Audio Editing

Today is the day that we have to submit our assignment 2 (teaching aids) and assignment 3 (Lesson Planning). It was quite a relief as finally we have finished on our assignments. Although it was quite a lot as they were given to us at one time, we were able to complete it on time as well as learn something that is useful by using different types of resources that can be found from the internet. I believe that would be great experiences for all of us, isn't it?



Besides that, we were given time to continue on our module 2 on Photoshop cs 3 that was given last week. I found photoshop cs 3 to be really useful as we can also used them in our daily life when we want to edit on our own pictures. I would say that it is a good learning experiences for all of us as I believe we would find it very useful in our future life.


Well, that's not the end of the day as we are given three tasks to do.
Task 1: Edit a song into ringtone
Task 2: Blending two songs together
Task 3: Edit the given song into a better quality (without any interruptions in between)
Again, I found this to be very interesting as I felt to be very contented when I have finished editing each song (although it was tiring as 100% attention is needed)

Have to be very meticulous and careful in editing the song as some of the lyric or tune might just be cut off if we are not careful enough. As a result, we might have to redo everything.
Anyway, I would say that this is a good experience for us, as future teacher as we can always cut the unwanted lyric and the tune off in order to adapt the song into a suitability of the students' learning context or local context. I believe these would be very useful.

Module 2

Here comes week 9 reflection

Today, we were given module 2 by Haikal.

Well, we are ready for that but what shocked us was what he said next.

He said that all of us are required to complete module 2 by this week.

Oh my goodness, ONE WEEK? We are only given one week to do it??

We looked at one another and stare at the thickness of module 2.

Pray hard in our heart that we are able to compete it on time.

When he saw us having that blur, worry, and sad face, he assure that it is a must, reminding that we should not waste too much of time worrying.

Instead, we should start working now as module 4 and module 5 is coming in next week and we are only given one week to do each module.

Anyway, I do enjoy doing module 2 as it involves using photoshop cs3 which is very pratical to all of us that we can too, use this software in our daily life whenever we want to edit our photo.

Well, do not waste too much of time thinking and worrying, we shall start on our module 2 immediately.

As a saying goes, “Nothing is impossible in this world.”

Trust yourselves and you can do it. Cheer Up!

Time for Action

Wow... here comes another week.
what does that mean?
well, it's simple enough.
It means that reflection has to be updated again.
Hmm...what can I say about this week? Basically we were just asked to continue on our work for module 1. Time is really constraint. Without wasting any time, all of us (I dare say) took out our own laptop immediately once we entered the laboratory and start doing work quietly.
Yes, you do not see wrongly, is IMMEDIATELY...Amazing, right?

I was quite shocked too because all of us brought our laptop simultaneously without any requests from Pn Foziah...
That's a good sign, right? All of us were working so attentively on our module.
Besides, the spirit of cooperation can also be seen among all of us especially when one of us encounter certain problems in doing the module, we will always be attended by friends who know how to do it... Thanks to those friends who have helped me a lot in this module... Really appreciate a lot.
No doubt that this module is a kind of 'forcing' and keep 'reminding' us that time is NOT enough.

However, it has also taught us on a lot of things on how to convert the documents from one form to another form, how to search for certain softwares, how to burn cds etc.


I believe these will be very useful in our future life not only in education field but for other usage as well.
It is great, isn't?
Alright, that's all for this week.
See you...

Hints for you, next time will be talking about module 3. =P

Module 1

Well, time to write reflection again.

What should I say about this week’s lesson? Hahaha..

Our nightmare has come- our great MODULE 1.

This is a very handful work for us to do. We were given a big stack of module which is one of our assignments. The BIG problem is we were only given two weeks to complete it. Oh my goodness! I nearly faint when I heard this. I even ask Puan Foziah one more time if I have heard wrongly. Unfortunately, it was not a mistake. By hook or by crook, we must MUST complete it in two weeks time. How wish that I have more than 24 hours in a day. However, reality is always the cruel one.

That’s not the end of the module yet as we will still have more modules waiting for us at the back. Modules modules and modules. We have to sit there and look at our laptop all the time in order to finish up our module. However, it is too, a good experience for us to be exposed to a variety of softwares as we are given the steps on how to download the particular softwares and programs. From the module, I have learned how to download videos from youtube by using different types of software. Well, I have to go now.. lack of time in doing the module and was really worried that I cannot complete it on time. So see you next week. Hoping to see good news next week.

Technology and Learning

This week, we entered our class as usual and as usual we are given a task. For this particular task, we have to come out, design or search for the variety types of teaching aids that can be used in teaching the young children by using TECHNOLOGY. In order words, we have to find the teaching aids from internet. To do this, we need an ample of time to be ready in front of the laptop for a many many many “FEW” of hours in LOOKING for the suitable teaching materials according to the topic that we are going to teach the children for the lesson.

First of all, we were asked to find our partner which is of the opposite sex (as Pn. Foziah did not believe in boys’ production). Therefore, we were grouped by one boy and one girl. (Noted: There is only two persons in one group). Pn Foziah then assigned us the topics that we need to prepare for the teaching aids. Each group is assigned with three topics and my group has been assigned for the year 4, 5 and 6 which are on the topic of “Moving around”, “Glorious Food” and finally “Splashes of colour”. When I first look at the topic, that’s a big challenge for me and my partner, many thoughts came across our mind. "MOVING AROUND"? Is it about traveling to places or talking about transportation that move around? Alright, move to the second topic, "GLORIOUS FOOD"? From what we comprehended, glorious food means glory but wouldn’t it be weird if we apply on food? Haha…. Sounds funny right? Last but not least, the greatest challenge for both of us, "SPLASHES OF COLOUR"… sounds really fantastic. Teaching colour to kindergarten children is a piece of cake BUT NOT to the year 6 children. They are already well-equipped with the knowledge of colours. How can we make the lesson more interesting and effective when we teach the year 6 children on the topic of colour? That is a really GOOD question to be pondered on.



Coming out with these teaching aids are indeed a handful of work. It is not as easy as we imagine. We have to be really resourceful (as what this course is named) in searching for the suitable materials to be used for the particular topic. For this, we have to explore the world of internet by going in different websites to look for the materials such as flash games, flash cards, power point presentation, songs, videos etc. I shall say these are all quite challenging and tedious task to be done as we have to submit on this coming Thursday. However, what makes my life more miserable is that I lost all my work and internet teaching materials that have been collected out of a sudden when I was almost finishing my final work. All the documents just disappeared like that in front of me. I was really clueless and helpless. However, for this part, I must say I was quite thankful as my partner has helped a lot by doing more work in completing the task. Thanks a lot to him for being always supportive and tolerant with me in everything and whatever I did.


I guess that’s all for this week. See you.

Group Presentation

The time passes so fast that we are now in the fourth week of entering resources class. Today we just continue on the presentation for those groups which not yet presented their work last week.

In fact, today’s lesson started with my group as the first group to present on the power point that we have prepared a week ago. Our sub topic was “The children’s ability to grasp meaning” Basically this topic was just talking mainly on the fact that children are not born with blank slates to this world. There is always something in their mind either formally or informally. For this specific sub topic, it emphases on the intelligence of children as they are able to comprehend from the sentence given even they do not understand certain word in the sentence. Children are smart; they are able to understand what you mean by just looking at your gestures, facial expression as well as intonation. Therefore, teacher should know about the children’s development well before they are able to carry out an effective lesson in the classroom.

Next sub topic that has been presented was entitled, “children’s creative use of limited language resources”. In this topic, we can see that children are very creative in the sense of creating their own words. Sometimes it is funny especially when you see the children talking among themselves as they are eager to express themselves even though they are not using the appropriate word. Therefore, it will be good if the teacher gives group work for the children during the lesson or the children are giving chances to express their point of view on certain issue. I believe this more or less will help to build up the children’s vocabulary gradually in giving out their piece of mind appropriately.

The following up presentation was on the title of “Children’s instinct for play and fun”. What comes into your mind when this topic is mentioned? Well, it is simple. The conclusion that we can make from here is ‘children love to play’. Teacher plays an important role in integrating games and fun activities into the lesson in order to make it more interesting and attractive. This will also enable the children to learn more effectively through indirect way of learning.

The last presentation for today was “The role of imagination”. Talking about imagination, that’s the children’s favorite. They will feel very excited when they are asked to do activities which are imaginative. (Mind you: young children are really creative, you will never predict what they can do based on their enrich imagination). Hence, to encourage them, teacher should always come out with more resourceful and innovative activities which help to develop their imaginative skills. A good suggestion from the group was carrying out the activity by using the method of desuggestopedia. For this, teacher can ask the children to close their eyes and imagine that they are now in a forest, then they are asked to imagine themselves to be one of the animal in the forest, how do they look like etc. This will surely interest the children and thus pay full attention for the whole lesson without feeling bored at all.

Besides, Puan Foziah has also taught us on how to download the song of ‘waka waka’ by Shakira, the lyrics as well as the video. For these, we have to download by using a variety of software and then prepare a power point to explain the steps one by one in downloading the songs, lyrics and videos. I have too, learned that we can use the button of ‘print screen’ to capture the image of the screen. It was fun. I found this useful as we can use it to explain to other people on how to do something precisely by referring to the image that has been captured on certain web. As saying says, “Picture tells a thousand words”

Alright, I guess that’s enough for today’s reflection. See you next week. ^^

Children's Learning

The time has been passed so fast that we are now already in the third week attending our resources lesson. For today’s lesson, we have first been given the text book and were assigned into groups according to the number that we have numbered ourselves randomly. I was in group with the members of ‘ONE MALAYSIA’ as all races such as Malay, Chinese, Indian, and Kadazan are all in my group. This showed a harmonious and pleasant scene where we all communicated and discussed about the issue or the topic assigned by Puan Foziah through English language even though we are all from other races. This shows that skin colour is not an obstacle. It does not keep us apart. In fact, English has bounded us together effectively. I would say, this is a good sign to see, isn’t? Do you agree?



Well, today we are assigned on the main topic of “Working with young language learners” overally, which we were then assigned to take a sub-topic for each small group. It was an interesting topic for us to focus on as it involves a variety of issues that are worth looking into by us, the future teacher. This is because this topic will enable us to understand more on the young children’s language development as well as their way of learning second language. Thus, transform us into a more effective and understanding teacher in the future.

The first group that has been presented today was on the sub topic of “Children’s capacity for indirect learning.” The presentation was good and effective as the group members have included a lot of examples for the types of language games such as charade, hangman, guessing game as well as broken telephone together with the c o l o u r f u l pictures inserted aside on the power point presentation which enabled us to be more focus and comprehend the input better. Besides, it also can be seen that the group members have put in a lot of effort in explaining their sub-topic to us. This can be seen especially in their presentation where a video was shown on how the teacher instilled the sense of curiosity in the young children by distributing one group of the children to have one big pumpkin. This activity was then followed by the teacher asking the children to open up the pumpkin and asked them to take out the things that are in the pumpkin. I believe this is quite an effective method to be used in order to stimulate the children’s interest as the children in the video were seen excited when they are given the pumpkin and they were actually discussing among themselves on what are inside the big pumpkin. Well, this is a kind of indirect learning as the children were seen playing around with the pumpkin on the surface, but they are actually in the learning process as the teacher carried out the teaching session by using the pumpkin as the realia.

The second group has also presented on their sub-topic today which entitled “The instinct for interaction and talk.” INTERACTION is an important word especially in the classroom nowadays as it is now student-centered. The students should be encouraged to do the talking all the time. (NOT by the teacher practicing chalk and talk ANYMORE!) It is vital for the children to talk all the time as it is to be believed that the children will be able to construct their own knowledge better if they are given chances to express their opinions or any doubts on the lesson learned in the class. It would be more effective if the children are given group works that they need to cooperate and discuss among the members in completing the task given by their teacher. While the group was presenting on the topic, our lecturer has also added on that interaction engages different students at different level. Therefore, as a future teacher, we must always remember that “Each and every student is different.” We must always make sure that the children are learning and engage actively in their preference way.



The other groups have not yet presented and will be presented on next week. I am looking forward for next week presentation. I am sure there are still much more that we need to learn as it is a very interesting topic for us to look upon in improving ourselves a more successful teacher.

So, see you next week. Enjoy yourself.