smartboard

Smartboard? I never see this thing before so I was very excited to learn and use this so-called ‘Smartboard”. I wonder whether it is really “smart” as claimed. However, my perception was altered when I saw our trainer demonstrate how to use the smartboard and I was impressed. I think if kids in primary school see this thing there will surely be excited and eager to use the smartboard. Even I an adult was very enthusiastic to use the smartboard. I feel it is an interesting tool for teacher to help them improve their teaching. However, teacher must know how to exploit the smartboard to ensure that teacher and pupils will benefit from this board. Smartboard will affect my work as a teacher if I learn how to utilize it. Firstly, we no longer need to use the dusty blackboard that is very inconvenience to use and face shortage of chalk anymore. It will make my work easier and more comfortable learning environment. Smartboard will definitely make teaching interactive and engaging to the pupils. This will surely increase pupil’s motivation and without doubt make them want to participate in the classroom. Teacher will not have problem to create fascinating material that will raise pupil’s interest because smartboard provide the tools for teacher to be creative and imaginative. Personally, I have bad handwriting so smartboard will help me to overcome this problem because when I write on the board I can transform it into a nice writing. That is surely pleasing news for me. People always talk about integration of technology into education and smartboard is an excellent tool that would infuse technology into our education system.
However, I wonder how many of this smartboard will be available in our school? Because the cost to acquire smartboard is enormous and surely it is a ‘future’ technology when the cost is lower and affordable for our government. It is not practical for school in Malaysia to adopt this new technology.

SMARTBOARD?

is it practical to use smartboard now? or is it for future when the cost may go down becasue one of the reason we cant use technology because of the cost to acquire the hardware and another reason is most of us just dont like learning new things.... the question is are we willing to learn this quite complicated 'things'... even for a tech-savvy guy like me i found that it is quite hard to fully understand this new things. to ensure that i can use smartboard there must be a lot of opportunity for me to use it... however, the chance to use it is minimal because we have large class.... so, maybe in the next few weeks i will be able to use the smartboard effectively...

How technology change the way we work?

Of course technology change the way we work but it depend whether we are immersed in the technology and willing to embrace it. If we are afraid to use technology then how we want to change our life. For instance, the we communicate with each other, in the old days we have to use public phones and it was very troublesome because public phone is always vandalized. Nowadays, most of us use mobile phone. Then, we have computer.... It is like a magic box because we can do almost everything. When we type our assignment we don't have to worry about making spelling mistake because the program will automatically our spelling. So, technology make it easier for us to do our work. However, some people think that technology make us lazy because we have things like remote control or air-conditioner. For me, technology have help me to work effectively and efficiently. We can surf internet for information with just a click a button and mountain of information is ready. We must utilized technology and know how to 'manipulate' it for our own benefit. so, in my opinion, technology chnage the way we work in many ways.

life is funny... when it seem everything is going according to plan, then something bad will happen! why?? but my life have been "weird", i dunt know what people want.. im not a people-person juz a different kind of guy that luv watching football and girlzzz... hehe... why blog? will anyone read my blog? or will it be wasted! nonsense!!