Lyve is full of MIRACLES

Living things are miracles..This is a forward email that I received from my fwenz.. Do read this..
VERY AMAZING article to read=)


Moral of the story…..Eat well!!

This is very interesting. A friend sent this to me. It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish..... all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow learners... God left us great clues as to what foods help what part of our body! God's Pharmacy! Amazing! A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes. A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All o f the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food. A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function. Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys... C elery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body. Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them). Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility. Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts. Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions h elp clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body. Please don't break this even if you only send it to one person. Look at the date when this was started. Thanks NOTICE AT THE END, THE DATE THE CANDLE WAS STARTED. GONNA GIVE YOU GOOSE BUMPS. I am not going to be the one who Let it die. I found it believable --- This candle was lit on the 15th of September, 1998. Someone who loves you has helped Keep it alive by sending it to you. Don't let The Candle of Love, Hope And Friendship die! Pass It On To All Of Your Friends and Everyone You Love! I received this today for the 1st time and I hope it comes back someday again. Please keep this candle alive!

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Finale REFLECTION~

Seems like we are nearer to the end of course but it is not the end of learning process..For me, this is the beginning of learning that will never stop..

Life long learning is the most accurate phrase to explain this..I believe that as long as we live, we are learning in each angle of our life..From this course, I experienced new ways of teaching and learning..These strategies had broaden the way of thinking thus improvise the way we are living such as Fish Philosophy..
Communication is an integral part of learning..This class exposes me to communicate by sharing and caring with one another..I would like to express my gratitude to Prof Raja Maznah and all the tutors for being great models to us..Not only in class, but I find that Prof and our tutors had always put their best efforts to communicate wit us through ADEC..A lot of reminders and messages has been given which help and ease us a lot..Though I wasn' t able to reply them constantly but they did made my day=)
In addition, I also learn to communicate with the audience (Video making and Smart Board activities)..I start to think from others point of view..For instance,how to communicate with students through the materials?I believe that we had to know their characteristics, interests in spite of referring to the syllabus..Hence,I had improved my communication skills through Blogging, Chatting online..Hoping that I will improve my communication skills more and more..

Assignments of Blogging, Video making, Developing IWB activities really challenge my Critical thinking.. There are many considerations to be taken for all of this assignments..As for me, I questioned myself with (Wh' questions) to deal with assignments..

Here, Problem Solving coming into the session..Many strategies from different aspects would be thought of before making the final decision..These things had made us to be thoughtful.. Video making and Developing IWB activities were been assigned to be in group work..

Team Work are needed..I gained experiences from working with new friends..Respecting and accepting each other points of views gets in the way that I would like to describe as Ethics and Professional Values.. Working in group is a good idea for me in learning..Peer learning makes me realized the strengths and weaknesses of individuals..Thus, improved each one of us and complement each other.. Discussions were made through out the time given in order to produce the best works..
Leadership is also been developed from this course as we work in group.. In overall, I really satisfied and enjoyed my days in this course.. Thank you to Prof Raja Maznah and to all the tutors that had helped us a lot to discover new skills.. With that,I end my words here=)

Maximizing the use of COMPUTER LAB=)

Recently, most of the schools had been provided with a computer lab for each school.. This action had been taken as the initiative to fulfill the requirement as been stated in Syllabus and Curriculum Specification.. English Language, Mathematics and Science are among the subjects that had been emphasized for integrating Information Technology (IT)..

For this reason, first and foremost teacher should be well-equipped with all the related to Information Technology (IT) such as computer skills, software, web sites etc. This is to ensure the learning run smoothly, and teacher knows how to deal with the upcoming technical error.. Next, teacher in-charge of the computer lab should always take good care of the computer lab (make sure all computers functioning well).. Therefore, the computers are enough to be used by pupils ..

From my perspective, teachers are the responsible persons to maximize the use of computer lab..They should model to pupils to use the available Educational Websites.. Consequently, pupils will able to apply this knowledge to search the information they needed.. In order to support pupils' learning, teacher might provide them with the lists of Educational Websites that they can use for finding additional materials..

Next, teacher need to prepare tasks that require pupils to to use the technology..For illustration, making portfolio on certain topic by searching the information from the Internet.. Thus, teacher can bring pupils to the computer lab and facilitate them to do the task..

Blogging can be also applied to make the best use of computer lab.. Teacher should build their own blog despite of the school website..This will help pupils to keep in touch with the teacher.. Furthermore, this could be a way for pupils to ask help from teacher regarding their studies and also sharing the information with their classmates..

In the nutshell, there are many ways to promote the use of computer lab.. This is teacher's accountability to make the most of computer lab.. For that reason, we should upgrade our skills and put the efforts so that we manage to use the computer lab to the maximum=)

FUTURE classroom (^,^)

Classroom of the future should be reformed to be a place where the learning environments are imaginative and stimulating.. This is to inspire pupils to achieve more in their learning..

First of all, I believe that we should have more school so that there will not cramped too many pupils in a classroom..Nowadays each classroom, usually consists of 40 and above pupils..I think this condition is not comfortable for both pupils and teacher..As an example, my mother had been teaching Standard One pupils fr almost twelve years now..She told me that for every year,there must be about 43 to 45 pupils in her classroom..She found that, this condition had affected some pupils to focus during teaching and learning..They were easily distracted as they were quite playful..Moreover, with their short attention span, pupils could be uncontrollable.. Therefore, more schools should be built to make sure that pupils can be placed at least 25 persons in each classroom..

Secondly, each teacher should have an assistant to help he or she during teaching time (manage group, prepare teaching aids).. The assistant also should help manage the clerical works for teacher..For instance, filling the report card, individually identification card for recording health, pupils' background etc.With the help of an assistant, teacher can focus on teaching process and they can mark pupils' work..This way, teacher is able to identify pupils' weaknesses and strengths.. Teacher can improvise teaching and help pupils with their problematic areas in learning..

Next, each classroom should have their own LCD projector..Last year when I went to school for practical, I noticed that almost each classroom had LCD white screen..However for each school, there was only two LCD projector available to be used for the whole school..This might be the problem for teacher to plan teaching aids that need the use of LCD projector..Additionally, technicians should be employed at least five persons for each school to take in charge of setting the LCD and so on..

Then, I believe in future classroom, each classroom should have a Smart Board..Therefore, pupils will be motivated and as Smart Board is a useful tool for visualization..Computers are also necessary to be provided to each pupils..Future learning need to be more on pupil-centered..Hence, wireless connection should be improved..Teacher can use online Educational Websites, Videos for learning purposes..Essentially, each school had been given wireless connection..But from my observations, it was not reachable to the whole school.. The connection can only been used in the office or staff room but not in classroom..So, wireless connections should be broaden and fixed to be used to the maximum.. Air-conditioned may be considered for each classroom to provide optimum learning environment to pupils and teacher..

These are things that pictured in my minds for my future classroom..I believe that our Malaysian School can be improved by testing out these ideas and construct of how should a school be designed in the future.. For me, it is not a waste to invest for Education Line because our children are the future of the nation.. To develop the nation, it should start from the early stage of childhood..So, these ideas should be considered=)
Finally, may our Education will progress from time to time..

Salam Aidilfitri=)

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to Prof Raja Maznah, all the tutors and fellow friends..
May all of you enjoy Hari Raya..Have a save journey to your hometown and take care=)

FISH Philosophy..

According to http://www.charthouse.com/content.aspx?nodeid=1066,

"FISH! is a skill that provides the process, tools and language to generate the skills necessary to design a workplace full of inspiration, creativity and innovation.
FISH! creates a common language. A language that will help improve your culture by using four simple practices – Be There, Play, Make Their Day and Choose Your Attitude™.
FISH! is a wisdom that everyone can embrace."

From my point of view, this article showed me a new way of living our lives..
It is simple, but had a deep meaning..I agreed that everyone could apply this philosophy in their lives.. As teacher to be, Fish Philosophy is a great model for us..
We should try to Be There for our pupils..Treat pupils as individuals..Therefore we could gain respect and trust from them..
Play should also comes afterwords..Games such as Guessing Game could improve pupils' learning..This will also attract their attention thus make learning as an easier and fun process..Additionally, this would motivate them to use the language..
Make their day can be done by knowing and acknowledging the pupils our such as call pupils by their names..This could simply show them that the teacher cares for them..
Choose your attitude..I believe that as an individual, we rule ourselves..Therefore, we had to choose our attitude..We are as what we are thinking and done..Choose to be POSITIVE person, think and act POSITIVELY..If our insidious is POSITIVE, automatically we will manage to bring POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE to people around us..Therefore, teacher must be a role model by posing POSITIVE ATTITUDE to pupils..This is essential in order to guide pupils to become a better person..
We need not wait till we get into school..What we can do are:
For example Fish Philosophy, we can adapt this philosophy into our life from now onwards

1Be there for our family and friends
2Play in sense of enjoying our moments together
3Brighten our life by making their day
4Choose the attitude to acknowledge others
as simple as 'smiling and hi!'

Its good to practice it from now on because
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE(^^,)

IWB..What's more should be considered??

Once again, this week we were asked to present the IWB activities..
I was afraid this time around..Prof. Raja Maznah had mentioned that she would randomly choose anyone from us to present our own built material..Luckily, the presentations was done just like the other class..Meaning a representative from one group=)huhu..That's more what I like..-happy(^^,)
From my observations, one more important element that should be considered by all of us was CREATIVITY..
According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. An alternative conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new..
Therefore, I would say that creativity is divergent thought.. Creativity will differentiate one's work with the others..Besides, I believed that creativity is concerned with ORIGINALITY and APPROPRIATENESS..
So, how to foster the individual creativity namely producing IWB activities?

Nickerson provides a summary of the various creativity techniques that have been proposed. These include approaches that have been developed by both academia and industry:

1. Establishing purpose and intention
2. Building basic skills
3. Encouraging acquisitions of domain-specific knowledge
4. Stimulating and rewarding curiosity and exploration
5. Building motivation, especially internal motivation
6. Encouraging confidence and a willingness to take risks
7. Focusing on mastery and self-competition
8. Promoting supportable beliefs about creativity
9. Providing opportunities for choice and discovery
10. Developing self-management (metacognitive skills)
11. Teaching techniques and strategies for facilitating creative performance
12. Providing balance

Nickerson, R.S. (1999). "Enhancing Creativity", in ed. Sternberg, R.J.: Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

Hopefully these techniques will help all of us to develop our own creativity.. Not to forget the Originality and Appropriateness in building the IWB materials..
Best Wishes from me=)