Perkhemahan Akademik Fasa 3 SABK Madrasah Alattas Alarabiah: Hari Pertama

Today (31 July 2019, Wednesday) is the first day of the academic camp.   My session will start tomorrow (1 August 2019, Thursday).  But I came today because I want to check out the venue and Ita asked me to help her taking pictures for documentation purposes.  Since they cannot use DSLR camera, we are relying on each other’s effort to take pictures throughout the sessions by taking turn using our smartphones instead.  Here are some of the pictures.

How to get started using people.utm.my?

Just to remind myself on how to use this website, I put the instructions here for my reference and others who might need it

  1. Go to https:people.utm.my/write your own name (the one similar with your formal UTM email)
    1. You will only see the “existing” webpage in preview format.  
    2. You cannot edit anything here.
  2. To edit the webpage, you need to log in by going to https://people.utm.my/
  3. You will  be directed to a page where you need to key in your name and password (the one similar with your formal UTM email and password for email).
  4. You will reach to the page where you can start editing your webpage.

How to edit the page

  1.  Click Pages (with 2 paper pages icon on the left side of your device)
  2. Fill in the information that you want to write on your webpage
  3. You can change the fonts, add pictures/images or link
  4. After you finish your work, please Click Publish (the blue button on the right) if you want it to appear in your webpage.  If you just want to save unfinished work, Click Save Draft (the grey button on the right corner, on the left side of preview).   If you want to preview of your work, Click Preview.

How to edit a post.

  1. Click Posts (with thumb pin icon)
  2. Fill in the information that you want to write on your post
  3. You can change the fonts, add pictures/images or link
  4. After you finish your work, please Click Publish (the blue button on the right) if you want it to appear in your webpage.  If you just want to save unfinished work, Click Save Draft (the grey button on the right corner, on the left side of preview).   If you want to preview of your work, Click Preview.

If you want to know more information, you can download some handouts from here https://humanities.utm.my/education/download/

Go to Webometrics UTM and check out the handouts to know more about it!

P.S: No more excuse not to update your personal profile 😛

My dad’s younger sister

She was in coma for nearly three weeks.  I visited her with my eldest sister two weeks ago.  I took a leave on a weekday and off we went to visit her.  She was immobile.  Unmoved.  As I hold her hand, she did not make any reaction.  At that time, it reminds me of my late dad.  He was in similar situation.  The only difference was he was at the hospital and my aunt is at her home.  Both suffered brain hemorrhage due to a fall.  With such an advanced age (my dad was 75 years old and my aunt was 85 years old), they were physically fragile.  A mere bump and fall could lead to catastrophic consequences.

As caregivers, it is not easy to provide the best care especially if we are not medically trained.  One of my cousins, my aunt’s daughter is a retired nurse.  She is trained medically to provide medical care to people yet when it comes to caring her own parents, she finds it difficult to care for them.  It is not due to lack of training, but due to emotional burden that she feels every time seeing her mom or dad whimpering when they were in pain.  Indeed.  It is never easy to care for our ailing parents.

On 30 July 2019 at around 10pm, my aunt passed away.  May Allah bless her soul.

 

Using song to teach grammar_Part 2

“Sooner Or Later” by Alan Parsons

Oh what a price we pay
For the things we say
And the closer I get to you
The further you move away

All the lies we tell
In the games we play
And the longer I think it over
The harder it is to stay

Sooner or later I’ll be free
To leave the past behind
Sooner or later you’re gonna be
The last thing on my mind
Little by little I’m finding out
The truth behind your eyes
Maybe if I don’t show
I thought you might like to know
You’re gonna be the last thing on my mind

You didn’t want to know
I could have told you so
But the moment I think it’s over
The further there is to go
Just a little word
Such an easy way
But the longer I think about it
The harder it is to say

Sooner or later I’ll be free
To leave the past behind
Sooner or later you’re gonna be
The last thing on my mind
Little by little I’m finding out
The truth behind your eyes
Maybe if I don’t show
I thought you might like to know
You’re gonna be the last thing on my mind

This is the song by Alan Parsons.  This is a breakup song.  Indeed.  Well, my intention was not to teach the students to be romantic.  It is far from it.  But as teenagers, they need to learn how to regulate their emotions such as handling with rejection, break up and whatsnot.  To motivate them to learn English is not easy.  Song is one of the ways to teach which is widely used.  There are numerous research done this.  One of the examples is by a team of researchers from Turkey.

I have not yet conducted any research on this issue. Last year, when I was undergoing my Latihan Ikhtisas, I had contemplated this though.  Since I only taught one class for one form, i Ikhtisas, I had contemplated this issue. Since I only taught a single class for a single form, it was difficult for me to “perform” quasi-experiments. I was specifically assigned pupils with limited English skills. Therefore, it is comprehensible why the other class had higher grades than mine, despite the fact that my instructor never used songs in the classroom.  The students become more receptive to my teaching style, that much is certain.  Some of them are in under my special care until end of the year.

IsDB-TWAS Research Grant

The World Academy of Sciences and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) are offering Grant for Research Collaboration in Sustainability Sciences. 

Deadline: 12 September 2019

The grant amounts to a maximum of USD 50,000 per group ­­– USD 100,000 total per grant. A grant is normally provided for a period of 24 months. The programme will choose one project per year.

Research Areas

The Research Grants programme provides support for research projects in the following fields (please refer to the guidelines for details):

  • Sustainable Agriculture

  • Education

  • Education for Sustainable Development 

  • Climate Change

  • Energy

  • Sustainable cities

  • Responsible growth

  • Waste management

  • Population growth

  • Green chemistry

  • Biodiversity

  • Plastic pollution and Micro-plastics

  • Water and hygieneFor more information, go to HERE.    

JADUAL KLINIK SISTEM UTM TES: TERKINI

esi Klinik bagi akses dan penggunaan Sistem TES (TESDCP) UTM kini dibuka bertempat di dewan PPICTP, Aras 3. Jadual klinik bagi Sistem TES (TESDCP) adalah seperti berikut:

Sesi Klinik bagi akses dan penggunaan Sistem TES (TESDP) UTM dibuka bertempat di MAKMAL CICT 2, CICTKL.
Jadual Klinik bagi Sistem TES (TESDP) adalah seperti berikut:

TARIKH HARI SESI PAGI SESI PETANG
2/8/2019 Jumaat 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
5/8/2019 Isnin 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
6/8/2019 Selasa 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
7/8/2019 Rabu 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
8/8/2019 Khamis 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
9/8/2019 Jumaat 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
12/8/2019 Isnin CUTI HARI RAYA AIDIL ADHA
13/8/2019 Selasa 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
14/8/2019 Rabu 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM 2:30 PM – 5:00PM
  • Penambahan 30 minit setiap sesi sebab Isnin 12/8/2019 Cuti  – Hari Raya Aidil Adha jatuh pada hari Ahad.

Penundaan Tarikh Akhir Penghantaran Data Bagi Sistem Teaching Excellence System (TESDCP) UTM

Sukacita dimaklumkan bahawa Universiti melalui Pusat Kepimpinan Akademik UTM (UTMLead) telah bersetuju untuk melanjutkan tarikh akhir penghantaran data bagi Teaching Excellence System (TESDCP) kepada 15 Ogos 2019.

Untuk makluman staf akademik, link untuk rujukan bagi proses kemasukan data sistem TES (TESDCP) boleh di perolehi melalui modul TES (TESDCP) dalam kursus ini: https://bit.ly/2YMZIQ7 manakala akses kepada sistem TESDCP adalah melalui portal MyUTM.

Sesi Klinik bagi akses dan penggunaan Sistem TES (TESDCP) UTM kini dibuka bertempat di dewan PPICTP, Aras 3. Jadual klinik bagi Sistem TES (TESDCP) adalah seperti berikut:

JADUAL KLINIK SISTEM UTM TES
TARIKH HARI SESI PAGI SESI PETANG
29/7/2019 ISNIN 9.30AM – 12.00PM 2.30PM – 4.30PM
31/7/2019 RABU 2.30PM – 4.30PM
1/8/2019 KHAMIS 9.30AM – 12.00PM
4/8/2019 AHAD 9.30AM – 12.00PM 2.30PM – 4.30PM
6/8/2019 SELASA 9.30AM – 12.00PM 2.30PM – 4.30PM
8/8/2019 KHAMIS 9.30AM – 12.00PM
11/8/2019 AHAD 9.30AM – 12.00PM 2.30PM – 4.30PM
13/8/2019 SELASA 9.30AM – 12.00PM 2.30PM – 4.30PM
15/8/2019 KHAMIS 9.30AM – 12.00PM