Technology assists Teaching!

Hello ladies and gentlemen, well today I was given a task to use a computer with internet connection to search for any materials which can assists me in teaching. Basically, our lecturer has shown us that there are tons of videos in Youtube, EduTube and other websites which contain educational videos which can be benefited by our teachers in school nowadays to teach their students actually.

Therefore, we were given some time to explore a little bit to find our own video to share with our classmates, and we were given task to use the video that we searched to teach.

I came up with an interesting yet a quite cliche idea where Asri (my classmate) and I were paired up to find a video to be as our teaching material. We came up with a grammar song actually haha...


Here's the link for the song !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NOav4Xx1c

Well, this is just an example of how we can benefit from the technology nowadays to implement it in our teaching methods. Basically, the teaching and learning process has been different from what it used to be. Anyways, it is a great idea that we use the technology created for us as students are also can be easily engage with this type of learning material.

Thank you for reading =)

Hot Potatoes - Create Your Own Fun Excercises!

Assalamualaikum, on the previous class, I was exploring a website called Hot Potatoes. This website offers you an application to create your own excercises. There are several types of excercises that you can create such as Cloze Passage, quiz, crossword puzzle ETC. You have to download it and use it straight away. Simple!

Here are the links to my excercises that I have created!

http://uk3.hotpotatoes.net/ex/110923/WBORHXFT.php

Cloze Passage excercise

Fun with adjective!

http://uk3.hotpotatoes.net/ex/110923/GFWBWTGK.php

Have fun trying!!

ZAP Dramatic Website Review

Assalamualaikum and very good day to all of you guys.

So today i am going to write about a very fantastic and interesting website called ZAP DRAMATIC. Well, this website is created for the users to test their ability in communication and pyschological aspect that involves your critical thinking skill and problem solving skill.

There are a section called DRAMA that has a few FREE simulation video games that require your own answers to solve the problems in it.

So, there are 3 free games that can be played without signing up an account.

The first episode would be the "The Desperate Dad" . This episode require you to persuade Ted, a father that went crazy and traps dynamite to his chest and looks for his ex wife whom, he believes, has abducted his kids. Acts as a police, you need to persuade Ted not to blow himself up in the public.

The second episode would be the "The Hitch-Hiker". The story is about Yale and Helen are in the midst of a marital dispute when the insane Ted intervenes.

The last fre version would be "The Track Meet". A tricky game of ethics and personal responsibility to yourself and the team.

Well, all of those games really require your own thinking skill in order to solve any problems occured. Any single mistake will make to any negative consequences to yourself and even to the others.

Well, it is a good website to be explored. See ya on www.zapdramatic.com ! Have fun and happy learning :)!

FanFiction.net review

Assalamualaikum and a very good day :)

Well, yesterday we were assigned for a task to write a review or comment about other people's story in FanFiction.net

There are several sections that you can choose eg. Manga, travel, food, movie etc

So,after i have done commented on others works, then I have written a story, a modified story of Dragon Ball. It was my first try actually hehe..

On a breezy evening, after Goku had a chaotic fight with Freeza, it seems like the war has just begun. Freeza was defeated by Goku, after received a huge blow of Kamehameha. He was barely able to avoid the attacked, but as soon as Goku raise his power to a super saiyan, Freeza was no match to him. On that evening too, a mysterious man appearead. Goku was curious because that man would not speak at all even questions were ask to him. That man, suddenly attacked Goku. Goku was injured, due to his last fight with Freeza.

As Goku had no idea who the man was, but one thinh for sure his power was not a joke. As Goku avoided some of his attack, the building that received those blows was destroyed in pieces. Such terrifying power!

Goku was no afraid, but that man was able to put a match on him. Without any hesistation, Goku charged himself with more power, his power was overwhelmed. The earth was shaken for a few seconds. The man too began to release his true power, the buildings around them were destroyed like a piece of cake!

Goku began to attack him first, a fine blow by using his strong fist towards the man. The man received a direct blow on the face! Bammmmmmmm! He was thrown out to the ground. Goku was calm and did not underestimate his opponent too. The man stood up, smile and grin like an evil. 'Hahahahahahaha', such terrifying yet amusing laugh from him!

'Goku, today is your last day to breathe!' After saying that, the man charged forward and gave an explosive blow to Goku. Goku was unable to keep it with his speed and received a few blows from the man. Goku tried to avoid it but it seems like the man was too fast for him to keep up with.

Then, Goku released his super power and again, he decided to use kamehameha to end this meaningless fight. 'Kaaaameeeeehaaaameeeehaaaaaaa' the man received a direct hit and the mask on his face was destroyed! Goku looked at his opponent's face and he was so shocked! The man has the same face as him!

How could this be possible...? It was nightmare...

Well, it is obvious that I am writting nonsense, however it trains me to write something which i found very creative or innovative. IT HELPS students to actually improve their reading and writing skills as well. Well, that's all for this post ! Tq

Review - WebQuest.org

Assalamualaikum and very good evening to all of you guys!

Well, in this post I will be reviewing on a website called Webquest. So,what is Webquest?

"A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium. Since those beginning days, tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland."

It is an inquiry-oriented lesson format which widely used by the teachers. It is a veru useful and indeed a very helpful website for learners or teachers.

First of all, through this website, we can explore and gain a great deal of information that related to education. Moreover, it helps students to find reliable and trusted source of information about educational materials as well. Furthermore, the usage is quite beneficial as the materials that are offered in this website are absolutely good for fellow learners.

Secondly, there is also a section called forum whereby you youself can engage and have a conversation with other users or visitors of this website to ask and gain more information and knowledge about anything specifically educational purposes. Sharing is the best option in order to get more unexpected knowledge.

All in all, personally, I think it is a great website to be explored its functions and more applications to be tried out. Thus, if anyone of you might want to try it yourself, here's the website:

http://webquest.org/index.php

Good luck and good bye :)

Amnesty.Ca Review - Current Issue for Human Rights

Hello and a very good day for all of the readers !

So, today I am going to share with you guys about a very useful website which updates and promotes human rights' issues around the globe.

Here's the link

www.amnesty.ca

In this website, you can write up any suggestions, comments or even petitions straight to the people who are responsible for a particular issue. Thus, we were given a task from our lecturer to write up a comment or petition for a issue that we chose in the website. For instant, I have written up a petition regarding the women's right at Columbia where the issue was the women at there were being raped by soldiers. Therefore, I wrote a simple write up and comment on that issue to the president of Columbia. It enhanced my critical thinking as well as i need to comment whatever I feel on this issue. Without any hesitation, I truly commented what I felt about those women who are being raped by soldiers. It is really pathetic when you think about that. It might not yet happened in our beloved country, but by seeing other countries are encountering this kind of problems, I bet the moral value is that we should love and be grateful of our nation.

It is very informative and useful website at the same time where the news and issues can brush up your general knowledge. So, i think this is just a short review of this website, you can try to explore this website if you have the time, it will be a great opportunity for you to know more what is going on around the world!

Hence, this is the end of this post, good luck and good bye people =)

Review - Quia: Create Fun & Interesting Activity for Your Students!

Assalamualaikum and a very good evening to all of the readers !

So, basically in this post I will be reviewing on a very helpful and convenience website for the teachers.
A week ago, I had reviewed on a website named Neko. That website is for learners to learn basic English through simple yet interesting  applications and games. However, in this short review of a website named Quia, it's purposes are almost opposite to Neko.

Quia is a website for teachers or educators to arrange and create simple yet fun activities to their students. There are various types of games which can be created by the users to engage a more challenging and to attract students' attention in their learning process. Thus, today we were being assignment by our lecturer to create a simple activity by using the application in Quia. So, I chose Jumble Word as my first trial in the website!

Amazingly, it is quite easier to use than it seems. At first, I was quite unable to understand on how to create a quiz or an activity by using this website. However, after an hour of listening and digesting the tutorial section, finally I created an activity!

So, here's the link, try it out, do not be shy =)

www.quia.com/jw/474506.html

I think that's all for this review, I hope that anyone can be benefited by using this website, because I'm planning to explore and create more fun activities to ..update my blog , to assist students with learning English perhaps? Anyway, that's all and thank you for reading. cya !

Review- Neko

Assalamualaikum and a very good day! So, this post is gonna be a short review about Neko website. What is it actually? Well, it is a website where the developers of the website are a bunch of japanese and canadian who worked together to established a fun and interesting site to learn English.

There are a great deal of fun applications to learn English in the website. Thus, we are given some time to explore the entire website during the class in lab. Having difficulty at first where we have to download adobe shockwave in order to see and try all of the applications in the website, we waited for an hour to download it and proceed with our exploration.

This website has a lot of simple application to learn English. Although some of them might be  a little bit hard to play with, however, the games are pretty fun and interesting actually.

Well, if you want to try out on your own, just check it out by yourself. Here is the link:

Www.neko.ca

Good luck! :)

I Am Who I Am

“What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure – Samuel Johnson”

ABOUT MEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEee!!

Assalamualaikum and a very good day to all of you guys ! First of all, allow me to introduce myself and hoping that you guys will get to know me better, perhaps…hmmm. Alright, let’s begin, shall we? I’m being named by my lovely parents as Muhammad Syafiq Farhan Boo b. Omar Boo and people like to call me as Farhan. I love my own name as it is very unique in my own perspective and it is very long as you can see. I’m mixed of Chinese and Malay as my father is a converted Chinese Muslim while my mother is a pure Malay. I just turned 20 2 days ago and I guess it would be a new journey and new experiences as well as the term ‘teenage’ has left me, like forever. Besides, I was born in Malaysia and I have to admit that this nation never fails to impress me with it’s own uniqueness and I really love the environment here . On top of that, I am currently studying B.Ed Teaching English of a second language in a superb and awesome university called Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). So, why is it awesome as being stated by me? Well, it is the only top university that has the researches about the plantation and also the campus is currently supporting and organizing a very creative campaign named ‘Green Campus’.

Alright! Enough bragging about my awesome university, I would like to proceed more about myself. The reason why I am taking TESL as my main course to study is because I have the dream, passion and motivation to become a successful educator in the near future. Being an educator is like a noble yet challenging task for me. Truthfully, I wanted to become an educator, but before I had decided to take TESL, I was actually confused of which subject should I teach if I want to become a teacher or an educator. Well, finally the decision came in my mind as I took foundation in TESL after I finished up my secondary education and right now, I am in UPM pursuing my Bachelor Degree. The main reason why educator became my choice is simply because I am doing this for the sake of the people and also the nation, whereby I would like encourage and instill the value of appreciating knowledge and also to uplift the competence level of English usage amongst the fellow Malaysians especially all of the students in every degree and level. I have to admit that it is not an easy task, this challenge needs time, effort, passion and self motivation before we can encourage other people to assist us to make it into a reality. Therefore, before I can be an educator, I need to fill up myself with a great deal of knowledge and experiences first, just as the saying goes “experience is the best teacher” !

Indeed, for me =)

Moving on to the first experience ever that I have ever encountered with computer, I remembered that I like to draw things for fun by using a software called paint. I am sure that you guys have ever at least heard of it or maybe used it as I did, drawing things for fun, ahaa! It was so much fun back then as that was my first experience of using computer…I was like 6 or 7 that time? I am not sure but it is around that ages. Computer has indeed become one of the most priority electronic gadgets as it is being used widely all over the world for various purposes such as in business field, administration, educational field and researches. After I have learned to use computer properly, it is a very beneficial and giving a number of advantage to solve many problems and also to entertain ourselves during leisure hours. For a student like me, having a computer to assist me finishing up all my assignments is undoubtedly convenient enough and a part of that, I also enjoy myself by watching videos, surfing the internet and having conversations with my friends on the social network when I am free. Inevitable, computed is one of the major and prior need for human being.

Real life paint…not very skillful in using this…

Artificial paint, in the computer basically, clean and free ~ try it

I think that’s all for my very first post in this beautiful blog of mine, thank you very much for reading =) keep in touch and goodbye!