Monday, March 30, 2009

Stunted Growth - Visual Aids in Classroom

Upcoming action research: Stunted Growth - Visual Aids in Classroom

Synopsis

With or without motivation, students would typically give cold shoulders to any kind of presentation tasks thrown at their feet. Forum is one of the most effective forms of presentation. However at most times, teachers and audience would mostly be uninspired, jaded and occasionally snubbed listening to daunting presentations, one after another.

Poor preparation is definitely the main cause. Through an action research using excerpts from The Oprah Winfrey Show and MTV’s Chat The Planet, students are introduced to analyse the mechanics of forum presentation in both TV shows. This expectantly helps students to prepare and present a better forum presentation, consequently motivates them to explore it further. This action research also investigates the perception of students on these selected visual aid materials and its relevance to their task.

Video excerpts of Chat The Planet is gathered from archive.org

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Zero tolerance for Plagiarism

We have learnt what Natasha Hudson have been accused of doing, locally. On the other side of the world, we have Kaavya Viswanathan.

If you have not noticed, I have a ZERO tolerance policy for plagiarism.

Zero/kosong/zilch. One tiny bit of plagiarism is enough to pursue zero/kosong/zilch.

Am I serious? Try me.

Graphic taken from KK.org

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Report Writing Guide for KML Students

Chapter 1 - Introduction
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More chapters coming soon.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Best-Practices Workshop





Event: Bengkel Kerja Dokumentasi Amalan Terbaik dalam P&P dengan Rakaman Video
Venue: Hotel Impiana Casuarina, Ipoh
Dates: 11-13 March 2009

To participants of the workshop, watch this space for some editable softcopy handouts of my presentation.

As promised, Matriculation Report Writing Kit will also be available soon. And oh, nice meeting you!