BLOG for my Instructional Technology Subject

Blog is a electronic platform where a person can utilize it in different ways such as personal blogging, educational blogging, Online business, and etc.
The word blog introduced to me by Puan Rafiza from Instructional Technology Department UM. She asked us to create a blog for the subject.

For a first year student like me creating a blog was not that easy. I have to search through google to find out how to create a blog. From the instructions that i get from there, i created my blog successfully.

The first task that  got from the lecturer was to update the blog weekly about my university life as a form of a personal jurnal. it is quit an interesting part where i can share my experiances online and it will be stored on database which is like my online diary.

The second task is to upload some readings which are relevant for the course. So it is simply like storing your readings online. This links can be accessed by my friend and my links can be accessed by my friends, its some sort of online notes sharing for our readings.

Finally on the last class Puan Rafiza told us that blog is an easiest way to share reading materials or to start subject discussions so that there will be learning process at home and blog can be a communication platform for teachers and students anywhere which i find it true because some malaysian teachers are using blogs for this purposes.

Some of the blogs :
http://skorperdagangan.blogspot.com/p/prestasi-subjek-perdagangan.html
http://cikgutancl.blogspot.com/
http://cikgumasita.blogspot.com/

OHP USAGE IN MY SECONDARY SCHOOL

OHP or known as Overhead Projector is one of the famous tool used in government school 

widely before the existence of Computer Lab's in Malaysia. An overhead projector typically consists of a large box containing a very bright lamp and a fan to cool it. On top of the box is a large fresnel lens that collimates the light. Above the box, typically on a long arm, is a mirror and lens that focusses and redirects the light forward instead of up.Transparencies are placed on top of the lens for display. The light from the lamp travels through the transparency and into the mirror where it is shone forward onto a screen for display. The mirror allows both the presenter and the audience to see the image at the same time, the presenter looking down at the transparency as if writing, the audience looking forward at the screen. The height of the mirror can be adjusted, to both focus the image and to make the image larger or smaller depending on how close the projector is to the screen. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_projector)

Usually in my secondary the OHP Slides are used mostly for Science subjects such as Chemistry, Biology and Physics. Normally the slides are been bought from some educational based companies and the teachers job would be put it on the slide and project it on the screen, so that the students can write their notes on the respective subjects. 

As for me lessons using OHP is quit boring as there are no animations or interesting objects are available there. Some students (including me) will always photostat the transparencies bacause it feels very irritating the jot down every single words from the transparencies that had been projected. 

As for the teachers (esp my physics teacher) her job has been very easy because everday during her period she just project the transparencies  and ask us the write notes. After each topic she will go through the notes as fast as she could. As for me and my friends we have to take tuition in order to understand the subject. So as for me the usage of OHP in my science subjects didnt improvise my education but is makes me to lose my interest on the subjects.

                                                 Sample of OHP

MY FIRST EXPERIANCE on USING COMPUTER

HI,

For my first post i love to share my first experiance on using computer.

The word computer become synonym in my life when my father bought

computer for my family at the age of 9.

My father didnt encourage me to use computer because he scared if

i will spoil it.  Because  i was  too curious to use computer, i will try to open 

and explore the computer application by my own and sometimes i tend 

to corrupt some files by mistake.

But the more i explore it the more i learn from it. For example i learn how

to use Microsoft Word at the age of 11. I able to submit Bahasa Melayu scrapbook

by using Microsoft Word in primary school and the teachers praises me for that.

As time goes on i started to learn how to use Microsoft Excel and 

Microsoft Power Point with my father's guidance. 

But i learn more about the usage of technology from my minor course Instructional Technology 

at University. I learn about :

• Blogging
• Creating Yahoo Groups
• Spectrum
• Facebook Groups
• Creating Learning aid using powerpoint
• Multimedia Builder
• Adobe Flash Player
• Adobe Photoshop

I am glad that i know how to use the applications which are very important for a teacher

to create their own  aid for their students.

HI

Hi i am Uma Maheswary .... This is my blog for my Master's Course
PJGS6303 Aplikasi Teknologi Dalam Pelaksanaan Kurikulum (Application Of Technology In Curriculum Implementation)