hang out time ..

Orang pertama saya jumpa, Kak Deebah .. best kan kak .. bila dah tau nak guna blog ni kan? (^^,)


serius betul Aidza .. ke tension sebab lupa password? Aktiviti ni kat McD, lepas makan kena buat kerja hehe (Haa Liza .. jeling apa tu?)



hari berikutnyna .. kat Pizza Hut la pulak .. :) tapi frust jugak sebab tak dapat guna wifi kat situ .. urusan pun tak selesai semua ..


Saya nak ucapkan berbanyak2 terima kasih pada rakan2 yang sudi meluangkan masa cuti mereka untuk makan bersama-sama sambil try out new things in blog. Jika ada kelapangan bolehlah jumpa dengan yang lain pula ..

Thanks Kak Deebah, Adiza, Liza, Kak Siti and Norina for your time (^^,)
Jangan lupa siapkan entry dan masuk blog selalu ek!

Christina's little clip

Photos of activities over the year

Many things have happened over the last 11 months. I have done a lot and gone places. Here are just some photos that I have. Most have already been posted in facebook but here are some, just to remind me of the people I have met over the months.

Dr Lee Su Kim, writer and lecturer in UKM. She is really a Nyonya.

Dr Alan Maley, whose books I have read and used during my uni days.

Cast and crew and everyone involved in the school's "I have a dream" production. Something I am very proud to be associated with.

The Sri Aman crowd with Wai Yee (ex-sri aman and cast of musical "2 from Galilee")

The staff and PTA during the Royal Gala Dinner with the Permaisui Agong. No pic of her majesty, I'm afraid.

Selamat Bercuti dan Salam Aidil Adha

Saya mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Selamat Bercuti buat semua, walaupun ada yang terpaksa menjaga peperiksaan SPM serta terlibat dengan penandaan kertas peperiksaan, saya kira itu merupakan sebahagian daripada 'kehidupan' seorang guru - yang sentiasa mengorbankan waktu peribadi demi sebuah tugas yang mulia.


Buat rakan-rakan Muslim, saya panjangkan Salam Aidil Adha, semoga perayaan kali ini membawa seribu makna serta mengajar kita erti pengorbanan yang sebenarnya :)

Have fun with your families, and bring back all sweet memories!

Regards (^^)

Creating comic strips......

Hey everybody.....i want to share this website with all of u......www.makebeliefcomix.com .......perhaps all of u can try this with your students...................

Tributes my Form 3 students created in blogs - Christina

Here are the urls of my students' tributes. Just sharing. I haven't graded them yet. But I am impressed with some of the blogs.

http://tunkuabdulrahman-jnsz.blogspot.com/

http://3bakti09.blogspot.com/

http://little-fans-of-chedet.blogspot.com/

http://ghandihateswar.blogspot.com/

http://oprahwinfrey54.blogspot.com/

http://yooitsobamanator.blogspot.com/

Let me know if you have problem accessing them.

TASK 1 -
One of the lessons went well was a lesson I had with form 3 students. The topic was about
people and it was a lesson (to enhance writing) on describing people appearances .Using power point, (actually i wanted to use flash...but it's so time consuming!)I started off with showing them their very own snapshots that i had taken earlier during my classes. I got them to describe about their own appearances. They responded well to the pictures shown as it were their very own. They had a good time laughing and at the same time describing at those candid shots i took. The describing went on and on for quite some time as they were describing from head to toe. Without realising, they have successfully described using adjectives. I wrote all the adjectives mentioned on the board. The final few photos were superimposed. I did some editing with adobe photoshop to make them look slightly older, darker, with long hair etc. They were simply in 'stitches'! Next, i got them to create a sentence using those adjective and I also got them to expand those sentences. Here's an example

Jane is beautiful.Jane is a beautiful lady.Jane is a beatiful lady with long hair.Jane is a beautiful lady with long black hair.Jane is a beautiful lady with long black hair and green hazel eyes.

What made the lesson successful was because the pictures used were theirs and their friends.
I learned that students learned much better when they are exposed to technology. Using
computer, lcd, teaching softwares are a must in classrooms today but its totally different
when you manage to inject a teeny weeny creativity of your own to all those gadgets to come
up with something original and refreshing. I wouldn't say that it had much difference compared to other lessons as i have always tried to incorporate IT elements when i teach. What made the lesson successful was the response that i had gotten from the students. They
successfully came up with interesting decription of people using sentence expansion
technique. Not only that, as sentence expansion maintains the same structure of sentence,
they kinda memorized it at the same time too. I certainly have shared this sentence
expansion activity with my collegues and it worked wonders!! May be you could try it too and tell me about it.

TASK 2
It was a challenging lesson as i was teaching a group of good students ( a little demanding one
-as they always look for something exciting) and because i have to spend some time
editing photo shots, it's still kinda new to me.
The ideas for this lesson came from a friend of mine who is a teacher in another residential
school.I thought it was worth a try and indeed it worked wonders for my students as now they
have become more creative and expressive whenever they write their essays. There is
something I learnt from this particular lesson and that was to always inject our lessons
with something they are closely related with..n nowadays they are entwined with technology!