Friday, September 22, 2017

REFLECTION 1

           Advancement of technology made the learning process easier. Throughout the years of being students in bachelor of English Language and Literature, many subjects that we had taken were eased with the assistance from application of computers. These may refer to the usage of Microsoft PowerPoint for presentation, video editing software, text editor and others. The programmes mentioned did not only provide us with excellent medium for language learning but they also acted out as modus operandi in sharing information.

One of the subjects that requires the usage of computer application was World Literature taught by Dr. Madihah. In an assignment given by Dr. Madihah, we were tasked to prepare presentation slideshows on themes, provide summary of each chapters in a novel and present the outcomes to the whole class afterwards. Interestingly, for the assignment, we were using integrative approach of computer assisted learning whereby the assignment was task-based. A computer was used as a tool in order to complete the task, particularly in the process of making the presentation slideshow using Microsoft PowerPoint. When the slideshows were completed, we were required to upload them on Padlet; a website that provides a medium for the students to interact with the lecturer and fellow classmates in real-time, similarly to Google Docs. This means that the assignment included a two-way communication where the slideshows uploaded on Padlet can be accessed by others and presented later to the class. The assignment was overall interactive, task-based and hence making the language learning viewed from an integrative approach.

0 comments:

Post a Comment