Next milestone: Conference in Thailand and the Productive Teen website

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Slowly, things are moving. Insha Allah, I will be presenting a conference paper in Thailand on January 13 2013. It will summarise all the data collected (including the measures of spiritual intelligence). It will describe the next stage of the project which is the building of the Productive Teen website and the production of more videos by students at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The next group starts this Thursday and two other groups will start in February. Hopefully, I will have about 200 students trying to help Malay teenagers empower themselves

Update on the data collected so far

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I have finished keying data on two batches of students. One was a group of postgraduate students taking Management Policies and a group of undergraduates taking principles and practices of management. The summary of the data is - 586 students have done the assignment and completed a report - 79% said that they feel happier after doing this assignment - 9.5% did the assignment but did not provide a conclusion - 9% said there was no difference or they were not sure of the benefits of the assignment - 2.5% were "others" Several themes were repeated: 1. Students did not like the assignment at the beginning but after the 2nd, 3rd or 4th video, most say they started to get interested. 2. Many students have questions about Islam. This assignment was an opportunity to find the answers. 3. Almost everybody reported enjoying the tafsir of the Qur'an most

Another sample

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Other Productive Teen videos

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The productive Teen project

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One of the options is to see whether the Happy in Islam project can be modified to suit the needs of Malay teenagers. To test this idea, my students prepared a series of videos that document the trials and tribulations of young Malays. Here is the first video