Week 1 Reflection

This semester, we are going to learn five new subjects, which are:

1.      Teaching As A Profession [GA 1123]

2.     Linguistics For Language Teachers [GV 1214]

3.     Learners Strategies [GV 1244]

4.    Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia Tenggara [ZT 103]

And the very last but not least:

5.  Educational Technology [GE 2153]

Educational Technology is just like the part two of Computer in Education (GE155), or maybe I could call these two subjects as brothers. The difference is that Educational Technology is more detail than Computer in Education but I hope it would not be tougher. Educational Technology is a subject which can let us learn technology skills in order to enhance our teaching process.

          There are several tasks given in week 1 and I have spent some time on exploring the topics given. The list of the tasks given is as follow:

1.     Create a blog and design the blog

2.    Join Mr. Norsarihan’s Blog

3.    Hyperlink podcast to the blog

4.    Create podomatic

5.    Write a reflection and post in on the blog

6.    Create a Wiki Space Account

7.    Join Mr. Norsarihan’s Wiki Space

Topic 1 that I have learned in Week 1:

Firstly, we were introduced to the course itself by Mr. Norsarihan. After that, we were exposed to the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Web 3.0 is a new term for me as I never hear about it. Here, I do find an article which I think it would be useful for all to explore more on the topic Web 3.0. http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/what-is-web-30.htm

More and more technology skills is popping out and hence as a teacher in the future, I should up-date myself with those skills so that I would not be left out. Hence, I hope that, by the end of this semester, I can equip myself with various technology skills.