First Impressions

17 September is the beginning of the new semester 2011/2012 for me since Friday was the Malaysia Day celebrations and classes were cnncelled. I awoke before my alarm and got ready for class which showed how  excitedly I was anticipating the courses this semester, after the long,long break of 4 months. Arrived a little before time and saw a familiar face outside the labs. Chatted for a while then went into Lab 2 to talk to Dr.Tee regarding my project paper.

At 0800 we went into Lab 1 for PXGT6110- Application of the Internet in Instruction class. Saw more familiar faces here and I was very glad because I thought I would be an outsider here, being one of the very few TESL students who would venture out of the safety of English courses and explore the unfamiliar territories of Instructional Technology. However, I prefer a lot of hands on work with computers and the internet rather than discussing theories in English all the time.

Our lecturer introduced herself as Ng Huey Zher. She discussed the course pro-forma and what was expected form us. Seemed like a lot was expected, especially 'Create a Web Based Learning Environment'. I'm quite worried about this since I have not have a lot of experience with this and have not attended the same courses as the rest of the students in the class. I'm very interested though and hope to learn a lot which would help me with my project paper. Huey Zher told us not to be too worried and also said she would walk us through it. She seems like a pretty nice lady, what's more, I was excited to know that she was from the same state, Johor.

This blog that I have set up is part of our coursework, to record our reflections of what we've learned and experienced over the semester. Hope I'll have lots to write and rave about.