CULTURE IN A BOX: RESPONSE FROM KOREA

To my dearest 2 Tekun,

I have received an email from the teacher from Korea who's in charge for the culture in a box project with our school. Just to let you all know her view and her students reactions on the collaborative project with our school:

"Thank you for your presents. My students were very surprised and excited.

I really appreciated you and your students.

The exhibition finished successfully.

We shared your traditional Malaysia items with many people, now people (especially our school students) could know a lot more about Malaysia.

I'll send the exhibition pictures.

I was very glad that we could make many good memories.

I would like to say one more time, thank you so much."

 

THE JOURNALIST PROJECT: TEENAGE INSPIRATION

To my dearest 2 Cekal students,

Please share your glogster product for Teenage Inspiration task by copying and pasting the glogster address on the comment space provided. Do join this blog as a member too. Enjoy your glogster making process and i hope you can learn something valuable from this activity. Your glogster will be viewed by the students from one of the schools in Indonesia that is collaborating with our school for this project. If you want to share it via Facebook, paste the address on my wall.

FINAL TASK FOR KFIT PROJECT (1 TEKUN STUDENTS)

I have just received new instructions for the KFIT project and you can say it as your final task. Read the following details copied from the project coordinator's email sent to me:

 As only one student per group and per school was able to speak about his/her experience doing the International project, we would like to give the rest of the student-participants the opportunity to talk about their projects.  They may post their comments in the forum at the KISP main group, “What I can say about our International Project (for students)”, or URL: http://goo.gl/QWlFH

·         Students may also upload audio / video clips as a response to the forum questions; please let us know if you need assistance in uploading audio/video in the forum

·         To Zamimah and Rahi: we hope that your students can take this opportunity to share their thoughts on the Weather Calendar project; please ask your students to post in this forum (it could be in text, audio, or video form).  We are also retrieving the recording of the culminating activity, and will post it in the EC for your students to view.

2.       For those who attended, you may post pictures and audio / video clips of the video conference in your school in the KISP main group home page

Important Message for 1 Tekun students!

I have just received an email from the project coordinators. They have told me that we have to present the popplet that we've made. So, i really hope my dear students that you have completed your popplet. Below are the things that we need to do for the presentation:

"The UNESCO ICT Team discussed the programme for the KISP Culminating Activity. We decided on just having the outputs of 6 months presented - so that each school will be represented in the presentations. 

The tentative schedule will be on 25 July 2012, Wednesday, 9.00-10.00 am Bangkok time

3. For schools who implemented the Weather Calendar project, kindly choose one of two months listed for your school below and then assign a student from your class belonging to that month to present the group's popplet output for 5 minutes (in effect, only 6 months will be presented for a total of 30 minutes only):

a.         Amena-Baki Residential Model School, Bangladesh – May or November

b.      Daegu Wolam Elementary School, Korea – January or July

c.       Iligan City National High School, Philippines – April or September

d.       Integrated Developmental School - MSU-IIT, Philippines – March or August

e.      Temenggong Ibrahim Girls' School, Malaysia – February or December

f.        Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang College, Malaysia – June or October

For example, if Rahi (teacher from Bangladesh) selects November, then he might assign Nur Zaman to present the output of the international group that worked on the November popplet calendar since Nur was part of this international group.

We need to get your decisions on 1) your school's selected month and 2) assigned student to present the popplet output this morning so that we can put the details in the programme that will be sent as the official invitation."

Have your popplet done before 25th July.

HOUSEKEEPING FOR 1 TEKUN

REMINDER

Please have your weather calendar done within this week (before 22nd July 2012). You can refer to the samples of popplet that I have pasted in this blog.

Contents of your weather calendar: use the information that you have written in the form that I gave you last Friday. Class monitor please get the forms back from me. 

Once you have completed your weather calendar, click on share button and choose add collaborator. type the name of your team member especially your team members from Philippines.

SOLVE YOUR WEB ACCESS PROBLEMS

For those who can't log into your account in ict.unescobkk.org, you need to do the followings:

1. Check your email which you have given to me before. 
2. Check if you have received any email from ict.unescobkk.org. If you have received the email, open the email and confirm your registration by clicking on the link given. (Just follow the instructions given in the email).
3. You will be directed to the ict.unescobkk.org webpage stating that your account has been activated.
4. Then, use the username and password given in this blog (scroll down to search for your username and password)

                                                                         or 

1. If you have not received the email from ict unesco, try to re-register in the ict.unescobkk.org by clicking on create new account. For the password and username columns, you must type the same username and password given in this blog.

• Hometown: miri
• Country: malaysia
• Occupation: student
• Capital of France: paris
• Institution: Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang College

     2. Then , check your email and repeat steps 1-4 on the above. 

For those who could not log into their popplet:

1.  Check your email and look for any email sent by popplet.com. Check the information sent to you. They will give you the information on your username and password. 
2. Use the same email that you have used to register in ict.unescobkk.org and use the same password given in this blog.

Project Collaboration With Korea: Culture In A Box

This project is assigned to 2 Tekun students. I have sent your 'self introduction' to Ms Myung from Korea. I hope you have proceeded to the next task of the project. Below is the copy of Ms Myung's email to me regarding the procedures and tasks for the project:

"We will have global festival in the biginning of October.

So, we need Malaysian items(Be sure to send your real national flag) to introduce many visitors and 800 students.

Students also search all about Malaysia. Would you like to send your cultural items to my students?

We also send Korean traditional items to you. That's the project 'Culture in a Box'

Therefore, we follow 3 big steps as follow:

 

1. Introduction : with Video or PPT, students introduce themselves to your students.

 

2. Cultural items

7 Groups of 4 find 10 items that represent Korea. They will collect these and send parcels to you.

 (for expensive items, use cut-out pictures; or for large monuments use a photo or a model).

 3. Item Explanation

Students prepare explanations about cultural items using PPT or Video..... 

 

3. After Culture Box Essay

 

Our schedule could be as follows;
1. We divide into 7 groups of 4.
2. We will send you students' self introductions until July 13th via E-MAIL.
* You and I have problems with uploading and downloading.
* Teachers collect introduction files, and send you all together.
3. Each group will send 10 items until July 20th in Korea. But we don't know the date you receive culture box. It depends on delivery service.
4. We will send you explanations about the items by July 26th.
5. Writing an essay about Culture Box in our and your school after this activity.
Our summer vacation is from July 25th through August 22nd.

You take your time to send Culture Box to us. We will open after August 22nd.

Recognising Innovative Teachers at the APAC Partners in Learning Forum

http://trumponedu.net/2012/03/27/recognising-innovative-teachers-at-the-apac-partners-in-learning-forum/

Microsoft Asia & Pacific Forum was held at the Skycity Convention Centre in Auckland, New Zealand from the 20th to the 22nd March 2012.
This international event is supported by Ministry of Education, New Zealand and provides a unique opportunity for the most innovative educators and school leaders from around the Asia region to come together to share and collaborate.
The event aims to

• Recognize educators who use technology innovatively and effectively to help improve the way students learn.
• Provide opportunities for educators to learn from each other and collaborate on global relevant projects.
• Share their innovative practices within Asia's regional community.

This forum will provide opportunities for educators and school leaders to engage in reflective conversations about existing practices and explore innovative approaches to new ones which will empower students to not only manage their own learning and development paths but also to develop communities which work together across boundaries to address global issues.
This forum will be attended by more than 250 educators, school leaders and government representatives from 17 countries around the world.
Some highlights of the event will include:

• Poster sessions where the teachers will share their innovative teaching practices and compete for the recognition of "Innovative Teacher of the Year" Award
• Professional development workshops for educators and school leaders
• Technology emersion session for educators to get hands on experience with the latest Microsoft technologies
• A half-day field trip to visit Auckland schools    

(retrieved from https://www.rhapsodyconcept.com.sg/website/MS/RIEF2012/)

Capacity Building Workshop on Project-Based Learning and Tellecollaboration

7-10 May 2012
Capacity Building Workshop on Project-Based Learning and Tellecollaboration was organised by UNESCO Bangkok with IPGK Tun Hussein Onn, funded by Korean Fund-In-Trust.

Facilitators: Dr. Jonghwi Park, Ms Maria Melisa Tan, Dr. Soon Seng Thah, Mr. Gilbert Perreire & Ms Zamimah Azaman.
Participants: 30 teachers from 15 schools of Batu Pahat district.
  Venue: Conference Room IPGKTHO

"A session with Ms. Zamimah Azaman  of Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang College helped us grasp the benefits and challenges in actually implementing PBL. We had set her PBL experience as the benchmark to initiate our own projects for our students. Since Ms. Zamimah’s project involved secondary school students, it made us ask ourselves whether our primary school pupils would be able to do the same thing. Fortunately, through the guidance of the UNESCO trainers and IPTHO mentors, we were able to outline and customize the draft of our intended projects to be practical and achievable by our pupils." By Shamira Abu Dzarim with contributions by Wan Hasmiza Kamarrudin & Zailah Ribot

PROJECT COLLABORATION WITH INDIA

This project has been assigned to form 4Tekun students.

I have just received an email from the teacher of the school which we are going to collaborate with. He has suggested on how the project can be carried out. Please refer to the copy of his email below for further information. By the way, I hope that all of you have done your brief introduction on yourself. Combine all the introduction essays in one file and give the soft copy for me so that I can straight away send it to Mr Peu.

"Thanks for your reply.Your proposed Age Group for the learning exchange is absolutely fine. We shall take up a few theme based projects upon which our students will work and share their learning experiences with each other. Lets say HELLO to each other through a project. My students here are preparing a presentation on Malaysia and coffee plantation. It is a part of their project Travelogue. Probably your students could share some information about themselves, the country and coffee plantation in your country, with us. They can also ask us about India and say Tea Plantation here. Your students can also prepare presentation on India, its history, culture, tradition and we can mutually exchange our student work and find out how the two countries are similar.
Hope you agree to this and we can begin the task soon.I shall be mailing you a questionnaire and a presentation prepared by our students. I think that will help you."

Awaiting your response

Regards
Peu, India

Examples of calendar creation by using popplet.com

Dear 1 Tekun students,

Here are a few examples shared by Rhea from Philippines on how your weather calendar should look like. You just need to explore and follow the instruction given to have your calendar created easily. Of course there should be information searching done. You can use the online research form which you have used in your previous task to guide you through your information searching process. Get the form from me.

Please be reminded that you should do/have done the following:

1. must have introduced themselves at the EC groups

2. Commented on introductions from other schools

3. Answered summary of weather information for the month at www.tinyurl.com/kispweatherdata

4. Answered forum of similarities and differences in weather conditions at EC groups

5. Collaborated in the creation of the weather calendar using popplet. Schools from Philippines have started the collaborative activity. All teachers and students in each group were already invited so kindly check your emails and inform your students to check their emails as well. Students should not create a separate calendar/popplet for this project. they must use what has been started by Philippine schools. 

6. advise students to also include Canada and China in the weather calendar. please see the inputs from China and Canada in the attached files. (These are as instructed by the project coordinator).

POPPLET SAMPLES ON WEATHER CALENDAR

AUGUST:     http://popplet.com/app/#/375040

APRIL:  http://popplet.com/app/#/367967

FEBRUARY:  http://popplet.com/app/#/368092

KFIT International School Project

Dear students of 1 Tekun who have been selected to join the KFIT project,

I hope all of you have confirmed your registration sent by UNESCO to your email. Before you can join the forum, sharing on things related to your project with your other team members from various participating countries, please check for your username and password listed below (after the word kolejku are numbers):

 STUDENT                     USERNAME                                  PASSWORD

Adib Ruzaini                                   adib                                                kolejku01

Ryan Bradley                                 ryan                                                 kolejku02

Hillarius Ngumbang                      hillarius                                              kolejku03

Aunizulaikha                                  aunizulaikha                                     kolejku04

Muhd Muzzamil                            muzzamil                                           kolejku05

Mohd Alfendi                                 alfendi                                             kolejku06

Cynthia Jata                                  cynthia                                              kolejku07

Elizabeth Balan                              elizabeth                                           kolejku08

Earnestia Erlya                              earianiestia                                         kolejku09

Janny Esdie                                   janny                                                 kolejku10

Jasmine Bernadine                       jasmine                                                kolejku11

Kreolla Audra                                kreolla                                              kolejku12

Roger Enteri                                  roger                                                 kolejku13

Sonia Lungan                                 sonia                                                 kolejku14

Azmien Aidiel                                azmien                                               kolejku15

Muhamad Syafiq                          syafiq                                                  kolejku16

Akmal Harith                                akmal                                                  kolejku17

Nurjehan Isran                             nurjehan                                               kolejku18

Lydia Shim                                    lydia                                                    kolejku19

Vanessa Kandu                             vanessa                                                kolejku20

Angeli Nagi                                    angeli                                                  kolejku21

Evelyn Natasha                            evelyn                                                   kolejku22

Fatin Shazawati                            fatin                                                      kolejku23

Mohd Syazwan                             syazwan                                               kolejku24

Natasha Ahmad                            natasha                                                kolejku25

Noor Aziela                                    noor                                                   kolejku26

* Use the username and password given to log into http://ict.unescobkk.org and click on KISP main group. Then click on the 'Group' browser and your group is divided based on the month assigned. Click on the month that you have been assigned to and join the forum provided by introducing yourself first. 

Regional Seminar & School Visit 2011

Here are some pictures of the previous regional seminar in Bangkok and a visit to two schools in Chiang Mai. Thanks to the British Council and also our school principal for the great opportunity. Been learning a lot from both programs.

Warm up for the Games Schools Competition!

We are going to conduct a 'in class' competition for every class involved to choose the best work to represent our school for the Games Schools Competition. The followings are some insights on what you are required to do for the competition:

select one of the following themes:

Welcome the World to London and the UK
Olympic and Paralympic Values
The Olympic Truce

The whole class can then work together in order to create a piece of work which demonstrates the chosen theme. This work can be displayed and submitted in any one of three formats:

Poster - A3 size, scanned or digitally photographed
Digital presentation - PowerPoint, slideshow, Photo Story or any other digital format
Newspaper or magazine article - digital text format (MS Word, Adobe PDF or similar) with or without photos.

Submission due for selection purpose: 26 March 2012

For further information about the competition, please visit this site:

http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/warm-up-for-the-games/competition

BBC Twin for 2012 Project

Hi everyone,

It has been a long time since my last post. I have got some news on a current projects that we will be working on under the Schools Online program. I have received a response from the British Council people informing that we have managed to get a partner school for the upcoming project which is Queens Park Community School (England). The planning of the activities is still in progress and we need to achieve an agreement on what we are about to do for the project. The theme given is Olympic Games. Here are some suggestions given by the British Council:

- Design a 2012 lunch box

- Promote your National sport

- Write a day in the life of your favourite sports person

- Design a 2012 T-Shirt

- Plan a tour of London for your country’s athlete

However, it is not necessary for us to follow exactly what have been listed on the above. We can come out with our own set of activities. If you have any idea regarding the activities for the project, do let me know by posting comments in this blog, send message via email (I think i have told most of you in my class), via facebook or you can come and see me personally.

The next activity is designed by using PBL approaches. I named the project as 'THE JOURNALIST'. Below are some brief information on the project:

Aims/objectives: to boost creativity in writing, encourage students to communicate in English, encourage students to get to know their school better, learn language skills in fun ways, improve creative and critical thinking, encourage students to read more to find more information, train students to be a group leader and to work as a team.
Age range: 14-15
Number of participants: 140 students
Activities planned:
- designing a front cover of a magazine
- school ambassador/personality
- advertisement battle
- issues and dilemma column
- fashionista
- school culture

We will start the second project very soon. I think after the first exam. Task schedule will be distributed to each participating group during the introduction-to-the-project session.