Congratulations to Azmi Danuri

Mr. Azmi Danuri’s wife delivered their 3rd child at 6.45 this morning at the Batu Pahat Hospital. Congratulations!!

Welcome back Zainal and Talha!

ESL lecturers, Mr. Zainal Abidin Sayadi and Mr. Mohd Talha Mohd Idris reported back for duty yesterday. Both of them had been on study leave for two years, pursuing their masters degree at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

2007 PERKES AGM

 

The 2007 Annual General Meeting of the Persatuan Kebajikan Staf (PERKES) PPKK was held at the Pusat Ilmu. Prior to the meeting, the innaugural issue of the PERKES bulletin was launched by the PPKK Director who is also the assocation’s advisor, Mr. Abdullah Sulaiman. In his speech, Mr. Abdullah congratulated the 2006/2207 PERKES commitee for their effort in producing the bulletin. He hoped that the bulletin will be published monthly so that news related to the centre can be made known to everybody at the university.  
 New office-bearers of the PERKES for 2007/2008 term were also elected during the meeting. They are:

Chairman : Mr. Azmi Abdul Latiff
Vice           : (Ustazah) Miss Syarifah Khadijah Syed Abu Bakar
Secretary : Miss Mimi Nahariah Azwani Mohamad
Assistant : Miss Suhaini Mohd Gazi
Treasurer : Mdm. Nursyalina Idris
Commitee : Mdm. Siti Nor Fazelah Mohd Noor
                   : Miss Fazita Mohd Tab
                   : Mr. Norazmi Danuri
                   : Mr. Mohd Yusof Mohd Noor
                   : Mr. Abdul Wahab
                   : Miss Fauziah Ani
                   : Miss Dayang Fatimah Pohhaini
Auditors    : (Ustaz) Mr. Nik Kamal
                   : Mdm. Zaiton

Academic Discussion with Associate Prof Hj. Khairi Izwan Abdullah

As the centre is gearing itself towards introducing courses at postgraduate levels, several talks, discussions and meetings with experts in course development and design have been conducted. The most recent one was an academic discussion took place yesterday involving lecturers of the centre particularly those of the Modern Languages Department. The guest of honour was Associate Professor Haji Khairi Izwan Abdullah, Head of the Centre for Teaching and Learning of the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. The discussion cum workshop took place for almost 4 hours and was held at the UTHM Meeting Room at the Chancellory office. At the end of it, the participants came up with a proposed learning outcomes, course objectives and subjects offered. It was indeed a very fruitful session and the centre is indebted to Associate Prof Haji Khairi for his guidance, ideas, suggestions and indespensible role.

The 3rd Creativity and Innovation Exhibition and Competition

 The 3rd Creativity and Innovation Exhibition and Competition was held from 11-12 April at the Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, UTHM. Throughout the event, more than 4 exhibitors took part in the exhibition on the 11th April. Around 24 competitors meanwhile involved in the competition on the second day.  Hundreds of visitors including teachers and school children thronged the hall to watch the innovations on display. The closing ceremony was done by Mdm. Zulida Abdul Kadir, Head of the Modern Language Department. The highlight of the closing was the release of balloons by adik Aiman that symbolises unlimited creativity and also multimedia presentation prepared by a group of UTHM students. All in all, the event has succesfully achieved its’ objective in providing avenues for the UTHM students to display their creativity.

Blog-based PPKK Web site launched

The new English version PPKK web site was launched last Friday. The launching was launched by none other than the blog editor himself, witnessed by his sons and daughters. The editor’s wife was reportedly too tired to watch the historic event. The web editor said that he used free blog at WordPress.com as he found that the blog site offers more attractive free designs plus a hosts of sidebar widgets (please refer to Wikipedia for more explanation on widgets). The editor reportedly spent the whole weekend plus the public holiday on Monday to explore WordPress and experiment with the facilities available there. He did a lot of trials and errors and finally managed to come up with a humble blog-based site for the beloved centre he is attached to. Despite the simplicity, the author was so proud because PPKK has created history by becoming the first faculty/centre at UTHM which uses blog as it’s web site. “I believe this is in tandem with the university’s motto- ‘Leader in Science and Technology Applications’. There are a lot of free things in the Internet which can be manipulated for teaching and learning purposes and blog is one of them”, said the author to himself, imagining as if he is being interviewed by hordes of reporters and surrounded by hundreds of flashing cameras. “I also plan to subscribe to one of web hosts that can host my blog. This will enable me to build a blog-based web site with more advanced features”, he added, giving hint of what he plans to do with the ’seed money’ that he applied from the university a few weeks ago.