It’s that time of the year again. The faculty tasked me with attending the university convocation ceremony as a staff member. There is not much to it. I attend, they provide the attire (and lunch) and we file in for the sixth session of the convocation ceremony. Then I try […]
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Herein lies the collection of blog posts about my teaching English as a second language to university students.
First Face-to-Face Classes of This Semester
Remember the first time I taught English? It’s fine. I barely remember it. But I never returned to that classroom since that first semester I began as an English language instructor for the university… until today. Although I had my first classes yesterday, those sessions were online. Today however, I […]
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MASAGA 2024
And so it came to pass that I attended the 4th Malaysian Simulation And Gaming Conference (MASAGA) 2024 at The Everly Putrajaya Hotel as a representative of UniMAP. Accordia Training and Development organised the conference. A couple of months ago, Mr. Jegatheeswana Manoharan of Accordia invited me to speak as […]
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TTRPGs at Kota Kayang Museum Soon?
Muzium Kota Kayang, located not far away from Kuala Perlis, is a museum that is part of the Department of Museums Malaysia. I have posted about weapons at the museum before. Today, I had a meeting with its director to propose tabletop role-playing game on behalf of UniMAP as a […]
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A Mini Six Adventure At A SMSTSP
After some weeks of planning (and last minute frenzied preparation) the TTRPG Programme at SMSTSP went forward yesterday, between 9am to just after 12pm. I had Irfan with me as photographer and videographer, and my facilitators were Mdm Syafawati and Mdm Yuziana. After some time considering it, I had decided […]
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Year Zero Mini with the Faculty
After submitting the proposal for the Bengkel Permainan Lipur Lara untuk Pengajaran & Pembelajaran (TTRPGs in Teaching and Learning Workshop) programme, I organised the event and ran it for six participants today. I have organised a number of programmes for my colleagues before, but this was somewhat new as the […]
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TTRPGs At A Secondary School Next Month
The last time I contacted the secondary school SMS Tuanku Syed Putra was when we had the SCALLOP event a couple of years ago. Since then, I had been very busy with being course coordinator and my free time went out the window. That was among the reasons why the […]
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Coordinating Courses and Such
Five semesters ago I was appointed as course coordinator for my English for General Communication course. I don’t think I ever announced it on the blog. I had to coordinate the every semester course which entails ensuring course slides are copacetic, the instructors in my team have optimal scheduling, manual […]
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BM Course at LEAD
There are a number of courses that I had to take upon being appointed as permanent staff at the university. And I had three years to take them all. This week I was scheduled to take a Bahasa Melayu course. It was a great course as we talked about things […]
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Work Excursion to Melaka
Previously… I was invited by the English Department of Pay Fong Middle School in Melaka to run RPGs and give a talk during their English Week programme. With my RPG gear in tow and Ain and Irfan as my support team, I was ready to for the events in the […]
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Invigilation at Semester’s End
It has been awhile since I invigilated an exam, as my own course is 100% coursework. No exams. I am a bit rusty at this. But this can only mean one thing: the end of the semester is nigh. And that means another thing: a whole lot more of grading, […]
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Hi New New New Office
Back in January I wrote a post when we had to vacate my old new new office. After a few weeks of slowly bringing my stuff in, I am now using my new new new office for the first time. The a/c works well. All the lights too. I requested […]
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Doom Agents: Stealing Crate 037
We had the room at the library for 2 hours. The group activity with my students took only 30 minutes. So, I introduced them to tabletop role-playing games. I thought that using Mini-YZE (with my own mods) would make it simple for them. Easiest setting to run for new students […]
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The First Class of This Semester
First English class of the semester, at 0800 at what used to be known as the School of Mechatronic Engineering. Let’s see how the rest of the semester fares.
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Artificial Intelligence in Education
Last Thursday and Friday, my entire department and I travelled by bus to Hotel Neo+ in Penang. Instead of being a participant, the management slotted me in to present about the effect of ChatGPT in assessment and evaluation of students. Being mostly early adopter of a lot of online tech […]
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DnD: Six Sessions in Six Classes
Once upon a time I ran five sessions of Dungeons and Dragons in five classes over the course of a week. Last month, in what purported to be a sequel long overdue thanks to the pandemic, I ran six sessions of D&D in six classes over the course of that […]
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