10th Teaching Practice

Today the school had a function. No classes. I was asked to do relief and so I gave my Form 2C four questions and asked them to post their answer on their blogs as soon as they are able to.

Self-evaluation

The D & T lab was spacious and ideal for my lesson for it had enough computers in working condition connected to the internet. This is the 1st time I had the D & T room and it helped the flow of the lesson. 

My lessonplan for this lesson can be obtained by clicking the link below.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7482113/Reviewed-Blog-Lesson-Plan

While demonstrating I created a blog simultaneously for the students to follow and I named it http://muthutpf-students.blogspot.com/

The blogs of my students are linked below. Except for two students who gave me wrong url.

1. http://rusyaidi-adi.blogspot.com
2. http://wwwazirah.blogspot.com/ (nice layout)
3. http://www.ultramentanduktiga.blogspot.com/
   
4. http://wwwchainofcrystal.blogspot.com/(slide show added and post, chose nice template)
5. http://wwwerox.blogspot.com/  (he added slide show and posting)
   
6. http://wwwpiasau.blogspot.com/ (funny description)
   
7. http://wwwbluefirez.blogspot.com/ ( must advice to write good things)
   
8. wwwdarkrai.blogspot.com
   
9. http://wwwmaman123.blogspot.com/(nice template and post)
10. http://wwwlonely1310.blogspot.com/(she wrote about her boy friend :)   )
11. http://wwwchainofcrystal.blogspot.com/(nice template,added slide show and post)
12. http://wwwbadboyz.blogspot.com/

I would folow up with those two students who gave me the wrong blog address in the next lesson. 

Anyway I am overjoyed that my form 2C were able to creat blogs  and customise the blogs to their own taste and post material of their choice. Even their own titles were catchy. I gave them liberty to do whatever they wanted and only told them to write good things and good postings. 

The fact that all managed to create blogs signifies that most of the 7 learning objectives I had planned in my lesson plan has been met by nearly all the students. 

9th Teaching practice

On reaching school at 6.48 I headed straight to sign in at the admin block.Dr Leong came on time.  I started teaching at 10 a.m. 

I asked my students to sign in to their email acconts. Most of the students opened their gmail accounts however a few students forgot their passwords. They then created their email account again with the help of their friends or my help.

At 10.15 I began demonstrating the blogging step by step. All the students followed my instruction and created their blogs succesfully. They chose the template and their own blog name and their own passwords without any help.

I asked them to copydown the blog address and pasword just in case they forgot their blog or passwords. I got a list of their blog names.

Altogether there were 14 students present. 

Everyone managed to creat their blogs successfully. They also post their own  thoughts in writing and try to edit their blogs to improve it. 

They then added gadjets (slideahow or picture like that) to their blogs within the allocated time.

I was and am very happy that my form 2c created blogs. Needles to say they were happy to see their work online. The class ended at 11.30 a.m.

8th Teaching Practice

Arrived in school at 6.47 a.m as usual and took the form 2 class to the computer lab and continued to teach how to create blogs. Only 4 computers had internet connection today.

First I opened the blogger.com website and showed the students how to sign up and then how to choose template and also how to post.

They used up 3 class periods, because the message currently unavailable kept coming up in the blogger website. So it was very difficult to create and also to show them their blogs.

Eventually only 3 students successfully created their own blogs. They posted their own thoughts something that interested them.

7th Teaching Practice

Arrived at school at 6.40 a.m and started class on time. I gave a copy of the lesson plan to my co-operating teacher and requested her to give me three periods for teaching gmail and blog creation. She agreed and gave me three classes.

First of all I surveyed the number of students who owned computers at home, the type of computer that they had and whether they have any internet connections at home and so on. Seven students have laptops and one a desktop at home. Only two students have internet connections at home. Others use dialup connections.

After that, I used the IWP to show the students how to create gmail accounts. At that time only five computers were working with internet connection. So students who were at those computers and were eager to create gmail accounts started and followed me to create gmail account as I was demonstrating on the IWB. In total 18 students were in that class on that day and one student was absent.

Finally only 10 students created their account successfully.I just took a copy from the students what had created their gmail account. The time was not enough for teaching blog creation, hence I will teach it in next class.

Gmail accounts of the students are:
1.blackman.bruneian
2.fifah123
3.khalid.ibnu80
4.dak.2211
5.ana.abusamah
6.ultramen tanduk tiga
7.cruncher.1110
8.putra192
9.eren.smith
10.zeyakhalid.

In fact all the time was used up for creating their gmail, because the students were in form 2 c..,