A Matter of Rebranding!

Assalamualaikum…

Hi there! Thanks for visiting my blog (The TESL Students’ Blog)!

Actually, I had created this blog intentionally to fulfill a partial requirement for Literature in Malaysian Schools (TSL 430) when I was in part two. You could see obviously the journal entries that written in the posts below mentioned something in relation to literature.

We (as part two students at that time) were required to learn how to write journal by using blog. Mrs. Norliana Bt. Ghazali, the lecturer of Literature in Malaysian Schools had invited Mrs. Taherah Bt. Zainuddin, (she teaches mathematics) to instruct us how to register and create blog in the computer laboratory (5B2; I guessed).

Some of my friends had inspired me to modify and rebrand this blog to help TESL students especially those who are in part three and four, (in next semester, they would be in part four and five) and those who (are from different part of TESL Programme that) will participate in the same classes. I hope that this blog could help them (me too) to find out something that could facilitate their study in TESL programme. Let say, if we have trouble to figure out certain terminologies of certain topic, perhaps some of us could share their knowledge with others by explaining to them or just giving them URL address that links them to that particular thing. What is more, this blog could also become an arena for us to brush up and improve our writing skill.

So, what the blog is all about? According to an online dictionary (yes, I do check for the definition too), blog is a shared on-line journal where people could post diary entries about their personal experiences, hobbies, information and so much more. Yet, one feature of the blog that differs it from a manual written journal (with pen and paper) is that it could be read, written, or edited as shared on-line journal (the manual written journal doesn’t have editing feature as the blog does).

My blog also has a number of widgets that might help you to search something you need. I enclose:

• 1) Yahoo! Messenger widget – to indicate my online presence.
  2) Clock widget
  3) Hijriah calendar widget
  4) Gregorian calendar widget
  5) Translation widgets (2 types):
  6) Weather forecast (available for Kuala Dungun, Terengganu only!)
  7) Online reference widget – http://wwwthefreedictionary.com/
  8) Proverb’s widget
  9) English flashcards widget
  10) English level test
  11) About.com widget
  12) Englishtips widget
  13) BBC news widget
  14) CNN news widget
  15) Journal widget
  16) Shoutbox
  17) Youtube search engine widget
  18) Google web search widget
  19) Answer.com widget

Please tell me if you need some more appropriate widgets to enclose in this blog. I am very grateful to get your comment(s) in order to improve my blog’s design and function.

Eventually, I hope that all of you could follow the netiquette or general guidelines of Internet for blogging purpose. Please write in proper English writing (mind your language), as we are TESL students, and we are concerning with English too!

Thank you.

Wassalam...

Best regards, Syikri