Schoolmatters now on FB!

Assalamualaikum and Salam 1 Malaysia.

Schoolmatters is now on Facebook! Join in the group now and start participating in the discussions and other coming activities.

Click on the icon to on the left and be a member now!

Owh, don't forget to invite your friends and the friends of your friends to join in too. Let's make a big community that is concerned over school matters for real!! AND a community whose members are connected with one mission: to make an impact in Malaysian Education!

"Come on, come one, come all, get involved!"

Regards,
Schoolmatters Team.

a few more points

Assalamualaikum, Salam sejahtera, Selamat hari Rabu.

It’s great what we had done with this thing in a few days. I hope this will grow even bigger in the days to come.

I think there are a few important thoughts I wanted to share here

• I know it isn’t the school days yet, but we need to strengthen our base first so that when the school starts, we can stop with the construction and focus on work n sharing about it here once in a while.

• Anyway, we can post entries about our wait, the news about our postings, writings about what we expect in schools, what to prepare… advices and all. Anything. I’m pretty sure that us ‘monkeys’ can be more creative.

• Anyone can ask for admin title. Just ask from me or Bob. Not because it depends on us whether we grant it or not; but simply because as of now, only we have it. You can have it too as long as you know why you want it.

• This is not anyone’s blog. It’s ours.

• Therefore no one should feel hesitant or scared to contribute with either the writing of an entry, or give comments or ideas or suggestions. We should all be able to get crazy here. That’s the whole point, no?

• We need to re-state what are the categories exactly so that we can tag/label the entries well later.

• Those who are reading this please help spread the news around. Make this work. Let us all hope it will be helpful to our own community when the real thing starts.

Thank you
Come on Get involved

Writings and Dissertations

Hello and Hi,

This is Shihyou@schoolmatterstome.

I am writing this to request support in terms of papers and dissertations. Please y! me or give comments here, about your concerns on putting your papers and dissertations over here.

Best practice is that you email me your dissertation/articles/assignments/found items with your agreement on using that in this website. Please remember we are dealing with intellectual properties here and not to post copyright materials.

These are for the Special Category, other than normal articles posted daily/occasionally your own username. (If you are not yet registered and contributing, here is how or y! me.)

I am also looking for links, that will be suitable to link to. Example - A website that provides you exercises for year 4 students or something.

Thank you.

Come on, get involved.

Shihyou/Bob

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We are looking for people. Please do not hesitate to join us and make the Malaysian Teaching and Learning online scene, a better place.

Looking forward to see you guys soon, contributing.

Happy holidays!

Oh my, a teachers' blog! how cool!

i hope it won't be as schematic as the school. this blog should be a place for us to share ideas and experience... er...AND HAVE FUN! :P

for me, it is the experience that would be more precious over here. why? u see... if u r looking for some factual and carefully constructed theories (which is boooooring)... i believe the library, wikipedia and the books would do the job better in serving us the infos..BUT those precious experiences of yours are much more meaningful to be shared here. experiences in schools are more authentic. they are raw and unique because each one of us will be serving in the god knows where areas where we'll be facing different type of students... various kind of school dramas (i love this one) and different ways of managing our life (that is including financial management, mind u guys!).

so, for the first post of mine, i would like to ask your opinions on this issue that i have been thinking for a long while... here u go..

as you all know, 'almost' everyone of us (im so wanting to say ALL OF US) has AT LEAST a facebook account. well, not a surprise if i said in some areas, almost all of the school kids are involved in this facebook-ing maniac. especially the secondary kids...

so, let say next year u r being posted to this so called urban area where the students do their homework through facebook... my question is, would you as a teacher accept friend invitation from your students? if u said yes, would you be able to control yourselves (for some of us) while commenting and posting your shoutouts. wouldnt it be a violation to our privacy?? in some worst case scenario... arent you affraid of your profile being hacked and the students got your personal details and spread 'em around the school????... if that is so... DO WE ALL NEED TO DELETE OUR FB ACCOUNT???? :-s

i really need to hear from you guys.

Opinions

Currently we need opinions on site, especially the categories.

Let me start.

Categories:

Classroom Issues

Lesson Planning

Motivation

Games in the Classroom

Extra Activities

Photos and Videos

Teachers' Rant

Recipes

How are the categories divided to? Anyone can write? What are other categories that you would like? Anything else? What's next?

This is one of the prior discussion. Post your comments below.

Come on, get involved.