If you had the chance would you utilize ICT (CALL) in your teaching?
If I had the chance, I would obviously utilize ICT ( CALL ) in my teaching. Based from what i've gone through during my practicum, students will be more excited and eager to learn when there is something new for them. The ordinary and typical chalk and talk is not practical anymore. Plus, being teenagers they love something that is related to their life and internet is obviously today's lifestyle for them. So, I would really love to integrate ICT in my teaching as it can grab my students attention and increase their understanding toward certain topics.
How do you think it would help (or would not help) your students to learn English?
In my opinon, students will gain a lot of advantages if teacher like me utilize ICT in my English classroom. They will be more interested thus pay more attention to things that I teach them. Students attention spans are very short so to help them stay focus in class and comprehend the whole learning process. I believe this is due to the fact that students are attracted to something that is unusual and colorful. Other than that, CALL can help my students to find exercises and activities that suit their proficiency level. This is vey useful for my weaker class as they can find easy and non complicated activities that involve songs and pictures to improve their English. So, they can have fun while learn English.
What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of implementing CALL in the Malaysian schools?
The advantages of implementing CALL in Malaysia school is that students have the opportunity to get in touch or communicate with teacher or people worldwide whenever they want. When there is questions or issues that they do not understand, they can simply email or chat with them. The only disadvantage is that students will easily get distracted thus lose their focus in learning. There will be time where students browse other things and neglecting the fact that they need to browse only the webpage instructed by the teacher.
What are the barriers in implementing CALL in the Malaysian classroom?
As far as i concerned, the only barrier in implementing CALL in the Malaysian classroom is :
FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS
The Education Ministry should allocate more money to buy computers and provide internet connection in every school. The fact that there are lack of ICT facilities in school to the extend every 10 students need to share one computer whenever there is a need to use computer is really frustating. The school should be given more money to provide internet and computer for the students. If there issue of money has not resolve, the idea of implementing CALL in Malaysian classroom would never be realistic
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
LESSON PLAN BASED ON CALL
DARE TO DREAM
Level: Form 4
Time: 45 minutes
Aims:
1) Find information of famous people in Malaysia.
2) Fill in the information in famous people worksheet provided in Word document.
3) Exchange the information obtained with each other
Technical requirements:
1)One computer per student or group 2-3 students, with an Internet connection and a Web browser
2) LCD projector and screen
Preparation:
1. Web page : www.nicoldavidonline.com
2. Prepare word document worksheet.
3. Search Engine : www.google.com and www.wikipedia.com
Procedure:
· Teacher greets the students.
· Teacher shows photo of famous people to students
· Teacher asks students whether they know the person.
· Teacher asks them to guess the topic for today’s class.
- Teacher explains to students that they are going to learn on the topic of famous people in Malaysia.
- Teacher goes to www.nicoldavidonline.com and show the web page through LCD projector to students.
-Teacher asks students several questions:
1) What is Nicol’s full name?
2) What is her contribution to the country?
3) What is her biggest achievement in her career so far?
- Teacher explains to students that they can obtain all the answers for the questions given in the webpage.
-Teacher asks for a volunteer to navigate the webpage and demonstrate to the class on how to gather the necessary information to answer those questions.
- Teacher asks students to list down Malaysian famous personalities that they know.
- Teacher then put students in a group of three.
- Each group will be asked to find information on famous personalities in Malaysia. Each group will get different famous personality.
- Students are asked to open famous people word document’s file in their Word Document.
- Students are asked to type in all the information of their assigned famous personalities in the word document.
- Students are asked to use search engine such as www.google.com or www.wikipedia.com to find related web on their assigned famous personality.
- Each group is given 15 minutes to complete the task.
- Once it is done, representative from each group will present their findings to the whole class.
- Teacher highlights the moral values of the lesson.
- Teacher summarizes the lesson by acknowledging the importance of having a dream and work hard to achieve it. .
Level: Form 4
Time: 45 minutes
Aims:
1) Find information of famous people in Malaysia.
2) Fill in the information in famous people worksheet provided in Word document.
3) Exchange the information obtained with each other
Technical requirements:
1)One computer per student or group 2-3 students, with an Internet connection and a Web browser
2) LCD projector and screen
Preparation:
1. Web page : www.nicoldavidonline.com
2. Prepare word document worksheet.
3. Search Engine : www.google.com and www.wikipedia.com
Procedure:
· Teacher greets the students.
· Teacher shows photo of famous people to students
· Teacher asks students whether they know the person.
· Teacher asks them to guess the topic for today’s class.
- Teacher explains to students that they are going to learn on the topic of famous people in Malaysia.
- Teacher goes to www.nicoldavidonline.com and show the web page through LCD projector to students.
-Teacher asks students several questions:
1) What is Nicol’s full name?
2) What is her contribution to the country?
3) What is her biggest achievement in her career so far?
- Teacher explains to students that they can obtain all the answers for the questions given in the webpage.
-Teacher asks for a volunteer to navigate the webpage and demonstrate to the class on how to gather the necessary information to answer those questions.
- Teacher asks students to list down Malaysian famous personalities that they know.
- Teacher then put students in a group of three.
- Each group will be asked to find information on famous personalities in Malaysia. Each group will get different famous personality.
- Students are asked to open famous people word document’s file in their Word Document.
- Students are asked to type in all the information of their assigned famous personalities in the word document.
- Students are asked to use search engine such as www.google.com or www.wikipedia.com to find related web on their assigned famous personality.
- Each group is given 15 minutes to complete the task.
- Once it is done, representative from each group will present their findings to the whole class.
- Teacher highlights the moral values of the lesson.
- Teacher summarizes the lesson by acknowledging the importance of having a dream and work hard to achieve it. .
Sunday, September 14, 2008
EXERCISE ON HYPERLINK
Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, on October 2nd 1869. His father died when he was still a teenager. At the age of 13 he married Kasturba Gandhi who was three years younger and the marriage lasts for 62 years until her death in 1944.As a young man Gandhi left India to study law in London. Then he spent two decades working in South Africa securing rights for Indian expatriates. It was during this time that his political reform through non-violence which he called Satyagraha was born. This movement meant resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa, total non violence, which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. This way, when he returned to India, Mohandas Gandhi emerged as a political and religious leader in the fight for independence from Great Britain and was accorded the country's Father of the Nation. India freed itself from Britain on August 15th, 1947. Five months later, on January 25th, 1948 Gandhi was shot by a conservative Hindu.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Amendment of time......i did it on time
huhu.. i have submitted my assignment at 10.40 pm..but somehow the time showed in my post stated 1.40 am. huhu...hopefully sir izham would not punish me...hehhee... i did submit before the deadline ......
CALL WEBSITE EVALUATION..huhuhu..
this is the submission of second assignment in CALL. i hope my honest and transparent evaluation will be useful for the development of integrating ICT IN CLASSROOM.
the website's address - http://www.englishmaze.com/main/home.html
1)this particular website is targetting both students and teachers who want to explore the English Language deeper. it is useful not only for students but to teachers as well. this is because, this website provides various type of exercises to enhance student's understanding and activities for teachers to explore and integrate them into their teaching classroom. One unique thing about this website is, there is no exact requirement of what proficiency level one needs to acquire to be able to utilize all the activities as it provides activity that vary in the level of difficulty. having to say that, it does not restrict and limit its contain to intermidiate level of students but due to the varierities and options given, even low proficiency students are able to engage in the activity.
2) for this particular language web, users are expected to first, choose their proficiency level. it is advisable for the users to start off with beginner level first before junp to the higher level. this will be very useful to first time users who do not know on which level they are in. next, they are expected to choose topic that interest them the most. this particular program provides all kind of topics that will cater to everyone's need. the next thing users need to do is to try out all the activies provided within the selected topic. users are expected to learn and explore the language on their own so it is entirely up to them, on what activities will they want to do.
3) in order to operate and utilize this application, users are expected to know basic internet skill. As long as users know how to log in to the web, nothing needs to be worried. This application is very simple and user friendly, as users need to only read and follow the pop in instruction and within second, they can explore the whole web.
4) Honestly, this application did reminds me of my lower form learning activities. The only difference is that, i did not use computer at that time. My English teaher at that time loved to give us work in pieces, and it is our job to either fill in the blank, seperate the big chunk of words or even translate them in our mother tongue. Beside that, this application provides various opportunities for users to learn on how to speak and listen in English and one of the activity that really bring back memory is to listen to BBC recording. I can still recall the time where my teacher carried a huge radio to class every Monday and we had to listen to the recording and figure out what is it all about. As computer was not a privilage at that time, my poor teacher had to record all the recording by her own and even worst, she had to carry a huge radio all the way from staffroom to class.
5) in my opinion, this website is best used in independent study lab. This application offers individual learning so it will work best if each students is given a computer and he or she will be able to explore the web on his or her own pace. This will help to maximize the learning opportunity as each student has different level of proficiency and asking them to share the same activit will somehow limit their creativity. Teaher does not need to assist the students as instructions given are clear and understandable.
6) This application is paralel to contructivism learning theory as users or students are actively engage in all the actvity which offer full use of the language. In this application, students need to use all the knowledges or inputs that they have learnt or newly learnt to complete all the task. This is very much similar to what constructivism theory claimed- students are active participants in a task in which they “construct” new knowledge based on experience in order to incorporate new ideas into their already-established schema of knowledge. The other learning theory that underlie in this application is the sociocultural theory. This theory states that learning is a part of a desired community and learning that communities rule of behaviour and all the actvities in this application are very much related to society. Every activity is based on one issue which they can relate to their daily life.
7) This application is very much related to Vygostky's constructivist theory as it gives ample opportunity to students to use their newly acquired language together with their existing knowledge. Through all the activies in this applicatio, the understanding of certain topics will be greatly enhanced. Other than that, this application is also parallel to Gradner's Multiple Intelligence as it provides all kind of activities that cater for every level of students, be it low proficiency to high proficiency. Each activity has different type of difficulty, so students will have the privillage to choose any level of difficulty that they think suit them.
8) In relation to my evaluation, computer can be considered as a replacement of teacher. The traditional teacher-students method is no longer relevance as the duty of correcting the students has been taken over by the application. With this application, students will be able to do independant learning without having to depend on the teacher anymore. Everything can be done individually, so obviously teacher is not required if they were to use this application.
9) I dont know whether the use of computer in school has been widely utilized but for me, i would not hesitate to use this application in my future work. I dont see the disadvantage of using this application to my future students, so most probably i will integrate this application soon. Plus, i can save a lot of time and reduce workloads. At least, the burden and the hassle of producing test papers as well as marking them will be lessen. Plus, I will be able to promote independent learning to my students which I think will help them more than spoon feeding style.
10) The only suggestion that I have for this application is to improve its graphical aspect. I dont really like the color sheme of the web as it seems dull and unattaractive. It is important to make the page look nice and colorful as it will attract student's eyes. As for the recommendation, I
hope teachers all over the nation will consider introducing this application to their students.
the website's address - http://www.englishmaze.com/main/home.html
1)this particular website is targetting both students and teachers who want to explore the English Language deeper. it is useful not only for students but to teachers as well. this is because, this website provides various type of exercises to enhance student's understanding and activities for teachers to explore and integrate them into their teaching classroom. One unique thing about this website is, there is no exact requirement of what proficiency level one needs to acquire to be able to utilize all the activities as it provides activity that vary in the level of difficulty. having to say that, it does not restrict and limit its contain to intermidiate level of students but due to the varierities and options given, even low proficiency students are able to engage in the activity.
2) for this particular language web, users are expected to first, choose their proficiency level. it is advisable for the users to start off with beginner level first before junp to the higher level. this will be very useful to first time users who do not know on which level they are in. next, they are expected to choose topic that interest them the most. this particular program provides all kind of topics that will cater to everyone's need. the next thing users need to do is to try out all the activies provided within the selected topic. users are expected to learn and explore the language on their own so it is entirely up to them, on what activities will they want to do.
3) in order to operate and utilize this application, users are expected to know basic internet skill. As long as users know how to log in to the web, nothing needs to be worried. This application is very simple and user friendly, as users need to only read and follow the pop in instruction and within second, they can explore the whole web.
4) Honestly, this application did reminds me of my lower form learning activities. The only difference is that, i did not use computer at that time. My English teaher at that time loved to give us work in pieces, and it is our job to either fill in the blank, seperate the big chunk of words or even translate them in our mother tongue. Beside that, this application provides various opportunities for users to learn on how to speak and listen in English and one of the activity that really bring back memory is to listen to BBC recording. I can still recall the time where my teacher carried a huge radio to class every Monday and we had to listen to the recording and figure out what is it all about. As computer was not a privilage at that time, my poor teacher had to record all the recording by her own and even worst, she had to carry a huge radio all the way from staffroom to class.
5) in my opinion, this website is best used in independent study lab. This application offers individual learning so it will work best if each students is given a computer and he or she will be able to explore the web on his or her own pace. This will help to maximize the learning opportunity as each student has different level of proficiency and asking them to share the same activit will somehow limit their creativity. Teaher does not need to assist the students as instructions given are clear and understandable.
6) This application is paralel to contructivism learning theory as users or students are actively engage in all the actvity which offer full use of the language. In this application, students need to use all the knowledges or inputs that they have learnt or newly learnt to complete all the task. This is very much similar to what constructivism theory claimed- students are active participants in a task in which they “construct” new knowledge based on experience in order to incorporate new ideas into their already-established schema of knowledge. The other learning theory that underlie in this application is the sociocultural theory. This theory states that learning is a part of a desired community and learning that communities rule of behaviour and all the actvities in this application are very much related to society. Every activity is based on one issue which they can relate to their daily life.
7) This application is very much related to Vygostky's constructivist theory as it gives ample opportunity to students to use their newly acquired language together with their existing knowledge. Through all the activies in this applicatio, the understanding of certain topics will be greatly enhanced. Other than that, this application is also parallel to Gradner's Multiple Intelligence as it provides all kind of activities that cater for every level of students, be it low proficiency to high proficiency. Each activity has different type of difficulty, so students will have the privillage to choose any level of difficulty that they think suit them.
8) In relation to my evaluation, computer can be considered as a replacement of teacher. The traditional teacher-students method is no longer relevance as the duty of correcting the students has been taken over by the application. With this application, students will be able to do independant learning without having to depend on the teacher anymore. Everything can be done individually, so obviously teacher is not required if they were to use this application.
9) I dont know whether the use of computer in school has been widely utilized but for me, i would not hesitate to use this application in my future work. I dont see the disadvantage of using this application to my future students, so most probably i will integrate this application soon. Plus, i can save a lot of time and reduce workloads. At least, the burden and the hassle of producing test papers as well as marking them will be lessen. Plus, I will be able to promote independent learning to my students which I think will help them more than spoon feeding style.
10) The only suggestion that I have for this application is to improve its graphical aspect. I dont really like the color sheme of the web as it seems dull and unattaractive. It is important to make the page look nice and colorful as it will attract student's eyes. As for the recommendation, I
hope teachers all over the nation will consider introducing this application to their students.
Monday, August 4, 2008
when time seems to move so fast
aha.. got my first n second assignments for CALL course...
two works within two weeks..
too much works to be done within too limited time..
well...time management is d key...
but how on earth i'm going to manage my time..
if there is only 24 hours in one day...
should start working from now...
am sooo going to summit mall to get my CD ROM
n once i got dat...all my headaches should be gone...
----------------vie---------needs.......................more....................than.............24 hours..................................................
two works within two weeks..
too much works to be done within too limited time..
well...time management is d key...
but how on earth i'm going to manage my time..
if there is only 24 hours in one day...
should start working from now...
am sooo going to summit mall to get my CD ROM
n once i got dat...all my headaches should be gone...
----------------vie---------needs.......................more....................than.............24 hours..................................................
Sunday, August 3, 2008
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