Sunday, October 10, 2010

~Week 9-Assignment Presentation(*Blog)

This week's class is mainly about our presentation. After submitting the assignment, we need to present our project which is about the Web 2.0. As a team, we had chosen Blog as a platform that can be use in teaching Science subject.

This is the link for our blog which is http://6adilscienceclass.blogspot.com/

The topic for this blog is ‘Animals Extinction’

Here are some pictures of our group presenting our Blog:

The objectives of this blog are:

1)Students would be able to learn in a collaborative way through interaction and sharing

of knowledge between themselves and with teacher.
2) Blog is going to be used as a platform of discussion as sharing between the students

themselves and between students and teachers.
3) To implement blog as a vital part of the class teaching.

There are several pages in the blogs and each of them has their own purpose.

1)Lesson

In this part, there are lot of notes for all the lessons taught regarding the topic. Besides that, it is also arranged effectively in a weekly basis to ease students finding of notes.

2) Chatbox

This is a space where students can interact with teacher and among themselves on topic regarding to the lessons learnt in class. They can share websites or web-tools URL that serves as an additional knowledge to what they are learning.

3) Video (podcast)

Here teacher will attach a video of extra information that students might need in order to understand the topic better. As a result, the students can also give feedback by commenting.
4) More Readings and Materials

In this section, teacher will attach or embed the URL of all the materials that students might need to improve their learning such as the notes on responsibility of human beings on nature, video on protecting endangered species, facts and statistics of endangered species and tips for the upcoming quizzes or test.

5) Need Help

This is the part whereby there will be some tips or hint given to the students about the examination questions.

Based on the presentation, we found that there are many pros using Blog as a platform in teaching Science subject.

The Pros of Using Blog

In the era of technology and Globalisation, it is applicable and practical to use the blog in the education field. Other than that, it makes learning independent of time and place, from teaching at a certain time and a certain place to teaching at anytime and anywhere. For instance, if the teacher cannot enter the class, he or she can always upload the notes and tasks for the students and the student can still learn without teacher teaching in front of the class. Thus, the learning process can happen without any obstacles. Other than that; it makes the education to become demand oriented and participant-centered. It changes the usual way of learning which is from one way teaching and supply orientation where teacher is the one who control the learning process to participation by everyone. Another point is that, using a blog can motivate the students to learn intrinsically and eventually they will be having fun and at the same time, they also will be learning. For example, the teacher can upload videos and songs to make the educational blog to be more interesting and attractive to the students.

There is some weakness that we need to improve based on our blog. For example, in extra reading materials, we really need to be very careful and alert when selecting the articles so that it suits the language proficiency of the students. For example, we cannot put some articles that have bombastic words which eventually will cause the students to misunderstanding and lead them to confusion.

In brief, we felt very happy because we think that we had done a good job with grace of God. Personally, I really want to use Blog in my Science class in future because it will really motivate them to learn Science better and I am sure they will love the class too.Until then, see you in next entry!

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