Kamal Shafie's Blog

A panoramic view of modern Kuala Lumpur skyline. While I was trapped in my hotel room during my mandatory quarantine, one of my favourite things to do is to stare outside my enormous glass wall and gaze at the magnificent skyline of modern Kuala Lumpur. My favourite building in this city is the iconic Petronas Twin Towers. Although I’m a Malaysian, I don't often go to Kuala Lumpur. The city was never a place for a ‘kampong’ boy like me. Life, however, always has a way of surprising you. Here I am, staying in a luxurious hotel with the best view of the concrete jungle (fully sponsored thanks to the generosity of my sponsor - the Hornby Trust) - alhamdulillah (all praise be to god) , what more could I have asked from you O’ Allah. This reminds me of a beautiful verse from Surah Ibrahim (Verse 7): "And ˹remember˺ when your Lord proclaimed, ‘If you are grateful, I will certainly give you more." A room with a view - The iconic Twin Towers of Petronas, Kuala Lumpur A BLESSING ...

Flipgrid - Your Voice Your Story! [Source: Flipgrid's logo from  Flipgrid.com] Hello and welcome back to my ICT in TESOL blog! I hope you enjoyed reading my previous entry on ‘ Blendspace ’ (if you haven’t then please do so – you will thank me for it!). If you are like me right now - stuck at home because you are trying to avoid crowded places since you are worried about the massive outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and you don’t have anything good to watch on Netflix, then why not spend some of your time to read this post on  Flipgrid ? Who knows, perhaps by the time you have finished reading this post, you might even want to create your very own Flipgrid video too! The story of Flipgrid is the story of YOU!   [A s creenshot of Flipgrid website homepage]   What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid is a web-based platform that can be used by both teachers and students to create  a video-based discussion on a topic or 'grid' of thei...

Create a collaborative class with Padlet! Introducing Padlet! As teachers, we often try to get our learners to collaborate and work together for our lessons, most of the time as a pair or in small groups. However, aren’t you tired of the traditional way of asking your students to do a group presentation using paper or writing things on the whiteboard? Perhaps you are worried that your students might be bored of it too? If your answers are yes, then why not try to incorporate the use of technology with websites such as Padlet for any collaborative task in your lesson? Padlet is as a digital pinboard that let you do more than just sticking notes (think of pictures, videos, and link) - cool right? [Source: Image by Gerdd Altmann from Pixabay ] What is a Padlet? Padlet is an online-collaborative learning tool that provides a ‘free’ shared working space for learners to work together on any given task, homework or project. Using Padlet, they can share their idea...