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The 9th class was another class meant for IWB assignment. IWB is the word everyone talking about. Me? I try to join the conversation but as expected, they are way further than me in the assignment, and still, I am way behind (you lazy fella!)

Ms Chin was there for us as our guiding angle in this assignment. She talked us through some websites/ portals that is meant, dedicated and purposely developed for educational purposes. So, as teachers-to-be, these sites should be a helping hand in our career (?). Some of the websites are:
· http://portalbahasamelayu.fateback.com/index1.htm
· http://eleaston.com/
· http://www.bmspm.cjb.net/
· http://www.tutor.com.my/
· http://portalbahasamelayu.fateback.com/index1.htm
· http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/33.html
· http://www.karyanet.com.my/

Ms Chin is a good English speaker, but, who knows that she very good in Bahasa Malaysia too? As a matter of fact, she is the author of one of the websites, which is http://portalbahasamelayu.fateback.com/ . I would not want to believe it but, as CSI movies always said...’people lies, evidence don’t’. As a Malay myself, I am confuse with myself when I know that somebody from other races is interested in our language, when I am not at all. *ponder*

Later by the class, Ms Ng entered the class and a moment after, Prof turned in. She asked us to walk through our assignments while at the mean time; she went around the class and checked in our progress on the assignments. She brought up and discussed with us some issues that can we can refer to improve our assignment.

One particular discussion thet caught my attention was regarding the Bloom Taxonomy. She talked us through our blog and relates it to the Bloom Taxonomy. She said that some of us are still in the early level of the Bloom Taxonomy in relation of our blog writing while some are in other hand of the taxonomy. I wonder where am I in the Bloom Taxonomy, *ponder*

When I was in Maktab, I was taught that Bloom Taxonomy has 6 levels, which are
1. Knowledge
2. Comprehension
3. Application
4. Analysis
5. Synthesis
6. Evaluation

But, Prof said, the 7th level of the Bloom Taxonomy, which is the highest level is ‘Instruction’. I was rather puzzled but later, I thank Prof for adding valuable knowledge to my lazy brain *wink*

During the class, like others, I also worked on my assignment and exchanging ideas and opinions with my group members and friends from other groups as well. We discussed about how to make the lesson using IWB as interactive and as interesting as we can, without jeopardize the academic content and input.

We are aware the fact that young learners love games, cartoons etc but we are having hard time in finding the appropriate games and pictures to be adding on. We are afraid that some games are not suitable for the age of the students which might hinder their learning. Furthermore, Prof said that our activity on the IWB must be closely connected to the Curriculum Specification and Lesson objectives/ lesson outcomes. My lazy brain is so close to explode! (Please don’t).

So, there goes the 9th class of the semester. I hope that everyone realizes that it is so near to the end of semester and start putting on more efforts to our assignments and study. Moreover, next week we shall present our assignment in front of the class. I am looking forward for the IWB product from my friends and hopefully, with so much time and helping hand given, we will produce something brilliant.

I wont bother (IWB) about others work from now on and concentrate on mine (selfish kan?), chaiyok!

Cheers!