The aim of the Exploria game is not for competition or winning. Yet, it is a human nature that we hate losing. When it was announced the winner from the last place, the members were hesitating to come in front and take the prize.
If you want to know more about how the classes will be conducted next semester which will start on 18 October 2020, here are the material and link as reference.
One of the juniors asked me where do I get the picture from for this blog. Well, it is a picture that I took long time ago when I was in Durham. It was autumn. Durham has a picturesque landscape. Every nook and corner is breathtaking. I am glad that I decided to do my PhD there even though I vividly remember some of my friends mocked my decision of going there because Durham is less unknown as Cambridge or Oxford. Yeah right. That is a common assumption by some Malaysians about Durham.
I like the picture because it shows a canoeist in the River Wear (Note: Durham has its own rowing club). Yup. The name of the river is River Wear.
Some people asked me if I underwent BS4DCP like them. I said that during my time, we had Induction Course. I had that long time ago (more than 10 years ago). Upon saying this, I realize that I am not young. Let’s admit that. With the number 4 in front of my age, unlike BMW 4 Series, some of the things that I have are starting to deplete. Yup.
I was informed that one of the things that they have to do as new academic staff is to attend the BS4DCP courses. They have to do assignments and one of it is to create a post on their people.utm.my (webometrics). One of the juniors suggested that they should look my webometrics. Hearing that, my first reaction is “What? My webometrics?” It is kind of funny when people start looking at my webometrics as a reference. I never thought that I would be this famous. Oh man!
But what a heck! Please go through my posts as you wish. If whatever I have posted make sense and could help you guys in completing your assignments, I feel honored that I could assist you guys through this blog. Happy reading!
P.S: I write this post with the knowledge that you will read this somehow (tongue in cheek remark!)
School of Education EXPLORIA and FSSH Gotong Royong 2020 was conducted on 1 October 2020 (Thursday). We were divided into groups. Our group composed of academic and non-academic staff. The dynamic our group is awesome. We strategized to pick the places and how to pose and who would the be tracker since there are members in our group who are not in the best of health.
As a tracker, it was my responsibility to walk as far I could, whereas the others who with health conditions would take the short-cut to go back to our faculty. I am definitely not the fittest in this group but I tried my best to walk the farthest as I could. I thought that I walked quite far but only managed to walk 1.7km. I was not satisfied but my members said that it is enough when I showed them the results. They were waiting for me at the designated place. Some of them were panting and feeling breathless. Age is catching up. Indeed.
I have been using Quizziz since 2016 (after I attended a one-day course at PULAU – Pusat Latihan UTM). It is free. Still is BUT if you want to have extra features, you have to pay USD24 per year (USD2 per month). My first reaction is “What?” My brain starts to calculate the cost that I might have to pay in the future. I have paid more than RM500 to subscribe few things. One of my friends said “If you are hesitant to pay, just use the free version. The free version is still ok”. Then later on, I find out that this friend is using the subscribed version which opposite from the advice given to me.
Should I upgrade my Quizziz to the payable version? I am still thinking about it. One of my seniors said that if I am serious in choosing teaching as my differentiated career path, I should invest on such tools that can help me to improve my teaching. Ok. One thing at a time. For the time being, I will use Quizziz (the free version) and since I do not know the difference between the free version and the paid version, I will wait for a while. I will look at some reviews first before deciding.
