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/)