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=)

Peer and Self-Assessment for SMART board Project..

This week, we had a chance to improve our own developed SMART board activities..
There are some selected group had presented their works..For my group, we were not been chosen to present but we had to point out the two good things for one of the group presented and two ways on how to improve the presentation for another group..
Through out this session, I found out that to produce a good material there are 3 main keys..
1Appropriateness: To the level of target group (Eg.language used, clear rubrics)
2Suitability: Content based on selected CS
(Eg. Topic that familiar and according to their interest)
3Creativity and Originality: Attractive to pupils and visible
(Eg.font, colours and background)
These criteria really helps me a lot to improve my developed..Thanks to all=)
huhu!!

The making of SMART board kit in process..

Haha..I think SMART board had make my life a bit 'saiko'..hihi..
Anyway, the most difficult time for me was to plan the activity..First, the activities which reflect the Curriculum Specification that I had chosen..Next, to generate the most appropriate activities and attractive to the level of the target group..
Hurmm..This assignment was not simple as we can see.. It needs passions,efforts..As well as mature thinking..For now, I will try my best to search meaningful materials for this assignment..Let us experiment with the SMART board tool!!!huhu=)

Developing Interactive Teaching activities..

INTERACTIVE..I believe this powerful word challenge our thought, skill, creativity and critical thinking to produce a good teaching material.. Developing INTERACTIVE teaching activities require us to be analytical, innovative and practical..

With referring to ASSURE model, analytical in sense of knowing the characteristics of the pupils targeted.. We have to analyze pupils’ learning style, their level of proficiency, prerequisite knowledge or skills, emotional, cultural or economic issues that might hinder them from learning effectively.. Therefore, this knowledge about pupils’ characteristics will help us to determine the Learning Outcomes to be achieved by pupils at the end of the lesson..

Additionally the second step of ADDIE model is designing phase. For me, we have to be innovative at this stage.. Innovative makes an activity to be appealing to pupils.. However, as teacher we also have to be practical with the graphic design so as to ensure that the presentation of the activity approachable to them..

Good luck to all.. I hope we all manage to create INTERACTIVE teaching activities for this assignment.. Gambate!!

Not just an ordinary board

Schools usually fulls with notice board, white board or black board..But maybe 10 years from now, our schools, universities and local institutions will be using the SMART board..I believe this SMART board is one of the latest educational project in Malaysia..huhu!

Knowing SMART board in this early time feels like the first time when Computer being introduced those days..A USEFUL and EFFECTIVE classroom should be provided for students..

SMART board as a tool in language classroom could be one of the solution for our schools..The teaching and learning process can be more INTERACTIVE and MEANINGFUL with the use of SMART board..However, as this is new for all of us..we should learn and explore first before using it in classroom..

This semester, we had the opportunity to get used with SMART board.. So let us grab this opportunity to master the skills..Therefore, we could be the GENERATOR for the future teaching profession.."DARE TO MAKE CHANGES" spirits should be in all of us..

Finally, after producing our own video for learning purpose, best of luck from me for our next task which is to produce an INTERACTIVE and MEANINGFUL lessson by using SMART board..Gambate!!

Video Editing in Process

Life changes as time changes..
Before this, we had to find, adapt or modify etc resources from library or internet..And now, we ourselves had to produce the material..Now I realized that to make one was harder than to adapt one..For my assignment, I had already taken few scenes..
But somehow I still could feel the worries..Worries of how well my production will be..I knew that this course will be challenging..Just like the feeling of fighting with my own self..Build up my own skills and endurance..As well as my passion in teaching..
That's interesting..that's really interesting..
We have to think about our client which is the STUDENTS..meaning this video is not for anyone ELSE BUT MADE FOR STUDENTS..This is to make this video to be a success..Now let's do our best shot guys..huhu..This is the experience once in a lifetime, being both producer also actor or actress..btw we have to try hard to convince our client..
Good luck to all =)