Week 2: First Impression

Yesterday was my first lesson, met with our lecturer, Mdm Ng Huey Zher. She is just like what other course mates describes: young, smart, dedicated, dynamic……but I notice that she also attentive. She concern whether every of her student able to catch up.


First lesson was a bit different with what I imagine before attend class, I though I will be very stressful coz I worry I can’t catch up with others, but unexpectedly we have some space and time to adjust our pace, thank God.


This pass week was really busy, busy completed task given. Luckily, I manage to complete all the task as what I promised. I try to complete learning contract although I’m not sure whether it is correct. What I worry during I draft my learning contract was I afraid that I set objective which I can’t achieve, therefore, while Mdm Ng told us that we can adjust our learning contract after this, I was relieved. I think other course mates also have the same feeling.


In today’s lecture, I learn how to upload learning contract to google doc, how to change the setting so that this doc will be able to access from spectrum. Google doc was quite convenient as it can be edited online by other user. Made me surprise was that I also can uploaded video and picture here so that it is downloadable for other user. It is suitable for collaborative learning.


We discuss article given, “Do Generational Differences Matter In Instructional Design” by Professor Thomas C. Reeves. Although the printed material already full of red ink, but I found that it’s difficult for me to join in discussion verbally. While I still busy organize sentences, people already move to other points of discussion. But, I still enjoy listened to other’s opinion. I realize that the ability of mastery a language is so important, especially English. What I can do is put in more effort to offset this weakness.


What I enjoy the best was when Mdm Ng introduce online tools. During TXGT 6104, we once told Dr Tee we need this kind of explore. Most of us don’t have IT background, although we know that there are thousand of useful tools out there, but this kind of intro will save us a lot of time. I missed Web 2.0 last week. Actually I tried several similar comic generator before, but very disappointed that they all not support Chinese input. That means I only can enjoy looking at it but can’t use as my tool in classroom. This time I dare not put in too many hopes but I was happy when I found out that Toondoo support Chinese input, I will try out others also. I told myself: this time I will be able to include this tool in T&L Chinese Language. This week’s theme was e-story book, looks cool. I have tried to use iebook to create digital story book before this, although it’s attractive effect successfully surprised my audients, but the product can’t be uploaded and view in wikispaces. I will try out all these e-story books, hopefully there are suitable tools for me. Looking forward to next week’s info web 2.0.