Foreword

Hi my fellow readers,

First of all, thank you for browsing through my blog! 💗

This is Wong Park Torng. I am a Foundation student from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. This is a blog for my Educational Technology module. Here is an instruction for making you to navigate my blog easily.

Firstly, you have to click the striped icon on the top left of the page. Then, click on the labels to have a view of all the reflections. There are 8 reflections in total. Here are the topics for all these reflections.

  • Reflection 1 - Learning Theories
  • Reflection 2 - Instructional Software
  • Reflection 3 - Software & Apps
  • Reflection 4 - TIP Model
  • Reflection 5 - Memes + Social Media
  • Reflection 6 - Speaker Session by Ms. Fairuz
  • Reflection 7 - Long Distance Learning (online)
  • Reflection 8 - Self-love & Long Distance Learning (cont.)
You can give me a comment of your opinion after you finished reading, if you feel free to do so :)

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Qianni.

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