Week 11

This is the another step in the progress of completing our last assignment which is Development of Simple Instructional Materials.

My group members and I have decided to use BLOG as the platform in designing our Science lesson. Why use blog for teaching? Looking at the practicality, blog can be developed easily by opening a blog account and start blogging with students. It can be updated and accessed easily by everyone. Blog encourages continual search, filter and posting of ideas and information. It encourages students to share their knowledge, read the notes and comments the posts. It makes the learning become less formal as it allows elements of fun to come together along the learning process.

The topic of our lesson is Endangered Species and the focus is more on how to prevent animals from extinction. Prof. Madya Dr. Rohaida introduced us to a new way of planning and designing our project which is through skeching storyboard. We need to sketch two storyboards. The first one is about the blog itself and the second one is more on the layout.

I find storyboard is a very systematic way in planning and designing our project. It helps us to see the big umbrella of our project before we actually focus on a subtopic. Besides, it helps us to have clearer view on the materials that we should put in the blog, how it should be and where we need to put it in. Storyboard is a very systematic way in planning the project and we hope that it will improve the quality of our product.