Bubbles of Euphoria in Port Dickson

I thought July was busy but so too is August. Why? everyone is rushing to beat 'the traffic light' i.e the beginning of Ramadhan, thus the need to get most of the ICMS Adoption Training (Phase 1) done in Kolej Jururawat Masyarakat Port Dickson (KJMPD). Again I thought Alor Setar's training was fun, but it turned out 'extraordinary' in Port Dickson. We were worried sick how are we going to manage PD, and that, made us planned the training flow more relaxed, segmented and simplified.

The enthusiasm of PD's people 'shoots out of the ceiling', and they are 'as eager as a beaver'. Everyone is excited to be on the training and do not want miss anything. We got to know someone had to miss it anyway due to work commitment...and Suhaimi 'being suhaimi' obliged to replace the classes if there are takers!

Everyone now knew where they stood, in terms of their 3 TPCK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) bubble sizes. Most have a big Content Knowledge bubble, smaller Pedagogical bubble and tiny Technological bubble that never did intersect each other much. We kept our fingers crossed, that these bubbles of knowledge will slowly grew and merged, thus making some 'sense' to them when integrating technology into their teaching. 

We are on a mission to change, get them be creative and later ready for ICMS adoption.

The Euphoria of Bubbles of knowledge in PD is just amazing!...and we trainers are bubbling on the lips just to manage this "eager adults" and we have a few more days to go.

abdul hamid

kjmpd 

thursday 28th August 08

CRAZY JULY - MONTH of THE TALENTED 'SNAPPERS"

Hi, it has been a busy July. Class on Fridays and Saturdays (not to mention assignments) and weekdays full of meetings and module development and business intelligence work. This is made worst by having your first family nephew getting married and being the 'favourite' uncle, in a NO WAY of 'not being there' situation. 'Being there' means being the 'saksi' on the "Akad Nikah" ceremony on the 17th, the "Bersanding" on 27th and "menyambut menantu" on the 2nd of August. Partly it's a learning experience and the opportunity to meet everyone (well almost) in the family from Johor and Terengganu side. 3rd week into the semester, i've already missed a class....hmm. Two more events looms in the horizon that gonna make me miss class again.

July closed with a great event for Prestariang when we managed to pull off a great stunt of staging "Snap-A-Job 2008" Carreer Day for 3P program, which made our boss 'Doc' smiles from ear to ear. Congratulations to Azleen the 'Taiko' and the 'Ah Moys", 3Ps and the rest of the clan. Great coverage on PSSB, even when one can see some journalists already being 'hooked' and overwhelmed by Microsoft presence thus making them unable to differentiate between who is the lead actor of 3P and who plays supporting role. But its nothing unusual about that, when comes to picking glory...a pity...As Jimmy famous tagline puts it...'muntah darah'!. But we know where the 'brains' are, the 'script writers', the 'directors' and 'producers'...its with US! 

You know what? the event really provide an opportunity for us to observe some real hidden talent our people have. Among the glaringly talented were the MCs in the making through Izzat and Adura (though i kept worrying she might blurt out her 'kelantanese' accent over her cool 'controlled' sultry voice). The 'busy bee' Aini, bustling through the floor to fix 'everything'. The 'skilled' videographer, capturing everything in High Definition. 'Ms Quickfix' who tirelessly try to fix all chain of events but this time fail to rid of unwanted guest from VIP room. Ms Mee Mee who sweetly man the mother booth but can be 'brutal' at times to students coming for stamping of forms. The 'back up MC cum 'doa reciter' cum 'dorm warden' for guest students. The elegant 'Usherers and usheretes' doing 'uncontrolled ushering'. 3Ps whom manage the 'employers' well. We also have our very own 'Nabil' of 'Lu pikir la sendiri' who manages the career talk and lucky draws, that sometimes makes you laugh but most of the time made you mad. All these talents save us from hiring Doc, thus save us the precious dollars! Perhaps if we need 'pesilat pulut' we have one in Razak, complete with 'blangkon' the javanese traditional head cap he bought in Bali. Even our shadowy technical team, and trainees did well when most did not have enough sleep. I enjoyed myself greatly mingling with the VIP guests to the extent of noticing them admiring our 'black low buttoned' event shirt!

One good thing though..the event have brought us ever closer together. Bravo PSSB!

hamid