WEEK 1 (20 JULY 2010)

Today is the first day I attended the class of PBEY 3102 Using and Developing Resources for the ESL classroom. Before the lecturer entered the Computer Lab, one of my friends, Shazni asked me a question “Nizam, what we are going to learn today? Resources?” within a second I replied “Oh, I am pretty sure we are going to do our own resources...of...teaching aids...word cards, pictures, relias, etc”. I was thinking that this subject will be quite similar the same thing as I have been done In Institute Pendidikan Guru Malaysia, campus Ilmu Khas where I used to do a lot of teaching aids especially for my micro teaching sessions.


After a few moments, I get to know the lecturer of this course, Puan Foziah. She greeted us with warm welcome to this course. She smile sweetly and told the whole class that she is going to teach us for this particular subject. I feel comfortable and pretty much relax. However, when she briefly explains to us about this subject, I was totally SHOCK! She told us that we are not going to do anymore teaching aids like word cards, relias, and pictures in this course. Then, she continued told us that in this course we are going to learn about how teachers can create our own resources by using technology. At this point, I questioned myself “What TECHNOLOGY?” Frankly speaking I was shock and I am wonder how we are going to create resources for teaching aids by only using technology. For sure, no more teachings aids like I did in I Institute Pendidikan Guru Malaysia, campus Ilmu Khas. Then, I told myself that I am going to learn something new in this course. This makes me motivated to learn this course! Right after this, I told Shazni that my prediction of this course was incorrect.

Puan Fouziah specifically assigned us to do these three things:




 We have to create our own Blog





 We have to buy 8gb Pendrive each one of us







 We have to install Photoshop CS3


BlOG? Frankly speaking, I never have a Blog before. I have heard and seen the Blog but I do not know how create a Blog. With the help of my friends, Visva and Kumar I finally create a Blog for this subject. Puan Foziah told us we should post our personal and individual reflection from week 1 to week 14 in our own Blog. Today, I manage to create a Blog. At least I learned something new today!


Pendrive for 8gb? At first, I was shocked why must each one of us have a 8gb pendrive as it is too big gb. I only have 2gb Pendrive that I rarely used it. So what for to buy 8gb pendrive? In addition, I am sure the pendrive will cost me a lot of RM. However, Puan Foziah told us that this pendrive will be used for us to keep our resources of teachings like pictures, animations, videos, songs, games and etc. She also added that this pendrive will be also use for us to keep certain software that related to this course. So finally I realize that, this pendrive will be useful and I can see its practicality of having it. Moreover, I can bring it anywhere as I go. Puan Foziah also told us that If we are posting in rural area, we just need to have a laptop, the pendrive and perhaps broadband.

Install Photoshop CS3? What’s that? I never heard it before. According to Puan Foziah this software is used for us to edit photo. I immediately Google to find out more about Photoshop CS3. It is “Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems…” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop_cs3). From this definition, I get to know it is published by Adobe System and it can be used to manipulate image or editing pictures. At first, I am so worried because I did not know where I can get this software. In addition, I am not good in downloading it from internet. However, today, right after this class, I manage to download the Photoshop CS3 with the helped from Teoh Jen Sen. Thank you! I realize this software will be helpful for us to edit pictures so that we can produce a clear and quality picture as teaching aids. This is because; I realize that pictures in internet sometimes may not suits with what we are looking for. Thus, I with the use of this software may help to solve this problem.







In short, from this first lesson, I realize that this course offers me a room for learning and discovering technology in more depth specifically in creating our own teaching recourses. It is hoped that, at the end of this course I will be a techno-savvy teacher!!!