REFLECTION WEEK 1

In this  semester,we are having three subjects and one of it is computer in education (GE1155). Our lecturer is Mr. Fariduddin and he had provide a lot of help for us in this subject by improving our ICT skills. Personally I do not really have the expert skills in handling ICT stuff such as blog,yahoo group or etc but upon entering this class, my ICT skills have improved very much. As a teacher to be, it is very important for us to have the ability in using ICT as an extra tools to help us in our teaching. I hope that I can learn as much as possible in this class so that I can master all of the essential skills in using ICT and thus varied my teaching style when I am teaching my students in the future.
   Our task this week is quite a lot, such as creating our own yahoo email, gmail, facebook account, yahoo groups, and lastly is our own official blog. Our lecturer is very helpful as he had tried his best to explain the steps in completing these task. Some of the task is quite easy as I had used the application before but there are other application that is quite hard because I had never used those application before and it was very confusing.
   Regarding the task of creating my own email, it was quite easy because I had my own email before this and the process is not complicated. You just have to click the sign up button for both of the email and after that you just have to follow the given instruction. It was the basic knowledge for all internet users all around the world.
   The second task is creating a facebook account. Facebook had been around for several years now and I too had been using it for quite sometimes, so I am not having any troubles in doing this task. Adding to that, we also needs to create our own facebook group for this subject and the process is also straightforward. We just need to invite our friends to the group after we had it created. Facebook is quite useful for our studies as we can share any information regarding our education in there. 
   Next is creating our own yahoo groups. This task is quite difficult for all of us because none of us are really using this application in our daily life. The process is very complicated and it was time consuming. After we had created the group, we need to invite all of our friends and we need to go to our own email to approved our invitation for the group. It was really hard for myself because I never learned to use this application before but thankfully after the guidance given by our lecturer, I manage to master some of the function. 
   Lastly we need to create our own official blog. To create the account for this blog is easy but I had a hard time using it because I never had any experience in blogging. I only know how to post the blog but I do not know how to make it more appealing and interesting. I hope that I can learn the skills on improvising my blog from my colleague as some of them are very good with it.
   All in all, I am really hoping that my ICT skills will improve after this so that I can use it in my teaching days.