The 1 Maju Group Blog Project

Image taken from liskw.wordpress.com Theme: Health Topic: Your Health, Your Wealth I have decided to give them an assignment on their favourite restaurants. In this assignment, I ask them to write about their favourite restaurants & evaluate how healthy the resturants are. The objective is to write about health, so if they found their restaurant unhealthy, they will need to specify how they will compensate. Guiding Statements/Questions: - Their favourtie restaurant - What? Where? Why? - Do you think it is healthy? - If yes, why? - If no, how will you compensate?

Image taken from liskw.wordpress.com I think that the first post in a blog should be an introduction to their personalities & the blog. Therefore, the first assignment is writing an introduction to their blog. This should also give them a good feel of each other, group work & the writing of blogs. Guiding Statements/Questions: - Who they are - The purpose of the blog - What they want from their blog MOST OUTSTANDING POST FOR ASSIGNMENT 1: .Seven Ai.Seven Ai. by Seven Ai After looking through all the blogs. I found this one to be the most outstanding. In that blog post: All the guiding statements & questions were answered clearly. The English was appropriate and contained no mistakes. They also had pictures that were clearly label and justified. The writing was very cheerful & it was able to retain my interest. This post is the most outstanding post for Assignment 1: Introduction The group gets 3 merit points. Excellent Posts (2 merit points): Welcome to VAREDAEST!!!! by

Image taken from classpress.com During these 3 months, I will incorporate blogs into their language practice tasks. These tasks will be called 'Assignments'. The main language practice will be writing. But I strongly enourage the incorporation of relevant pictures in their posts. I will not give an assignment just for the sake of giving one. I follow the scheme of work. I will use the assignments to fulfill the topics & objectives described therein. An assignment will usually involve group discussion, planning, drafting & writing on paper before production & publication on the group blogs. Each assignment will have it's own blog post. Included in this post will be the instructions & justifications of the assignment. I will post it up as soon as I have assigned them to the groups. The most outstanding work from the groups will be highlighted & featured on the respective assignment post. Do give them your support by reading & posting constructive comme

Image taken from www.cg.tuwien.ac.at With the existence of the group blogs, there is also the existence of a permanent grouping system. Upon these student groupings, I will base a Group Merit System. The "Group Merit System" is a system where students in earn merit points for their groups. The group with the highest ammount of merits wins a reward from Mr Yong at the end of his time with them. Here is how they will earn merits or demerits... Merits - winning blog post awards (Most outstanding - 3 pnts / Excellent - 2 pnts / Good - 1 pnt) - everyone in the group has handed in exercise books on time - winning classroom games - being cooperative in class Demerits - one person in the group did not hand in an exercise book on time - distruptive class behaviour (after 2 warnings) - refusal to follow instructions (after 2 warnings)

Image taken from tamworthmanor.co.uk The students have gotten into groups and have started their own blogs. The name of the groups have been linked to the respective group blogs. These groups are permanent & will not change for the whole duration of this project. Here are the groups & their members: Varedaest + Stephanie Khor (Leader) + Faten Amira + Neng Daris Salamah Elmi Putri + Nur Hazimah + Fatin Nadhirah + Nor Maslina eE Club + Low Kar Kee (Leader) + Lim Ee Ming + Lai Chia Wei + Cheong Man Dee + Ain Suk Kei + Tong Huei San GOLBA 6 + Vanessa Chin Yeng Zien (Leader) + Chai Xing Yi + Goh Jia Yi + Norasfarizan + Nurul Aini Syamimi + Low Zi Shin Seven Ai + Natasha Eliyana bt Azahari (Leader) + Siti Nur Shabrina bt Che M Khazani + Syarifah Jamiamirah bt Syed Jamaluddin + Syafiqah bt Rosli + Hazatul Fitriah bt Harozaman + Nurizani Edora bt Rohizat + Razrina Nazira bt Mohd Razman NoNaM3 + Pang Tze Yen (Leader) + Violacea Low + Low Sin Yan + Goh Xin Ro + Beh Shin Yi + Lee Mei Yan

taken from fotosearch.com Greetings & welcome to the blog for the SMK Puteri Titiwangsa 1 Maju student group blogs project. This blog will be the main hub for the project where assignments are explained & justified. This blog will also link to the students' group blogs & highlight outstanding work. I am a trainee teacher fondly addressed by my students as Mr Yong. I was part of a government programme where trainee teachers are sent overseas for a few years to learn the art of second language teaching. In my case, I was in Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, for my bachelor's degree in Teaching English as a Second Official Language (TESOL). With my mind fresh with ideas, I decided to come up with a project to carry out with my high-proficiency & high-motivation Form 1 English langauge class, 1 Maju. This project involves the giving of specific assignments to students for group discussion & writing. After that, they post their works on a blog for t