I am stoked to be awarded Microsoft Innovative Expert (MIEE) for Class 2022-2023.
Microsoft supports a thriving community of passionate educators who are constantly learning, growing and working together to change students’ lives and build a better world. The Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert program is a premier program created to recognize global educator visionaries.
How to join the program
Once you’ve planned out your responses, nominate yourself here between May 15 and July 7, 2022 (global window), or between November 15 and December 15, 2022 (note: the United States doesn’t accept nominations during this second window).
Join Microsoft Learn and create your profile. You will need to download your transcript, put it in a location in which you can share it, and then create and share a URL to your transcript as a part of the nomination process. You can find your transcript by going into your profile in Learn.
For nominations in November 2022 and beyond: Ensure that you have successfully earned your Microsoft Educator and Advanced Educator badges.
To prepare for the self-nominations, you will want to start collecting evidence and working through these questions: http://aka.ms/MIEEQuestionsFY23 to plan your nomination. MIE Experts are expected to use at least two of our core tools on a regular basis (Teams, OneNote, Forms, Minecraft: Education Edition, Flip), and are expected to understand and demonstrate how our suite of solutions supports teaching and learning.
We are participating in #VPC2022. We are pitching FLIPHUB, a crowd-sourcing platform for learning videos for #STEM subjects in Malaysian schools. We need your help to watch and like our video. Thank you so much for your support 🙌🏼
Integrated Microlearning Programme with Robust Virtual Experience or IMPROVE is designed for all educators to provide PD training that is personalised, ubiquitous and available on-demand. Although courses offered via IMPROVE are mapped against 8 domains that are designed based on the CPD framework for ELT practitioners, educators from varying fields will find them helpful as a part of their professional and personal growth. Combined with a unique Ed-Tech integration model based on the TPACK framework, IMPROVE flexibly allows participants to customize their PD training to meet their personal learning needs. IMPROVE is also integrated with AI technology to support data analysis and programme upgrading.
Thank you to the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for inviting me for a knowledge-sharing session on Online Supervision in the new norm: Challenges & Opportunities. Supervising our students in the midst of the new normal can pose an arduous challenge to educators and trainers, especially in sustaining motivation and learning progress. It was a fruitful session where we discussed how online supervision can be optimised albeit with myriad challenges in the COVID19 pandemic.
Albeit the pandemic, educators are keen on finding ways to upgrade themselves professionally. I am grateful for the opportunity to be one of the trainers for the Malaysia Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) 2021, a programme initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that emphasizes the development of human resources through the provision of training in various areas which are essential for a country’s development such as the public administration, good governance, health, education, agriculture, sustainable development, poverty alleviation, economy and finance, ICT and environment. Annually, Malaysia offered more than 65 capacity-building and technical assistance programmes under the MTCP, which have benefited more than 34,000 participants from 144 countries.
This training is a series of online continuous professional development which we will conduct for four cohorts. The title of this training is Online Learning Course Design & Course Development for 21st Century Learning in the New Norms Environment. The goal of this online course is to bring together ELT education professionals from across the Asia Pacific to take on roles as trainers in extending their training impact within the context of designing online courses. All the 17 participants are ELT professionals from Maldives, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines who have actively participated in the course.
We invited 4 esteemed speakers to conduct Master Classes during the course. They are Prof. Dr. Kamarul Kabilan bin Abdullah (USM), Mr. Chua Kee Man (UNIMAS), Mr. Mohana Ram Murugiah (GC English Language, MGS Ipoh) & Ms. Nazira Roslee (SK Putrajaya Presint 9 (1)) to impart their knowledge and share their experience with the course participants.
