Reflection of 29may2012

1 . Reflect what you learn in class and evaluate will you use the technology (1-7,very much)

I agree that sometimes when we give students a lot of things, this doesnt imply that they will absorb all the things that we give to them. So,I think we need to know what students need. Sometimes, lack of teaching materials also causes problems to our teaching.

A similar and repetitive teaching style will cause students feel bore. When we face some problem such as complaints of student, we should think or reflect what we need to improve. I would like to share what I faced before. I went to a form 4 class and this class student are indeed smart. When I entered into their class, they asked me, "Do you really know how to teach?"; this question was posted very rudely and it made me felt humiliated. However, I had reflected why they ask me these problem and I had found the answer...What I gave is not enough to what they want. Too direct, they want something new. They want me learn more before teach them. To put it in a simple sentence, my class preparation was not good enough for them.

This morning I had answer 2 questions in class. I think the teachers are more willing to do the action reseach if it does not require a lot of paper works.

I may use the technology but only when it is neccessary (so, I choosed 5). I probably use the seach engines to find out some online exercises and make some powerpoint when it is needed.

2 Explain what you know about Blogger,Wiki, Prezi, Bubl'us and Delicious?

Today I had learned many things that I haven't learn before such as wiki,delicious (that hard to access at that time),blogger (I had used it before but in other subject). The tools I like is Prezi and Bubl.us .Actually the most I use before is only google search, yahoo mail, youtube, facebook and some other websites.

Blog is the websites that opens to public to share some readings, articles, comics, pictures, video,and so on. But, it has limited feedback or interactive system among the users. Wiki has many tools that easy for the teachers and students to share their works, knowledge and new ideas. It also helps them to create new ideas. Prezi is a smart tool that helps to prepare the slides in many atractive ways. It helps to create slide in more creative and colourful picture. The pictures are very nice to see and I believe many people will like and appreciate Prezi, especially my students. It gives a very effective and convenience function to prepare the slides. Another online technology, Bubl'us, helps us to draw pictures. Inside Bubl'us, we also can select some pictures. Delicious help us to collect others people ideas that similar to us.When we want to share food or find food, we just need to click on the title and the others similar ideas will "pop up". We all now are using pbworks that share the ideas in group.

However, before today's class,  the online technology that I use the most is Google and Yahoo search engine, and email. I have a facebook account but I seldom enter it.Google is qiute familiar for me because it can help me to find out the articles, meaning or places in a short time.