Zapdramatic website (http://www.zapdramatic.com/dramas.htm) exploring gave
me a rare experience that I learn how to negotiate and to make a decision on my
own since my decision in life is always being influenced by others. There are 3
free videos that could be explored without registering as a member of the
website. Throughout the videos, students as in me would sharpen the listening
skill and learn communication skill at the same time. We would enjoy it since
it is stimulating our senses like visual, listening, and others. It is quite
challenging but I found it interesting.
While watching the videos, we would
reach to the certain parts that needed us to make a decision. Then the decision
we made would influence the storyline and also the continuity of the story. I
just realized that the decision making needs thinking process because we had to
consider the options given, the consequences of every option and etc. We could
rewind the videos in order to succeed till the end but in real life we
obviously could not travel back in time. So we should not rush to decide for
something especially when it is related to our future.
Other than that, we could learn the
negotiation and communication skills. We had to deal with people of different
character and personalities in the videos as in our life. The ways of communication
among people with different standards, character, personalities, situation, and
others are differ from each other. We need different approach towards normal
people compared to the mentally ill people.
Hello Fatimah,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your blog entry. I am glad that you find the website and activity that we did in the lab session interesting. I also appreciate the comprehensive summary of the website.
I hope that you can see the potentials of the website in the teaching and learning context. Even though some of the content in the videos and some of the language used might not be very suitable for young learners, I believe that if teachers can utilize ways to censor these things, it can be a great tool for teaching.
AB