Today, everyone has completed the set induction stage. Personally, it is my favourite stage because here, I can see who the creative ones are and who the copycats are. This is the stage where we can let our hair down and get creative.
After much thinking, I decided to use the play "The Ring" by Vincent Jeremiah. I was attracted by the storyline and the female demon. I was also into the whole imaginary friend thing. So, without further delay I brainstormed for ideas for the set induction. Unfortunately, all I can think of is what anyone can do. I refused to conform to normality and mediocrity. I was ambitious. I wanted to do more.
I got worried as time was running out. In the midst of doing my assignments, the thought of recording my own original video came into mind. I asked for help from two of my friends; Sam as the videographer and Hui Yi as the amateur actress. We recorded a scene whereby Hui Yi is talking to an imaginary friend whose voice can be heard but the person is not seen. The idea was to give the students a gist of what the play is all about. Instead of simply downloading videos from Youtube, i decided to record an authentic video so that the students can relate the issue with their own life.
I believe I did well during my set induction presentation. I succeeded in getting the students' attention and they were watching the video attentively. However, the audio wasn't that good so they can't really hear the conversation clearly. I was glad that the students were able to respond actively to my questions. Some produce hilarious yet one-of-a-kind responses about their imaginary friends.
It's disappointing to see the same idea used again and again. This made it difficult for me to evaluate because I tend to compare peers who did on similar ideas. But, I got excited when something different appears and there were quite a number of them. I thought that my idea was good but apparently Mr. Harold had a better idea. He said that it would be much more interesting to have the teacher act out the role of Raj in front of the students. That was brilliant. I wished I had thought of it first.
Next will be the pre and while reading stages. I hope we will be able to live up to Mr. Harold's expectations as he said that he wanted diversity.
hahahha.. i absolutely agree with you. we should be creative for our set induction, so we could see the originality. most of us likely did the same activities for same play. i also felt bored with it, especially on evaluating the. huh! but what can we do. they all used their own ideas. i understand your problem about the audio and all stuff, that was why i did not use them, instead i used photos. it was easier to operate.
ReplyDeletei hope we can vary our pre and while reading stagegood luck!!
Of course I agree with your saying that set induction is the time we get as creative as we can. It is a fun time to activate our students’ schemata and gear them into our lesson. It is very interesting if you ask your own friends to act out the video. Isn’t it? It was FUN! Haha… It attracted our students’ attention at once and raised their interests immediately too. You did quite well during your set induction session as you had conducted it in the right way and your language was perfect. Mr. Harold’s idea is very brilliant indeed. I believe that most of us never ever think about it and quite impressed of the idea. Frankly to say, he is getting serious and strict towards our works. Perhaps he wants us to do our best and do not waste our chance to practice well. Don’t you think so?
ReplyDeleteAll the best! =)
Set induction - to prepare students for the lesson of the day. It must be as creative as possible. I noticed that everyone was struggling to come out with the best presentation and so did I.
ReplyDeleteBeing the second to present has given me an advantage to be the first person to own the idea. Showing a video clip is a very common idea but I could not think of anything more than that. So, I guess I have the privilege to present the idea first.
I think everyone has improved compared to the last semester. We are getting more mature in term of materials, teaching styles and personalities. What do you think???