A few weeks have passed since I last wrote on the Star Rating on Jit Sin teachers’ blogs. As expected, I received a number of comments and opinions. Well, as mentioned earlier, it is not easy to put up such a rating, especially one that is supposed to be comprehensive, objective and fair. Browsing through each and every of the 200 blogs takes time and really tests your patience!

Frankly, I expect more comments and even objections! The number of feedback received reflects the number of readers who visited the teachers’ blogs. There are some disagreements which is natural, of course. Everybody has his/her own character and opinion, which is what makes the world interesting, isn’t it?

Any positive response to the rating? Well, we welcome two members of the staffs, namely Pn Agnes Lim and Miss Chong Lee Ling on board. Pn Agnes has put up some useful tips and informations for the students especially those who just sat for their SPM and STPM exams.

Bravo to Mr Tan Chin Yee and Pn Ng Yow Teng. They actively continue to put up rich information. Mr Tan’s blog has attracted 24,155 visitors at blog time. I believe most of them are students who are eagerly looking for useful information which can help in their studies and scholarship.

Of course there are others like Mr Goay Teck Chong, Pn Tan Min Min, Pn Chow Yin Looi, Mr Wong Siew Kong and many more who continue to update and improve their blogs.

What surprised me is that our blogs do catch the eyes of other schools. One school in Penang called up to enquire on the creation of the blogs after seeing the work of Jit Sin blogs.

From now on, there won’t be any more rating on the teachers’ blogs. By now, staffs, students and even the public would have some ideas as to which blogs contain information they are interested to read.

Those who have already established their names will continue to draw readers to their blogs. Others will have to put up more efforts in order to attract attention.

The number of visitors is not the objective of setting up blogs. The main objective of setting up the blogs is to provide a platform for teachers to share their view, information and provide assistance to students.

We plan to extend this platform to student bodies in this school. I will write on that in my next article.

Meanwhile, happy holiday to everybody.

It has been quite some time I did not write in my blog. Just before the second “Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan” to be held later this morning (18 April 2009), I decided to take a look at the various teachers’ blogs.

It is no surprise that those who are still active blogging are the old faces. However, among the old faces, a few have put up some useful articles and tips especially for the students! I hope the current active bloggers will continue their good work so as to attract more “new comers”.

I spent quite some time to go through most of the blogs (around 200 blogs). A lot of the blogs are still empty or very minimal.  After going browsing through the blogs, I thought to myself: “Why not put up a rating for the blogs that I have browsed?”

If there is a rating on the blogs, students, teachers and the public who would like to take a look at Jit Sin teachers’ blogs will have an easier time. Instead of going through all the blogs, they can use the star rating as a guide to read the blogs. This will save them time.

I am not be an expert in judging blogs. Neither am I qualified to do so. Hence, the rating given here is only based on my personal knowledge and experience on blogs. I may miss out certain blogs and some judgement may be wrong. I don’t mean to belittle anyone. If there is any mistake, please help to point it out.

The following is the Star Rating of Jit Sin Blogs:

NO.

NAME

RATING

DESCRIPTION

1

NG YOW THENG

*****

General

2

KHOW KIM SENG

****

Addition Maths

3

ANG CHUAN SENG

***

General

4

TAN CHIN EE

***

Further Study, Exam

5

TAN JOO SUN

***

General

6

TAN MIN MIN

***

General

7

TOR PENG CHIANG

**

ICT , Computing

8

WONG SIEW KONG

**

Economics

9

GOAY TECK CHONG

*

General

10

KOAY TIAN SOO

*

Biology

11

CHOW YIN LOOI

*

General

12

LIEW CHIN HAN

*

General

13

TAN SOCK PING

*

General

 It is my sincere hope that more teachers will put more effort into their blogs and hence join the star rating above!