Technology vs Non-technology Materials

As a teacher, we need to know how to manipulate technolgy and non-technology materials. Both materials are useful in the classroom. Both materials have their own advantages. Technology materials like OHP, LCD, Smartboard, Powerpointd, softwares etc might attract the students' attention to learn. Children attention spam are very limited so we need to know how to attract their attention during the lesson.
However, we have to keep in mind that not all schools are equipped with all these technologies. So, as future teachers, we also need to know about how to use and manipulate non-technology material such as mahjong paper, flash cards, realia etc so that they can be used in the classroom replacing the technology materials. I'm not saying here that traditional way of teaching should be the last resort in conducting a lesson but we have to widen our mind not to focus only on technology materials because not all schools have those equipments.
Basically, both materials are equally useful and important. Both have strength and their weaknesses. It is all depends on us, future teachers on how to manipulate the materials so that it can be used effectively in a classroom.

My mind is clear now~

Today, Pn. Foziah made a clear explanation about our portfolio and the percentage of all assignments. She also explained about how she decided to set all the marks for our task and assignments. So. now I already got the idea on how the evaluation will work later on.
In addition, she also explained the difference between task and assignments so that we will not get confused again. She also informed us about what to be included in our portfolios to avoid confusion in the future. After listening to her explaination, now I can move on by gathering all the tasks that I have done in the past and put it in one folder in order to let my work runs smoothly and organized.
Well friends, enjoy your time doing the portfolio! =)

E-Book submission and a new task!

Today I submitted my E-book assignment. I did it individually so there is not much of problem occurred during the making of E-book. Besides, we only need to use Microsoft Powerpoint which is not much a trouble because I already used to the software. Furthermore, Pn.Foziah already gave an example on how E-book looked like so it really helped me in creating my own E-book.
Pn.Foziah did not enter that class but she left us with a new task which is to be done in group of four. The task was explained by Izyan clearly and we understood what we needed to do. Basically, the task is about designing a lesson plan for a skill we decided to choose. I chose reading skill and I have to come out with a lesson plan using the skill. Even though I'm blur but I guess I have to give it a shot. Well, good luck for me and my group members!