One of the activity that I would like to highlight today is the preparation of Teaching Award (Anugerah Pengajaran) for the upcoming Citra Karisma…
Day 64 Task – Preparation of Teaching Award Documentation for Citra Karisma
Posted on March 4, 2020 ·
Day 63 Task – Reviewing Extended Abstract Submitted to RCEE
Posted on March 3, 2020 ·
Today, in the early hours, I reviewed 5 extended abstracts submitted for RCEE2020. Alhamdulillah I managed to review all of the abstracts and provided critical comments for improvements. I am hoping to soon read the improved version of the extended abstract from the authors. InsyaAllah!
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Day 62 Task – English Communication – The Charade Game – Where Did it Went Wrong?
Posted on March 2, 2020 ·
From yesterday’s Graduate Success Attribute (GSA) Class, I recorded the Charade Game activity. I divided the class to 4 big teams, identified as A, B, C and D. Then each of them will line up and I gave the first person a message and he need to convey the message using only his physical action (no verbal). Then the next person need to pass the message also using the same method to another person next to him. The process continues until the last student. Finally the last student must guess what the message is.
This activity shows the communication is very important and the information passed through can be distorted or wrongly intepreted.
Following are some of the students reflection taken from our Whatsapp group:
Student 1: We should try as hard as possible to retain the originality of the information when passing it to others.
Student 2: In my opinion , the video emphasize that communication is a chain of events, error in slight part will be disastrous.
Student 3: In my opinion, communication is not only depends on how we transfer an information in verbal form but it also depends on body language. A good communication is able to produce if our body language potrays the information that we need to pass on to the others.Therefore, what I learned from this activity is if an instructor who is responsible to pass an information is failed to merge his body language with his ideas or information, then the whole system will misintepret the actual information.
Body Language + Good Verbal Presentation = Perfect Communication
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Day 61 Task – Master and Undergraduate Class
Posted on March 1, 2020 ·
Every Sunday is a hectic one for me because I have 5 credit hours for this day alone, 3 credit in the morning and 2 credit in the afternoon. Every Sunday demands me to focus my energy and attention on these two courses, which I love to do. The only downside is I don’t get to fulfill or accomplish plenty of other academic related activities, but well, that’s ok. I have the other days in the week to do other academic and research related tasks.
In my masters class, we had presentation couple with thorough discussion for each topic. Whereas for the undergraduate class, we had interesting activities such as public speaking, mind map team work, charade game, win lose of draw game and a bit of discussion and reflection.
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Day 60 Task – eLearning Checking and Preparation for Sunday Class Combo
Posted on February 29, 2020 ·
Similar like previous week, I need to prepare for my Sunday Class Combo since today is the only day before Sunday. Besides preparing for both class, I need to check and prepare as well as grade what students have done in their eLearning.
Anyway, for tomorrow’s class, MKKK1653 Safety and Health in Chemical Industries Course, we will be covering the rules and legislation related to safety. As for the Graduate Success Attribute Course, I will maintain to discuss and have several activities on the topic of communication.
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Day 59 Task – Miscellaneous Work Management
Posted on February 28, 2020 ·
I haven’t been able to sit down in my office since the past few days to do some of my own office, clerical and management work. Hence, I took the opportunity in the early Friday hours to deal and manage most of them. Among the miscellaneous tasks were:
1. Filling up the Pengisytiharan Harta form.
2. Checking & doing some minor editing of one of my book project.
3. Coordinating the dates for some activities for the Plant Design Project course.
4. Sending some documents related to reflection methodology to a colleague in UMP who is also like me (in the line of engineering education).
5. Preparing the safety audit report.
And few more… Which include sending 2 of my cars for some repairs and servicing.
Day 57 Task – Continue Assisting the Faculty of Engineering Active Learning Workshop
Posted on February 26, 2020 ·
Day 2 of the Active Learning Workshop
Day 56 Task – Facilitating the Faculty of Engineering Active Learning Workshop
Posted on February 25, 2020 ·
CENTURY LEARNING FOR ENGAGING MILLENNIALS WORKSHOP : PART 1 – ACTIVE LEARNING @ D02, SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, UTM (25-26 February 2020)
Alhamdulillah, just finished conducting this workshop successfully with Prof. Khairiyah and Dr. Syed Helmi.
Every workshop is interesting, so was this one. The participants came from various engineering and non-engineering school in UTM. The participants consisted of numerous UTM big shots (several professors, some associate professors, a number of administrators and a bunch of senior lecturers). This workshop I perceived as one of the most challenging ones and I will make my own reflection based on my interesting experience in this workshop. The reflection will be for me, the organize and us the trainers.
Love knowing new people, new friends…
Unlike last week’s Active Learning Workshop at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, I don’t know many of the participants because we haven’t met, although we are all family under UTM. But after these 2 days, I got to know many new people and friends, which is just amazing!
Solidifying my knowledge and skills…
I have joined several Active Learning workshop before and have been assisting several Active Learning workshop as facilitators previously. Attending just 1 or 2 workshops I must admit NOT sufficient to ensure that I have fully grasp the knowledge and totally comprehended the transfered information. Even I attended the third time, there seems plenty that I absorbed.
This in a simpler way implies that I absorbed 40% on the 1st workshop, 50% in the 2nd workshop, 60% in the 3rd workshop and so on. Now that I am co-handling the workshop I am still learning and growing along the way. I will reach the point of 90% soon and it will remain 90%. Why? Because every workshop is unique, the participants are unique, the process could be unique and the situation is unique, which will be the sort of room for more learning for me.
Love helping and sharing others…
It’s awesome to help, assist, guide, explain, share the information and knowledge with the participants. You can see it, realized it, feel it when they understand, cooperate and become so enthusiastic and energetic during the practical sessions. And when at the end a participant asked when will be the next Active Learning workshop be held… (bcoz they want to repeat the workshop again), we felt Alhamdulillah grateful. Because our efforts for the past 2 days managed to trigger something positive within them and they realized the importance and how precious the knowledge is.
Spreading Student-Centered Learning (SCL)
Ultimately the main objective is to promote the SCL concept to engineering educators simply because it is proven a very powerful method of teaching engineering students (compared to Teacher-Centered Learning). So if you haven’t join this AL workshop, wait no longer, contact us at the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), UTM.
