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COVID-19: Unleashed your creativity_Part 2 (Future teachers)

Before the MCO, I never thought of giving an assignment that requires students to create a video because I was afraid that they need to learn video editing (which I don’t know how myself). Video editing is a skill that I don’t have (yet) and I don’t teach.

But knowing how tech savvy the kids are nowadays, I decided to give two options of reporting: written (normal version + presentation using PPT slides with audio/voice note) or non-written (video) for this semester course that I teach SPPP/SHPP1012 Educational Psychology. I just let their creativity unleashed and let them have fun while completing the assignment. (But how do I evaluate/mark their assignment as there are two options that I give to them? HERE is how I do it)

Students nowadays are different from my generation. They are more tech savvy and video editing is not an alien thing to them. Indeed.

Wow. What can I say! I am impressed. These are some of their works:

Pelaziman klasikal by Muhamad Asyraf Bin Yahya
Operant conditioning by Mohamad Fahmi Bin Abu Bakar, Muhamad Ibrahim Bin Johari, Mohd Zuhairie Bin Mohd Aidil and Mohamad Ridhwan Bin Othman
Pelaziman operan by Muhammad Ikhwan Bin Abdullah
Operant conditioning by Mohamad Farhan Bin Mohd Tap
Operant conditioning by Nur Syamimi Binti Ahmad
Self-regulation by Afifuddin Mahyudin
Learning (behaviorism) by Kimberly Elsie Peter, Sharmila a/p Gobi, Kirooshini Navarathnaraja and Hannah Ruth a/p Ramesh
Learning (behaviorism) by Arisha Balqis Binti Abdul Razak
Social learning theory by Nur Aliya binti Amran
Teori pembelajaran sosial by Nurul Nadiah Fadlil Alamin
Operant conditioning by Fatin Maisarah Mohd Ariff
Teori pelaziman klasikal by Nurzahira Bt Rapani
Teori pelaziman operan by Noorfarah Aimi Bt Habali
Operant conditioning by Nur Aqila Farhana Bt Ismail
Teori pelaziman klasikal by Wan Nursyahmi Idriss B Wan Nura
Teori pembelajaran sosial by Nurulaian Nawwarah Bt Arif
Teori pembelajaran sosial by Zanariah Bt Md Resad
Teori perkembangan Vygotsky by Mohamad Zulsyauqi Bin Basarudin
Operant conditioning by Ahmad Azmirul Hisyam B Ahmad Azam
Teori pelaziman klasikal by Muhammad Nur Hamizan Bin Mohd Zaidin
Teori pembelajaran behavioris by Nurul Ain Binti Zulkifli
Teori pembelajaran behavioris by Muhamad Azfar Haiqal B Jamian
Teori pelaziman operan by Aisyah Bt Yakop
Teori pembelajaran sosial (Bandura) by Ahmad Nabil B Wan Ahmad
Teori pembelajaran sosial by Siti Saidatul Asma Bt Zulkafli
Learning (behaviorism) by Raihan Nadia Bt Roslan
Operant conditioning by Ahmad Farhan B Shai Puddin
Pembelajaran sosial by Nor Shuhada Bt Mohamad Sharapi
Classical conditioning by Zainul Ariffin B Kamarul Azli
Learning (behaviorism) by Nur Umi Rasyidah Bt Mohd Nor
Learning (behaviorism) by Nurul Nazira Bt Mat Juri
Teori pelaziman operan by Muhamad Sahirin B Abdul Sharif
Teori pelaziman operan by Muhammad Zulfikri B Zul Edwar
Teori pelaziman klasikal by Nurul Nasyita Binti Ahmad Fuad
Teori pembelajaran behaviorisme by Amirah Afiqah Bt A Rashid
Teori pelaziman operan by Nurfatinnajwa binti Rusli
Teori pelaziman operan by Sulaiman B Hapit
Operant conditioning by Aeron Tan Kwok Hou
Operant conditioning by Muhammad Amin B Abdul Razak
Teori pelaziman operan by Mohd Haizal Hariz B Jamhuri
Teori pelaziman operan by Muhamad Faez B Mohmed Zi
Operant conditioning by Qalida Aima binti Muhammed Khiruddin
Teori pelaziman operan by Mohammad Syafiq Bin Roslani
Operant conditioning by Afiq Hamizi B Jetan
Pelaziman klasikal by Amir Ikhwan Bin Mohd Elham
Teori pelaziman operan by Muhammad Hakimi Bin Mohd Fazil
Teori pelaziman operan by Farizalmi Bin Juhari

Note to the haters: Come on, guys! I know there are better videos according to your standard, but give my students a break ok! They have done their best. These are the future Malaysian teachers! I am proud of them! I think I need to learn video editing and whatsnot. I feel old and outdated.

When Telekom cable was stolen_First incident

Staying at a sub-urban area is a blessing. When one of my colleagues lamented that I should have mobile wifi with unlimited dataplan and not using any excuse of unstable and limited internet connection of not conducting synchronous online class, I just bite my tongue to suppress myself from saying anything that I should not say.

I conduct my class using asynchronous online classroom method. Yup. No webex, zoom (uhuk uhuk controversial) and bigbluebutton. Here is the testament that I have provided materials/activities on my eLearning that students can use to assist their learning. On the day when we suppose to have class, I use Whatsapp to have “live” discussion.

Alhamdulillah, the internet is back now but still slow (low bandwith internet connection). Having this experience makes me emphatise with my students who are having the same predicament as me. So, synchronous online class is not a viable option for us.

In sha Allah if everything goes well as planned, the discussion of all topics will end on week 12. So, my students can start their revision a bit early.

Be creative

Be creative. One of my colleagues lamented that some course require face to face interaction. Then this person later said “It is ok if you just teach theoretical stuff.” Who says I only teach theoretical stuff? For my Fundamental Pedagogy, I use Tarsia and all. Hands-on stuff.

But still when times like this, I don’t want to jeopardise my life and my students lives. We need to take action. So, I told my students “I know that some of you might need to go home and your home might not have internet connection. It is ok. But if you have no other means to go back home and need to stay inside the campus, you can go to the Elearning. I leave some materials that you can use to revise on your own and keep yourself occupied. I also create a forum so if you have anything to ask, you can ask me or others. So you will not miss out anything”

So, I have been busied finding materials and linking it on my elearning plus creating forums and whatsnot. I hope that the students would learn on their own (self-learning) with the support that I give (scaffolding).

My second attempt using BigBlueButton: SPPP1012/SHPP Educational Psychology

I really need to learn this new thing fast. I really have to master it well. These are my aims. But when the reality starts to hit me hard, I know that there are some of things that are beyond my control: server congestion.

Kudos to CICT and UTMLead teams who work extra hard and go extra miles to make sure that we can use the available platform to conduct our class. It is not easy to be done. But everybody is doing their best job

I was starting to get panicky when thing happened like this. I got disconnected. I had a crash course session with my colleague on using Google Meet. We experienced some technical glitches. But, never mind. We will try again.

I just renewed my Prezi subscription. I just learn that it has a new feature. Video presentation with the usual Prezi notes. Alhamdulillah. A good news for me. I have started to learn creating video-slides presentation using Prezi. I know that it is a new challenge for me. I know that I might need extra time to learn it well. But I will not give up. I am not in a race to get to any finishing line. I will get it done somehow In sha Allah. May Allah ease my journey to learn these new things.

Unsolicited testimonies

Students come and go but there are few who would leave indelible marks in my life. I learn a lot from them as much as they learn from me. Learning is a mutual process. You teach as you learn. At the same time, you learn as you teach. Indeed

Lavender tea? Me? The thought that counts

BigBlueButton…. oh… BigBlueButton

I attended a workshop on using BigBlueButton last week. It is very interesting until it dawns to me that I have a large group of students for my UG courses. But the facilitators assured me that since all of the students will log in at different places, unlike the computer lab, there won’t be any internet glitch.

Suddenly, I remember the student that I had last semester who didn’t own a smartphone. It makes me to start thinking further “Does this student has a laptop that can be connected to internet/wifi?” or “What if there is a student like that this semester?”

So I decided to conduct a simple survey to explore this issue especially with regards to the ownership of a smartphone and a laptop/computer which is crucial if I want to use BigBlueButton later on. It is like I am asking students to write using a pen whereas the students do not have any pen. We cannot simply assume that students can afford to have smartphone or computer.

On top of that, since BigBlueButton is like Skype, you need a headphone (at least with or without the microphone). You cannot get a headphone for RM5 to RM10. Based on my observation on the Free Meal/Market, there was time when 50 pens were taken by students. It means that 50 students need a pen that to us might cost pittance. If they cannot afford to buy a pen, what more something like a headphone, smartphone or computer, right?

I met Hadi on my way back to my room. He also just finished his class. We talked about this possibility. He said that he is aware about this too because back in the days when he was the student leader, he knows some students who would give all of their PTPTN loan to the family. They would do odd jobs to survive at UTM. Similar scenario is still happening now.

As an instructor, is it fair to conduct an online class where your students do not have the tool to get connected to you? Anyway, I am still waiting for the students to respond to the survey. So, until then, I will keep waiting before deciding on the next course of action.

Chocolate, anyone?

Every semester, I aim to do something new and learn at least one new thing. I know some might say that I am capable to do or learn more than one thing but my aim is to do something or learn something new extremely well. That is challenging.

I had a quick look at my Elearning before coming to my first undergraduate class today. I noticed that there were three students who have “visited” my Elearning five days ago (5 February 2020). At that time, Nihra told me that the Elearning was not that stable yet so I have to wait at least few days to start uploading materials and whatsnot. I uploaded some materials on Friday (7 February 2020).

What should I do to reward the students who made such attempt to visit my Elearning? I looked around my office. Apparently, my junk food stock has “diminished” and all what left is the chocolate that one of my seniors gave me when she went to Jogjakarta last year. An artisan chocolate. So, I looked at the names again and wrote it down before I went to class.

As I started my class with introduction to the course, I remembered about those students. So, I stopped my explanation for awhile and started to call their names. They were shocked. But I know that they are flattered as well. Something that might has never happened to them before. Who would care to reward a simple attempt of logging to the Elearning, right?

I reward them because it is unusual for students during their semester break to log in to Elearning, just to have a look at “what’s-new”. Of course, it is related to the things we are going to discuss this semester.

This is not the chocolate that I gave them. They are not that lucky though (tongue in cheek remark)

Blended Learning Course at FSSH- All notes

I attended Blended Learning Workshop today. There are new things that I have learned today. So many notes that I have to study. Since I am not really techno savvy, I have to take some time to master this. But, I will try the best I could.

Here are the notes:

The last round robin activity for this semester

It is never my intention to torture my students with Round Robin activity this semester which I conducted more than twice. But, the thing is they are future teachers. I hope through experiential learning, they would remember how they go through the process of this activity. Hope they would store the information in procedural memory and episodic memory (there are steps involved that they have to go through i.e. relate to procedural memory as well as event where they go through i.e. related to the activity itself).

Please ignore the way they dress. After all, they are TEASLIAN. As you can see, they might have resemblance with LA lecturers too who teach them. An example of modelling (social learning) by Bandura in action. Indeed

Last day of my class….. errrr

I had a blast with this group of students. Few of them took my Personality Psychology class before. When I asked them why they took my Human Development class, they said that they want to learn from me. They enjoy taking my class. What a bluff! That is my first impression. I know that I should trust my students but due to previous experiences, I still have some reservation when they give me sugar-coated compliment.

One of them suggested that we took a class picture. This is not what I normally do in class. I feel cringed (you can see it from my face). But for the sake of group dynamics, I played along with their request.