Sunday, October 19, 2008

reflection.

What do I like about blogging?
-=Blogging is a way for people to express themselves and to give opinion, thought and information. With blogging we will confidently voice out anything that we felt is not right and we are freely to give comment and give opinion. For this course we can reflect and express ourselves in this blog and freely give opinion without feel scared or threatened.

What I do not like about blogging?
-=I think, blogging is not that good because people can use it wrongly to influence other people.

What have I gained from blogging?How?
-=With blogging i can see others people opinion and i people also can comment on me and give suggestion and opinion to improve myself.

What do I like about the course?
-=This course has taught me a lot on technology to be used in classroom.

What I don't like about the course?
-=A lot of task to be done that make s me confuse which is task and assignment and which is more important. On the first few weeks, some of the instruction are not clear and always change. The time given is to short to finish the task. This is because we also need time to finish works on other subjects/courses.

What I have learnt from the course?
-=I learnt to use technology in classroom. I have learnt how to make e-book, photo editing, video editing, song editing and how to make video.

What I don't expect but have learnt from the course
-=I dont expect that i have to make all materials with technology. I thought we will learn how to make non-technology materials also.

What I have expected but not learnt from the course
-= I expect that we will learn both technology based and non-technology based materials.

If you can change anything about the course, state and explain what it is
-=In my opinion, the lecturer should also teach how to use and manipulate the non-technology based materials also. This is because not all the time we can use technology in classroom. Lessen the tasks and give clearer instructions.







Almost to the end

Now is already in week 13. We have been struggle a lot during this semester and i m glad it will be over soon. I almost broke as i need to buy cds and 4gb pendrive, papers and printer inks more than usual. This semester is a bit costly for me.
This is because i always need to throw all my works that i have done earlier away when the instructions changed or have been improvised.
However, i feel very happy taking this course as it make me become more techno savvy and i can used the technology instead of using traditional way to teach. Hopefully the school that i will be posted will be a bestari school where all the facilities are there. If rural school, it is quite difficult for me, as i dont have any idea to teach students and attracts the students without technologies.

Children software

This week are learning about softwares to be used in teaching. There are a lot of software that we can get from the market. However from my opinion, we cannot rely fully on it as some of the software are not suitable for our children. For examples some software used pig as the animals in the software. This is not suitable to malay culture. As teacher we need to consider all the software whether it suitable or not for children.

Put all the task and to be handed in again in a portfolio

Now, we have to put all the things, the tasks, tutorials that we have submitted to be handed in again in a portfolio. We need to hand in the original which the materials those we have submitted and a new one if we want to make improvement. We have to compile all the works that we have done. For me this is difficult as my PC have to be formatted and all the data and works that i have done have to be deleted because it has been affected by virus. I only can save certain files and just a some of my works.
Now, to hand in the port folio, i need to do almost 7 task again. Although it tiresome but i need to hand the port folio also in order to get marks. And i don't want to waste my energy by finishing all the tasks all along this long semester but i got nothing in the end. So i need to redo all the tasks.

Research analysis

This time around we need to mind a research and we have to review the research and makie analysis of the research. This task is very tough for us as we never do this before. According to mdm Foziah, we will do this when we are taking master or PHD later. Although i dont know how this task is related which is using and manipulating resource for teaching primary school children, but i try to finish this task during this raya holiday.
However i cannot manage to finish this task as i need to download articles from the net where it isquite difficult to find cyber cafe opened during raya holiday in my hometown.
I feel so down as I cannot finish this task and i m afraid of losing marks. Luckily this task is not compulsory to be handed in.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

assginment 2 and 3

This week we are struggling to finish assignmnt 2 and 3
Assignment 2 we need to download the video earth song from the internet and extract the pictures and sounds from the video and make it as new material to teach primary school kids. This assignment is quite tough as at first i never thought that we can extract pictures from videos. Some of my friends has used the converter to convert the avi format to jpeg format to make the video into pictures. But this is not applicable for me as it will produce thousands of pictures where by pc are not able to keep those. So i juz use movie maker to snap the pictures and choose the pictures that i need only.
The second task is we need to choose any video from the net and use it to produce a new material. My friend and I has chosen the video we are earthling from sesame street video to teach about different types of animals. The challenge for this task we are to search the suitable video to be used and we must to be ensure that our other classmates are not using the same video. This is quite tough when we need to check one by one whether it has been used or not.

skills learnt

Now we are to used our skills learnt such as video editing, photo editing, song editing to produce a new material to teach any skills whether listening skills, reading, writing and speaking.
With this task we can apply what we have learned to be used in order to produce new material.
For example, ebook, pictures, or video. This will help us in future where we have to create a new material to be used in our classroom.
All the aspects have to take into consideration in order to make a good material. I have chosen to teach about food. I have downloaded some pictures from the internet and make it as an e-book to teach pupils about food.

video publishing

We are give a task to produce a video. i and my partner choosing the theme love. We are trying to convey a message about love is not specific that can be given to just one or two person but we can give love to many people more including family, friends, students, teacher, lecturer neighbour and a lot more. We are trying to make people see that love is subjective and all human are able to get love.
To make a video is not that challenging, but in order to follow the criteria given by mdm foziah is quite hard. We need to produce video with good story line and we need to check whether we are doing the right thing. However, my theme was being rejected two times. And i almost give up to do this task because i dont know what the suitable topic that can be acceptable. We are so mess up on what theme should we pick.
Finnally, i try to do my own topic and i submitted it.

E-book

For this time around we have to create an e-book for teaching. This is the first time i heard the word e-book. before this i only know about e-learning and e-bay, but never heard of this one.
Making the e-book need a lot of creativity and as teacher, we need to consider a lot in producing one.
We need to consider the font used, the pictures and also the colours. To make it more interesting insert some music or sound because this can make the children feel excited as they are listen to enjoyable music.
More over the story line must not too heavy and should be enjoyable and has the element of humour to attract the pupils' attention.
The used of cartoon image in gif format is also useful in order to make the e-book more alive. The moving image truly can capture the pupils' attention.

One more e book that i did myself is about animal. The story is about one boy who has lost in the jungle and trying to find way home.
In the middle of his journey, he met a lot of animals and the sound and music are helpful to make this story livelier.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Combining and extracting videos

In this task, we required to download so you think you can dance video to be combined as the video is given in parts. I was using movie maker software as this software is easy to be use for combining videos. After combining the video, we need to extract the video contestant by contestant. This experience is really amazing as i was never thought that we can extract the video. for example, contestant black, we just take video about black only and take it out from the video. This can be applied when we want to make a teaching aids from a video, but some features on the video is no suitable for the children. we just cut the video and take the part that we need only.

sound editing

sound editing is quite familiar for me, as i have edited some songs before this. In this task, I have chosen to combine two similar songs, but differ in terms of the music instruments used. The first one is with the instrument of guitar and the second songs is played with piano. The song entitle I dont love you by My Chemical Romance. To combine this songs i have used mixpad software as I was been using this software before.
This task requires the sharpness of hearing as we need to listen the song carefully and find a suitable place to cut and combine. With mixpad, it is easy, as we can see the wave of the songs and match it with another song to make it more realistic.
I have successfully combine this song to become better from the original. i can listen to both music when i combined it together. This is really beneficial to me, as i would edit song later to be used in my classroom later.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The fourth week in resources class

We were given a task to edit our own photo and to be submitted to photobucket. It is very challenging as i was never edited photo before. However I try to give my best to produce the best. It takes me three days to edit the photo. Firstly, i have done super impose in the photo but suddenly i have change my mind to my photo more artistic. So, i edited my photo with the background of an island in pangkor. To make sure it looks clear and linear I have used some effect in the Adobe photoshop software. Although it was tiring, but i find it very enjoyable and fun. It is fun, when i look my head at someone else body and how the pictures can give thousands meaning.

On the third week of resources class

On the third week, i have been introduced to photo editing. This is my first time in editing photo.
Pn Foziah has introduced us on several software that can be used in editing photo. One of them is Adobe photoshop where it is users friendly and easy to be used compare to the other software. She has shown several examples that she has edited using the software and I find it very interesting and enjoyable. It also will help me in editing photo in designing a resource for my teaching in future.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

On the second day of resources class.

Actually, this course require me to always be online as i need to update myself with current information about this course. I felt a bit difficult as I do not have the internet in my house and in order to keep updating myself, i need to go the cyber cafe almost every day. So, by this week, I have to equip my house with intenet so that i will not lost anymore.
On the second day we were given task to do and this task is related to our assignment. The task require us to search any materials in the net to be used to teach pupils of year 5. We are assigned to do it in group of five with different gender and races. This is good in order to unite the class without any bias.
My group is consist of Sukainah, Nurul Syaza, Vina Quake and Nur Dalila. Referring to the search engines and downloading centre given we have done a research on several materials to be used to teach year 5 students. The leader for my group is Sukainah, the secretary is Dalila.

After the long discussion, we have something playing in our mind, we were thinking, is it neccessary for us to use year 5 text book for reference?

the first day on resources class

The first day on resources class, I felt so excited to learn, when the lecturer, Pn. Foziah give us several hints on what we are going to learn in this semester and I felt overjoyed when she gave us, a few webs that might help us in doing our assignment and in downloading things from the net. Before this, I have never been exposed on this kind of things as I am only a "Kampung Boy" where I was never had a computer on my own before. My first experienced with computer and internet is only when i was in Form 4.
On that day, I had learnt a lot of new things, for example various search engines that available for me to navigate into the net. Examples of the search engines are Yahoo, Google, Bearshare, ask.com and a lot more.