this last entry marks the end of this blog for this course. here i am going to share with my readers the insight of the course and my experience so far in blogging world.
i have been exposed to blogging life since 2008 started. i do have other blogs, one for other subject and the other two are for my personal blog which i share with my closed friends. there are many things i like about blogging, the reasons keep me updating my blog every now and then.
blogging is one way i express my personal thoughts. in the classroom, where the condition was not encouraging for me to express my view, i find it is difficult to speak my mind. the immediate responds or rather humiliation and critics from friends and lecturer made me feel threatened to voice my opinion. i do have some self-confidence and esteem, but a small discouraging moment can kill them. some friends were always condemning on certain things they didn't agree. i too, have things i dont like to be carried out this way or that way. but my conscience keep me controlled and nonchalant.i do feel what my friends feel, but unlike them, i was not as aggressive as one could think of. so here i come, i wrote what i feel, i wote what i think and it is open for anyone to interpret what i meant. i feel while blogging, i have the power to voice out anything i like. people who dont agree with my opinion, they can stop viewing my page. CHOICEs: that's what so great about doing blogs. one can write about anything on the Earth. different perspectives and points of views: i find those things are so magical and mesmerized. they inspired me. INSPIRATION is another thing i like about blogging. i used to read other people blogs, reading on ones' passion in life is a motivator for me to survive in this challenging days and keep aside all my problems.
while there are many other reasons why i like blogging, there are also shortcomings to it. i dont like my viewers left me an indecent comments about what i write. i used to receive one comment telling me off how i was so superficial in my writing and experiences. excuse me, everyone has their own way to write things they want to share with readers. and those uninvited readers, who are so narrow minded should not even flip through my entries. i write for myself, for others who will read it and reflect their own personal life. i dont write to satisfy everyone's need. im not a journalist or reporter. im writing on behalf of myself and I'm sharing it with the world. yes, blogging is about sharing.
blogging has taught me plenty of new things that i haven't discovered earlier. through blogging i developed interest in web designing. i learn the tutorial over the net. i used to host my own web in bravenet. com months ago. but it is now inactive and i believe that the web is not exist anymore. however, i learn a lot from web designing. HTML code, FTF code..they look so confusing but if you are familiar with them it is not as difficult as we thought. while blogging i also learn to improve my English. i used to be a poor English writer and running out of vocabs while writing in English. now i feel more confident to write in ENglish as i read lots of English-written blogs and materials over the net. i even have my own "Words" collection: contains lists of words or phrase that i "steal" from other writer when i meet new vocabs that i never use before. in that way, i learn to expand my horizon and able to be effective writer.
through blogging, i also learn to be more open minded to others' idea and personal views. i used to read one blog of a girl who told half of the people in this world that she doesn't like living in the suburban or village and live a traditional life. i was so angry at the beggining after i read her blog because i am one kampung girl and that city girl was over the head when she said how outdated living a kampung life style. but later, as i cooled down, i realized that i was reading her blog, i shouldn't judging what she wrote because she's there just like me: to share our experience in life. i was ashamed with myself at that moment.
now let's move on to PBEY3102 course. the semester is going to end soon. so far i have learned a lot from this course. other than blogging, i learned about technology in the classroom, types of materials, how to produce one and how to evaluate which material is effective compare to others. the question is "What i Like About This Course?"- many things i liked or started to like about this course. the TUTORIAL: even though at times the workloads burden us, in the end, we learned to realize how we come at it. we learned the steps to do the materials from the tutorials. we write them down, not for the sake of satisfying the lecturer, but for our own self. we had the chance to discover how we worked, sharing ideas through the usage of different softwares and programs and at the end we feel satisfied with our work, knowing we had given plenty of time to explore every learning tool that our lecturer had introduced to us.
as for the shortcomings, i dont like the portfolio thing. even though i admit having a portfolio will make our work more organized and is a way to assess our progress throughout the course, i think that the portfolio is just too much for us. we had already been given endless tasks during teaching and learning period and for the final assessment we need to compile everything that we have been produced so far. i wonder where the portfolio will end up soon..in the store room or in the dustbin?
when talking about expectation: i believe everyone would expect to learn more or less than what we have been taught in this course. i expected to learn about web designing (which has nothing got to do with teaching resources). but the i gained none info regarding this topic. instead, i was taught about other teaching resources that are very useful in the classroom such as the video editing, picture editing, gif pictures and software for children. i used to buy CD's for children, but never thought it is one of the teaching resources that need careful choices and planned to be used in the classroom. now i realized all this, thanks to the materials evaluation sheet.
if i can change anything about this course. it will be the scope of the tasks given to the students. the works should be organized and enough time is given to complete each. abolish portfolio work, instead, making sure all the students submit the tasks given on time in specific folder for each week. dont use ADEC website anymore because the moodle offer limited file sharing and storage, which had given all of us difficulties to upload the completed tasks. other than that i am satisfied with this course.
till we meet again. good luck for everyone
