Assignment 2...

With regards to assignment 2, I've downloaded "The Earth Song" and prepared turorial for that. Need to go on the lesson plan format and create resources for that. I thought of doing it now but my partner is not here. This is the setback when doing a task in pairs or group work. It is difficult when you want to progress on the task but your member is not here as you cant decide on your on. If it is an indivdual work, anytime and anywhere I can decide and do on my work. But, this has taught me to be patient and this value is crucial in life as whatever we do or ace, we must be patient and then only we can focus and proceed with the work in a calm and satisfactory manner.

I've also browse for the second video and i have many to be considered depending on what we want to teach and so on. If i could just make the decision now with my pair that will be good...

What a day!

E-book task has been handed in. I felt relieved. Although completing the task is not as hectic as the one where we have to do video editing on "So you think you can dance", but there many factors to be considered in preparing the e-book. For instance, first, what we need to consider is what story do we want to do, how is the story going to be (the plot), what pictures to be used for that particular slide, text including the size and type of font, background colour and so on. These are all in the planning stage where the storyboard comes in. Careful planning is good in order to organize our work hence complete it in a satisfactory way. Moreover, time management is important as well because this involve organization of our work and also ourselves. I always believe that "time waits for no one." That is why I like to do my work bit by bit but all the time so that i will not lose my time and also my work will be completed before the due date. The effort we put in also plays important role in the completion of a task. No matter how, we must always give our very best in doing a task and do not give up easily. Coming back to this e-book task, i've learnt something out of this task. One that is very significant is how to prepare an electronic story book to be used as teaching aid in the teaching and learning process. It is a very good knowledge and also skill for me to learn as i have never known of this and i'm glad that i am able to create one now. I hope apart from gaining the knowledge of how to prepare an e-book, i will be able to creat more interesting e-book for future usage in the classroom. From this task also, there are many things to be considered when preparing the e-book. Empathy is being instilled whereby i have to put myself in the shoes of a teacher and think like them -target audience, interesting topic, font type and size, colourful pictures, interesting music and so on. These all had made me become more mature in thinking with relation to the teaching field as well as the reality of teaching profession.

Buck Up!!!!

I felt better after Puan Foziah explained and clarified all about the assignments that we need to complete for this course. At the beginning, things were quite messed up when there were additional task that we need to do for example the e-book. Some of my friends were asking me whether the e-book is an assignment or not. Then, came a few more asking me what to do, how to do and so on. All this question been bugging me and I myself want to know what is exactly should be done. So, with courage, I went and approached Puan and asked her. Glad that by approaching her, most of the things, that have been creating enquiries to these people, have been cleared an clarified to them as well as I. Now that I've know what to do, i need to buck up..Time is important and time waits for no one..so why should i wait anymore..I should get started with my draft for assignment 2. Need to collect things bit by bit. I never want to do things last minute because I will get panic as my job is not done when it's almost due. This is one of my characteristics that i'm very clear of myself and I'm glad that i know that.

I've been in a boarding school and i've been trained to follow time tightly. This has taught me to manage my time very well in doing my things so that's why, whatever i do i must do it in an organized way if not i will be lost. Thus, i always need to start collecting materials or plan for the assignment set so that i will not be left behind or get lost..

Flashback.....

Eventually, my pair and I have done our task.At first, we planned to do a video related to love. Since that many of our friends are doing that, so we decided to change. It's good that both of us agreed easily in discussion. We brainstormed on ideas. This is good for students like us because we need to always develop our thinking skill through brainstorming and discussing as we learn or gain better understanding in whatever topic being discussed. We did about what happiness means to kids...somehow, doing this task did give us a thought that being a kid is so wonderful.It also provides us with information about what kids like to do to make them happy. As we are going to be teacher of primary education, we indeed need to understand kids very well. Learners characteristics are important to be considered when planning a lesson plan or selecting resources to be used for the lesson. They seems to look carefree and not like we are right now in which there are lots of things to be thought about or decide on..Somehow, this task made me ponder back when I was a kid..

I really miss that moment!

Problem....

it is the semester break..
i'm back at my hometown..but luckily my group have divided the task accordingly and all of us played our part..
At first i was having trouble converting the videos..i tried so many programs but i could not complete any conversion..it was a mess for me..and i almost gave up..if it was not for my group members i would have break down...i managed to convert and got the tutorial done...sent to my group members who are in kl through email as i was unable to to be there before the due date..
I really hope that this will not happen again..to me of course!
This made me realized the benefit of having internet at home and also email. Just a click and within the next minute your friend will receive what you sent. I am thankful to my mother who has spent so much for buying desktop for home fixed with internet. Wonderful! Problem solved and no worries. Probably that is the reason why the society is encouraging the use of internet at home. Nonetheless, I hope I will not get into such situation anymore because I'm so overly worried and sad. Lesson learnt, no last minute work!!!

New task done..

At last..done my task...

i've learnt something new. now i know how to combine two songs..by cutting certain part of it...

Nero WaveEditor is one friendly audio softwares i would say but you need to explore it to gain better understanding.

audio editing

hmmm.....
what i've known of is to cut some part of and convert audio..but i never try any editing on the audio yet..should give myself a chance...It would be nice if i can edit the songs of my own choice. But still i need to acquire the skill first. Song is so close to my life. I listen to song everyday. I would say that music is almost part of my life. Sometimes it is the cure to my boredom. What is more interesting is that songs can be used to teach. This is because most of the songs have underlining meaning. They convey message that sometimes evoke feelings in you. How interesting yea! So, music is fun. I hope i can do something good for this task.