JOURNAL REFLECTION: WEEK 2

WEEK 2: 02/03/2013

 Today was the second lecture of this course. Before the lecture was conducted, all of us were required to choose our own group members for our assignment purposes. My group members consist of four members including myself as below:

v  Teoh Jyh Jing

v  Mathavan A/L Murugesan

v  Fatihah Said

My group members are very helpful and very committed in completing our assignments. I was very grateful to them for being so understanding and dedicated in their task given.

            After group members were chosen, the lecture was continued. Today, we learned about a very beneficial website that can be utilized in our educational lessons called Khan Academy. After exposing to its benefits and strength of the website, I downloaded the access in my computer.

          If we take look at the diagrams above, we can see that the Khan Academy website contains numerous videos from different fields to help one in understanding certain concepts or knowledge. From this website, we have the opportunity to access multi knowledge. Khan Academy functions as a great platform for one to gain many exposures on knowledge and many other essential facts or information. Moreover, as an educator we can utilize this website in our lesson to introduce new knowledge to our students. If students are facing difficulties in understanding certain abstract concepts, we can use this to help them in better understanding. All the videos are organized systematically; therefore we can have an ease of access.

           Besides learning on Khan Academy, all of us were required to conduct peer teaching throughout the course. Each group were assigned on different software that will be presented every class respectively. The peer teaching conducted will be on this software as outlined below:

ü  BlogSpot

ü Cam studio

ü Picasa

ü Microsoft publisher

ü Chemsketch

ü One note

ü Movie maker

ü  PowerPoint presentation

ü Preezi

ü Excel

All this software can be applied in our daily school lessons to make a more interactive and conducive learning environment. I find this lecture very beneficial as it helped me in knowing different softwares and websites that can be used in teaching rather than just using the conventional way. However, today we were still unable to use the computers as there are some computers were not functioning. This hindered us from involving actively in the lesson as we were busy trying to get computer access.