The Make A Difference Movie - The Teddy Stallard Story - by Mary Robinson Reynolds | The MasterMinding Maven® - Full Length Version

The Make A Difference Movie - The Teddy Stallard Story - by Mary Robinson Reynolds | The MasterMinding Maven® - Full Length Version

I found this on my dad's laptop when I got back home last holiday. This is such a great video to share. I cried all by myself when I watched this.
Couldn't stop my eavesdrop from falling. Hope this can be your inspiration to become a new generation of teacher. When I watched this for the first time, I told to my self.. I wanna be a teacher like her. A teacher who can leave a good footprint in their student's memory in the rest of their life.

Humanistic Week 2: My Name; A pray, An Identity.

          Name is a very important thing that all creatures in this world should have. As you see, there are many things different around us. A name will help much to recognize each of it. Like what written in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; “Kawamura is just name. I’ll call you. It doesn’t mean anything. Nakata gives name to each cat, so it’s easy to remember”  

However, my parents didn’t particularly means gave me name in reason so it’s easy to be remembered by other people. There’s a mixture of hope and pray in my name. A pray which always go with me wherever I am. Well, call me Risma, Harismaning Aulia in complete. So, here is what on my name.

“Pernah suatu hari adikku bertanya kenapa ia dan aku tidak ada yang diberi nama ‘putri’, padahal kami semua perempuan. Lalu ibuku menjawab, jelas-jelas kamu perempuan, buat apa kasih kamu nama putri!”

“Buat Mama dan Papa, nama itu bukan sekadar label perempuan atau laki-laki, bukan sekadar tanda kamu lahir di bulan apa, bukan petunjuk kamu itu anak keberapa. Nama-namamu itu adalah doa dari Mama Papa yang akan selalu melekat pada kalian sampai kapanpun”

“Harismaning Aulia, kamu tahu betapa indah namamu itu? Kharismanya orang-orang yang dekat dengan Allah! Mama Papa ingin dimanapun kamu, selalu memancarkan kharismamu. Orang-orang akan terpana, bukan hanya karena kamu cantik, tapi karena kamu memang punya kharisma. Dan, Mama Papa juga ingin kamu menjadi salah seorang yang dekat dengan Allah, seperti Auliya’, para wali. Kamu bisa menjadi orang seperti mereka; yang baik hatinya, baik sikapnya, dimuliakan kedudukannya, pintar, dan sholehah”

“Ingat Tegar? Anak yang kakinya dilindas kereta api karena perbuatan bapaknya sendiri? Salah sendiri kasih nama Tegar. Makanya dikasih cobaan berat sama Allah biar dia bisa tegar, seperti namanya. Atau Virginia, istri saiful jamil? Tuh kan dia meninggal setelah nggak perawan lagi, lagi-lagi seperti namanya. Mama dan papa kasih nama kamu itu nggak main-main. Bukan nama yang ecek-ecek, namamu itu berkualitas. Punya arti yang bagus banget. Itu doa mama papa untuk Risma yang nggak akan pernah berhenti”

“Apakah doa itu sudah terkabul, anakku?” Ibu tersenyum dan aku hanya menyeringai sambil berkata, “Amiin”.

First I was born, my mom wanted to give me name, Kharisma. But, my grandpa said that there’s a myth in Javanese culture that it’s forbidden gives a first kid name begin with K. If that so, the kid will have a bad luck in the rest of his/her life. That’s why; my name is Harisma not Kharisma. The most important point is, it has nothing to do with ‘maning’ which means ‘lagi’ in Java, because ‘ning’ is stands for ‘nya’ . So, it’s Harisma-ning Aulia. Not Haris-maning Aulia!.

You can recognize the identity I bring, Javanese and Muslim. I’m proud of it all! Don’t want to change a thing. Because since I was child, my mother always keeps telling me that I’ve such a very beautiful name and I believe that. I'll be a person like my name. But somehow, I'm still learning to be a person like my name. Thanks mom and dad for the beautiful name. Harismaning Aulia

TLL Week 2: Technology from the Viewpoint of Mine

This session was very exciting. We did a debate about the usage of computer lab and language lab. It was pretty fun because we still can’t decide which one is better. Indeed, deciding the technology to be applied at school is hard thing to do. There are many reasons, for instance, technology itself needs high budget and not all people can use it appropriately. However, like what Pa Teguh said, technology is only a tool. How far it’s useful depends on whose use it. For me, if we want to apply technology at school we should train the teacher first ─the one who teaches it. If teachers already be a master of technology, I think any kind of technology can be applied at school and will be an effective learning aid to students. As you recall, last week we also tried to explain about some cool sites whether can be applied to language class, such as: Facebook, YouTube, and blog. Amazingly, those sites that we think only for fun turn out to be useful media to learn language.

In this session also I learn about the terms, digital native and digital immigrant. People who were born after 1990 are called digital native. I don’t think so. I recall that around the beginning of millennium age, my father bought a mobile phone and computer. Thus, I could use computer around my age of nine. If we compare it to people in America, mostly already can use more sophisticated technology around 1990, the term of digital native is not really suitable for some of us in Indonesia. Many people here even were born after 1990 but if they can feel the technology in their adolescent or even more, it’s the same as they’re digital immigrant. And yet, indisputable, there also many people here who since kid born with technology. They’re the real digital native. As a teacher to be, we should be ready to teach them using technology which is wider and more sophisticated.