to admit that technology skill is not an option anymore, but a 'must have' skill nowadays. As future teacher, of course I need to equip myself with all these skills so that I won't be left-out in the world of globalization..