Assignment 2

At last, I am able to shout out load to the world that i had completed my second assignment in time!!!
Wait a minute, still too early to be happy... The assignment is not handed in yet....

I tried my very best to apply knowledge and skills that i had been learning throughout the semester like editing videos, editing audio downloading software and using it to convert files from one format to another... So I thought that it would be good if i am able to add in the latest technologies in teaching aids which is the SMARTboard as it has several features that are cannot be found in conventional power point presentations.

I got permission from my lecturer and start working on my E-book which is done on SMARTboard. Happily working on the assignment and feeling very satisfied that i had put an effort on my assignment as i always do last minute work but I started working on it more than a week before the due date!! I am proud of myself! =P

Sadly, I found out from my lecturer that my assignment is not accepted because it does not use the conventional software such as microsoft office.... Disappointed as all my effort on the assignment is dumped into South China Sea... I wonder secretly if it will find its way to Selangau so that schools there can adopt my work in their teaching and learning? Looks like my imaginations are going to far.... What to do? Just hope for the best and prepare for the worst...

Pray hard for me that i don't need to repeat this course!!

Moral of the lesson:Play safe with conventional stuff around and don't try anything new in assignments...

Assignments? Task? Which Is Which?

Assignments? Or is it just a task? Till now i still cant cope with the new learning style in UM... This that is why my seniors told me that life in UM is different from life in MPIK.

I am still trying my very best to complete every task given by the lecturer but still I tend to mix up everything and find it difficult to be sure of what am I suppose to do for certain assignments and task.

I had just completed one that I thought is a task, developing teaching aids for four skills but when I upload my file onto ADEC, I was surprise to see a row of words below the column to browse files. It is written ' send assignment for marking'?!! What!!! Its an assignment? Oh My God!!!

Will need to wait till tomorrow when I see my lecturer again to confirm whether I need to send it in as an assignment to be marked.

I hope we are able to receive clearer instructions for assignments.

Pray hard that i wont need to repeat the course next academic year because I am still lost...

Video uploaded!!!

Thanks to Puan Foziah for allowing us to upload our videos... At last!! I manage to upload my video!!! Yeay!!!

I would like to take this opportunity to say to the people who appeared in my video 'I LOVE U GUYS A LOT!!!' I am happy to have these people around me to help me go through everything in my life... Who says that technology is a cold and robotic thing? I can spread love and warmth too!!!!

So, another lesson learnt... NEVER MISS DATE LINES! Or you'll make your own life miserable...

The links to my video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KNv-xOXKko

leave me comments and rate my video!! THANKS

Making my own personal video!!!

This is not my first time making a video using Windows Movie Maker, the first goes to my assignment for Technology for primary classroom where we have to produce a video for educational purposes. This time, we are allow to produce a video based on any theme out of education purposes. Finally, i can do a video on the most important people in my life and express my feelings!!! Yeay!!!

I never start any of my work early in these years studying this course but this time, i was so excited that I started planning and working on my task immediately after the lecture given by Pn Foziah. Very motivated to choose which photo to put in and edit the sequence of the video preperly.

After I had finish doing my video and convert it into video file, I went to adec to check what am i suppose to do next. Sadly, i found out that the limit for this task is 4 minutes but the video that i had produced ia almost 9 minutes!!! Oh my god!! Every part of the video is so important and significant in my four years studies in KL... What am I going to do?

Finally, i decided to shorten my video. I said goodbye to the photos that are not so important and shorten the whole video to four minutes... I hope the essence of the video still remains though I'd deleted many of the photos in my video.

Now, its time to upload my video and share them with my friends (especially those who appeared in my video). I cant wait to show them my video and get the message through. Sadly (again...), i couldn't upload the video. But, since there is still a couple of days to the dateline, i dod not worry much about uploading.

I thought my failure of uploading the video was due to the slow speed of my internet connection at home as I am still using dial-up at home!!! I went to my mom's colleague's house to get broadband connection... many times faster than the connection at home. After sitting there for 8 hours and troubling them to serve me tea and snacks on and off, i still couldn't upload the video. so i decided to try again the next day.

Days passed, i tried everyday, sitting in front of my laptop trying to upload the video. Until my dad almost barred me from using the internet i still couldn't upload the video. Sad and disappointed, i missed the dateline.

Till now, I still hope i am able to upload my video onto youtube in the same account with my friends so that the people that i'll like to address can view my video. If I will am not allowed to upload it into the same account with others, i'll still upload it on youtube and I hope that i can still get comments from all my coursemates so that i can improve on my work next time....

Fingers cross that i can upload my video onto youtube!

At last... I know for what i shoulld do photo editing!!

I kept wondering, for what purpose should I learn photo editing? If I were to take a photo and edit everything on it, then it is not the original and natural me. I prefer to have photos of myself that looks like me rather than having my photos edited and end up nobody recognizing that it is me.

But now, my views on photo editing had changed. Me and my dear Connie went to meet up with our seniors on their convocation day to see them for the last time before they are posted to places far away from KL. Knowing that we might not meet for sometime, we took a lot of photos.

For my height, I did not have much problem taking photos with Joey and Ming Kiat, they turn out to be nice but when it comes to Jarrod…. He is way too tall. All the photos turn out to be horrible. So I decided that I might as well stand on the stairs as the platform so that there wont be such a drastic difference in our height.

Unfortunately, my camera man Eliana did not take the photos properly and it can be clearly seen that I was standing on the stairs to look taller. Thanks to Photoshop I am able to crop the lower part of our legs so that people wont see that I am standing on a platform. Now the photo is perfect and I love the photo very much!!!

Besides cropping out part of the photo, I can also get rid of unwanted people in the photos. As we all know, right after the convo where everybody are busy taking photos with families and friends, and the place was sooooooo crowded!!! I do not need to worry that I have someone ‘extra’ in my photo.

Photo editing, a very useful skill that everyone should learn. We as teachers should master the skill so that we can use real life photos which are properly edited in classrooms.

Caution!!! Photos seen here might not be true....

Again, I felt a little reluctant to attend today's lecture because I was sleepy.......

Ok, no more lame excuses....

Our fourth lecture, not looking forward because the hours were too long........ 3 hours!!!

The lecturer ended up to be interesting because we were taught how to edit photo's using photo shop. Our lecturer uploaded edited photos of Wu Chun and Ella on ADEC as an example for us... As I used to be a fan of Wu Chun, I enjoyed it!!!

Next is our working time, we were all given a task to edit photos using photoshop.... Me.... Again..... Not a very techno savvy person had never used photoshop before so i decided not to start my task when i do not know anything about it.

I logged onto Youtube and watched several videos on how to use the software.

I also watch videos that show what a miricle can photoshop do to a photo. I can be as beautiful and as curvy as Miss Universe by the help of photoshop *laugh*!!

It was an intersting lecture and i hope that I can master the use of the software then i can do what ever i want with any photos..... HAHAHAHA!!!!

Josh, Bak, Connie and Ruby...... Beware of me and my photoshop!!!!!

The Third Lecture....

This is our third lecture of the course. We were required to work in our groups and discuss about our assignments. I was fortunate enough to be in the same group with Joshua, Khairel, Jez and Ayuni. As i am not very techno savvy and our assignments requires a lot of IT work, I am happy that i have my groupmates around to help...

For this assignement, we are required to choose a topic from the Year 5 textbook and a specific objective on what do we want to teach using technology and different reaources. Many were lost as we do not have the textbook with us. I was lucky enough that i taught Year 5 classes when I was in S.K. Taman Midah for my SBE. So our group chose the topic 'Travel and Adventure'.

Through this lecture, I start to see the usage of technology used in developing teaching resources. It will really help me a lot if i were to posted to a school in an urban area in two years time. Can't believe that I am going to become a teacher in no time.

I hope that the course would be able to help me make my lesson interesting and effective to ensure my pupils are all able to benifit from my lessons.

My main aim : Teach properly and do not ruin any kids' future...