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WWW lesson plan

LEVEL: FORM 4
TIME: 30-40 MINUTES
AIMS: to find specific information regarding a particular occupation; to know how to fix a household appliance of their choosing.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT:
One computer to 3-4 students with a Web Browser and an internet connection.
Website: http://www.doityourself.com
PREPERATION:
1. Locate a site or sites suitable regarding carpentry.
2. From the website prepare a worksheet for the students.
PROCEDURE:
1. Talk about the complication of household repairing and decorations. Ask the students to list down on the board any skills that they know regarding a D.I.Y item.
2. Ask the students whether they know how to fix a light bulb, or any broken household appliance. Give the students the prepared worksheet and ask them to complete the following questions.
3. Ask the students to surf to the given website and ask them to complete the task given.
4. As they are finishing the worksheet, they have to also choose a household appliance that is interesting to them and methods of fixing them or re-doing it again.
5. When they have finished, discuss the answer and ask them about their chosen household appliance.
6. Then tell them they have to write a short essay to why it is interesting to them and how to fix the particular household appliance.

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ARTICLE REVIEW

TITLE: Exploring Educational use of blogs in US education.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/42/fb/cc.pdf

JOURNAL-VOLUME:

US-China Education Review, October 2008, Volume 5

DETAILS:

Wang Hong owns a PhD and works in the Center For Teaching Excellence & Learning Technologies, in Fort Hayes State University.

ARTICLE REVIEW:

First Paragraph:

Wang Hong wrote this research in the aims to explore and understand the functions of using a blog in the current education system in US. The purpose is also to motivate more educators in to use blogs in teaching and research as well as introducing blogs as a useful educational tool and its great potentials. There were several theories that Wang Hong wanted to pass out in this paper. The first thing he did was an overview of blogs. He described as a part of the Web 2.0 family, the second generation of web adventure. He also listed out some different forms of blogs such as LibLogs (library blogs) and EduBlogs (education blogs). He also wrote down several advantages and disadvantages in the paper. Some of the advantages that Wang Hong wrote is “information sharing, blogs allow users and readers to respond, to create, and to connect”. It is also simple to create and maintain blogs compared to discussion boards. A sense of ownership is also given to the students. The disadvantages written in the paper are,” inaccuracy of the information, intellectual property issues, and the volatile nature of the bloggers”. Wang Hong also describes several major categories of software in creating blogs, which are hosting services and installed applications. The easiest is the hosting services as the users do not need extensive knowledge on computers and the Web. The other type is the installed application; Wang gave two different applications as an example. This will require a much needed knowledge on technology. Wang also talks about EduBlogs, its usage and examples in this paper. According to Ray (2006), “blogs in education or EduBlogs can be used to communicate, as instructional resources, as collaborative tools, and showcases for student projects.” He also explained some of the advantages of using EduBlogs. Another part of his paper is that he lists down several examples of using blogs. He listed down to uses in this paper, the first is ‘Using blogs in scholarship’, and the second is ‘Using blogs in instruction’. He also listed examples for each of them and how they can be used. The last part of the paper is that he talked about several researches that is done into EduBlogs. One of the researches was done by Wassell and Crouch (2008) incorporated blogs into an undergraduate preserves teacher education course that addressed diversity and multicultural education. The other was done by Ellison and WU (2008), who he commented on their findings. And in the end he concluded his paper.

Second Paragraph:

This is research is a great eye opener to the many quality and functions of a blog. In the past, I knew blog as a place to write down your diaries or entries that other people can read and comment on. Now, I see many potential uses I having and using a blog a medium of instruction for teaching and learning. The research was well conducted as it concentrated on the functions of blogs in US education and it also describes and lists down the advantages for us to see and the disadvantages for us to learn and to overcome in implementing this method in our teaching. There were also several other researches that could be used as a reference point in this paper. There are several implementations that can be done in a general context and Malaysian context. Using a blog to teach will take the teaching and learning to a new height in Malaysia. As we are doing the TSL 641 subject in UiTm, we can already see that the assignments are different and much more interesting than before. Why can’t it be implemented in classrooms? Almost every school in Malaysia has a computer lab with internet equipped. Sometimes that lab is left to nothing as nobody ever uses it. So Malaysia and the world have a chance to implement it as it is probably going to be the next ‘in’ thing in education.

Nelson Mandela!!!!

NELSON MANDELA


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.

After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.

During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.


Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.