I registered for this Office365 Training last week and Part 1/3 Training was carried out today after lunch hour. For the first time, I used Microsoft Teams Meeting, which for now I can say it is like Zoom and Webex. But, I kind of feel and see from the training that, there are much more to offer from Microsoft Teams Meeting.

Annyway, today we learned the following:

a) Setup a Class Team
b) How to use Teams for these teaching scenarios:
•Communication
•Lectures
•Student engagement
•Assignments and assessments
•Small group discussion
•Office hours

Pretty interesting I must say. At least there are various options to conduct online classess.

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Today was not really a productive day for me. The feeling to be stuck at home is quite difficult to describe. The sheer intense of staying and being so comfortable in my own house has finally once again resulted in me becoming not productive and I am not proud of this.

But despite of this, I tried to do a little which is to micro manage the Asean Journal of Engineering Education (AJEE). I have to manage and ensure that we can successfully publish our 4th volume Issue 1 this year. It’s not easy task, but well, I need to do it, together with the rest of the editors.

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Nothing really interesting today but to download, read, mark and grade one of the assignments that I gave to my Master Students (MKKK1653) before the Movement Control Order (MCO). The assignment is related to OSHA1994 and the knowledge of importance on having Safety Policy, Safety Committee and SHO in plant or any working place.

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I am planning to create a powerpoint presentation lecture which my face can be seen live on a small box on the right bottom corner of the presentation. But my own powerpoint is not supporting that. It needs an Add-in in the form of Camstasia software. Hence, I purchased this software and installed it in my laptop. Now I am ready to create powerpoint presentation slide with my face can be seen delivering the presentation. Cool huh!!!

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One of the task that I focused today was the working on the correction for Course Information METE1533 – Occupational Safety in Energy System under Master Energy Program. I will be teaching the course somewhere next year and should this happen, it will be the first time I teach in this course. Before this I almost become a teaching member for this program, but I cancelled it on the last minute because I have too many teaching credits. But now, well, i guessed it is ok… All the best to me 🙂

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I totally forgot about this prestigious research grant, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) grant that CEE secured end of 2019 to help Indonesia to build up its Engineering Education foundation. This 2 years project should have started at the beginning of 2020, but it have to be postponed to October 2020 due to the pandemic. And because of that I have to adjust few things including the Gantt  chart as per instructed by the Director. The project will start in October 2020 and the first visit to Indonesia to conduct the workshops will be in January 2021. InsyaAllah.

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Part of the duty of us academic staffs in a university is to supervise, motivate, encourage our postgraduate (PG) students so they will be focus and driven to do their work. I made it a point to once a week follow up with them especially in this MCO period where everyone is secluded at home, working alone with family or little children or nobody. My PG students are presently scattered in various locations, among them in JB, Batu Pahat, Rawang, Penang and UAE. It’s important to be in touch with them so we can know their progress or help them with anything that we can within our capacity.

Note: The picture is to symbolize post graduate students only. I have not taken any photos with them, yet.

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SKT had a special briefing for Penasihat Akademic (Advisory Panel) about the Extra-Curricular Experiential Learning which was delivered by Dr. Adilah. Since I am the PA for Year 2 students at the moment, I need to understand this well, to be able to give the support and advice to my students. If student misses completing 3 comprehensive reports, they could not take the EXCEL course and that will not look good for the student and me. I have communicated with my students via Whatsapp and hopefully all take note on this and will take massive action.

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