{"id":5747,"date":"2020-09-15T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:45:24","slug":"covid-19-using-telegram-rather-than-whatsapp-for-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/covid-19-using-telegram-rather-than-whatsapp-for-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Using Telegram, rather than Whatsapp for teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester, when the\u00a0 COVID-19 hit us all over the globe (well, except some remote islands like Vanuatu and such), I was thrown into a realm of uncertainty.\u00a0 There goes my hands-on activities and the worksheet that I have prepared but I know that I cannot let myself into the abyss of despair.\u00a0 Knowing my own ability on ICT and whatsnot, I know that I have to learn something new.\u00a0 I push myself to learn something that I would never think to try such as video making and editing.\u00a0 But I am still learning it though.\u00a0 Even though I have created five videos so far, I am still far from being an expert.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 One thing at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Some said that rather than using Whatsapp, using Telegram is much helpful.\u00a0 Full stop.\u00a0 No specific explanation is given.\u00a0 I know that I cannot rely on others to learn new things but there are so many things on my hand that I could handle.\u00a0 This is how I feel at times.<\/p>\n<p>Alhamdulillah, I met a junior who is willing to show me how she uses Telegram by showing one or two examples from her last semester class.\u00a0 So, since the only small group that I have is the English teachers group that I have since Latihan Ikhtisas, I asked them if I could run a test by using them as my guinea pig.\u00a0 Well, being ever willing to be in any of my project and experiment, they said ok.\u00a0 So, I did a quick test on them when I created a poll using VoteBot on Telegram.\u00a0 Darn!\u00a0 How I wish I learn this before.\u00a0 It could make the class discussion more interactive because I can pose a question like MCQ and whatnot by using VoteBot.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many other things that I need to learn but one thing at a time.\u00a0 Alhamdulillah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester, when the\u00a0 COVID-19 hit us all over the globe (well, except some remote islands like Vanuatu and such), I was thrown into a realm of uncertainty.\u00a0 There goes my hands-on activities and the worksheet that I have prepared but I know that I cannot let myself into the abyss of despair.\u00a0 Knowing my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/covid-19-using-telegram-rather-than-whatsapp-for-teaching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19: Using Telegram, rather than Whatsapp for teaching<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19_teaching-and-learning","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}