iFlappy

I hope you all enjoy it!

Can you get the secret ending?

My 3D Motorcycle Game

 

Hope you enjoyed my motorcycle game!

Press SPACE BAR to Gas

LEFT and RIGHT arrows to MOVE accordingly.

My Unicorn Animation in Scratch

 

Here is the animation!

Hope you enjoyed it!

When You Bring EDP into Your Class

It is no doubt STEAM approach makes lessons more interesting and students feel more involved when doing their parts in the project. It is the Engineering Design Process that keeps important role in bringing seamless process in teaching and learning. It is the life of STEAM.

The steps, I usually involve in my Project based ICT class, are:

1. ASK, at this stage, students learn about their learning and project objectives. They need to understand its importance and relationship with their world. They also need to know the problem they’re supposed to solve when making this project.

2. IMAGINE, this is the earliest stage of planning, before they plan, they need to enrich themselves with relevant knowledge and start collaborating with people involved. Brainstorming is the best way to get best idea to be implemented in making the project.

3. PLAN, this is where students start jotting down from their first draft to their final draft of planning. They also need to prepare all the materials and resources required in making this project. Timeline takes important part in the planning, too, as it will determine the time when project should have been submitted.

4. CREATE, at this stage, students have to start working everything they have put in their plan. Time to test out everything they have learned and planned. Important reminder, such as “stick to the plan”, sometimes needs to be given regularly especially to students who like to improvise. Timeline and time limit have to be an important focus as we do not want our students to submit their project late.

5. REVISE, this is when after they presented their works and found some things to be fixed and mended. It is important for us, teachers, to give them our honest inputs for them to grow, develop and deliver their final product in the best shape they can give. In my version, this fifth step includes COMMUNICATION, as they presented and received inputs from the teachers.

These 5 steps need to be executed fervently and there should be no room for negotiations. Students needs to be monitored and encouraged especially when we first start implementing STEAM approach in our class.

Remember, Necessity maybe the mother of investion but Play is certainly the father 😊👍 Good luck in implementing STEAM approach in your class!

My Last Term Break

We had a blast! 👏

We went to a park near my our house. No one was there and we had a great family time. 🌲

We had some snacks, too right under a big tree. It was such a great relaxing time for all of us! ✌

Cultivating and Nurturing Children's Critical Thinking Ability

When we talk about child's thinking skill, we need to understand that it is different with their critical thinking skill. Being a thinker does not mean you are necessarily a critical thinker. When you think, you are trying to give a meaning to an object you are facing or you're comparing in deciding which option to take.

Critical thinking lets you improve the quality of decision making skill you have in choosing the right new structure that can grow new ideas on your thoughts. It is a process, a strategy, and representation of ability to solve problem, to make decision and to learn new concept.

As one of the most important 21st century skills, it has to be introduced to our children as early as possible. Remember that, citical thinking is a process not inheritance. It is also believed that this skill can help us take a smart decision that is systematic, logical, and considering many relevant aspects.

Remember to always check whether your students:

1. have open mindedness

2. have Analytic Nature

3. are systematic by method

4. are inquisitive

5. are judicious

6. have truth seeking ethos

7. are confident in reasoning

As teacher, I have responsibility to:

1. Empower characters that are related with critical thinking skill

2. Give the right instruction in teaching-learning process

3. Keep developing the conducive learning atmosphere

4. Supervise the process in critical thinking demonstration

Let us all start growing critical thinking skills in our student's lives. It won't be easy and fast but remember, it is all worth it. 

Science Process Skill

 

To think that we can always involve Science Process when educating our children, always gives a new kind of motivation and push to create a more dynamic kind of lesson plan.

In the last webinar, all teachers were asked to answer and solve several problems that require critical and analytical thinking process. And that kind of remind me on how the assimilation process works or how the ugly caterpillar turns to a beautiful butterfly.

The current culture has been blocking children to think critically nor ask critical question. Many of us, parents, think to protect our children first rather than allowing them to be curious and inquire about the world around them.

As a computer teacher, I am inspired by the session about science process skill, because Information Technology can never be separated from Scientific Thinking skill. Rumah Stream has once again gave me some ideas to infuse technology with some other subjects taught at school. I guess this remains a homework for me. I need to design a project for my Elementary students to incorporate ICT skills and let them use it while working on the Interdisciplinary Project.

Another great opportunity to learn about STEAM

Last week, I was invited to a webinar about “implementing STEAM in your class” that is held by RUMAH MAINSTrEAM

It was such a great opportunity for teachers who have been keen in learning and wanting to implement STEAM in their classes. Many are curious, too. We found the answers during our webinar. We learnt:

1. STEAM is a fun way to learn about any topics you find dull or uninteresting.

2. STEAM integrates 5 subject lesson objetives in one hands-on project.

3. STEAM makes the lessons closer to student’s daily life. Students can correlate and implement the lessons better in the end.

There are still lots of lessons to learn from this webinar. 3 more webinars to go, before I can truly achieve my learning goals and try implementing what I’ve learnt in my class. Looking forward to attending the next episode of this webinar.

My Term Break

I had a wonderful term break.
We stayed in Bogor for a week.
We had a Culinary Trip around town.
We went to a zoo and saw a lot of animals
We hope to have a longer holiday..

We also went to Istana Bogor.
This place is made for Soekarno, our first president.
He liked resting here when he was still alive.
The view was astonishing. you should go there, too

My Most Terrible Term Break

My holiday was terrible.
I was hospitalized for 1 week due to my heart attack.
I was happy though because my students, family and friends were praying for me.
Thank God everything went well.
I hope I will never have heart attack ever again.

Math (ICT infused) Project

These are one of the classes with most Mac users actively bring their Macs every week when working on their ICT-infused project.

They are more motivated to bring their laptops since we brought in a new-old sofa :D

Integrating projects with ICT class is one of many ways to attract students to make their own project with the help of technology.

This makes ICT infusion to other class subjects more possible to happen.

Deep-Diving in Singapore

What could be more fun than just deep diving in one of the biggest International Schools in Singapore?

It wasn't an ordinary "Diving" as we all are not under water at all. It was merely our passion who put us there, with other passionate teachers, trying to figure it out "how am I gonna change the world with my lessons?"

Well, this could be an opportunity for everyone who wants to learn and upgrade his teachings with the revolutionised teaching tools.

It was started with a BANG!

We were given a GOOGLE Cardboard we have to figure it out ourselves on how to install it with our smartphone attached to it. It was for me as I have seen and used one of those before, but for the many it was quite challenge knowing it didn't come with a manual :)
The Virtual Reality was such an experience everyone looking up forward to recently. We are wondering what it can do and till what extent this product is going to entertain us.

Well, Deep Learners could get more update on that, as some educators already found some ways on how to infuse VR to their lessons. As for the greater news, they shared with us on the 2-day Deep Learning Workshop!

I was so excited to attend some of the classes that have already been intriguing me since I received an email about the workshop.

Early Programming for Grade 1 & 2 students??!!
I mean how could that even possible? Well, I have to admit I was impressed.

The teacher, Mr. Wayne, really made me realise technology is making everything possible.
When he sharing with us this App, Scratch Jr., I could not stop myself from using it. All the more if I can start giving this to my students, I would not dare to imagine if they would ever want to stop :)

Digital Citizenship class raised my awareness on the issues those students everyday are facing when they go online. It made me realise, as a technology teacher, it is my responsibility to wide open the eyes of other teachers, parents and school management about this matter. I hope I could start running some programs endorsing all of us at SLI to be more aware in this matter.

One other thing that caught my eyes, was when I learnt about Touchcast. It's an App that exposes and simplifies the work on green screen in movie industry. I was astonished when I started to see how it works as it was very easy, yet the result was awesome!
I mean what's better than embedding photos, links, even a whiteboard on your running video with a background of your choice??!

I made that video roughly in 5 minutes.

I can't wait to start modifying my curriculum and involving those tools in my class. I'm sure students can't wait to start their own production once I showed them this amazing App.

I was attracted with "flipping your classroom" class, as that might be the answer of my long lost question about motivating the students and involving technology more on some of my instructional lessons. There I learnt about having some of my lessons recorded and getting them discuss about the lesson online. The point of success here is on how to buy students for doing this. How to get them all well-motivated and actively join the discussion is definitely what we need to answer and prepare initially.

Tell..Teach..Trust

The amazing race class made me realise how powerful tools provided by Google already are. Google Form, Docs, Sheets and Maps are some of those we were exposed with during the class. It is mazing to see how those tools can be related one to another to create the best Gamification in teaching-learning process.

Badging can be another tools to gamify your class. Why, you ask? because we are teaching in the 21st century, where students are more critical than ever, and never forget the fact they are exposed to digital game too much nowadays and therefore got engaged easily when you involve game in you class.

with Mr. Wesley Przybylski

Every the end of the day, we were gathered to find out the winners of Social Media activities. I was lucky enough to be one of the winners! "Most Excitement For Learning Award" Wow! Thanks guys!

with awesome educators at DEEP Learning 2015

In the end, I just want to say thank you for the invitation to this amazing event! You made me learn a lot in two days and I definitely will share the good news with everyone at SLI. My students will benefit a lot thanks to all the learnings you made possible.
It's a great reminder for me to always "be the yardstick of quality" in whatever we do!

Warmest regards from Jakarta, Indonesia.

Project Guideline Grade 1-6 SY2015-2016

Some excellent websites made by the previous Grade 6

Here are the websites you can look and make as reference in making your website:


http://95gracelim.wix.com/funlearn#!

http://manikandrea.wix.com/natural-disasters#!

http://joyceligondo.wix.com/plantastic

http://claratricialaurenc.wix.com/the-human-eye

http://michelle03sli.wix.com/animals


The requirement for your plan (the homework this week) is listed below. Just scroll down a bit.
Thank you for doing your homework!

iCartoon Project for Grade 4

Project Guide

for iCartoon Project

Grade 4

Grade 4 Term 2 - iAnimate Plan Format

Name:

Class:

Topic: Simulation of buying fish in the wet market

Actors:  -> The pictures must have ONE solid color background

yourself - young boy

mom - older woman

driver - old man

seller - young man

soap - bar of soap

bowl of cereal

water from hose

tooth brush

car - sport car

money - stack of money

fish - salmon fish

plastic bag

weighing scale

Settings: -> Free: can be cartoon, can be real. The size of the pictures is big

bedroom

bathroom

dining room

living room

in front of the house

on the road

in front of the wet market

the fish seller

Steps:

1. wake up in the morning

2. go to the bathroom to take a bath and brush

3. eat breakfast

4. wait for my mom

5. wait for my driver

6. hit the road

7. arrive in the wet market

8. go to the fish seller

9. choose the fish

10. weigh the fish

11. put the fish in the plastic bag

12. get the fish and pay for the fish

13. go out from the wet market

14. get back inside the car

15. hit the road

16. back home

17. take a bath again

18. eat lunch

19. read books

20. relax in the living room

21. go back to sleep/nap

Grade 6 iWeb - Project Plan Format

Your Name:

1. Topic:

2. Lessons: (Min. 5 Lessons)
    - One web page for each lesson
    - Give explanation/detailed information on each lesson
    - Provide information how each lesson will be taught. Mention all the media you will use to teach
      (text? movie? animation? slideshow?)

3.  List all the resources (book, website, youtube video) in detail


REQUIREMENTS:
1. It must include 3 videos/movies (from recorded presentation or recorded movie
2. It must include 2 animations (from iAnimate, iCartoon or Stykz)
3. It must include 5 pictures for each lesson page (for slideshow purposes)

Please make the plan in google drive and share it with me: shiefung@gmail.com before next week.

Good luck!

Grade 5 iSelect Story sample plan

Requirements:
SLIDES = 15 or more (including the good ending slide)
TWISTS/SELECT NOW = 4 or more
ACTORS = 3 or more
SETTINGS = 5 or more
SENTENCES = 3 per slide

Additional info:

1 PIC FOR TITLE
4 PICS FOR BAD ENDINGS
1 PIC FOR THANKS TO/CREDITS (the toys and YOU)
15 PICS of STORYLINE (and a good ending)

Finish the plan by next week and to help, here is the sample of a plan. Good Luck!

TITLE:

ACTORS:
1
2
3

SETTINGS:
1
2
3
4
5

PLOT:

Once upon a time there was a man named John. He could transform himself into a Superdude. One day he saw a bad guy trying to rob a bank. He was planning to shoot the security guard. John accidentally passed by the bank and saw what was happening. He ran inside the bank.* He saved the security guard and took the shot. The shooter ran away hurriedly. He was afraid Superdude will catch him. So he took the last train to lisbon.* He was able to catch the train.

…

…

…

The end




TWISTS/ SELECT NOW:
*1. Should the Superdude save the security guard?
A. He saved the security guard (correct)
B. He didn't save the security guard
BAD ENDING: He left the bank cowardly. Ever since the people in the city hated Superdude for not being helpful. He regretted his decision for the rest of his life.


*2. And so on..

Grade 5 Homework (January 14, 2012)

Your homework this week (due next week) is to finish iSelect Story Planning.
The Plan should consist:

YOUR NAME AND YOUR PARTNER'S NAME
1. Decide on the topic and title
2. Specify 3 Characters & 5 Settings:
-Superman action figure - Steve
-..
-..
-Backyard - Caste's garden
3. 15 Pages / 25 pages
4. 30 Sentences / 50 sentences
5. 5 Twists / 8 twists
6. 5 Bad Endings / 8 Bad Endings
(There are differences if you work alone or with a partner)

This is the example of a twist in your plan (put all the twists and bad endings at the bottom of your document/plan):

*1 What should the princess do?
A. She runs as fast as she could
B. She screams and asks for help
BAD ENDING:
(B) The Giant Frog got surprised and jumped on her. She then got squished by it.


Remember it's due next week. Good Luck!

Cute Kay in Action! -My first Animoto Slideshow

Cute Kay in Action!

Let me know what you think of Animoto.
I love it..