fifteenth entry

1. What do you like about blogging?
   - expressing my thoughts. I can write my own opinion of what have been learnt.

2. What you do not like about blogging?

- problems in posting the entries. sometimes what have been posted were different from what i've done for example, the colour of the font was changed, the size wasn't the same; the last few paragraphs were rather smaller/bigger that the previous paragraphs and so on.

3. What have you gained from blogging e.g. Language skills, improved fluency, critical thinking, improved thought processes, technology skills etc. How?

- improve critical thinking as i need to reflect what have been learnt, this also has increased my language skills through writing. my technology did improve as i need to do various things in creating the blog and the entry.

4. What do you like about this course?

- i can gain many knowledge regarding technology skills. they gave so many benefits to me as a future teacher as well as for my own development.

5. What you do not like about this course?

- workloads.

6. What have you learnt from this course?

- lots of lots of things about technological skills

7. What have you learnt from this course that you did not expect to?

- photo editing like changing other people's faces into ours.

8. What have u expected but do not learn from this course?

nothing.

9. Comments regarding modules:

1. Internet and computing skills

a. What do you like about this module?

many skills that i didn't know before have been introduced.

b. What do you not like about this module?

many softwares have been introduced

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?

i can download the mp3 song straight away

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?

internet skills

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?

can use and adapt various materials to suit the students levels and interests

2. Photo Editing

a. What do you like about this module?

know many softwares can be used for editing picture

b. What do you not like about this module?

some pictures are missing, actually lots. (how could we do the following steps?)

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?

every picture to be edited must have story or message it

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?

various ways of editing photo

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?

use authentic materials and make them as teaching aids as we can edit them to suit the needs of the lesson

3. Audio Editing Skills

a. What do you like about this module?

many ways can be used to edit the songs to our liking

b. What do you not like about this module?

missing pictures for the steps stated

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?

i can produce my own ringtone and can combine my favourite songs

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?

editing song and sound

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?

can use any audios that related to the lesson though some parts are not needed because we can cut it. if the song is too short, then, we can combine it with other related song. it will make the teaching process more interesting.

4. Video Editing Skills

a. What do you like about this module?

the knowledge offered

b. What do you not like about this module?

the steps in the tutorial. should be clearer

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?

can produce my own videos in creative ways

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?

editing video

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?

teacher can make their own video to be presented in the classroom where it will be more meaningful as the teacher knows the students interests and levels. using other video like song or from movie and edit it to suit lesson will be more interesting, thus can help the students to pay full attention.

5. Software for ELT

a. What do you like about this module?

guiding to use the various applications in the Microsoft publisher

b. What do you not like about this module?

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?

i know how to create pamphlet, business card etc.

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?

publishing skills

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?

can create creative tasks for the students instead of task sheets. for example, we can make postcard, then have the students to write to their friends, or prepare a pamphlet (with a specific theme like place of interest in Malaysia) where we leave several empty spaces and ask them to fill in with various adjective etc.

10. If you can change anything about this course, state what is and elaborate?

the way we presented our works. i think if we have uploaded it into the specific page, do not need to burn and print. everything doesn't need to be printed, burn and uploaded. if it's suitable to be printed, we should hand in the hard copy, if it is needed to be seen or heard using the laptop then send the soft copy or upload. no need to do all those things where the contents are all the same.

On a scale of 1 – 10, please rate your computing and technological skills for both before and after undergoing the course.

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REFLECTION: 14th Week

It's the fourteenth week. Some more to go, but so much to do. Relax. Everthing has an end. Though it seems like endless, it does has an end, doesn't it? Thursday got several things to be submitted. Take a look at the list:

Module 4 (video editing)
Task 1, pair (video)
Task 2, individual (split video clips, audio and images)
Task 3, groups (lesson plans on the four skills)

All done. Nothing to be worried. Waiting to be submitted. For the video editing task, Yusof and me creating a video about smoking, the need to quit smoking, the bad effects and etc. Hope it can motivate people to quit smoking....

That's all... Daaa

REFLECTION: 13th Week

This is the thirteenth week...Hooray! Just one week to go. Haha... Should i say hooray or should i feel sad to wave goodbye to this semester?? Hmmm... Dunno. Lots of works to do. Sleepless nights, restless mind. Can't think well. Huhu.

OK. Today we have submitted...how many tasks? Wait, do the counting for a while. 1, 2, 3 & 4. Yes, 4 tasks submitted. Fuhhh!!!What a relieved! (Not really. there's more works waiting, handing in these works didn't affect anything.) What were they?

1) Module 2 (photo editing)
2) Individual work, hardcopy + softcopy (task 1)
3) Pair work, e-book, hardcopy + softcopy (task 2)
4) Group work, lesson plans, hardcopy + sofcopy (task 3)

Talking about the tasks, it was a good exercise to practice what we have learned in the module. I personally learned a lot about photo editing while doing the tasks rather than doing the module itself. It's very true. Doing the module, we just followed the steps shown and producing exactly the same things except for the used stuffs like pictures, we may use our own pictures, but it's the result of copying the same steps. Differ from the tasks where we totally produced something using our own creativity and effort. Although software such as photoshop was very difficult for me, with motivation and determination, i tried and tried and explored many things that i managed to use it eventually. Congrats!! haha

What else? Owh, Module 4: Video Editing. For this module another softwares being introduced:

• Any Video Converter• BS player• Cyberlink PowerDVD• FLV to AVI Converter• Free Studio• HJ-Split• Image Grab• Power Video Cutter• Prism Video Converter• Real Player• Riva FLV Encoder• SID Video Cutter & Splitter• VCD Cutter• Windows Media Player• Online Downloader

WOW!! So many softawres to be used. Means more knowledge to gain and more skills to be acquired. I like. Walking out from UM with so much knowledge and skills in technology things. I like. Aha, the task! We were asked to create storyboard for our video editing task. Pn. Foziah took a look at every pair's work. Comments offered. Yeah, for the improvement. Thank You Pn. Foziah. Will work on it soon.

OK. Time to say GOODBYE>>>

REFLECTION: 12th Week

Week 12... Means i have written eleven reflections for eleven entries before. Marvellous. This the 12th. I have talked about photo editing last week. Yeah about the task (that have been rejected. Shhh...dun tell anyone. Hahaha. I've came out with the new one, u know. Didn't know whether it's better or worse. Huhu...)

Now, let's talk about the task for module 2. What was it? Oh, the e-book thing, it's the pair work. Have changed my partner, this time I paired with Yusof. Pn. Foziah showed the sample of e-book done by her students. Simple yet interesting. But, of course Pn. Foziah expected more from us. (We're dead if we do as simple as what have been shown. Definitely will be asked to redo if we produce that kind of things. We're always expected to produce extraordinary work becuase we have learnt lots of things like picture and audio editing. Must apply it in doing other tasks).

Pn.Foziah reminded us to chose good quality pictures, with colourful and attractive graphics. Next, to insert the navigation keys, sound. Our e-book needs to also have a theme, characterization and plot. OK. Then, Pn Foziah gave 2 sets of module which is the continuation of module 2. These two sets are continuation of module 2 using the adobe photoshop CS3 software. Wow, continuation.So, this module surely would be thicker than module one after we combine the whole things. NICE... haha. Never mind. The important thing is that we will learn something new from these tutorials.

Now, moved on to the next event. What was it? The presentation of some videos. They were actually the examples or samples of video editing. We're to do our own video editing after this. So, that's the reason why she'd shown us the video. The videos are really wonderful and it gives a basic idea to me on how video editing works and its product. We're to choose a theme for our video editing. It's also the pair work. Hope we'll produce a wonderful and meaningful video as being shown by Pn. Foziah.

All reported... See ya!

REFLECTION: 11th Week

Now, we're on week 11. Many things have been learnt. From nothing to something. Yes, at least i knew what i know.

Print screen, intenernet skills, audio editing, photo editing...

Talking about photo editing, this was what we're looking at today. Pn. Foziah walking around and checked everyone's work that she has assigned before. The task was to edit a picture using any of those softwate being introduced like Photoshop, Photoscape, Triscape FXfoto etc. Work done, so didn't need to be worry. But still have to be worry because if she didn't approve the picture we edited, have to do it again. HUHU...Quite nervous to let her saw my work. I've done the editing using Photoscape. I used the picture of a fairytale character in doing the task.

It's my turn... What did she say? Sobsobsob. D.I.S.S.A.P.O.I.N.T.E.D - S.A.D.

What did she say?? She said, "Have the technology, but no story." Gulp!! Just that, nothing more. Then, she just walking away to see others'. hmmm...So, i've got no choice, have to do it again. Find another picture, and needed to think of what and how to edit it to make a meaningful changes. Mean, there must be a story or message lay behind the edited picture. It's easy to edit the picture, just crop here crop there, change the brightness, put some effects or background, added text and many other things can be done. But, the most important was the MESSAGE or the STORY. Even if you did huge changes to the picture which you took more than hours to come with it, it's no use if there's no MESSAGE or STORY to be told. So, remember, don't edit blindly, have something to tell people about the picture...

REFLECTION: 10th Week

Tenth week... TASKS. TASKS. As we have completed the third module, so we were

given the tasks for audio editing. There were three tasks:

1) Choose a song, cut particular part to make a ringtone

2) Blend 2 songs

3) Improve the quality of a song "Dua Insan Bercinta"

by Siti Nurhaliza & M. Nasir

Those were the tasks. For the first task, I have chosen a song by Maher Zain; Awaken.

To edit this song, i like to use audacity because we can add some effects. After the song

being cut and left with desired part, i added the effect fade in to the early part and fade

out to the ending.

For the second task which was blend two songs together, i have chosen the song entitled

"FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE" & "HOLD MY HANDS", both were the songs by Maher

Zain as well. I found it quite difficult to mix the songs because of the tempo. It took quite

a long time to get a good result.

For the third task, we were to edit the song of "Dua Insan Bercinta". As it's the live

version, there were the sounds of clapping, cheering and shouting. So, we

need to make the quality of the song better by reducing the noise and adding some

effects.

Done my tasks. Daaa...

REFLECTION: 9th Week

It's not too late to wish you "Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri". MAAF ZAHIR BATIN.

OK, welcome back to UM. After the wonderful break, it's time to work again. Eating so much ketupat, rendang, satay, kuih raya and having fun chit chatting with my siblings and cousins let me escaped to the world of freedom and happiness. YES, free from lots and lots of works and assignments. Have forgotten about it for a while, but now forced to put myself in the mountain of works again. (sob sob) So, get ready and be prepared to toucher your brain again. HAHAHA...

Before started with this week event and stuff, just wanted to express my satisfaction of myself (hahaha) because I managed to finish the tasks given before the break. Some more "duit raya" from Pn. Foziah. "Pre" duit raya and now "post" duit raya- MODULE 2. Hooray!!! If the pre duit raya was audio editing, this post duit raya was about PHOTO EDITING. Interesting. I like editing pictures.

Software to be downloaded/used this time:

Adobe Photoshop

ACDsee

iPhoto

Microsoft Paint

PhotoBucket

Photoscape

Triscape FXfoto

Hmmm...so, start to download those software. What would happen to my laptop after this??? huhu... when everything's settle for this semester, going to get someone to format it.

There are many tutorials to be followed. Hope could finish it on time.