VIDEO CLIP ASSIGNMENT...

The second week lecture was focusing more on the progress of the video clip assignment. After getting the feedback from Prof. Maznah about the details of our video clip, we were now moving into the production stage. There were three main objectives concluded by her which were to inform, to teach skills and to influence the students. Hence, a good effort has to be made in order to turn whats written on the paper into reality.


A good teacher has to be creative and flexible, and there were so many strategies available to be practised in our video making. Some of them were story telling, narration, animation, puppet, comedy, and so on. I realised that a good teacher has to widen their scope of teaching, by not just focusing on the conventional or similar method of teaching. This is due to the increase of demand of students' nowadays who are more attracted to colourful pictures, moving animation and 3D image, since they are exposed through this kind of stuff regularly through medias and internet.


Besides that, there was some uniqueness in the way we were evaluating for this video clip. Each group was given freedom in determining the criteria needed to assess their group , and this can be done by posting it to the forum. Honestly, I really interested in the way Prof set up the task for us.. It gave us freedom in learning and taught us to be an independent learner. Besides that, the credibility of the marks given will not be questioned since we ourselves determined the criteria. Besides that, the three stages of checking which were within group, tutors, and lastly using You Tube. This ensure the quality of the production and the creativity in the assessment process. Since it was for public viewing(You Tube), all of us were becoming more aware with our choice of teaching point, since it has to be clear enough for learning process to take place.


In addition, there was also examples of video presentation displayed in the lecture. This was really helpful as it gave a clearer view on how our video should look like. Now, we should start working on it seriously since this is like a good training for us in manipulating our skills in technology for the use in real classroom practice.