Hi again, lovely readers! 🍎

Today, I checked off another fun and creative lesson from the Apple Education Learning Center as part of my Apple Teacher journey—Animate with Stop Motion! And let me tell you… I had a blast! 🤩

The activity taught me how to use everyday objects to tell stories through stop-motion animation. I immediately thought of my quirky little character Perky Piung—of course, I had to try animating her! 🐣✨

🛠️ What I Did:

✅ Set up a basic stop motion scene

✅ Captured images step by step

✅ Used Keynote (yay, previous lesson skills!) to add motion graphics and finesse it all together

Okay, okay… the animation turned out a little jerky 😅 but you know what? I did it! Thanks for my daughter who did the voice over in one of the slides. And that’s what matters. 🎉

💡 What I Learned:

This project reminded me that creativity is often a work in progress. With more time, I know I could plan a storyboard, shoot more carefully, and create a much smoother and more coherent story. But even in a rush, I was able to bring my ideas to life—and that’s powerful! 🧠💥

🎈 Teaching Ideas:

Stop motion is such a great way to help students:

🎥 Tell stories visually

🎭 Express creativity

📚 Understand sequences and timelines

🧩 Break down complex ideas into steps

It’s hands-on, meaningful, and honestly… just plain fun! 😄

If you’re a teacher on the Apple Education journey, definitely give this one a go. Your inner child will thank you—and so will your students. 😉

Until next time, keep learning and creating! 🎨💻

Love,

Teacher Asniem 🍎✨

Hi everyone! 😊

I recently explored the “Make Photo Text Art” lesson on the Apple Education Learning Center, and I just had to share how much I enjoyed it! It was such a smooth and inspiring experience, and best of all—it sparked so many creative ideas I can bring into my classroom. ✨

📚 This mini-course helped me:

✅ Understand how to choose interesting textures to photograph

✅ Use the iPad camera to take high-quality close-up shots

✅ Get creative with Keynote to turn those textures into text art!

The steps were very easy to follow, and the activity was so engaging. I really liked how everything was hands-on and practical. It didn’t feel like a tutorial—it felt like play! 🎨📲

💡 How I’ll Use This in My Classroom:

As a teacher, I’m always looking for new ways to bring creativity into my lessons. This activity gave me a simple but powerful tool to help my students:

🧠 Develop visual literacy

✏️ Improve language skills

📷 Connect their learning to the real world

I can’t wait to use this in my class presentations and encourage my students to try it too. Imagine vocabulary words filled with textures from nature, classroom objects, or even their own artwork! 🌿🪵✂️ It’ll make our slides and learning materials so much more visually rich and personal.

I used my pillow as the background

If you’re a teacher looking for simple, creative ideas to enhance your students’ learning—and your own presentations—I highly recommend giving this a try! 💖

Let’s keep learning and creating! 💻🌈

Love,

Teacher 👩‍🏫Asniem🍎

This week, I tried something totally new—and surprisingly fun—thanks to the Apple Education Community’s Learning Center. I followed the “Make a Motion Graphic” tutorial using Keynote for iPad, and let me just say: I LOVED it.

What I learned along the way:

• How to draw directly in Keynote on my iPad

• How to animate those drawings with smooth movements

• And finally, how to export the animation into a short movie clip

The tutorial made everything feel doable, and I picked up some pretty cool skills without feeling overwhelmed. My little animation might not win any design awards, but I’m genuinely proud of what I created. Haha watch my duck going through the rough waves!! Most importantly, I now feel more confident to try again—with better drawings next time!

If you’re curious about motion graphics or want to help your students express ideas in a fresh, visual way, I highly recommend giving this a try. 🎨

Love, 

Teacher Asniem

I’m so excited that I’ve officially earned my Apple Teacher recognition! 🎉 After completing six badges for iPad and six badges for Mac, I received my Apple Teacher certificate, and it feels amazing to be part of this inspiring community of educators.

Each badge taught me something new, from creative ways to use apps like Keynote and GarageBand to practical tips for classroom productivity and student engagement. It was hands-on, encouraging, and full of “Oh wow, I didn’t know I could do that!” moments.

And I’m not stopping there!

Right now, I’m working on building my Apple Teacher Portfolio to further enhance my skills. It’s a great way to reflect on what I’ve learned so far and explore how I can bring more creativity and tech-savvy tools into my lessons. I’m doing this to familiarise myself with Apple products and to find meaningful, engaging ways to integrate them into my teaching.

I genuinely believe that with the right tools and a little curiosity, we can make learning more dynamic, fun, and accessible for our students. I’m excited for what’s next—and I’d definitely encourage other educators to check out the Apple Teacher program too!

Love, 

Teacher Asniem

Alhamdulillah, I am honoured to be awarded the scholarship by the Ministry of Education to participate in a 6-week online course by SEAMEO RELC. This course will help upgrade my abilities as a teacher coach. It covers aspects such as the skills to develop as a trainer, using competency framework as PD, and transitioning the role from teacher to teacher leader. 

The course takes on Project-Based Learning as by the end of the course we are expected to simulate an online professional development panel discussion. To prepare us for this, we will engage in academic reading, blog writing, and presentations. 

Prior to the beginning of the course, our trainer reaches out to us via email. We were asked to complete a pre-class blog post telling our classmates about ourselves. I found this activity served as mental preparation because it is important to know who you will be interacting and cooperating with. These people our should I say now, are my friends who as nervous and excited as I am. Nonetheless, they are highly qualified in their field. It is a diverse group with people from primary, secondary, tertiary and even education offices like me. 

Let's talk about what I learned. For the first class, we were assigned 6 reading materials! Haha, here we focus on the adult learning principle, Kolb's and Salmon 5-stage model. The online class was productive and we had so much fun. I didn't even realise the time! During the 3-hour class, we came to understand the characteristics of an effective trainer and our trainer modelled it for us to experience it first hand! I believe in my online training, I never encounter such competency. I aspire to emulate my trainer.  

Well, after the class the workload were not easy, haha rather challenging. We need to respond to questions and I'm sharing my responses here, so that I can recall what I wrote when the LMS is not accessible to me anymore.