Week 1 (4th-10th July)

A new semester has started after 2 long months of holiday. As this will be a short semester, we will be learning 3 new subjects which are (drum rolls please) :

1)  GE 1155 (Computer in Education)

2)  GB 3223 (Learner Diversity & Differentiated Teaching)

3)  GV 2123 (Teaching of Speaking & Listening in an ESL Context)

Without realizing, the first week of lecture has already passed. And we were bombarded with all sorts of information and surprises. Time waits for no man? Well, it's pretty true. 

For the 1st week, we have learnt many important and interesting information.

We were required to create an official e-mail for yahoo and google. This was not much of a hassle since the steps to creating an e-mail is very well guided. And besides, I used to have a hotmail account. So the steps in creating an e-mail is pretty much similar. 

Then creating a yahoo group was very confusing and difficult. This was because, we never heard of a yahoo group and the process was really complicated. But thanks to our lecturer, we finally pulled through in making the account.

Creating facebook was not a problem as the steps are really simple. And creating a group was pretty interesting. As the group could be an opened or a closed group. Blogging too was easy as i have started to blog a few years ago. But maintaining it is hard. We can also express and understand one another by creating and reading people's blog.  

Overall, this week has made me realize that it is important to create an official account in all sorts of communication because it will reflect our personality and helps other people to find you. In fact, we can use ICT effectively as it saves time and energy. This is evidences through: yahoo group, where all people can connect by sharing knowledge and information. In fact, we can send an email enclosed with attachment (by using our Yahoo! email account) to our Yahoo!Groups page so that everyone in the particular group will be able to receive it. 

It is not a want but a need for each and everyone to be competitive in this era, so, we must always update ourselves with the latest information through the web. Thus, we have no more excuse in saying that internet is a barrier for our learning support but a bridge towards the border less world.