We had our last meeting on the 4th of April, 2010, 1pm at YunXuan's house. There, we we completed several aspects of the group project, including the full 2 hour long presentation, the instructional teaching powerpoint, the actual presentation and the report.
To increase work efficiency, we splitted work and for the 1st 2 hours of the meeting, we did individual work. I was in-charged of the creation and formatting of the powerpoint slides for the powerpoint lesson package, while Stephanie completed the instructional teaching slides and Yunxuan did the report. We went through the slides and selected the area which we thought was interesting, to be used for the 10-minutes presentation. It was then decided that I was to be responsible for the creation of the presentation slides. (10-minutes presentation). In addition, I had to complete and polish-up the report (lesson idea summary). The meeting ended at around 6pm.
We had a minor-meeting on the 8th of April, 2010 in school, and that lasted for around 30 minutes. We rehearsed the parts for the presentation and Yunxuan took charged of the English portions and Stephanie took the chinese presentation. It was decided that I need not present the slides since I was heavily involved in the editing and the background work. They then had to go back home and be responsible for the preparation of scripts for the presentation.
In my opinion, the presentation and the whole collaboration was a huge success. Despite the differences we had in the beginning, we managed to sort them out and I had a great time working with them.
PeiSin =D
11.30PM
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After our first meeting on 20th march, we had another 2 meetings after that.
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The 2nd meeting was on 27th march at my house again. We eventually decide to focus on the topic of "responsibility" as a whole and to choose out on 5 specific actions that shows respnsibility. We also modified our acticities and eventually decide on using podcast. We took a long time to finally decide on the activities and to start on our content. After which,we started on the actual powerpoint slides which we will use in our chinese CME lesson. We managed to complete the powerpoint slides and also our podcast recording. I was doing most of the content for the ppt with peisin while stephanie came up with the script for our sample podcast. After which, stephanie and peisin did the recording. In total, we spend around 8hours meeting at my house to do up most of the things. What is left is our lesson idea summary which we decide to do on our next meeting and also the formatting and design for our powerpoint slides.
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Our next meeting was during on Monday,29th March during the 5hours break we have between our lesson. We worked on the lesson idea summary with the use of of the template that was given and managed to complete the lesson idea summary. We will be putting it down in regular paragraph format report in our next meeting. We are also left with our last and final powerpoint slides to the class which will be a reduced version of our larger ppt. We have yet to choose the best 10mins which we want to present to the class,so we will do so when we meet up.
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The next meeting is decided on this Sunday,4th April. We will be completing the formatting of the powerpoint slides. We will be dividing the work up where maybe 2 of us will do the report for the lesson idea and one to work on the formatting of the powerpoint. We hope that by our next meeting on Sunday we will have done up most of the work.
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~yunxuan~
2.42pm
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Our group's first meeting was held on the 20th of March, Saturday, 2pm at Yunxuan's house. We polished up the Mock presentation and decided on Civics and Moral Education (CME) as the common CS for lesson ideas. CS Chinese was not selected as we wanted to introduce novelty to the teaching of CME. We decided to expand the lesson idea from the mock presentation and agreed on using "Responsibility" as the theme for the entire lesson idea PowerPoint package.
We browsed through the MOE 2007 CME syllabus and saw that there are 4 sub-topics under Responsibility. Out of the 4 sub-topics, we chose 3 and agreed that each of us would take charge of one of them. Then, we went through the Lesson Idea Summary and set objectives to be fulfilled through the activities. We also brainstormed for lesson activities that incorporated the use of ICT Tools. While brainstorming, we discovered that it is really difficult to incorporate ICT tools into the lesson as most ICT tools demands certain level of IT skills and as such, pupils may not have the ability to harness such tools. In addition, incorporating ICT into lessons may make the it mundane and hence, not practical and efficient in bringing across lesson ideas to students. Some activities ideas that were thought out was also thought to be cliche and hence not selected for usage. It is thus a challenge to balance interesting ideas with ICT tools.
With the rough lesson outline, we decided that each of us would being creating PowerPoint slides for our sub-topic and are to add in our own insights along the way. We would have to finish our part by the next meeting, which would most probably be on the 24th of March, Wednesday, so that we would be able to polish up the ideas as a group on the next meeting. We also agreed that this aspect of the group assignment should be finished ASAP so that we can devote more time to Lesson Idea Summary and the 12 minutes presenation.
With that, the meeting adjourned at 5.30pm.
PeiSin =D
12.48pm
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During the first meeting, we voiced out each others ideas on the activities. So as to brainstorm activities for our CME class, the meeting allows us to be clear of what is required and to plan out our task and time better.The difficulties we faced was to input the use of ICT into the activities for lower primary's pupils, as there is a limit to their knowledge in technology as well as the access to that.After the discussion, i realized that not all teaching requires the use of ICT tools to make lesson more interesting and interactive. Adding in ICT tools may be more troublesome and also it has became a burden, using for the sake of using it.
Stephanie, the long long hair girl! 12.41am
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We had our first meeting yesterday..
We decide on the topic that we want to do and the subject we are going to do..
Instead of teaching a specific topin for Chinese Language we decide to focus on Civics and Moral Education instead.
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We will be teaching them on responsibilty.
It will be 2periods over a week of 6 weeks..
We encountered some problems as we are not sure on what ICT tools we can use for our lesson.
For this initial stage of meeting we decide on some possible ICT tools we can use,
that includes Facebook, Blog, Podcast.
And we are still trying to decide on which is the best tool we will eventually make use of.
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We have come up with our lesson plan and will be starting on our powerpoint slides.
They next meeting we will be improving on our lesson plan and possible ways to make use of ICT in our teaching..
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~yunxuan~
9.54pm
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HELLO!!!!
THIS IS OUR 1ST POST!!!!
:)
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peisin,stephanie & yunxuan
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