Smartboard Assignments...arghhhhhhh

Hello again my dear blog….

Well, I am here to tell you another story on the techno class….

Hehehe…it was quite stressful week for me as we got an assignment to be done….

Well, guess what…. we have to develop a Smartboard activity for primary classroom.

Hurm, as fast as lightning, my group, Keri, Caroline and Muhafiz sat down together and discuss on the topic. Keri will be doing Math activity, Caroline on English and Muhafiz too and as for me I’m doing science activity.

Well, at first I do not know actually how does this Smartboard work, I tried to create an activity just exactly like what have been shown to us earlier and what do you know, I finish my first entire night of the week just to get a hold onto it. But, that is not all, all the hardship of the first entire night was only a little proportion of Smartboard. There was more to come.

At first, I chose an activity called “life cycle of frogs”. I put the frog’s life cycle and students need to put the correct picture inside the cycle, but the problem is I do not know how to show whether the picture they put was correct or not. I was stuck there, thinking and thinking hard how to do it. When I was in class, I never asked on any explanation on how actually the teacher did the activity, and I paid for that.

So, when the next class is on, I quickly asked Izzwaida and Teoh (thanks for all the trouble you take for me, I owe both of you!) on how am I going to be able to do that. At first, they too encountered the same problem, but then, Izz taught me on how to link the page with other pages. Just like the Internet. (I never thought that Smartboard can do that linking…I guess I underestimate the programme…hahaha) and now I finally got the grasp of the Smartboard and I could do more on my activity on the ‘life cycle of a frog’. Thanks Izz and Teoh.

After all that, come another problem, all of my friends say that you need to make an activity that are in the Curriculum Specification. Owh…how can I did know that….so, the life cycle now can cycle away, even the topic is in the curriculum specs, but I do not feel appropriate as it is in small portion under the big topis of ‘Life and Processes’.

So I changed my topic to ‘Phases of the moon’ for standard five students. In this activity, they need to match the correct picture with the correct moon phase cycle. In the second activity, they will learn the name of the phases, and they need to spell it correctly. In the third activity, they need to match the correct name of moon phase to the correct picture. And I was very satisfied with my work….

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After finishing all those things, I realized that Smartboard is a tool that can help teacher enhance their style of teaching and learning process and at the same time motivate the students and keep them engage in the learning process. Thank you Smartboard!!!!

Till then,

Peace Out…..

P/S : next, time for presentation….get ready and Go!!!!