"LeFt uNdONe........."

‘It seems an age since I've seen you, countdown as the weeks trickle into days’

This sentence is dedicated to my dearly IWB assignment which has been neglected for a week. I realized that my only time to work on my IWB task is when Wednesday comes (1200-1500 hour). When others are running to the finishing line with the task, I still learn how to walk properly, how pathetic does it sounds?

I guess it all comes down to time management. Let me prepare simple equations here:
- Good time management = excellent work produced + movies + shopping + hang out
- Average time management = good work produced +more SMS + enough sleep
- Poor time management = average work produced + stress + no sleep at all + workload ++++

So, it is easy to see why I am anxious now, rite?
On the other hand, since the marching for Independence Day has been cancelled...

1) I can’t get my free t-shirt and track bottom
2) We are out of contention to win 5K of prize money
But...
3) I can sit in the air conditioning lab with free access of internet
4) More time for me to work on IWB assignment

BLESS IN DISGUISE! Thanks, but no thanks...

So, it is business as usual. Our class today is not really an academic class at all since we were told to concentrate and work on our assignments. However, our ‘fair lady’ was there to be our helping hand and shoulder to cry on *wee*. Ms Chin was there to answer our queries and clarify some confusion regarding the assignment. It’s all regarding number 5:

- Do we have to produce 5 slides of activities including all the instructions, procedures etc?
- Do we have to come out with 5 activities?

Generally, those 2 questions were the most asked questions for the day. Ms Chin serenely told us that we need to come out with 5 slides of activities, means all the instructions etc shall not be included in the 5 slides of activities. (Thank God for Ms Chin)

I was assigned to do Mathematic lesson for this assignment. While my fellow group members worked on their part which are Science (Soddiq) and English (Muhafiz and Caroline). We worked really well as a group and each member is a team player. Everyone keeps checking each other’s work and we are sharing opinions and ideas all the time. It was a great pleasure working with them and I didn’t face any difficulties or uncooperative behaviour which makes the assignment of ‘rocket science’ seems like A B C.

From my observations and exchanging verbal opinions with my course mates, I have no second guess that I will be in problems with colours. I think to have a right combination of words + background colours are only the beginning of the problem. To choose the best colours to be used is something to ponder on. Some colours maybe too bright that it irritates students’ eyes, some maybe dull and uninteresting that may cause boredom to students and some background colours may overshadow the colours of the words and cause students inability to see the words.

I am never good if playing with colours and will never be one. But, I shall try my best here in dealing with colours and find the right combination to use in my IWB assignment. The matter of fonts also came across my mind, how big should the font be to make it visible in a classroom with 40+ students? If it is too big, will it affecting other part of my activities? (Pictures, answers space etc). Without even touching the mouse yet, I have been poured by my active brain with questions of IWB

However, my most problematic difficulty of designing this lesson is regarding the map-drawing. I realized that even with so much credit and positive comments about IWB, it is still an incomplete tool (being an appliance, you can never be perfect, haha!). One of my activities requires me to prepare a map for students to trace on. When I can’t find any mode/ command of ‘map-drawing’ in the SMART notebook software, I decided to do it manually by using Microsoft Words.

Patiently, I draw line by line by line by line (make it as long as you can) and then join it with other line so that it can become a proper road in my map. It takes me almost one hour to complete it because it requires details and precision (see? I told you it’s a rocket science). As a result, a nicely-drawn map was completed and I am grinding from ears to ears. I am satisfied with my works and then, I ........
a) Work on my other activities
b) Improvise the map
c) Ask Ms Chin about my assignment
d) Help my team members with their lessons

The answer is, none of the above, haha! I stopped working and start loitering around and kill time with ‘non-academic’ chatting with my friends. Being a late-timer (procrastinator), I always come out good at critical time. So, when I did something way ‘earlier’ than I always done, I feel like a winner even though it is only half way through.

I wonder why that I am easily satisfied? Maybe my laziness of finishing works early and unwanted ‘nature’ of procrastinate contributed to that. While everyone is leaving the lab with something to think about their assignment, I stepped out of the lab, totally forgotten the assignment (about one hour ago) and start to think about doing some shopping since the Mega Sale Carnival is around the corner. I am so honest here..Honesty is the best policy *wink*

For the moment, my meaning of IWB is ‘Irresistible Will to Buy!" See you then, cheers!

P/s: Did I mention that we need to present our lesson on 12th September?