Salam.

Woo-hoo..this is my first time blogging! oopss..sorry.. too excited!

I'm Faten Najwa bt Zamani. Most of my friends call me Faten which means wisdom. heessh..i hate knowing that the most controversial transsexual Malay man who married the British guy is also called Fatine. Urghh~
Okay, I'll be 23 this coming July.Man!I hate the fact that my age is increasing year by year! But Jacob Black said age is just a number! Thanks Jacob..u changed my mind..hee..
Well, currently I'm in my last semester and I hope I'll be able to graduate on time.InsyaAllah.Everyone please pray for me!!
I'm a cheerful kind of person and love surfing the net so much... I'm so easy to be recognized cause I'm towering over my girls classmates. In regard to this, i DISLIKE high heels. =(

Regarding my computer skills, I would say that I'm just a novice computer user because I just know certain computer skills.However, I consider myself as an expert when it comes to facebooking, downloading files and of course online chatting. Frankly, there are loads of computer skills that I really need to learn.I wish to learn those one day.

I don't have vast knowledge on latest hardware or software like the experts. However, I did know some of the hardware and software that I usually use. For hardware, the examples are thumbdrive, netbook, mouse and wireless adapter and if for software I do have Ares, VLC Media Player and Photoscape in my netbook.

As a student, of course I have experienced learning online. For example, I usually listen to listening texts on IELTS websites and answer the questions provided on the web. I also did online grammar exercises and subscribe the free grammar notes and read them just to improve my grammar knowledge which I consider as poor.

I've exprienced teaching in the real setting during my practicum which was last year. I taught in SMK Seafield in Subang Jaya and my students were the form 4 students. During my practicum, i did incorporate the technology in my lessons and the students like it so much. For example, for the text 'Looking For A Rain God' , I've downloaded a video of ritual practices taken from 'Apocalypto' movie and showed it to them. I made them find the similarities from both stories and we together listed them out on the board and we also talked about the the values of the story. Students seemed to enjoy watching the videos and they understood the story better. Thus, I would say lessons using the technology is a success!

As a future English teacher, I would say that the use of computer and technology in language teaching is very important cause it helps the teaching process become easier and enjoyable. Well, by just one click teachers are ready to preach and teach.No chalks and less sweat! Besides that, by just displaying exercises on the screen, teachers will have much more time to facilitate students doing exercises.
Apart from that, I also think that using computer in classroom helps the lesson become more interesting. For example, the use of songs and animated cartoon characters in video clips for grammar class sounds cool to me. All in all, integrating computer and technology in language teaching is beneficial to both teachers and students.

For the last question, Well, I hope to learn more about computer skills and technology from this course. InsyaAllah.=)

Till now....bye..