Today, we have reached the last
class of Instructional Technology. Too many things we have learned discovered, understood
but there are many other things yet to be explored. Our dear lecturer has been
helping us a lot and not to mention, she’s a very patience educator.
The more important question here,
what have we learned and what have we mastered in Instructional Technology
subject throughout the fourteen weeks? The first thing we remembered, we were
introduced to the graphics editing program of Adobe Photoshop. Dr Sharifah
showed us few skills and tips of image editing which was something new to some
of us. We were asked to make a poster and magazine using this software. We
believe every group had put a lot of effort to produce a great poster. There
are few comments made regarding this Adobe Photoshop lesson which was they said
it was quite challenging. To be honest, if we willing to explore and learn by
our heart, some might be surprised because it could be a piece of cake when we
practiced over and over again. Adobe Photoshop is very useful for
teachers-to-be because we need it to create our own material when we are going
to teach someday. The next task that Dr Sharifah assigned to us was making a
short video of instructional. For this task, we were using the very basic video
editing that can be accessed easily which was Windows Movie Maker. From all the
videos presented by fellow classmates, it can be said this task had make us
developed our movie-making skills. Windows Movie Maker is friendly user and
quite beneficial to future teachers like us. Last but not least, making a blog.
We are pretty sure some of us here already have experiences of making a blog.
The importance of blog is since it can be easily accessed, we could use it to
convey the extra knowledge to our students in the future.
The assessment of Instructional
Technology is satisfactory.
Instructional Technology syllabus
is fun but there is always room for improvements. With all due respect, we have
discussed this issue with other classmates and suggest that magazine task
should be a group work project whilst the poster should be individual assignment.
One of the learning theories that
can be applied for this subject is constructivism where we learn through
observation and where our lecturer is more like a guider. We construct understanding and knowledge through
experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences at all the tasks given.
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