Final Entry

What are 2 or 3 meaningful things you have learnt in this class?

First and foremost, I just could not believe that the semester has come to end. Time truly flies very fast.Perhaps, this would be the true and exact starter in building and developing ourselves.In fact, the experience of our first day in class is still fresh in me. I remember that I was a bit nervous as everything appeared to be new to me.Nevertheless, I was fascinated with video presentation where the hologram was shown by Dr Tee. My life began to shape as I have registered for this course.

Firstly, I came to know that distance learning has its own attributes. I always had the false conviction that what am I doing is actually distance learning. I was enlightened of that fact as the lecture took place. I have learnt a lots of interesting facts, information, technology and precious great insights on how does DE truly works. I realize that it is not an easy task as it appear to be. It covers lots of pre-planning,designing, strategy verification, analysis and evaluation. People out there may have a false believe that DE programme is THE easiet and simple project that any Tom, Dick and Harry could do. BUT, I have realised the job is not as simple as that. Thre ar lots of aspect that eed to be considered. Is the objective achievable? Doesit cater to the needs of the DE learners? How does the activities designed helps the DE learners? These are the frequent questions we asked ourselves as we design a distance learning module. Thus, I have truly gain, imbibe and learnt many profounf knowledge which could not be derived anywhere out there unless we are distance learner ourselves.

Next would definately be the experience in creating the Wiki. As I have admitted earlier that I a toddler learning to crawl in the world of Wiki, it appeared to be an entirely new experience in completing the task. However, the gradual learning process, guidance and collaboration have bloomed the victory for our Wiki. I never knew that we can create and participate in a Wiki. But, as for now, I am glad and fortunate to learnt that I can apply the knowledge gained to my students as it would definately bear a fruitful and effective learning outcome.

LAst but not least, my total learning process moulded in the completion of our website project. It was a significant experience as I am new to the field. This is my first experience in creating a module for Distance Learners. The work went through many layers of planning, analysing and designing. At first, I was not too sure of how and what should it be like. Drafts after drafts have finally rectified many of our flaws. It was truly a memorable and usful experience working in culminating this task. One useful tips that captured my attention while doing this project was the advise given by Dr Tee. " We have to think of instructional strategies and design process before venturing into the project" where it requires many versions of drafting.


What will you do with the knowledge that you have cultivated from this class?

I will definately try the gained knowledge with my students. As blogging has captured my interest, I would want to try that with my students for effective learning to take place. It would be interactive rflective ground for my students and at the same time learnt better.

Ultimately, I have truly gained a lot of great insights by taking this course. Thanks to Dr Tee for his patience in handling students like me who is still new to the field and needed thorough guidance. Thanks Dr Te for your endless advise and dediaction in moulding me into the path of higher order thinking and implant the importance to think in-depth and cultivated the ability analyse things as needed.
Lastly, I truly believe that whatever has been imparted on us will not definately go in vain. The journey begins now......

E-poster and prototype

The day was indeed a stressful and pressured one. Nevertheless, it was indeed an eye-opener to both of us ( Kuldip and me).

We have learnt a lot on how to create a compact materials as question and answer session have rectified many doubts.. All the presentors were simply amazing and did a wonderful job. I was fascinated and taken aback with their presentation.

It was there and then that i realized that we need to amend our presentation to a better one..

Thanks to Dr.Tee and dear friends for their valuable discussion.

Reflection

The wiki assignment was indeed an eye-opener to me in many ways. Before I can proceed my experience in describing the quality of the content , my contribution and the benefits I’ve got playing with the Wiki. I must first admit that I didn’t know anything about wiki and how does it function. Wiki was very new and appear to be a ‘stranger’ to me. But, today, it is part and parcel of my learning schedule. It has created a close rapport amongst us.

Let me talk about the content. It is very well-organized by Dr.Tee. The content is very apt with the need of all types of learner. In fact, the topic is an interesting title that would arouse the interest of everyone. It consists of every level in the Bloom’s Taxonomy. It begins with lower order thinking and finally culminates to higher order knowledge. I feel that it is very important and necessary for a lesson to be in such a way because learning takes place gradually with intense progress. Learning is a very subjective matter of fact whereby students learn better and grasp the knowledge learnt only when it reaches their heart. In like manner, the wiki has created a room for the learners to actually imbibe the required knowledge and achieve its’ objective. In that sense, I always made sure that I share something worth being learnt amongst my friends.

The wiki has also created a plateau for us, the PXGT 6308 members to collaborate effectively and derive tremendous benefits from it. I personally have upgraded myself by working together in getting this task done. I learnt by studying how my friends work and contribute in the completing the assigned task. The discussion, forum and questions asked in the wiki had allowed for learning to take place subconsciously. I read and go through my friend’s reply in attempting the activities and eventually led to a collaborative learning to occur. My knowledge has indeed expanded. I must also admit that I have begun to think in a wider scope and not be comfortable in my comfort zone of lower order thinking. I have developed and tapped my higher order thinking to work effectively on a frequent basis. As we have contributed the required answers which finally bottoms down to a threaded discussion, is indeed a very useful and beneficial deed in getting learners to learn.

In a nutshell, Wiki has helped me a lot, not only in getting our assigned task done but in the expansion of our knowledge. Wiki- ‘The Learninghaven’, a great tool in learning. It is truly a collaborative knowledge-built, synthesized, and expressed discussion about instructional strategies. It has also created the opportunity to explore and learn through experience. “Experience is definitely the Best Teacher”.

Today's Technology

Well done job to Zamiah and Wan. They ahve actually took a graet trouble and iniative in making their presentation interesting. I was fascinated while watching Zamiah in action in on the scree. I wa wondering to myself, 'why she is not here yet, is she lat for the class or what'. Then, i realised that it was part of their planned presentation.

I was glued to my seat as I realised that I have a long way to go in getting to know of the latest technology. the presentation had really captured my attention as there are plenty of new technologies which was unknown to me. Ultimately, the Acrobat Adobe Pro Connect was very interesting to learn. I never knew the exixtence of such site. And, I found that it is very useful and comes in aid for our assignment. However, we were not been really guided on how get into it using the correct channel.

Another thing that had pin down my attention was the explanation on Web 3.0 and 2.0. The subject content of these two topics were very vague to me at initial stage. However, Dr.Tee's explanation has made it clear. I am able to differenciate both of them.

Lastly, the sharing session with Kak Hana was truly a useful and beneficial session as it created room for improvement for our project.