No Comments// Posted in english, malaysia, social media, speaking, student, talk, teaching by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 02.23.16.
Have you heard about Anchor, the latest micro-podcasting app? I’ve heard about it four days ago on Ben Leonard’s Scope. Piqued with curiosity, I downloaded the app on iOS. What I’ve discovered that it’s the world first public radio that optimize interactivity and global sharing with users worldwide. You can record your micro-podcast (referred to as ‘wave’), use hashtags to categorize it and share with the masses. Anyone with Anchor account can respond to your wave by recording their replies to you.
My Anchor’s account, listing number of likes, plays and my shared waves and replies from other users.
An example of wave of Joel Comm who I’m following on Wave. It can be a question, annotation, reflection, rant or anything under the sun.
While exploring Anchor, I thought the abundance of potentials of micro-podcasting in teaching and learning. As it’s a 2-minutes wave recording, I reckon it would be a great social media tool for speaking skills, pronunciation, ennunciation, vocabulary and thinking skills. Since this app is relatively new, I twitted on Anchor recently and decided to kickstart AnchorEd, a micro podcast show on education. Check out my waves below:
The 1st episode : How Anchor can support teaching & learning
http://anchor.fm/w/99A43C
The 2nd episode : To MOOC or not to MOOC?
http://anchor.fm/w/9A23F8
No Comments// Posted in johor, jpnj, malaysia, speaking, student by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 02.20.16.
I was invited by the Johor Student Leaders Council to facilitate the Social Media Management workshop for the top student leaders from all over Johor. Albeit not being as active coaching the JSLC due to my studies commitment, my heart is still with them and I will do my best to share my knowledge and experience with them.
During the session, I discovered that these talented young minds are passionate about youth leadership and eager to showcase their ideas as well as collaborate with their peers. I guided them on elevator pitch and strategic planning for project management. These skills are essentials as the Johor Student Leaders will embark on managing major leaderships projects such as international conference, charity dinner, leadership camp and many more in the near future.
I assigned tasks to each group where they need to showcase how they optimize social media in managing the aforementioned projects within limited time. The task aims to gauge how well they deliberate, disseminate and deliver their projects using myriad social media platforms. It was great to hear innovative ideas and new approaches being taken by the student leaders in managing their projects during the project pitching session.
Wishing them the best in the future undertakings.
No Comments// Posted in Uncategorized by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 11.17.15.
Have you ever feel overwhelmed and face difficulties to focus in the age of distraction? I guess I’m not alone in saying that one needs the dexterity to strike an equilbrium in managing a well-balanced life. It’s harder to sustain focus but it’s never impossible, I reckon. I came across this amazing infographic that depicts great tips on optimizing your focus in the age of distraction. Do check it out!
1 Comment// Posted in e-classroom, english, King Arthur, learning, literature, student by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 10.13.15.
Since I’m currently teaching Form 1, I’ve discovered that online materials on King Arthur, the graphic novel is rather scarce. Hence, I’ve developed learning materials for my students and others who are studying the novel. I’m sharing my resource on King Arthur, the graphic novel in the English Literature Component for Form 1. I’ve used ThingLink as a hub for the myriad resources using web tools such as Padlet and YouTube. The interactive quiz is created using OnlineQuizCreator. Sharing is caring.
No Comments// Posted in Blab, english, learning, reflection, speaking, talk by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 09.26.15.
After 9 days on Blab, I’ve decided to host my first Blab.
Prior to this, I was mainly observing and jumping in as co-speaker in some Blabs that caught my interests. The openness of conversation enables user to simply engage in verbal discourse or in written form. For newbies, after registering your Blab account using your Twitter credentials, simply click ‘start a new Blab’ on the right-hand corner and proceed to typing the topic of your Blab. I suggest that you choose a catchy title that encapsulates the main topic of discourse. Next, choose 3 tags related to your Blab so people who are interested in the topic could easily retrieve your Blab later on. You can then decide whether to promptly launch the Blab or schedule it at a specific date and time.
The first speaker I had on my Blab was Kevin Cao, a visually-impaired DJ from New York. He shared about his experience chatting on Blab and how it connected him to others who faced disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism to name a few. I find this fact fascinating as it proves the significant impact of a social media platform, particularly live streaming platform in providing catalytic opportunities for lifelong learning for those facing disability. He found Blab as a great place to change viewpoints on music as well as his other interests in life with users from all over the world. It’s a great platform to show awareness on disabilities. However, Kevin did express his concern that there could be more improvements needed to enhance the inclusive education for the visually impaired, especially using Augmented Reality and voice-activated mobile apps. I feel this is the real-time feedback that educators need to know, in order to engage and assist learners with disabilities, in learning more effectively.
Then, I had a great discussion with Vanessa who lives in Brooklyn, New York and Dr. Vibe who is the host and producer of the Dr. Vibe Show, the winner of the Black Web Blog Award. When asked the potentials of Blab for lifelong learning, they both agreed that live streaming is the future of lifelong learning where demographic barriers are things of the past. Dr. Vibe opined that it could make or break, depending on how a user utilizes the platform, which Vanessa and I fully agreed upon. Vanessa told me a cool fact where students in U.S. were able to converse with an astronaut using live streaming platform. How cool is that?
Another great way of using live streaming platform for lifelong learning is to optimize the homogeneity and cultural diversity of the users. As the users come from all over the world with myriad expertise and background, cross-cultural discourse would be great ways to let students engage with other users from different countries. Learning about culture is no longer retrieved from obsolete information as you get richer and more authentic engagement via social interaction on Blab. This is crucial aspect of future learning as racism is an anathema that can be eradicated with mutual understanding and tolerance. I believe live streaming platform has the potential to lift the dogmatic perspective on racial, religious and ideological differences. This reminded me of the Blab I took part last night on Racial Divide in U.S. The discussion was an eye-opener and taught me various angles on the aforementioned topic. It is okay to disagree but not to disrespect.
Enclosed is the recorded Blab I hosted earlier. As a host, you have the option of recording it or keep it off-record. However, once you record it, it would be readily available to be uploaded on YouTube, how cool is that? I’m still exploring on ways to be a better host on Blab but this is just a beginning and not the end. I hope that more users from Malaysia and Asia would be on Blab and benefit from its extensive resources and amazing group of people.
