Week 1

Hello and Welcome!

I'm Rachel Chin from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Currently a TESL student, joining a twinning between UKM-IPGKS. 

It has been a short break since the last semester. And finally, we kicked-start the 2nd year of Uni by taking 5 subjects:

#1 Teaching As A Profession [GA 1123]

#2 Linguistics For Language Teachers [GV 1214]

#3 Learners Strategies [GV 1244]

#4 Educational Technologies [GE 2153]

#5 Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia Tenggara [ZT 1033]

Well, truth be told, I thought that I have graduated from studying ICT stuff since we had a 2 months of short drilling in ICT. However, this blogspot is a scrapbook for Educational Technologies which pulled me  into reality that we're going to learn more stuff on ICT. Though I do have a little phobia on this course due to past experience, but I think that it's going to be exciting as I'm going to learn some more new stuff! ICT never fails to impress me with new knowledge. Again, learning is an on-going process. And we cannot live in denial that ICT is a great source of help to all man-kind as we get to live a life so much more easier. I believe this course will definitely help me in the future as a teacher. 

Mr. Norsarihan Ahmad will be teaching this course. And in the first week, he briefly explain to us about the outline of this subject. He explained to us what is Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. He also elaborated why we must insert ICT in the teaching field in the future. We also must understand that education is always evolving, so we must also equip ourselves with knowledge to teach the future generation and not just sticking to the old-school format.

In this first week, we were required:

1. To create a blogspot (Done!)

2. Create our own background (Done!)

3. Complete a profile pic (Done!)

4. Write a Reflection (Done!)

5. Create a Podcast

6. Follow our lecturer blog  (Done!)

7. Create a Wiki account (Done!)

We were also required to take some pictures. And to install adobe photo shop.

I think doing all of this is easy. However, laziness is the source of procrastination and the boundary to continue this is actually because of staying in the comfort zone. It seems that to fully unleash the true potential of one is to break free from FEAR= False Expectation Appearing Real.

So, I hope in the weeks ahead , I will gain a more insightful knowledge in ICT and that I'm able to survive when learning all the subject in this new semester.

Keep on Fighting!~