My First Week of My Third Semester [Reflection 1]

A super long holiday really makes my brain a bit rusty and functions slower than it should be. I have learned that there are three courses to be taken up for our short semester. They are TSL, Learners Diversity and Differentiated Teaching and Computer in Education. My eyes rounded and stared for a few moments when I read through the courses. COMPUTER IN EDUCATION. "Oh my goodness"..I was just smiling and sighing. It's not that I don't like it but I am kind of nervous to take it up because for all this while, I am well-known in the class as an "ICT idiot". Yeah of course I am not a total idiot in ICT but just a modest user with moderate knowledge about it. But anyways, I am very thankful and grateful to be given a chance to learn and explore more about computer and ICT for we know that education today is stroke by the boosting of technology. Education system in most of the countries in the world is upgrading to a more advance system in which technology has allowed the students and teachers to have virtual class. So perhaps, GE1155 Computer in Education will be an medium for me to upgrade myself too. 


The very first day of class, we have being showered by numerous instructions from our lecturer, Mr. Fariduddin to set up numbers of account, yahoo mail, gmail, yahoo group, facebook and lastly blog. And these are all have to be an official account. Those were superbly a lot and kind of killing me on the first day of lecture. But before he allowed us to proceed with our tasks, Mr. Fariddudin has given us hours of lecture. He presented numbers of slides on components of computer, operating system, viruses, anti-virus and various softwares available in the market. Personally I think that his presentation on those slides are very relevant and correlated with what we as teachers should know especially to prepare ourselves for the advancement of technology in education. This is very important to make sure that we are able to deliver our teaching materials interestingly besides effectively. 


As to summarize, the first week of lecture was all about the introduction to the world of computer and also all the applications we can use and sign up in the internet for the easier way of contacting and interacting with peers and lecturers just as what I have mentioned before. I found that the lectures and also tutorials are very interesting and beneficial. Seriously I gained a lot of knowledge and new skills from the presentation and hands on activities.