Larut Matang & Selama District ICT Month 2009

15 June - 15 July is ICT Month for Larut, Matang & Selama District 2009. Hopefully, all teachers ,pupils and even parents are aware of the importance of ICT knowledge. Thus, are interested to learn and improve on their computer skills. Teachers and pupils must grab the opportunity to learn theseskills and apply them effectively in the teaching & learning process.

With the introduction of Web 2.0 application it is hoped that both teachers and pupils are able to work as a team even from their own homes to complete a project. On top of the school computer laboratory, the cITaKU Lab run by facilitator, En Fadly Hadi from the NCER team provides ICT knowledge to both the teachers and pupils.

The ICT Camp from 1 to 12 June, 2009 has benefitted the Yr 4 and 5 pupils. These pupils have learnt to create emails, surf the websites for information, create greeting cards and their own blogs. Hope, the S.K. Selama ICT Team which is participating in the Anak Perak UPSI ICT Competition will gain a lot of new experience as its members venture into this new project. We believe in, " Nothing Venture, Nothing Gain".

In addition, it will relaunch the recyling campaign in school in order that pupils will use the recycle bins correctly. With the cooperation from the Art and Living Skills teachers, the pupils will be able to create beautiful posters and make handicrafts from recycled objects.

Then, only will the ICT Project entitled,"Waste Disposal AffectsThe Environment" be effective in raising awareness among all pupils in the school to play their role in keeping the environment clean. Thanks for your cooperation in making this ICT Month a great success.

What The ICT Project Is All About

It is an environmental issue and the title of our project is "Waste Disposal Affects Our Environment"

What saddens the whole world is the disposal of rubbish in the wrong way. In all forms rubbish, garbage or waste is disposed off in different ways. However, it is the bad attitudes of human beings that had caused many problems to the environment. Thus, it had affected the health of human beings badly , destroyed marine life and the beauty of natural surroundings.

What gave me the idea to pick this topic for my group project was what I saw when passing through the jungle of Pondok Tanjong on the way to Taiping or back to Selama. These photos speak a thousand words. It is already shocking to the monkeys here which had found their habitat being destroyed and intruded now it is getting worse.

The so called 'generous ' human beings have been throwing plastic bags of 'food' or what nots for the monkeys, even matresses for the romantic monkeys to sleep on, I guess. What a shame, not only have human beings done enough destruction, now to make it worse, they have created an eye-sore in the area. Stretches of rubbish are strewn on both sides of the road despite the warning sign reminding them not to feed the monkeys or litter there and the condition has been like this for months and nobody cares to clear it.

Kids in the ICT Team have been given tasks to do and I hope they are learning fast.