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A year as Academician

Alhamdulillah, 15 June 22 marked as a year experience as an academician. Being an academician in a international reputative research university is very challenging. Besides teaching in innovative way, we have to contribute in research and engage with the community by knowledge transferring and also have a wide network with the industries. Jingling all those responsible is very tough however, I am always accept it as a challenge for me to keep growing in my career.

I am experiencing two semester of teaching. In 2021, the semester is conducted fully online. I am searching many materials related to improve the way of teaching and interact with the online environment. 2022, our country started the endemic phase for Covid 19 and we have a hybrid classroom session during the semester. Most of our local students are compulsory to attend the face to face class, meanwhile the international students were remotely join the lecture hybrid (online).

Therefore, I am experimenting the best way of teaching in hybrid classroom. It was very challenging, since there are two audience in different environment to entertain. Through the first experience conducting the online class, I came with my innovation in teaching which is call POMI.

The following is a part of POMI class activity which my chosen pedagogy used in teaching is an active learning. More about POMI will be shared in my next posting ^^

Active learning class activity, role play

Interactive Lecturing. The face to face and online student are interact with the quick quiz question via shared link in Google Slide during the learning session.

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Teaching Tools

Hai! It’s been a long time I am not updating any post. Basically, I am juggling many things recently. This week is the first week of a new Semester. It’s a challenge since I have to apply to the hybrid classroom. Last semester the class was totally conducted online. I still can manage it because we have online one audience to entertain- the online audience.

Here, I am sharing some aid tools for teaching. Hopefully, it may help me engage with my students and make the class more fun and interesting!

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Report Duty

Alhamdulillah, today 15 June 2021, I am officially working as a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). It was a challenging and adventurous journey. I am very enthusiastic and will perform my best in research and teaching as both are my favourite job ever!

Owh ya, in order to upgrade my skills and to have a solid background in my research area, I need to commit to a Post Doctoral program overseas – Europe. Alhamdulillah! Another opportunity and adventurous journey await! 🙂

Ok then, I need to do journal writing. Till then, see ya ^^ will meet again in the next entry.

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MCO 3.0

It’s been a while since the last time I updated content – and Ramadhan and Syawal have just passed by. This year, both months were gloomy since my late brother is no longer with us during fasting month and the Eid celebration. Currently, I am in the middle of an interview for a Senior Lecturer position at UPM. The process takes quite a long time to settle due to the movement control order (MCO) since last year.

On 19 May 2021, our country hits the highest number of daily cases – 6950 cases. Then, here we are – grounded again due to MCO 3.0. As reported on the news, the rapid increase of the daily cases is due to the new variant of the Covid-19 named the African Variant, which has previously taken down India. Our government has announced yet another MCO and enforced two weeks of self-lockdown starting from 25 May till 7 June 2021. Hopefully, it will reduce the daily cases. Owh ya, besides I am waiting for the vaccination registration on 26 May. It’s also one of the efforts to fight the pandemic.

How I wish things will getting better soon. I sent a follow-up email regarding my interview results but haven’t received any response yet, huh! Almost 3 months for the process to be done? For this semester, I am not hired for teaching. It affects pretty much my financial situation since I am the only breadwinner for my family. Lately, the freelance job is not doing so well either ~ It’s okay – I will figure a way out :’)

Stay safe, everyone.

Bye!

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Online Class

It has been a year since the pandemic of Covid-19 hits the world. The pandemic has affected many people in many sectors, including the education system. Ever since then, lecturers are working from home and lectures are conducted online. Last semester was a very challenging situation for me as I was assigned to teach a computer lab session. This course was supposed to be more focused on a hands-on task. After I assigned the student with tasks, I usually take some time to entertain them, one by one, to assist them if they have any difficulties. Yup, that’s the challenge. The online class has put a limit on me from doing it properly.

To make up for that, I put some effort into preparing a tutorial on Youtube as additional notes and references. You can check out the tutorial below:

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Welcome 2021

Alhamdulillah, it is the end of the year, and 2021 is just around the corner. Last year, one of my 2020 resolutions was to do a Bullet Journaling (BUJO) for the rest of the year. However, I did not manage to do it consistently. Somehow, it ended up as just a simple to-do list. Therefore, for this upcoming 2021, I will try to be more serious in doing the BUJO. This time around, I will pick some of the important sections only. As for the daily task, I will be using a diary Planner because it is easier in case I don’t have much time to design.

Both BUJO & the Diary Planner 2021 are tasks and habits for a monitoring system. They will help you to stick to your goals and manage your time better and wisely. I am determined to do it every night before sleep, do a self-reflection and prepare a to-do list for the next day to make it more productive.

The planner I bought is from Instagram: @plannerbyaqisbi

My review of the planner:

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The Vlog

Hi! ^^ Today I managed to create my very first Vlog as content for my Youtube channel. I used my A7 Oppo phone to record the video. Hahaha! Unfortunately, some of my recordings were in portrait position and sadly, I can’t include those videos in the Vlog.

Being said that, only a few videos that were recorded in landscape mode can be used and included in it. As for the editing, I used Openshot Software just because it is an Open Source Video Editor. Previously, I used Sony Vegas Video Editor, which was more user-friendly.

Here it is! Please enjoy my 1st Vlog ever, and oh yes! ^^ Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for more exciting content. I’m also planning to share my online learning material on my channel so you can check it out.

Check out Nuur Alifah Vlog 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkDOjh7CnQjlqcHWH7V_R2g

Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel, Nuur Alifah Roslan!

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