Alhamdulillah, these are among the best ones

I was feeling extremely stressful last Thursday.   Why?  I realise that I might miss some deadlines that I have set earlier.  I need to reevaluate my priority and my capability.  But, thinking too much about it makes me feel suffocated and I started to have the usual physical symptom that I acquired when I did PhD.   This is not good.  

To divert myself from the things that I have in my mind, I went to IKEA to look at some left-over fabrics that might be on sales.  I also went to Kamdar and Jakel (both don’t have much choices though).   I bought a half meter fabric from IKEA which cost me RM6.45.  I decided to use it as the lining.  So, with the existing left-over fabrics from my sister’s and my baju kurung, I started to mix-and-match the fabrics.   After spending around nearly 8 hours of sewing (with intermittent break to do some gardening), I managed to finish 5 pouches.  I used all the zippers that I bought last Monday.  

After sewing few pouches through trial-and-error, these are among the best ones
After sewing few pouches through trial-and-error, these are among the best ones

My friend suggested that perhaps I should make a tag to indicate that the pouch is hand-stitched without using sewing machine.  So, I created a simple tag with UTM Care and Charity logo.

I tied a tag with brief explanation about the pouch. To give a little personal touch to it.

When I gave the pouches to the person-in-charge at UTM Care and Charity Shop, he asked me “Berapa nak letak harga ni kak?“.  I told him that I made the pouches using left-over fabrics.  It does not cost much.  It is up to him to put the price.  He scrutinized the pouches.  I told him that I made a tag just to give a personal touch.  

Making pouch is a hobby.  I like sewing.   It is also a way for me to destress with minimal cost.   I don’t know how many pouches that I can make per week.  It depends on my emotional state though (really).  In sha Allah I will keep on making it as a means to destress.  I really need to have a balance work-leisure lifestyle.  Since I am not really into sports, this is my choice to destress.  

 

Note: I still do not take order for this pouch.  Nope.

  • I showed this pouch to my senior colleague who is retiring on 29 September 2019. I gave these two pouches as memento.

UTM Grand Challenges 2019 (UTMGC 2019)

Office of Undergraduate Studies once again will be conducting UTM Grand Challenges 2019 (UTMGC 2019) starting from 15 September to 15 December 2019. It is our great pleasure to invite submission of proposal from Team Leader among academic staff. The best 10 proposals will be selected to receive a maximum of RM4000.00 research grant to conduct their UTMGC 2019 project. 
The criteria of UTMGC 2019:
  1. Project must involve a minimum of 20 multidisciplinary UNDERGRADUATE students as team members (Eg. 15 SKM, 5 SKE, 2 SK and 2 AHIBS).
  2. Collaboration of facilitator, academic and/or non-academic UTM staff, from different school/faculty (team leader must be an academic staff)
  3. Project must have research element and conducted within 15 September – 15 December 2019 (3 months)
  4. Final project report must be submitted to UGS Office by 22 December 2019
    5. Every project must be presented in UTM iLeague Exhibition in December 2019.
  5. Every project must follow UTM Grand Challenges theme (either engineering or non-engineering) –  please refer to list of theme as attached below
  6. Grand Challenges for Engineering Theme
Template of proposal is as attached in this email. All completed proposal must be submitted through the following link:
Deadline for proposal submission is 10 September 2019.

An example of learning management system for e-content: Flipgrid

I was searching for more examples of learning management system.  When I googled the meaning of learning management system, a good example of learning management system is our UTM elearning.  So, using Prezi is not enough to be considered as learning management system because there is no online interaction.  Prezi, Padlet, Trello and such could be categorised as collaborative tools.  

BUT, Flipgrid is different.  You can upload your note, link Youtube videos and such and ask students to discuss about a topic.  I am still a novice in using Flipgrid (I just found out about this today).  But, if you want to have a look an example of my activity (a trial and with no students, I could not show any interaction yet).  For Flipgrid, your students can provide a short video clip of their responses.  So, if you have very busy students who always on a go, they can stay engage outside classroom with you through Flipgrid.  

Unlike Prezi, Flipgrid is FOC (Free of Charge) [Note: It might change in the future though].  

P.S: Psssttt… Flipgrid is an example of e content [Learning Management System]  😀

 

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