HOW I USE TECHNOLOGY IN MY PRACTICUM

     For a students in education faculty who trained to be a teacher, Practicum is like a n nightmare. I also undergo practicum to a primary school preschool. As a practicum students the standard that people put to evaluate a students is very high. The older teacher in the school expect a lot from the students. As i understand this, my level of panic increases each and everyday.

     Although  there are some practices and exercises given for the practicum students but when i face the real school i realise that i have to do my teaching according to the capacity and the ability of the students. The only tool that support me that time is internet. 

      I use internet to search for new ideas that i can use in my teaching. Basically there are a lot of activites which are listed. But to choose the best for the students is the difficult part. To match the students level and the topic of the day is a challenge for me.

      Teacher's tube, youtube and teachers forum provide a wider range of choice. Usually i adapt an idea than i change it to the need of the students. For example i have to teach floating and sinking concept. From the search i do an experiment with egg where when i put an egg in the glass filed with water it sinks and i ask the students to do an experiment to make the egg  float. I provide them with sugar, salt and milk powder. The students work in group to find out the answer. for the students at this age, its essential for teacher to show a real object in order to make them understand better. Internet for me is a best companion during my practicum.

CASSETTE TO MP3 PLAYER

           I  cannot imagine my life without music. Music can calm and relax people's mind. Music is a proven relief for stress. I started to listen to songs since my young age. That time i see my mother turn on radio and i hear a lot of songs from there. But i cannot choose the song that i need  because the song will be played my the RJ of the radio station. When small i thought there are some tiny people inside the radio and i will try to find them but now that memory makes me smile. 

           Then my parents bought a radio with cassette player. I love this radio because i can choose the songs to play in the cassette. Usually my parents will buy new movie songs cassette. I can rewind, pause, play, forward and record songs which plays in radio.

            As time goes on my parents bought radio with CD player. Its same as the cassette player. But with CD player the number of songs that we can listen increases. Furthermore that time CD become the trend. I still can rewind, pause, forward and play the songs in CD but now i use remote control to do this tasks.

            But as i get to access to internet, i started to download the songs that i need free using internet. With CD and Cassette we have to pay money to buy it. But now i can get it for free by downloading the songs. To listen the songs anywhere i upload the downloaded songs into my handphone which have mp3 player facility. Then i bought a MP3 Player to listen the songs that i need on the go.

FACEBOOK LIFE

       

 FACEBOOK... A book with face or, a face with book, as everyone knows it doesn't have any relation with book. It is a media of communication where people can connect, communicate and share their ideas. It is internet based where people can use it anytime anywhere. And the most important thing!!! ITS FREE OF CHARGE. How cool is that? Nowadays we need to pay for everything. But as it free everybody who have internet access can have a Facebook account.

         I opened my Facebook Account at the age of 21, as its a trend that time. But didn't have courage to upload my profile picture because i didn't have the trust on Facebook privacy settings. But as time goes on i finally upload my picture in Facebook because my friend advise me to do that because only with profile picture we can find our friends that we lost connection.

          What my friend said was true because i able to find my primary school friends and get their connection back. But not only my old friends send friend request but unknown people from other country send friend request to me. But that time we have competition between our friends to see how many friends we have in Facebook. Some of my friends have 4000 plus friends. So u started to accept the unknown friend requests to increase my friends number. But the unknown friends started to chat and send messages which i think its no appropriate for me. The content of their messages also makes me to think whether i need them as friend or not. As a final decision i unfriend and block the people that i dont know. Thanks to Facebook admin to who create such a function which is beneficial everyone. Then only i started to check my privacy setting which i can adjust according to the level of security that i need.

             Facebook become a great media for me to get updated because people post a lot of latest information which is very beneficial for me. I also get to know events related to my friends and family members. When i get bored i like to play Facebook games, i tend to get addicted to it because the game is created in such a way that the person have to login and play the game everyday. But now i know how to control my temptation and now i spend my time wisely when i login into my Facebook account.