Hop In: SK Padang Pa' Amat leaps into SCORM

I'm very fortunate, because I get to work with so many outstanding professional Malaysian teachers. Teacher Zuraida is a prime example. Even though the school's lab is expecting 40 new chromebook laptops any day now, she energised her pupils learning experience with some e-learning. With a laptop, a projector and a set of speakers; the lab became alive with FROG VLE. We had a chance to infuse the latest technology into two classes of Year 3(A&D).

I was pleasantly surprised when Teacher Zuraida used "Doing The Skeleton Dance", a title from last year, to open the session for Year 3A. Since the class was in Unit 4, People Around Me. It was a great opportunity to use "People in the Town" from the tell2resources Google Drive. The drive is available from one click on Teacher Zuraida's FROG dashboard. No longer is it necessary to remember any pesky passwords, with one click access to numerous helpful resources and teaching aides. We also used two sets of occupation flashcards to spice up the song for the cooperative Year 3A class. The lab was charged when the class with belted out the chorus, "I see the people in my town and I say, hey brother what's going down?"

Year 3D class was taught with a SCORM inspired lesson.  Quick reminder, SCORM is an acronym for Sharable Content Object Reference Model. The lesson (object) was a review of letters and sounds of s, a, t and p. All the phases of the lesson are available and sharable from one click of the finger from the teacher's FROG dashboard.  Introduction:(S, A, T, P), Identifying:(S, A, T, P),  Blending and Segmenting:(S, A, T, P), Tricky Words (S, A, T, P), Enrichment (S, A, T, P) and Assessment:(S, A, T, P). The class was able to progress through letter identification, letter writing in the air and blending many short vowel words. Their confidence soared, so they too were treated to a couple rounds of the hit song "People in the Town". This class has really progressed quickly and has begun to look forward to English class. This speaks volumes for the efforts of Teacher Zuraida to attract a class that was aloof. I'm sure the attention grabbing learning methods are a contributing factor. Keep up the sterling work Teacher Zuraida!