Today, Puan Foziah had introduced to us how we can exploit technology in finding teaching aids. Puan Foziah told us that by just Google the internet, we can find variety of teaching resources. She also suggested to us that as future teacher, we should be creative in searching and adapting teaching resources so that we can use it later. She also reminds us about the list of topics as in the following:

List of Chapters: KBSR Syllabus

Unit	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
1.	Hello	Hello	Home Sweet Home	What Do You Like?	Family First	Wonderfully Made
2.	Making Friends	My School	My Neighborhood	Looking Good	Travel and Adventure	Proud to be Malaysian
3.	My Body	Counting is Fun	Sea World	Healthy Living	Saving Our Environment	Fit as a Fiddle
4.	Places In My School	Liza’s Family	Animal and Pets	Story Time	Animal and Us	Magical Movements
5.	My Family	Making a Robot	Once Upon a Time	Getting Connected	Beautiful Harvest	Sounds of Music
6.	Learning About…	Story Time	Fun Times	Moving Around	Glorious Food	Splashes of Colors
7.	How do I get there?	Follow Me	Working People	Living in Harmony	People	Beautiful World
8.	Today Is	The Animal World	Before and Now	More Stories	Inventions	Environmental Issues
9.	Let Us Learn More	In The Garden	Flora and Fauna	Come Rain or Shine	Culture and Traditions	Exchanging Messages
10.	Let Us Put It Together	Food I Like	Beautiful Malaysia	Malaysia, My Country	What Games Do You Play?	Remarkable Achievers
11.		Fun Time At School			Where Do You Live?	Growing Pains
12.		Story Time Again			The Internet	A Day to Remember

Then, we are assigned for a task whereby we need to find teaching resources from internet.

My partner and I we given these topics:

YEAR 4: Unit 7 (Living in Harmony)

YEAR 5: Unit 7 (People)

YEAR 6: Unit 7 (Beautiful World)

As I Google the internet, I realize that we can find and download many teaching resources that suitable to be used in English lesson. Thus, this is something new for me as I never thought that we can rely on internet. Before this, I always thought that, we need to use lot papers, pastel colors, drawing block to make teaching aids. This is really consuming time and energy.

Thank you to Puan Foziah for the last week lesson. I finally learnt on how to download videos and songs. This really helps me when I carry out the task given. I believe that as future teachers we should be independent and good at technology as technology can be effective tools for teaching.

Puan Foziah also gives us format for our task. It really helps to organize our suggested teaching resources systematically in table. The format is in the following.

Year 1, Topic 1 My body

Stages Of the lesson	Kinds of teaching aids	Rationale	Comments
Induction	Video Explain the content of the video · Video in soft copy · Video in hard copy · Here u need to printscreen	Why do u want to use that particular teaching aids for that particular stage of the lesson	**
Pre
While
Post
Follow-stage

(Need not have only one TA for one stage (the more u have the better

You need to submit:

One word document (hard copy)

One set softcopy of everything ( in a CD)

Dateline this Thursday: before 4 pm

As I find the teaching resources, I notice that we cannot simply choose any teaching resources to be downloaded. It may not SUITABLE for Malaysian setting or not in line with KBSR syllabus. So, personally I think that we should consider these criteria:

ü Must have educational background/values of teaching aids.

ü Modify the material if necessary.

ü Find plain English or local language(s) in the active tense

ü Avoid irrelevant material.

ü Appropriate text which using bold, appropriate size and style fonts and color when finding teaching resources.

ü Use colorful pictures when the message can be conveyed in this way.

ü Refer to KBSR syllabus.

ü Must be interesting and attractive to students

ü Promote teaching points

ü Practical and suits for Malaysian classroom context.

As future teacher, I realize that I can search and download variety of teaching aids from internet such as:

FLASHCARDS

Example of Links:

http://www.esl-kids.com/flashcards/animals.html

http://www.esljunction.com/esl-efl-flashcards/animals-farm-flashcards/

PICTURES

Example of Links:

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/teaching_extras/flashcards/nouns_people_places_things/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionarysubjects/verbs.shtml

VIDEOS

Example of Links:

http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/mp4-free-download-kids-safe.html

http://3gpsearch.com/v/?i=ZENGcy0wQjVYMkU=

SONGS

Example of Links:

http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/t023.html

http://freekidsmusic.com/

INTERACTIVE WEB

Example of Links:

http://www.englishforum.com/00/interactive/

http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/interactive%20english.htm

ONLINE EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Example of Links:

http://www.playkidsgames.com/

http://funschool.kaboose.com/

POWEPOINT SLIDES

Example of Links:

http://www.worldofteaching.com/powerpoints/english/nouns.ppt

http://www.classroom.jc-schools.net/la/activities/pptresources.htm

ONLINE ARTICLES/STORIES

Example of Links:

http://www.articleonlinedirectory.com/

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

ONLINE ACTIVITIES

Example of Links:

http://www.syvum.com/online/english.html

http://activities.bradleys-english-school.com/

In conclusion, today’s lesson extend my creativity and see technology as effective alternative for teaching aids/resources compare to traditional teaching aids. It is hope that I can apply what I have leant to the classroom when I am posting later. To Puan Foziah, thank you, it really HELP!