Multimedia Palestine presentation challenge.
Posted by: intechemistry on: January 14, 2010
UPDATE: LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR ME TO RESERVE THE FEE FOR YOU.
This post is not related to academic matters, but to the issue of Palestine and really, it’s aimed at the Juniors: ALM10, ALG13 and ALED7 (as well as any ATU/AUSMAT) students, however if the senior year students wish to do it – ONLY IF IT WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THEIR PREPARATION FOR THE TRIAL EXAMS AND FINAL EXAMS – then they are welcome. Likewise, if junior students want to do it they should only commit if it will not interfere with their studies.
Actually the challenge is open to anyone, but it’s mostly students that come here, hence my specific mention of them.
Task: To prepare 2 multimedia presentations (flash or whatever popular/common format) about the Palestine issue and supporting artwork (An A2 poster, which can also be printed in A4 size with no problems. It is for the Viva Palestina Malaysia’s official Launching on March 3rd). You can go to the main Viva Palestina website to get a flavour of VP artwork if you wish. The presentations will be shown to local MP’s, foreign MP’s and ambassadors (and maybe ex-PM’s like Dr Mahathir)
Presentation 1) should be a between 10-12 minutes long.
Presentation 2) should be between 5-7 minutes long.
The longer presentation can use elements of the shorter presentation if desired.
I have a large archive of documentaries etc which can be used if necessary.
The presentations should focus on the injustices and crimes suffered by the Palestinians including the theft of their land as well as giving some kind of reference to the horrific attacks they have suffered. Anti-Jewish content is definitely NOT wanted, however anti-Zionist content is welcomed. You will therefore need to understand the difference. (I plan to give a presentation to students on Zionism and it’s history in the near future).
It should be as creative as possible but not too weird/arty as there is a message to get across here. Be prepared to show me the work and (worst case scenario) for me to tell you to change most of it – should it not be suitable. I will need to see a draught copy at least 10 days before 3rd March.
There should also be mention of the companies Viva Palestina Malaysia has a current campaign calling for a consumer boycott thereof. Products and Companies = Nestle, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and McDonalds. If you go to the COMPLETE Malaysia website you can get more details on this. http://completemalaysia.com/ {Note website was down early morning of 14th Jan 2010}.
Remember if you want to do this, you must make sure it does not cause a problem for your studies. I.E. You should think about how much leisure time you have.
What will you get out of it? first and foremost you will get what ever comes out of doing good deeds. Secondly your work will be shown to respected dignitaries, thirdly a fee for doing it. Your fee (which I will pay you) will be RM 500. You may work as an individual or as a group. I will accept the fee from a maximum of two groups (each group must fulfil the requirements above and produce word independent of one another)
That ‘going back to school’ feeling and Trial exams
Posted by: intechemistry on: December 31, 2009
You’ve bought all your new stationary ready for the LAST semester. It looks shiny and clean and has that ’stationary smell’ about it. You’ve packed your bag and you will try (but fail) to get to sleep early. You’ve started thinking about friends you haven’t seen for a while (or trying harder not to think of people you were glad not to have seen for a while!) and you’re feeling a little bit guilty that you didn’t take advantage of the long ‘holiday’ and read your books. Having come back home at the end of the semester and feeling a little bit like an outsider, noticing all the little changes around the house, you now begin to well-up inside at the thought that once again you’ll have to leave your cosy home and more importantly the family you love dearly. You regret getting a bit annoyed with your family members over one or two silly things that happened over the holidays. You will have to go back to watching how you spend your money and leave behind home cooked food you will never tire of eating.
Well, that’s a few of the things I felt when it was time to go back to ’school’ (College/University), and actually I still get some of those feelings with the arrival of the new semester.
Anyway, to get those intellectual juices flowing again, here’s something interesting I found today. A short, real-time video embedded in an article about of real cancer cells undergoing metastasis.
Your TRIAL EXAMS ARE SCHEDULED FOR THE FIRST WEEK IN MARCH! So really push yourself to greater heights over these next two months.
Palestine Film Festival at HELP institute
Posted by: intechemistry on: November 28, 2009
The Palestine events page at http://intechemistry.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/palestine-events/ has been updatted for the Palestine Film Festival at HELP institute. 2nd – 5th December.
My organic answers
Posted by: intechemistry on: November 7, 2009
V.v. late I know, abut here is my answers to some organic questions.
My organic answers for 9M2 9M8 9M10.doc
Here is the powerpoint file that covered some of the issues in this topic. They are not accompanied with explanatory notes! That’s what your books were for! the videos are also not embedded in the file either. 5.4 Organic.ppt
End of Sem tests…
Posted by: intechemistry on: October 23, 2009
Zereda… U4 Kinteics WILL be in the exams! You should read up on Kinetics. How many lectures did you have on it last year? The good(?) thing is Uni 4 will be multiple choice questions only 
Here’s an extract of an internal memo…
Please note that the unit 4 paper for this examination will be only a multiple choice paper.The paper will consit of 20 MCQ questions and the duration of the exam will be 25 minutes . These changes are made due to change in exam date of unit 4 paper.
The mark distribution for this exam will be will be
Test 1 10%
Test 2 10%
Unit 3 & 6 10% (combined paper)
Unit 4 20%
Unit 5 50%
Students: Unit 3&6 paper (written practical- 1 hour) will be on monday 2nd November at old library at 4 pm.
Please don’t think that just because U4 is MCQ that it will be easy. But of course U5 is the most important carrying 50%.
As an antidote to exams and help you ’windown’ from hard work… I invite ALL INTEC students for free bowling and/or free ice skating at Sunway pyramid as part of COMPLETE’s Boycott Israel activities. Please go to the Palestine events page for details. Da is: Nov 14th, Saturday, Sunway Pyramid.
Organic stuff…
Posted by: intechemistry on: October 14, 2009
I usually plan to deliberately and selectively leave one or two things out from the material I teach, so you are forced to consult the specification (to make you familiar with it) check your notes, read your books/research the sub-topic yourself and make some short notes.
How nice of me to force you to do this
Sometimes I find the (new)specification is very patchy as to what you need to cover. I get the impression the designers of the specification made a draught and then either had an idea as to what else to put in there or were forced to do so by QCA – the Qualifications and the Curriculum Agency – the ‘big fish’ in setting educational standards to which the exam boards, like Edexcel, must conform to. Even if my guess is incorrect, the specification nonetheless is much more patchy than the last one, and to me it’s annoying. It’s difficult to teach in a linear/progressive fashion. Even the books reflect the patchy nature, giving say, a short paragraph on one of the ’spot ideas’ appearing in the specification, \in order to ‘plug the gaps’.
Because of this (and a few other reasons) in most cases, I have deliberately not missed out these ‘patchy’, somewhat specific things, and in the case of this organic unit, Unit 5.4, I will produce a document addressing these patchy things, once again to ‘tidy up’ the material needed to be covered for this unit. The document will appear here eventually, note the material already covered, actual reactions are the ‘core’ of this topic so don’t panic!
Extra class 2
Posted by: intechemistry on: October 8, 2009
The first extra class was not representitive of what I want these extra classes to be. It was more like a ‘pre-test emergency’ class just to give you a bit more espoxure to redox and transition element chem before the test, and I was urgently called away {I have been too busy to be able to type out and post the answers to the ‘Lett’s Q’ yet. Sorry about that, but u got answer to other Q’s}
Tomorrow however, it should be representitive of extra class from now on.
In these extra classes you are expected to have reviewed the topic in advance and bring your queries to the class whereupon I will try and solve any difficulties you may be having. Bring also questions from tutorials/topic tests/books that have caused you problems in the past.
Remember use the specification to targt the areas you are weak in.
Any feedback on the latest test???
Unit 5, topic 5.3 Supplemental
Posted by: intechemistry on: September 29, 2009
Here is the supplemental document: Unit 5.3 supplemental 29th Sept 09 containing one or two bits to ‘tidy up’ the learning requirements for topic 5.3. Don’t forget to read up on fuel cells and/or look at/remember what you did in your posters about fuel cells. You can get the main topic 5.3 docs here.
This specification/syllabus has quite a bit more ‘application’ to it than the previous specification. Good if you’re training to become a chemist, but still interesting if you aren’t {I have to say that :p}
P.S. 9M3. The lab technicians had to cancel this Fridays lab, due to essential prep work needed for next weeks labs (juniors too!) and lack of available rooms. This means you are unlikely to be able to do the relevant practical’s before the theory test on Wed. Fear not! You WILL do the pracs before the end of sem exams.
Extra class :)
Posted by: intechemistry on: September 28, 2009
Talking of the ever popular Friday slot, it might well be the one I’m going to use for my invitation to the following for extra class.
9M3 Muhammad Hassan b. Muhamad Sani
9M3 Nursyahirah bt. Johari
9M3 Ruhidayati bt. Awaludin
9M3 Syed Zuhair b. Sayed Hud
9M3 Zulaika bt. Zolkipli
9M8 Muhamad Zaki b. Mersoha
9M8 Rachel Deborah Doset
9M10 Sura Habeeb Hattab
9M10 Wan Nur Syamilah bt. Wan Mohd Nasir
If Friday is too painful, please find another time slot that is agreeable.
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