15th week

1. What they like about blogging.
2. What they do not like about blogging.
3. What have they gained from blogging eg. Language skills, improved fluency, critical thinking, improved thought processes, technology skills etc.
4. How?
5. what they like about the course
6. what they do not like about the course
7. what they have learn from the course
8. what they do not expect but have learns from the course
9. what they expect but have not learns from the course.
10. if they can change anything about the course, state what it is and explain.

My answers :
1. What i like about blogging is that i can share something that i knew with my friend and to keep up record of things that i have done in the past weeks.
2. Someone force me to write something that is not interesting.
3. What i gain from blogging? hmm, maybe a bit on language skill and fluency. Not to forget, critical thinking and some technology skills.
4. Hmm, basically i can learn something from reading other people blog and this eventually improved my language skill and fluency. Joining a discussion while blogging also can help me to develop my critical thinking and technology skills.
5. Learn about something new such as editing software and stuff.
6. To many work to be done which are unrelated to the course.
7. Making computer-based technology resources such as PowerPoint presentation and video making.
8. Editing things.
9. Using traditional materials such as newspapers, advertisements and pictures to make resources for teaching.
10. Lecturer should give us framework of the assignment in the beginning of the semester. This will certainly help us to prepare with appropriate knowledge on what we should do for the assignments.

Test?

Just finished our resources test today. Basically, i do not know what i am writing at that time. Maybe some outside force help me to write it. Haha. This week is the most busiest week in my life. Suddenly got so many to hand in and i do not have the time to study at all for the test. Anyways, let's do not worry about things that have passed. Move forward and hope that the future will be a good one. :P

My opinion about future classroom.

If you ask me what i want in my future classroom, there are lot to list them here. In reality, it is impossible to get everything that you want and it is also depend on the government budget whether to invest in these technological things (IWB, LCD projector and computer labs) to improve our education system or not.

For me, as long as the students are willing to learn to improve themselves in terms of their academic achievement, it is important for the teacher to assist them various ways possible. These technological things only bring limited benefits such as to assist teacher in teaching and somewhat motivate the students that are not familiar with the usage of this technology.

Nowadays, it is not common to hear students with 14 and 15 A in SPM although these technological things are not fully implemented in schools or some schools have none of it. From my view, academic achievement can be achieve with the cooperation of various sides such as teachers, parents and school management. As long as these people united to improve our education system, it is not impposible to hear students can achieve more that they can achieve today.

Life after Raya...

Without realizing it, 1 week of Raya holidays already passed. Now our life is back to it used to be, buzy with assignments and stuffs to do. Oh, well. i'm already used to that kind of life anyway.

Nothing interesting happend during Raya, the holidays are too short for me to go around celebrating and visiting my relatives. Maybe the only good thing is that, i still received "duit raya" from my parents and relatives. Although the money that i received is not that many, but i think it is enough for me to buy something that can help me to release the stress from doing the assignments.

Our next assignment is making four lesson plans. I already make 1 before Raya holidays, now i need another 3. Maybe i will start doing it in 2 days time as i will be buzy tonight.

Assignment 2

Finally, assignment 2 after several weeks it has been delayed. Hmmm
For this assignment, we need to modify 2 videos and use it as resources to teach the primary kids.

From my view, it is good to integrate technology in classroom learning but we cannot deny the existence of authentic printed materials such as newspaper articles, story books, posters. We need to varied our our materials so that the pupils won't be bored by our lesson.

E-book

Hehe, sorry for the late reply. So busy to update the blog. Owh, after the video assignment, our next one is the E-book. Hmm, i think i already forgot what i do for this assignment. Maybe it is about science subject related to basic human needs. Too many assignment for this course made me confuse with which one is it. Anyway, bye2 E-book. i dont want to see you again next year. hahaha

Video editing part 2

For this task, my partner and i did a video entitle Family of 2.

You can view it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRHhSyGKMA

This video tell us a story about two families with different background yet they still can be friends due to certain circumstances. This is a nice story for you guys to ponder upon as it convey the message of unity between people in multi racial country.

Video editing part 1

Yey, finally i can go back home after finished editing this video :D
Well, this task is not that hard to begin with but some problems occur while in progress.
So, i got a bit frustrated to do it at that moment.
Anyways, all end well and I'm so happy that can go back home^^
see you next week :D

Huh, have i heard that song before?

A week that is full of sounds and musics has passed. Haha, well it is quite fun to mess up with someone else song till you don't know who the real singer is . For my part, audio editing project is quite a blunder. The difference in song quality for the song that I edited really make it sound weird. Hmm, one lesson that i learned is that don't use songs that you ripped from youtube for your audio editing project^^

Photo editing = Finished

It is fun to try something new in our life. For me, this is my very first attempt to edit a picture using Adobe Photoshop and the result is quite satisfying for a beginner.

I already waste a lot of time this weekend just to figure out the functions that we can do in the program but i think it is worth my effort.

The knowledge that i got from it is irreplaceable. Maybe i can teach my sister how to do it as she seems so interested to try it out :D

Editing? Photoshop?

Huh, edit a photo using Adobe Photoshop?
As long as i am remember, i never used Photoshop to edit a photo before.
Hopefully i have enough time to learn using it as the date due is near. huhu

luckily, one of my friend recommended me to try this blog http://adobetuts.blogspot.com if i want to learn about Photoshop. Thanks to him, i learn a lot about photo editing :D

Video Editing Software

For those who want to try video editing software, Cyberlink PowerDirector Ultra 7. Just tell me.

From my view, this software has many functions with variety of extra content to play with. Furthermore, it is very user friendly and the interface is easy to navigate. Overall, it much better than MS Windows Movie Maker.

Warning

For those who has problems using Windows Movie Maker, please update your Windows Movie Maker by visiting MS Download Center and download the latest version of that software.

It seems that after you make your video to a certain time frame, around 2-3 minutes, the program will crash or you cannot save your video. If that happen, hehe. All your hard work is gone. Well it depend on luck. Maybe it will happen on some unlucky guys.

So i wish you guys good luck : )

Resources For You :D

Welcome to my blog :D

Wow, i am still a bit surprise. Suddenly two of our courses need to make a blog for its assignment and we need to finish it in one week. -_- This is my first time creating a blog, so bear me if it is not as beautiful as you think.

For the time being, i will try my best to improve this blog in the future.