My Reflection

Basically, for this entry, I need to give my reflection regarding:-

1. Why do you think evaluation of CALL courseware, websites, materials etc important?

In my own personal opinion, it is very important for teachers and educators to evaluate any CALL courseware, websites, materials and etc that he or she is going to use for learning. The reasons why I think that it is important for us to evaluate all these because to determine whether the CALL materials are learner fit or suitable to the students level of proficiency in that particular class that we are going to teach. Not only that, evaluation is important because we can see whether the CALL courseware or website that we use is able to give positive impact to the students, where the students apply the knowledge that they get in class and bring it outside of the classroom. Meaningful learning is when students are able to relate what they had learnt in class with the real life situation that they had undergone. When teachers or educators evaluate the CALL materials, the authenticity of the materials is very important so that students did not think that what they are learning in class is useless. Not only that, it is important to evaluate whether the CALL materials are practical enough (in the sense that it is easy for teachers and students to use it). What is the use of superb CALL materials but they are not easy to use and to implement?.These are the reasons why it is important for us as educators to evaluate the CALL courseware, website and materials from my point of views.

2. How do you think Hot Potatoes JCloze may help your students learn English?

Yesterday,during CALL class was the first time I used the Hot Potatoes JCloze in order to create English exercises. It was hard at first but then,it was very interesting to me once I got to know how to use it.In my opinion, Hot Potatoes JCloze might be able to help my students in the sense that,when my students want to fill in the blanks with answers,they can get the hint by click on the '?' button. Then they will try to guess the answers (provided they know and still remember what they had learnt) until they get the correct answer to fill in the blank. For example, if the blank requires them to give the preposition of direction as the answer, they will keep on guessing the correct prepositions until they get the correct answer.This will encourage the students to think and never give up trying. Not only that, with interesting text, appropriate font, layouts as well as exercises that suite their level, InsyALLAH, Hot Potatoes JCloze may help my students to learn English. Not only that, by using Hot Potatoes JCloze, it will encourage students - centered learning as well as to give opportunity to students to use technology for learning. This is definately will interest them more to learn compare to chalk and talk method.

In class Task 2 - The Pencil By Ali Majod

For task 2, I have choosen the short story The Pecil By Ali Majod. Basicly, this task sheet is for Form 1 students and they need to choose four moral values based on the short story. When they are doing this task sheet, they need to copy the moral value and paste in the lower boxes.

First post first blog

Assalamualikum and Hi to all,

My name is Nur Hani Laily Bt Ramli.I am one of the students from U8B and currently doing my Degree in TESL.This is my final semester in UiTM Shah Alam and I am looking forward to get myself busy with all the assingments for this semester.Hehe...hopefully I can cope with all the stress throughout the semester.Amin.

Talking about rating my self based of my knowledge in camputer skills, I am in an INTERMEDIATE level.Not to say that I am trying to be humble but that is the fact about me.The only time that I really make use of the computer and internet,when I wanted to look for online journals,articles and any other additional information that I can use for my academic assingments.Not to forget,to check my mails,youtube and facebook.I am not into online or computer games.I do not really know much about the computer itself and this is my first time creating a blog.For the first half and hour,I was struggling to create this blog and the internet connection was so slow.Liyana and I were about to gave up but we realized that this blog was really important for us.

I only have few knowledge about software and hardware.Throughout my 5 years in university,I made used of the microsoft word,powerpoint presentation,microsoft publisher and microsoft excel to do my assingments.These are some of the software that I am familiar with and know how to used them.Like I said earlier,I am a novice computer users and I only know the basic things.As for the knowledge in hardware,I only have the basic knowledge about it,the important parts of the computer.Technically, I am not in 'good terms' with technologies.

However,I do experienced learning through online.During my secondary school,because I am from the science school,my Maths teacher taught us using some of the website that was very interesting,for better understanding and to captured our attention.I admit that at that time,my classmates and I were very mesmerized with the lesson.My history teacher was very good with computer and technology and during her class,we learnt history in computer lab.It was fun,easy learning and most important thing is that,the history was no longer a boring subject for me.

During my three months practial in Chinesse school, Yes,I did incorporate technology in my lessons especially for Literature.The students had the stigma that Literature equal to Shakespeare and Shakespeare equal to weird man with weird words(This was according to my students).So they thought that Literature was hard and what I did was,I used videoclips or songs to make my students understand the poems/shortstories better.They really enjoyed it and more or less,the understand the basic of the poems/shortstories.But,to me,technology seems do not like me much.There was time where I wanted to show my students about this particular videoclips for the lesson,the videoclip cannot be play and the worst part was,my mentor was at the back observing me.*sigh*
In my own personal opinion,it is good that in nowadays scenario,as future teachers/educators,we make use of the computer/technology in class because it is more interesting and we can do lots of things with technology.On top of that,students are more advanced with technology and they make use of it 24/7.But i still consider to make use of it during my lesson because like I said earlier,technology can be kind and at the same time can be cruel to me.

As for my expectation for this course,I hope that Prof Izaham and my friends that are good with technology can and will help me throughout my semester.After I heard the explanation given by Prof Izaham during the first class,I was really scared and worried because I know that I am not really good with it.But,I am willing to learn very hard in order to get a good grade.Hehe..InsyALLAH I was hoping that the assignments were not that hard and by the end of this course,I can proudly say that,’I LOVE TECHONOLOGY FROM HEAD TO TOE”.InsyALLAH.
Till we meet again.Assalamualaikum