http://azmiesl.edublogs.org ......where I ramble and scribble in the cyberspace Mon, 05 May 2008 04:58:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spent the whole last Sunday roaming around JB with my brother looking for a PDA that has VGA output. First we went to the Landmark IT Mall. Prior to arriving, I imagined the place was like the Low Yatt Plaza in KL. Thus, I went there pinning high hopes that ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/05/05/my-asus-eee/ Something good finally showed up amidst these last few chaotic days. My abstract entitled Using BALL in ESL Writing Class has been accepted by the conference organiser of the 10th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications. I emailed the abstract 2 weeks  ago knowing that it's already beyond the ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/22/10th-annual-conference-on-world-wide-web-applications/ The hot weather seemed to have taken it's toll on me. Last night I was down with high fever. Consequently, I could not finish marking the TW paper as I felt so weak to do the task. I'm going the Klinik Sejahtera after this after sending my son to Seri ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/21/mc/ It has been meetings everyday this week. Panel meeting, staff club, postgraduate, KIK and a few others which I could not remember. At the same time all lecturers are asked to key in marks for subjects which have no final exam paper...Ohhh! I'm suffocated by all these. During the panel ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/17/im-suffocatinghelp/ I went to the BP Mall last Saturday and there was a PC fair there. It was just a small scale exhibition and I guessed not more than 20 booths occupied a small portion of the ground floor. I really missed the similar fair at KLCC where countless booths were ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/14/pc-fair/ On my way back from Abang Rahim's house, I stopped by the roadside to take this photo of the signboard of three primary schools around the area. One of them is SK Seri Nasib Baik or loosely translated as Lucky Primary School. Hopefully everything and everyone related to the school ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/12/the-lucky-school/ Shocking! I thought the other contestants fared worse than him in the Top 8 round. David Cook was out of sort or as what Simon said 'pompous'. Brooke White was bad too and my favourite choice that should have been booted out was Smithson who oversang. I'm not sure whether ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/michael-john-ousted/ Ever since I came here,  I have been  hearing the term PBL here  and there but never truly had the opportunity to know more about it what more implementing it in class.  I guess it something like task-based learning or where learning happens indirectly through experience of involving in tasks ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/pbl/ It was not Results on AI last night but performances from the contestants and other celebrities in Idol Gives Back. The show was meant to collect donations to help the unfortunate ones either in America or other parts of the world. There were video clips on suffering children and families ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/idol-gives-back-to-katerina-victims/ I have been closely following American Idol this year. It seems that this year's contestants are very competitive. Archuleta, Johns, Mercado and the rests are so talented and even the judges thought that all of them could be successful recording artistes after the competition concludes next month. But the ... http://azmiesl.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/american-idol/