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>>>