For me, this week had been an exciting time of the semester where I could sit back, relax and enjoy my students’ wonderful presentations of the fruits of their weeks of labour – their completed websites! At the end of the 16-week stint, the project presentation was their final challenge and manifestation of their successful completion of the WDS module after surviving other hurdles of completing the research proposal and term test earlier.
I marveled at my students’ efforts and hard-work to produce quality websites that they can be proud off. I listened with interest as they reflected their challenging yet meaningful experience of their self-directed learning endeavours of learning additional softwares beyond the subject syllabus.
When I observed my students beamed with pride and happiness as they stood tall to present their websites, I knew that this subject had certainly achieved its objectives of equipping students with the basic yet practical skills and knowledge of web designing. I was also pleasantly surprised when some of them demonstrated how they had exceeded my expectations by incorporating programming and photography skills learnt from other subjects, to value add and increase the interactivity of their websites and adding the ‘wow’ factor. Indeed that had been the most rewarding experience for me as the facilitator for these self-motivated students!
Their smart formal attire had added a touch of professionalism to their presentation, helped boosted their confidence and gave them the experience of presenting their websites to a real-life client when working in the industry.
For the next batch of WDS students, heed these useful tips and advice from these seniors who had gone through the rigour of web designing - start working on your research proposal early in the semester, practice good time management, be consistent and avoid
procastination.
Just like my students, I too have had a fantastic and joyful experience teaching, interacting while learning together with them as well. This can be seen from their smiles and happy faces in the photographs seen here. While I felt sad to say goodbye to these students at the end of our short learning journey together this semester, I knew that the warm friendship and bonding we had shared will be cherished in our hearts for a long time to come. Thanks to the advent of digital new media, we can continue to virtually keep in touch with one another via Facebook, Twitter and MSN.
I certainly can’t wait to proudly demonstrate the good works of these students to motivate and inspire the future batches of WDS students. What a delightful closure I had had for this April 2010 semester!
Anyway, here are the photos I took with my classes:
Interactive Media Informatics - We Did Our Best!
Interactive Media Informatics - WDS Rawkz!
Interactive Media Informatics - Our Best Websites
Game & Entertainment Technology - We Made It!
Game & Entertainment Technology - We Love WDS!
Game & Entertainment Technology - We Are Proud of Our Work!
Mobile & Network Services - WDS Is the Best!
Mobile & Network Services - Satisfied With Our Websites!
Mobile & Network Services - Gerl Power!
These photos are hard evidence that classes in TP are fun, & both lecturers like me & the students enjoy our classes. Even though I'm always sad to see students leave, but as I said earlier, we still keep in touch virtually, & I get to know even more wonderful students! Teaching in TP is a wonderful experience for me! With that, I leave you with this post.
Your awesome lecturer,
Ms. Farida
